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Corey Konieczka

@psycorey.bsky.social

On a break from designing boardgames to pursue other creative ambitions such as writing books and making indie videogames.

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iucounu@iucounu.bsky.social · last wk.

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

Corey Konieczka@psycorey.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE BAD: I spent all day scripting a single card in my video game. THE GOOD: I now have functionality to search any deck or pile and select cards. I undoubtedly needed this for future effects.

Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now!@gengelstein.bsky.social · 2w ago

Engelstein’s Law: Your game is more complicated than you think, even when you take into account Engelstein’s Law.

Eric Lang@ericlang.bsky.social · 2w ago

Game designers always tell me their game is “simple, everyone gets it” And then I watch them demoing at conventions doing 90% of the heavy lifting and repeating rules over and over. Your game ain’t simple, hombre. You just really like it.

Jason Maltzen@jason.maltzen.org · 3w ago

As is the number of responses of the form "here's what [genAI] said" to any question. Invariably the answer provided in this format is partially if not entirely incorrect and now you've also wasted my time.

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 4w ago

I got salty about AI bullshit because it's all such bullshit, so here is me being very mad and probably not very clear about how mad it makes me. Do with this as you will. *kicks rocks*

You Cannot Use One Bullshit Machine To Catch Another Bullshit Machine

I really fucking hate AI right now. I really fucking hated AI yesterday and the day before, too, though I think the hate is growing faster and hotter, like a sun about to explode and consume the ga…

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Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · last mo.

One of the things that's so remarkable about Trump is that even after he has ascended to raking in BILLIONS in bribes and graft, he still can't resist engaging in every penny-ante grift he can think of

CNN@cnn.com · last mo.

A CNN investigation found that President Donald Trump has promoted more than 20 companies on his Truth Social account days after buying stock in those firms – at times announcing government actions that could benefit the companies he just invested in. https://cnn.it/44tiGit

Jason Scott@textfiles.com · 2mo ago

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Chris Kluwe@chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As a former professional athlete, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Your kid has a less than 1% chance of getting an athletic college scholarship. You’re better off putting the money into a 529 plan.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."

Brad Takei@bradtakei.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A 5-4 Supreme Court just barely stopped a president from erasing the 14th Amendment by decree. We were one vote away from a very different country, and from upending countless lives in the process.

Corey Konieczka@psycorey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Milestone update: my videogame is now 3/7 of the way complete! Lots of new features this time: sounds, inventory, and new factions. Time to get more playtester feedback, then do another round of refinement.