Paul ✍🏻 Dean

Bonus deets just for you: Later that week I had dinner with Paul Sparks.

This is genuinely not a joke.

What a remarkable quote

a cartoon drawing of a man wearing a gas mask and sunglasses . Alt: An animated gif of New Vegas, showing a cartoon drawing of a man wearing a gas mask and sunglasses .

Vegas. New. Stream. Internet. 1pm Pacific. Watch. Eyes. Games. You know the deal.

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I'm so glad I can draw and function without using AI. I'm so glad I can do basic things like jobs without needing it at all

My life is full of these, but the one I love to repeat is how I had a long dinner with some actors in NYC and the guy next to me broke the ice by saying he was also a Paul.

I had no idea it was Paul Rudd, nor who that was. I have still seen hardly anything with Paul Rudd in. Except Celery Man.

I know Horsey Game looks like a joke with a crude, janky style, but I’m 8hrs in and it’s the funniest, most brilliantly designed game I’ve played in years.

I could list dozens of hilarious emergent moments from my playthrough but I don’t want to say too much.
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Out here representing the Scum Community.

Anne Frank died amongst tens of thousands of others during a massive typhus outbreak in Bergen-Belsen.

Camps like these turn treatable contagions and diseases into deadly epidemics.

Thumbnail of an Instagram reel. It has a photo of Mark Carney speaking at a podium, edited to appear in front of smoke plumes amid a city. The text reads: "I'm all for international law 'theoretically'".

1/ This is utterly incoherent.

What Canadians need to hear from our Prime Minister right now is simple: call for a ceasefire and immediately withdraw your misguided support for Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war.

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Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

I have a VERY hot take

As a chronically ill/disabled person, I'm on a lot of forums and groups for chronic illness. The pipeline from "my doctor won't believe me" to anti-vaxxer is very real

Doctors have an empathy problem, science has an elitist image problem, & BASIC education is broken

OH GOD JIM I THINK I KNOW WHAT THEY ARE I THINK THEY USED TO BE RACCOONS THEY'RE INSIDE THE HOUSE JIM THEY'RE INSIDE THE HOUSE - FAX

We ask top designers how to make board games about the worst parts of human history Board game designers Cole Wehrle and Amabel Holland talk about designing distressing historical games - and whether to make them at all.

A long read from me today, about the delicate task of designing respectful historical board games. Massive thanks to @amabel.bsky.social and @colewehrle.bsky.social for talking to me about their design approaches. www.wargamer.com/board-games/...

Congratulations!

It wins, though.

Mine doesn’t fit :(

Two of the very best in the business.

perfect

A CBC news headline saying "B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time - March 8 will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks, premier announces" and showing Vancouver's stupid steam clock.

Ode to Joy rings out across the land.

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orcaNEWSFLASH OLYMPIA, June 27th, 1969. Washington biologist and bear expert Paul Dean says he knows why the animals are no longer present on the Olympic Peninsula, though his bizarre theories and disruptive behavior have landed him in hot water. Bursting into a legislative session in the capitol

Sanderson is reporting a pimple that he can just keep squeezing. It never empties, no matter how long he pushes on it. Can you add that to the list? Yeah, just put it under P. Yeah, for pimple. - FAX

You casually did this without announcing it, eh?

The hope for hot dogs.

don't go to the shoe shop to buy plates or vice-versa. one of the most valuable things I've learned in therapy. plus! under the line: 17 free or not-expensive things that have brought me disproportionate joy this month

I wrote about one of the most useful things I've ever learned in therapy. It can actually change your life - certainly did mine.

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At least there is one bright spot about living under an openly corrupt and evil administration. You don’t see the chin-stroking that accompanied Iraq. “Ah but I must consider the possibility that, even without the WMDs, this might be a good move through the lenses of human rights AND realpolitik.”

I just wish there could be one era of my life where we aren’t at war with the Middle East

Wow you mean just like the last one where they'd moved the bombers weeks in advance?

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The famous MISSION ACCOMPLISHED photo of George W. Bush on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003, after announcing that major combat operations in Iraq were complete. Which they definitely were, with no ongoing, drawn out, years-long conflict claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, nor costing trillions and tying up resources both logistical and diplomatic that might have been better used elsewhere in the world. And certainly not causing some historians and cultural commentators to suggest it may even have enabled and emboldened other nations and leaders, potentially creating some of the international crises of our current era. No, the invasion of Iraq definitely worked out okay and didn't cause decades of problems. There's certainly no link to an increasingly unchecked Putin, the rise of ISIS or further regional destabilisation.

Never forget.