Dean Ray Johnson ⚪

this Slay the Spire 2 launch boring af 😩

post from https://corvid-language-library.tumblr.com Learned the word 三日坊主（みっかぼうず）today, which basically means someone who starts something but quits quickly, eg they say they’re gonna write a novel, get the first two pages written in a day, spend the next day staring at their Scrivener document, and then never touch it again. 坊主 = Buddhist priest, 三日 = 3 days. “3-day priest.” Pretty sure we’ve all been there are some point in our lives 😅

Pokopia is amazing and I love our little himbo charmander

shoutout to @ambivalentagender.bsky.social for instantly bringing this to life

For the Student Who Said Grammar Doesn’t Matter When People Are Dying What can kill is unclarity. The misplaced modifier, for instance: Having no hope, the wind didn’t move him. Did the wind have no hope? Clearly the writer meant, Having no hope, he wasn’t moved by the wind. But someone no doubt had told the writer about the passive voice, to avoid it at all costs, like passion, and the writer, feeling with a chill how costly life can be when we are passive (the lover’s last knock unanswered at the door), opted for this construction. Having no hope, the wind didn’t move him. The difference is between mystery and confusion, between the wind’s stillness and a soul that won’t be opened. And why not? Why can’t the wind hope? I don’t know. I just know it matters. Everything matters. What is erasing what. Who is bombing whom. It took me all day to misunderstand correctly: Forgetting their children, the conquerors destroyed them. —Joseph Fasano

It matters.

He might have an entire webring devoted to him

I haven't been on tumblr in years but apparently I'm still pretty tumblr-brained because I saw this new Macbook and my brain refused to let me do anything else this morning until I made this photoshop

That's how a lot of my group operates, where they enjoy testing new mechanics so they play a lot of new games. But there's a few games that everyone in the group KINDA likes, the games we play when we can't decide what to play, and we approach and appreciate them much differently. I want THAT, too.

Thank you for appreciating the time I wasted on this. I am only a certain amount of skilled with a smudge tool.

*not saying it ISN'T bad that people ONLY play D&D

A version of the Macbook ad that feels like less of a loss

It does feel like it would've been less of a loss if they'd added or subtracted one column.

Yeah, I'm not saying it's bad that people ONLY play D&D. I'm just saying, I think board games went too far in the opposite direction. Like it'd be people saying "I'm excited to continue that new campaign we started last week!" "Nah, I have these 13 other campaigns we need to get to the table first."

I appreciate this take, but I also feel like board games would be a healthier space if we treated EVERY board game like a short TTRPG campaign; planning to play every game 5 times before moving on to something else, instead of the burden of forcing people to constantly learn new systems.

This is insanely smooth???

I've been thinking, I enjoyed Vampire Survivors type games because you reach the point in a run where the decisions stop, where you're so strong that you can zone out and go autopilot.

I think Ball x Pit bugs me because you need to be fully engaged even when you've definitely won the run.

I will say that I play a lot of grindy games as a way to wind down before bed. I don't mind that I'm not always being engaged.

But I did not love Ball x Pit as much as everyone else seems to. Even when using balls that did slightly different things, it felt like every run was truly the same thing.

"Killed one executive to guarantee the board would vote for his father for CEO.

...kingmaking."

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Was this video specifically made for @commandersterling.bsky.social

Is anyone else getting YouTube commercials that are fast food mukbang

Like someone in a car saying "Okay today we're eating Domino's" and eating five different Domino's things while making the most disgusting mouth noises possible

I just saw another one for Bojangles and WHY

I didn't play Cobalt Core to death like I did with other deckbuilders, but it's got a great gimmick and some of the best comedic writing I've seen in a silly little indie game. I loved all of the time I spent with it.

I will never get "Yes, it's me, your friend, Dracula" out of my head

This is clearly some sort of moonshine and I don't have a designated driver

the phone still from taken but it's labeled MISTAKEN "I'M SORRY YOU MUST HAVE THE WRONG NUMBER."

sometimes when old memes i made pop up i actually lol

I'm just gonna be disassociating as hard as I can for the next three years

American Gothic is a 1930 oil painting on beaverboard by the American Regionalist artist Grant Wood, depicting a Midwestern farmer and his wife or daughter standing in front of their Carpenter Gothic style home. It is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century and is frequently referenced in popular culture. If you look very closely here you might notice that the farmers wife has been replaced by the official 1983 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons toy, The Raging Roper

I Inexpertly Photoshop the 1983 Official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Toy, The Raging Roper, into a classical painting (or drawing) until I forget: Day 8

I haven't written anything related to board games in over 6 months.

I'm working on getting a new job that promises a few days off at home after every two weeks on the road. With any luck, that will be enough rest time to start writing again.

I'm burned out. I've got fatigue from kidney problems, long work hours, and just getting old. My free time is so limited. The thought of reading a rulebook like this again makes my brain shut down as a self-defense mechanism. I don't think this game will ever get played.

Two years ago, I kickstarted the Terraria boardgame. I figured I might do a teach-the-game video for it, or just get some other nerds to try it once.

The game arrived last week.

I opened the huge box.

I glanced at the huge rulebook.

I closed the rulebook.

I closed the box.