Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

We found the Peloton Instructor-dunking-on-Tenet clip and it's wild: https://www.404media.co/watch-peloton-instructor-dunk-on-tenet-christopher-nolan/

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[I open my lunchbox at work to find an apple]

'But that means...'

[Cut to Isaac Newton in 1666, jumping up from under a tree while wiping cold spaghetti out of his eyes]

new layer

I love clever uses of incentives and tech: Cities are using traffic lights near schools that start red and turn green if an approaching car isn't speeding.

If you're good, you get to keep driving. If you're bad, you have to stop and wait for the light to turn green.

The average speed on the road almost immediately dropped to the speed limit as people learned the rules.

Instead of punishing people with tickets after the fact, it creates the behavior the city wants.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/05/05/steal-this-idea-in-quebec-a-new-traffic-light-only-turns-green-for-safe-drivers/

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PFFFF :D

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02.01. Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West

@peterdrake won the first game in our campaign, but it was close (44 vs 41).

I was impressed by how quick and elegant the initial set-up and first game were. This might be the most approachable of all the legacy games I've played. If there is such a thing as a "gateway" legacy game, this might be it.

Sadly, we were halfway through putting the game away before I realized I forgot to take a picture. D'oh!

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Some new proofreading marks to help your writing really jump off the page this year.

#proof #proofreading #comics #grantsnyder #humor #humour #writing #writingcommunity #books #bookstodon #WIP

Compliments for Humans:

"For a thing so full of blood, it's amazing you don't slosh when you walk."

"Three breath-holes? Now you're just showing off."

"The way you move makes it hard to believe you're stuffed with bones."

"Wow, that's a lot of skin, but you really make it work."

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01.01. Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars

Final score = 100. Perfect 160 for our solution minus 60 for 12 leads more than Holmes. Our best score ever!

Our final discussion perfectly captured how this game should feel: Nailing down different aspects of the crime, each person contributing different insights that they remembered from the clues, until we had a complete and cohesive story.

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Since our 2023 board game challenge was wide and shallow, we're going narrow and deep in 2024 with a 10x10.

We decided not to lock in all 10 titles up front so there is room for new discoveries.

We're also going to try to mix it up between games that have a campaign to create variety and games with strategic depth we want to explore.

No rules on when each title will be started / completed, or who / where / how we play, so long as we log 10 plays during 2024.

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It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.
https://xkcd.com/2875/

Lots of variety in December. Earthborne Rangers was a disappointment, and echoes: The Dancer was really more of an audio jigsaw puzzle than a game, but that was more than balanced out by the satisfaction of successfully completing our 2023 #BoardGamesAtoZ challenge.

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