But Then She Came Back is really singular for me, in that it's a game I think is so clever and affecting and also have a really hard time wanting to play but also keep being drawn to the box. I've set it up and taken it down multiple times without playing, A++++++ incredible design.

But Then She Came Back and I’m just listing all the games I own from them now okay go support weird sad brilliant board games thanks!!!!

Kinda wanna try the troll next, but am very curious about the whale too. Also 100% would not have gotten to novice without stealing some build ideas from the discord.

Big recommend tbh

On Sunday basically all I did all day was read The Power Broker and drink snoozefest from 2019 and the 2024 version of this old arbor cake. delightful

just decide to not make money today while I waited for the gears of bureaucracy to turn and decide that yes, I should get access to this medical benefit that everyone agreed I have but computers said I didn’t.

It got resolved but truly stupid how bad a system we have all in the name of making access harder and only focusing on the profit motive of those in charge. It seems like the problem I ran into is because I make so little money and how much of a premium credit I get, so uh, guess I’m glad I could

game three going great, tbh. I think my boys are figuring out how to incorporate the new boys??!

Also big fan of both Quinn and Ceb on panel. The trio of them plus Tea with Nat as host is easily my favorite panel grouping in a long time. Makes me excited for the rest of year.

okay good talk, no one. Back to watching dota instead of going to sleep :)

I never love to see my team lose but it was such good dota.

For a variety of reasons my head is not In a super good place, given the state of both my life and the world but I do get a lot of joy from having just so many good games to watch. And it’s so early in the season!

From game to game the shift in what they chose, how they responded, and like the lane switching in game two, where players literally changed their roles to try and win on Yakult. And it worked!

game one was so clean from my boys. But in game two Yakult looked so dominant.

worst format for my boys.

but it also really highlights what I love about this silly esport. These games start with a weird sort of psychological chess match of banning and picking heroes from a pool of 100+. And this best of three I’m in the middle of against Yakult is a perfect encapsulation.

the current blast slam has been the first thing Liquid played in with the new roster and it’s been uh, rough. I’m not fully caught up but man alive it’s hard to watch five very good players just like, not figuring out new team dynamics.

that said blast slam is a lot of best of ones which is the

post TI always involves shuffles and there were some wild moves.

as history, in 2024 the number one opponent for liquid was easily gaimin gladiators. So it’s very neat and also funny that the post TI shuffle ended with two GG players joining Liquid.

There been a bunch of games so far but

also the frogs in portland are very funny in a way that even overcomes my general disposition to not care about "fun"

I don't know. I made a manhattan and am sad about this country but watching people combine arms both literally and figuratively to protect each other is beautiful. Good talk.

terms that push me to think about my politics, and the messy confusing mess that is human political reality. We need each other, and that will be uncomfortable, and confusing and complicated, and that's the beauty of it. That's how we build a better world.

slowly over the last few months, and they write beautifully and at times tbh annoyingly abstractly but still beautifully about the particular push and pull I have felt, the drive to be inconvenienced, the drive to connect while also preferring being alone, and how to think about these drives in