Andy VZ

@andyvz.bsky.social

Tabletop game dev/project manager for over a decade, currently with Trick or Treat Studios. Opinions my own. Fantasy, sci-fi, comic, & video game enthusiast. He/him.

Firefighters at the local fair ripping apart a car (it's a scheduled demonstration/practice for the firefighters). Took about 15 minutes in real time, this is sped up.

Estate sale for someone who made dolls. Hundreds of molds, thousands of brushes, 3 kilns, tons of fabric to make clothes, doll stands, etc. Brushes were 25 cents each, doll stands were 2 bucks... Would have been a treasure trove for the right person.

"dnup" by Kei Kajino (designer of Scout). Be first to get rid of your cards by playing out matching groups. If someone else plays a group of the same size but larger number before your next turn, your group comes back to your hand and flips values. You might also spend your turn flipping your hand.

Hand of cards

If the US dramatically changed course and achieved net zero by 2050, it could save the lives of 33,000 of its people every year, new research suggests. That would mainly be the result of cutting the air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. phys.org/news/2026-07...

Cutting emissions more, removing carbon less could save 33,000 U.S. lives yearly

Published in Nature Climate Change, new research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison finds that reaching net-zero emissions by midcentury would substantially improve public health in the United S...

phys.org

"Marrakesh" by Stefan Feld. Point salad + cube tower. Choose 3 zones to send your workers to, and add corresponding octoboxes to the cube tower. Take turns claiming/placing the ones that come out, then activating your workers for effects based on how many octoboxes you've accrued in that region.

Mid gameLate game player board

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

The U.S. House voted Tuesday to make daylight saving time permanent nationwide in a bipartisan move that pushes the country one step closer to ending the long-contested ritual of semiannual clock changes. The bill’s future in the Senate is uncertain. Read more from @statesnewsroom.com

US House passes bipartisan bill to make daylight saving time permanent • Utah News Dispatch

The U.S. House voted to make daylight saving time permanent nationwide, moving the country one step closer to ending annual clock changes.

utahnewsdispatch.com