sinopiasaur
sinopiasaur.bsky.social
sinopiasaur
@sinopiasaur.bsky.social
Chào các bạn! / Howdy folks!

This is just me. Pronouns: aj, he/him, she/her, or they/them.

A chronically ill artist with trauma who likes board games and tea. Here it's board games.

Sometimes I write here: https://sinopiasaur.github.io
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In celebration of Postmark's upcoming game 52 Realms -- which, as a decades long explorer of a about dozen adventuring, dungeoning boardgame frameworks, I quite look forwards to -- I am going to do a little mini review for every game in their catalog over the next few days. #boardgames
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The Barbarian and the Seer are the first two characters we’ve shown in the 52 Realms: Adventure campaign but we’ve got more planned!
In today’s 52 Realms: Adventures campaign update we’re taking a closer look at the first two characters. Will you favour the combat focussed style of the Barbarian, or are you more aligned with the card manipulation play of the Seer?



www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...
December 5, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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Unbelievable. The good news is, you can find First Monday in October yourself instead of waiting for a Facebook ad. Spread some love for this meaty historical tug-of-war game by my friend Talia! www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
December 5, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
December 5, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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Dear Imaginary Therapist: It would be so easy to just post cool science facts and do it better than all of the shitty scrapers and everyone would just like me, but the problem is I care about more than one thing and that really fucks my brand.
December 5, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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i was gonna make a joke about this but hey in all honesty uh.. how is it that someone I blocked is able to add me to a list after the fact? Seems... bad... if someone can potentially retaliate like this.
December 5, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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boosting the Cisgender Women Against Bathroom Bans petition again, please sign and share if you missed it the first time around! It’s at a little under 8,500 signatures now and we would love to try to get it to 10,000 by the weekend!

actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
December 5, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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Yep. Please note: this is not “Wrapped, for Bluesky.” This website is not affiliated with Bluesky. You are allowing some rando to scrape and analyze your whole timeline because “it might be funny.”
December 6, 2024 at 12:33 AM
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let me be very clear that if you’re making the “the democrats should distance themselves from trans issues” argument now, you would have been on the side of “maybe AIDS is simply what gay people deserve” in the 1980s and 1990s
December 4, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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The purpose of art

Well, my art, anyway
December 2, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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it is so delightful that the first trace of this account that i saw on bluesky was the news of their suspension
Yet another argument for Bluesky superiority, via @thelibsoftiktok.bsky.social
December 2, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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I've been thinking a bit about playtesting in board game design🎲✂️.

I tend to see playtests as three-layered, where each layer serves a certain purpose for me; the intimate idea testing, the design test, and the public test.
December 2, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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finished my snowflake moray 🎄 #SundayFishSketch
December 3, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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Hi! I’m new here. I’m leaving my X and want to introduce myself to BlueSky.

I’m a board game designer who’s sold over 4.5 million games. I started a company called North Star Games in 2003 that grew to 30 employees. We had 6 games on the shelf at Target before everything started to unravel.
December 3, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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The fact that I'm getting info about what happened in S. Korea via BlueSky is encouraging to me. I did appreciate the real-time info that mainstream channels didn't necessarily carry that I'd see on Twitter.

Seeing Bsky used to distribute global on-the-ground news is huge.
December 3, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Americans (and others) should pay attention to S. Korea. The shitty fascist ideals are a global issue... we need to be aware, alert, and learn and support the people fighting against this kind of corruption worldwide.
This story is developing. South Korean president Yoon of the conservative party just declared emergency martial law claiming the opposition party is trying to control forward movement within the National Assembly. He is accusing them of being pro-North Korean, communist, and “anti-democracy.”
December 3, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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The 5Ds of Bystander Training are great for folks who want to be able to help if/when they witness someone being harassed.

Distract
Delegate
Document
Delay
Direct

@righttobe.bsky.social has short videos for each D:

righttobe.org/guides/bysta...
December 3, 2024 at 9:18 PM
this.
Happy Giving Tuesday! We're doing a new thing at Good.Store where you can buy a care package for a person in a domestic violence shelter.

We've been working with shelters in Montana for a while and we're super excited about this: good.store/products/car...
Good Store - Care Package for Domestic Violence Survivors
We all have at least one person on the gifting list who doesn't want a physical gift, but that doesn't mean you don't have to get them anything at all. The Care Package in Your Honor is a way to gift ...
good.store
December 5, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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Happy Giving Tuesday! We're doing a new thing at Good.Store where you can buy a care package for a person in a domestic violence shelter.

We've been working with shelters in Montana for a while and we're super excited about this: good.store/products/car...
Good Store - Care Package for Domestic Violence Survivors
We all have at least one person on the gifting list who doesn't want a physical gift, but that doesn't mean you don't have to get them anything at all. The Care Package in Your Honor is a way to gift ...
good.store
December 3, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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The men and women who make the paint your hobby runs on need your help.
A year after being bought by a private equity firm, Acrylicos Vallejo’s employees are on strike
98% of workers at the Spanish paint manufacturer are holding a work stoppage
www.polygon.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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Ooh, @hankgreen.bsky.social effectively articulates the frustration I have with Twitter and Threads downranking anything that would take a user off their site.

Bluesky and Mastodon don’t do that and I’m so happy they don’t.

Look, a link! 😱😉 youtu.be/D4ghgVq9z4M
November 30, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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December 4, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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people think that Ai generated results come from some magical computer spirit that they are too dumb to understand. no, tech bros are exploiting people.
I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.
Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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December 4, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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I've said @marcelineleiman.bsky.social is an electrifying new designer. Not hyberbole. REAL.

Comment I found about her work for us:

"The combination of how satisfying this is for how really simple it is to operate might be unparalleled in the over 200 different games I have owned and played."
bsky.app
November 30, 2024 at 11:05 PM