A fun game we play in my house is still pretending it’s December…2022.

I struggle with the fact that for all the darkness, seeing the community come together has made me more hopeful about humanity than I ever have been. 42 years and it took moving to Minneapolis to see the good in people at scale.

As a Minnesotan I approve of this comment.

I live by one of the main Target pilot stores — usually every year it changes entirely to reflect some new layout or design. It hasn’t changed in two years now. Shit is dire.

Oh man, I just spent Thanksgiving wondering about this because people kept seeing the ads for the new one and even my movie going relatives were like "They're still making those?"

At least when I was a teacher I always thought of part of my job as filling in the gaps when it came to kids who weren't getting stuff at home -- like basic empathy, etc.

It's always shocking to me how quickly education and tech is willing to jettison the humanities and personal development in favor of crunching numbers. Bummer of course is that the kids who come from these homes are the ones who aren't getting taught empathy there and need it the most!

I mean if you think about what we’ve all consumed, we’re all microplastic semen guys at this point.

Please sent well wishes to my poor wife as I will be trying to fix a lot of things in the house now.

It's the peril of having a game where you need to make content that's approachable and exciting for both new players and those who have been at it for two decades.

I mean it's an issue with all long-term games: reducing friction to increase new player counts rarely leads to enough new players to justify the frustration of existing players. Complexity is just one part of the equation for attracting new players.