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Marc G 🪩🐌
@marcgwiz.bsky.social
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Genus at Wonk • Fledgling Game Designer • Boardgame Enthusiast • Artist • He/Him • Designer of Analogue Game Modeling Language
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What poster did you have hanging on your wall as a kid? (my copy was not framed though)
A framed poster of a brontosaurus or similar dinosaur crossing a modern highway and causing a bit of chaos. Text at the bottom reads "The Nature Company San Francisco".
September 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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How it's looking now, but I've been working on other things and I haven't updated it in awhile. Colours indicate the type of card.
Partial class diagram for a game design, outlining some classes that will be turned into cards for game play.
September 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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No credit necessary, the Metroid Prime trilogy for Wii:
live.staticflickr.com/1572/2495669... (not my picture)
Contents here: archive.org/details/metr...
Metroid Prime Trilogy Collector's Edition tin box for the Wii
September 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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This is how I always remembered it (originally saw it in a magazine)
Word art illustrative difference between stalactites and stalagmites. The vertical bar of the 'T's in stalactites extends down, to illustrate the downward growth, and the extended 'M' in stalagmites extends up, to illustrate the upward growth.
August 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Not exactly the same but close enough maybe?
Box art for Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure (Director's Cut). It's a video game. Soundtrack by Harold Faltermeyer
August 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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There is a board game, maybe that will scratch your itch?
XCOM The Board Game box cover A Board Game of Global Defense for 1-4 Players A Game by Eric M. Lang
August 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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seems appropriate here:
Imagine a book, with multiple pages, or a song with multiple phrases. We read or listen to it sequentially, but it could, in a data world, be stored anywhere, and just be linked from part to part. Indeed old hard drives did this. It can lead to slowdowns as your hard drive is jumping around trying to play a whole song in the correct order, so defragging (or defragmenting) was a process that rearranged all the data on the drive so that parts of files were sequential, making it faster to read and work with. This image is of a zebra, but the stripes have been defragged, so it's white on one side and black on the other.
August 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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So real it's almost real:
Joe Rogan: hamburgers are good but I am trying to eat less pork Guest: hamburgers are made with beef Joe Rogan: ham is from pork it says ham in hamburger Guest: it is beef Joe Rogan: that’s not what I’ve heard Jamie look that up Jamie: it beef Guest: it beef Joe: ok but can we really trust hamburger makers and butchers and grocery stores when the word ham is in hamburger and ham means pork Joe Rogan Fans: this is why I like him he is good at thinking
July 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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@howlongtobeat.bsky.social, what does this chart mean?
Number of lemons required to make % quality of lemonade?
How many clown cars typically contain what number of clowns?
Unclear chart. Apparently 100% is 1076 but 90% is 468. No legend or explanations, so could be anything.
June 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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An oldie:
Rod Hilton, @rodhilton@mastodon.social He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.
June 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Oh no
Lego popcorn, about on scale with a minifigure
June 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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RFK's pick for vaccine advisory panel
Thrax, the virus from the live-action/animated 2001 somewhat entertaining movie Osmosis Jones
June 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Open world not the only change in Mario Kart
Leaderboard from Mario Kart World shows that Mario's brother is now named Jeff. Don't ask me, maybe it turns out that Luigi was copyrighted by someone else all this time.
April 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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More seriously than my previous reply, I wonder if the Lego folks had some reasoning behind these:
(Note the robot book: about 1/3 pages, 2/3's game box)
Lego Ninjago book with lego parts to build a minifig included with the book. Might be to sell as a 'book' not 'toy' to get around some restrictions but I'm really reaching here. Lego book with lego parts included in the book. The book is only about one third pages, the other two-thirds is a box containing components.
April 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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New boxes:
book with hidden compartment for keys, cash, or board game components
April 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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An interesting tech take on tariffs:
vfxgordon writes "Also note that the tariffs are not broken down by country, they're broken down by top level internet domain. It's why islands that are populated entirely by penguins (the .hm domain) and why the Diego Garcia military base on BIOT (.io) are listed, also why Reunion (.re) and Gibraltar (.gi) are listed separately from France & the UK. They 100% used an LLM to generate this list and didn't catch the mistake because they're all dumb as rocks."
April 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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In my feed, you have changed your look and Matthew has stolen yours
It's the same picture as the top of the thread, but the cropping of the image in Bluesky has caused the names to not be aligned with the pictures, to a somewhat humourous effect.
March 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Quick sketch of Gonzo The Great from memory but his head is probably a bit too big.
March 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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If you see this, quote a game with a 10/10 soundtrack
Grim Fandango. Probably the best game featuring skeletons in a film noir setting. Possibly the only one. Manny Calavera has to solve a mystery of what is happening to the souls that pass through the land of the dead. Also an amazing soundtrack.
March 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Also, the inverted scroll idea doesn't actually make sense... would it not be more like this, which might be better to fit the grid anyway:
quick outline doodle of a scroll
February 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Image of a poll with 4 options: 1: It's annoying or not interesting 2: I'm in this photo and I don't like it 3: I think it shouldn't be on Facebook 4: It's spam The 2nd option is selected, as a response to the original post from The Onion about board games.
February 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Map of the Gulf of Mexico, renamed to the Gulf of Rohan, in an poor attempt to make a humourous connection between the parent post about sending aid to Gondor through Mapquest and referencing the pumpkin's nonchalant renaming of international elements over which he has no control. Frankly I don't think it's that funny but it's what I thought of.
February 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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4-panel comic by Cyanide and Happiness: Panel 1: Person 1: "Sweet, hit level 42! Gonna be a paladin!" Person 2, passing by: "Haha! Nerd!" Panel 2: Person 1: "Yeah? Tell me about your favorite footballer" Panel 3: Person 2: "Only Leylon Rustberger, 6'4, 226Lbs and 294.2 passing yards per game, he's the best quarterback the Hosers have had in 45 years!" Panel 4: Person 1: "Nerd", then walks away.
February 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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A hole punch, typically used for paper
January 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I'm not sure it's a cycle at all...
The Life Cycle of a Board Game Idea but it's not really a cycle. The five ideas: "I have a great idea!", "Um... It's harder than I thought", "Is my idea going to work", "OK, it's not good enough", "Let's put it aside for now" should be in a cyclical sequence but the arrows are pointing in all different directions in a hilarious dis-order of operations
January 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM