Scott Jon Siegel

LOGGING ON

My message: Mayor Mamdani, Please keep your promise and allocate 0.5% of the city budget to public libraries. Libraries are an engine of community and democracy. They provide important services all over the city to everyone. Plus they're just great places to hang out. Fund libraries!

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

mybadgames.website/post/3710285...

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

This is the best explanation I've seen of why AI art feels dishonest (in addition to the myriad ways it is anti-human and unethical)

zooming in was more of a treat than I anticipated

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

btw indies, you should really hire @thisisstar.bsky.social if you can for trailers - her trailer for TR-49 is up on GameTrailers where it has 10x the views of anything released around the same time (except, I think, Warhammer). And for a game which is *really* hard to trailer too...

A riff on the classic “I heart NY” sign. This one says “NY heart U”

I don't think anyone at Board said that we're replacing your board game collection... Why compete with a beloved medium when we can create an entirely new category of play?

Board games are great, but games on Board are truly special, and unlike anything else out there, digital or non-digital.

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me

Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

oh no

keep him out of boats

New Years is a great time to tell someone you love them.

(It’s you. Tell yourself that you love them)

Lemon pigs from last year. If you have tricks to make them last longer, lmk. We used toothpicks instead of matches because I convinced myself they’d burst into flames.

Image depicts the following, which is the text transcription. It's very cute! "Lemon Piglet (11) For good luck in the New Year, a lemon piglet is a must! Insert four toothpicks into a lemon for legs. Slit pointed end for mouth to hold shiny penny, and two cuts for the ears. Eyes are cloves. Crush and curl foil for silly tail."

Remember to stock up on lemons today for your New Year Lemon Pig-making needs! 🍋

Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]

Funny Numbers

xkcd.com/3184/

🤌 Duloxetiné!

🤌 Methylphenidaté!

🤌 Risperidoné!

🤌 Lamotriginé!

I know the holiday times can be a struggle for folks with depression, so might I suggest pronouncing your medications’ generic names like they’re types of pasta.

what??

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Wilco Waggins

Been toying around with a newfangled console called Board. The price tag is steep: $700. But the games, which all involve physical playing pieces that interact with the screen, are a blast. Can it prevail in the marketplace? I talked to the team about their gamble. www.polygon.com/board-game-c...

A new $700 anti-console hopes to save your family from PlayStation and Netflix loneliness Are you on Board?

Are you on Board?

I think all jobs in game dev require soft skills, but I think most of that gets put on producers. Talking and communicating to other people is the majority of my job (and the part I love the most), which is why my biggest pet peeve is being asked to ideate in isolation.

I’ll die on the hill of “game design is a soft skills job, actually.” It needs everyone aligned on and excited about the thing we’re making together.

A big part of my job as a designer is making sure that everybody is seeing the same thing in their brain throughout development, and correcting whenever we discover our brains are envisioning different things.