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Mark Gerrits
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Boardgame designer (SteamRollers, Mini Rails, Mini Express, Lacuna). Book nerd. Joshi fan. Pronouns: he/him. Everybody's different, everybody's special. #RIPHanaKimura
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Really enjoying my games of Dewan on BGA (still in alpha). It's got the ideal turn weight and game state complexity for an asynchronous game for me.
Late-game central board in a three-player game of Dewan. There's six hexagonal tiles, consisting of smaller terrain hexagons. Scattered across them are wooden tents in the player colors.
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Got one of the wolf pixels! www.alveussanctuary.org/institute/pi...
Alveus pixel mural (each donation of $100 or more fills in a pixel, annotated with the donor's name) The mural is of a pack of wolves in a night time forest. My pixel is highlighted and is part of one of the wolves.
October 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Still from the Wolverine game trailer
Actually it's a still of the famous prom scene in Carrie where she's covered in blood, because boy howdy that trailer was stupid amounts of bloody.
September 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Hello? … Anybody? … I think I took a wrong turn somewhere #rapture
Portal 2 screenshot. In a decrepit factory, a huge multiscreen display spells out “APERTURE laboratories”
September 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Books I've read in 2025 #22
Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda, translated by Heather Cleary & Julia Sanchez
August 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Books I've read in 2025 #21
Out of the Drowning Deep by A.C. Wise
August 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Books I've read in 2025 #20 (audiobook)
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
July 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Books I've read in 2025 #19
I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà, translated by Mara Faye Lethem
July 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Five days later…
Opened cardboard box containing the games Reapers (2nd edition), Seven Prophecies, Trickarus, Woodlanders and Gachapon Trick
June 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Books I've read in 2025 #18
The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards (A Novel against Psicho-Analise) by Emil Szittya, translated by W.C. Bamberger
June 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Books I've read in 2025 #17
Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker
June 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Only bought two tiny books on the trip so far! 💪😮
“The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards” by Emil Szittya and “Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown” by Kim Beil
June 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Books I've read in 2025 #16
The Glass Garden by Jessica Lévai
May 31, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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It looks like the new Mini Rails edition is available at the UK Game Expo. I haven’t seen the final version yet but it should have a rally neat advanced solitaire version.
Display of four Moaideas games: Mini Express Expansion, Mini Rails: Road to Eltonburg, Cargo Empire and Mini Express Mini Rails: Road to Eltonburg set up on the table. It’s very cute and colorful.
May 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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5 Years since we lost Hana Kimura. RIP 🌺
Hana Kimura in her teal wrestling gear with pink hair, making the devil horns gesture and sticking her tongue out.
May 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Gonna see a guy about some monsters on a train...
Monster Train 2 title screen
May 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Books I've Read in 2025 #15
Audition by Katie Kitamura
May 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Trying out a new hairdo
Screenshot from Clair Obscur. Maelle and Monoco in the background look on as all of Lune's hair just ... floats upwards.
May 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Whelp that didn't take long, but who cares, this is the happiest we've seen Mayu in a long time!
Mayu Iwatani holding her new Marigold Jersey (number 219) after signing with the promotion.
May 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Books I've read in 2025 #14
A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton
April 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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VENY vs Rina at this year's Hana Kimura memorial show'll be a real special match. Hana's best friend vs her lil disciple. It's been amazing watching Rina grow up into her own personality. This feels like a coming-of-age ceremony. VENY will put her through hell, but it'll only temper Rina's steel! 🤼
Hana Kimura and VENY Rina and Hana Kimura
April 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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AI being dumb as bricks
• Al Overview The maximum Manhattan distance on a wraparound board of size m x n is achieved when the starting position is at one corner (0, 0) and the end position is at the opposite corner (m-1, n-1). The distance would be m + n - 2.
April 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Books I've read in 2025 #13
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley
April 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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The Marvel Rivals character designers truly are in a league of their own
Emma Frost from the X-Men with massive thighs. I think the expression du jour is that she’s “serving cunt.”
April 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Books I've read in 2025 #12
Universality by Natasha Brown
March 31, 2025 at 9:18 AM