I'll own up to not saying anything. I don't actually recall the comments at all from that time. Now that could be because I didn't see them, or I've memory holed them. But I definitely I am not pleased with myself for either being uniformed or ignoring it.
I've seen them now and they are terrible
My opening post says very little asides from that it was there and now it is gone
You drew some pretty full on conclusions from that yourself and what I was trying to do was say that leaping to conclusions might not be the best thing to do
In future though, just repost it and start your own thread
You seem very certain about exactly what went down, in what order and for what reasons. So you must have a lot more knowledge of this than I do.
I assumed the new people working in the news section of Eric left didn't know Sandy was toxic. That's my assumption.
My theory is with W Eric Martin moving on after running the BGG news section forever, there are new people in there who don't know Sandys baggage and just thought he was another designer.
Someone else spotted this later and pulled it.
I don't think it was anything deliberate.
I suspect with Eric moving on after what, 20 years of doing that, they have new people in the news space who may not have known about Sandy's baggage.
I'd chalk this one up to a new person not knowing how much of a DB Sandy is
I think this is unkind, someone posted this, then someone else went "Oh hell no" and pulled it. This is new people doing the news there as well
Somewhat undermines your message there. This has done nothing but given sandy a reason to go to twitter and say how hes a victim. I doubt BGG wanted that.
A reminder that we spent billions on new defence toys that NZDF didn't want in order to placate Trump and the US military industrial complex so that he wouldn't put tariffs on us.... and he still put the tariffs in place.
The NZ Government is America First, NZ last yet again.
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
Ah, i think mine was 5 years ago or so, when covid started his mask slipping and he went from "old dude saying buy my stuff" to "Masks bad and trans people bad" on his socials
Then you might have one of me from years ago on twitter calling him out for his massive transphobia.
So this was on BGG for a few hours and no longer appears to be.
They had this collective delusion that he was on John Key's level, when Key is a very different type of person.
Luxon just cannot handle the job at all, I don't recall a PM so utterly unprepared for leadership as him. It's quite damning of the modern manager MBA leadership style
Today's video is downforce, which is being released in line with the new Formula one season starting, entirely by coincidence. It's a game that looks like its about racing cars formula one style. But it really isn't. It's about sports betting, collusion and cheating. youtu.be/pheF1YtzMgc
Mark who did the previews posted this on FB, I have other non public sources who wont go on record who said it was coming a month ago
Also, other sources I won't be sharing told me of this a month ago
The guy who did the preview videos said it in his "i just got fired" post on FB.
Fascinating to see Dice Towers response to Sam Healy going feral with his ICE comments was to fire all the Dice Tower staff who don't work onsite.
Doing that just after your fundraiser, which all those former people contributed to is a very interesting decision.
I don't think I'd like to meet him
I wish
Picture of my face and some BEAutiful board game pics with the caption “Ya boi is looking for full-time work! I’m searching for something on the creative/community side of the tabletop industry. All leads are welcome :) More info coming soon.”
Welp, Print & Play is closing...
I’ll post more about it soon, but for now, holler if you have any hot, new job gossip!
(I’ve worked full-time in the tabletop industry for 6 years and sure do hope to keep it that way 💁♂️.)
Remember when Gareth Morgan visited North Korea and boldly declared there was nothing wrong with the regime because he saw nothing suss.
Same energy.
Quite a while away from sharing anything, its all very prototypey at the moment
But its shaping up nicely
Had an amazing design and test session on a game I am working on with my new game design partner.
We are cooking up something really cool, and deep, and inspired by all the things I love in board gaming.
Like all designs, it is standing on the shoulders of giants, but the view up here is aces.
Newsome seems like the rights idea of a good democrat.
It's the unofficial motto of the channel
Cheers. I tend to just ramble a bit unlike my main videos that are scripted to the nth degree
Some games are too small, too weird, too annoying or too obscure to justify the work that goes into one of our stop motion 3 minute board game reviews. For those games we have combination reviews. Sorry for the long video, I didn't have the time to make a short one. youtu.be/w8YPtvIxCPA
It's just a short aphorism from Nietzsche
One of many in "Beyond good and evil"
Since when do we elect prime minister?
Definitely read this headline as "culture war creeps in local councils" which ... checks out
That was a really good speech.
I'm sick of our politicians making excuses for war crimes so seeing him directly call that out was great stuff
