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Sean Weeks

@weekswriter.bsky.social

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Forget it, Jake—it's Chinatown. Suffers chronic burnout. Website/portfolio: https://weeksauthor.com/starting-the-factory-a-table-of-contents-and-a-mission/

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Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · Aug 12

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@marcelineleiman.bsky.social @boardgamefeast.bsky.social THE BUSINESS OF WRITING ABOUT BOARD GAMES SUCKS PART ONE: Bear with Me

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 7h

"Tendentious" is that feeling when you have someone you consider a friend falling into a few annoying habits.

Martyr! is not a bad ride, but it's tendentious.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 7h

Entry ?: 60,000 words of novel

Read: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Interesting exercise in voice, but I honestly don't care for it. It's too repetitive.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 1d

Need to rewatch it.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 1d

Along with seeds for a tree
That grows up to the knee
And smells sickly sweet to the honeying bee.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my God, Temporary Secretary was occasionally played at a board game cafe I frequented. I have audiovisual synesthesia and it drove me *nuts*!

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 3d

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/33...

I was just thinking about really basic core systems and a lot of combinatorial variety. Nothing too deep.

Adapt your species to a changing environment.

boardgamegeek.com

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 3d

Not an RPG, but similarly modular.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 4d

I wonder what happens when we unfiat this currency.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 4d

Not a killjoy scold at all. I'd like to say that most of us hate the ladder, but many of us just dislike our rung and would love to have our foot in the jackboot.

Two great ways to determine someone's character: watch how they treat animals and watch how they treat the homeless.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 4d

YEAH. YEAH, IT SUCKS.

My pinned post is exactly that. For a whole year.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 5d

Kinda like Nature?

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 5d

Grey-haired man hiding under a table and eating ketchup-garnished paper.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 5d

The leader of Antifa, the Shahdohmin!

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, that's how the scientific method works: you start with your conclusion and you "make proof."

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 5d

"B-b-but 'Smile Time.'" -Stephen S. DeKnight

Something good can almost always be won from ridiculous constraints, but these rose-tinted glasses are basically a shade of crimson. A happy medium is more than possible.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6d

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sorry for your straits. Valnet is the absolute worst, and it seems like you really needed that income.

Bookmarking to maybe pass some good karma along if work picks up for me.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 6d

Much of the profiles are now locked if you don't have an account. This is unfortunate since I often want to peek at a designer's profile and see what their favorite games are.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 6d

This was a terrible time to rechristen my birth certificate!

So hurtful to me on my first day as Mr. Fargo, kim.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 7d

Exactly.

I refuse to normalize Reagan.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 7d

When do we get You (Pl.)? Will it be called Y'all? Youse?

Pronouns are great. Pronouns: The Series is dumb, dumb, dumb.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 8d

Exactly.

Convenience is actually an inconvenience if you weigh success by character rather than time.

Some things are not worth doing, and the choice to pay costs to complete an idea makes sure that the idea's worth completion.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 8d

Rights were established because there was enormous advantages inherent in breaking them at the cost of happiness and peace.

They aren't arbitrary lines. They're drawn at points that tyrants found very, very useful to exploit.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 8d

This is an abyss with no bottom, and I truly hope that the people enabling this understand that greed is gorging itself on their civil liberties.

You might feel comfortable with giving away your face and your privacy, but then there is absolutely no reason why expediency shouldn't devour the rest.

Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 8d

People have been saying, "Well, the law is glacial, new tech is moving fast" or whatever, but this is not the case here. Robin Williams used existing laws to combat *this tech specifically,* and yet he's still powerless.

The law is absent. The law stepped away. Brute economics won over rights.