It's such a joy to receive a new draft of art you commissioned If suddenly rich i'll go full Medici A "bank error in your favor" sitch Monopoly taught us this happens often
Gabe Durham
@gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com
Writer, editor, publisher behind @bossfightbooks.com, a series of nonfiction, documentary-style books about video games. Author of MAJORA'S MASK, BIBLE ADVENTURES, and FUN CAMP.
First week with the baby in daycare. Wow so much more is possible. Actually catching up on some projects feels wild
I wrote a couple of short entries for this cool book!
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A few years ago I used a cool online tool to make 3D mockups of all the books. Problem is, grayscale somehow breaks the tool. So every book worked but Shovel Knight, Minesweeper, & Silent Hill 2.
"I’ve got great reflexes. That’s because at least once a day when I was growing up, my dad yelled 'think fast!' and without any notice tossed me an object, big or small, and I’d struggle to catch it." drboring.substack.com/p/think-fast...
the word saddened i am saddened i am officially saddened it has come to my attention that i am saddened
"To comfort me, my mom popped off her prosthetic leg and let me take it with me into class." From a little story, LEG MOM. New stories weekly. drboring.substack.com/p/leg-mom-ca...
Leg Mom (Calmly Refusing to Age, #4)
**serialized weekly **
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In nonfic it can be useful to drop in occasional reminders of the fallibility of memory: "I dunno," X added. "I might be getting it wrong. It was a long time ago." Inoculating writer & reader against the illusion that everything is perfectly verifiable, even as we all do our best.
Today I was filling out a form to get new daughter a birth certificate, and was so stumped by the question, "Why do you want this birth certificate?"
The baby arrived last week! @emmafyffe.bsky.social is recovering well & little Maisie Rose is doing great. The baby is getting some UV treatment for jaundice that should wrap up in a couple days, and from there we'll focus on fattening her up
Where my Dan Harumi heads? Been getting a lot of wisdom from this guy lately. I listen in podcast form but he's on everything. www.youtube.com/@danharumi1/...
Dan Harumi
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Having to now manually screen orders because of an influx of people buying our cheapest ebook to (most likely) test out stolen credit card numbers. If I don't screen, their bank holds us liable and charges me a scam penalty, which happened last week. WILD that this is how commerce works!
New book review is up over on my Patreon. This is, as always, FREE to read for everyone. Come and check out my thoughts on The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask by @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com from @bossfightbooks.com. Spoiler alert: it’s great. www.patreon.com/posts/156053...
BOOK REVIEW - Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask | Pixels and Polygons
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It is with a heavy heart that I put AMC A-list on ice in anticipation of my child's birth. Likely to be reinstated just in time for the 2029 release of The Super Mario Multiverse Movie, film's most ruthless reference machine yet
Just finished yet another excellent entry in the @bossfightbooks.com collection Majora’s Mask by @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com Reminding us that heroism is not just fighting monsters, but also helping those around us with the limited time we have. Empathy. bossfightbooks.com/products/the...
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask by Gabe Durham
Release Date: October 26, 2020 192 pages ISBN: 978-1-940535-26-5 You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you? Those grim words hang over the entirety of Majora Mask, the sixth entry in the Legend o...
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Recently I was on a podcast -- all went fine til the very end when they asked, "Anything else that you want people to know?" My brain went all cosmic zoom-out: Who am I to demand anyone know anything? LONG PAUSE full of hmms and stalling that I was sure they'd cut. They left it all in.
New reader survey! This one asks the big question: What if Boss Fight moves off Kickstarter to instead offer preorders on our own site? This would be a big change for us, so we'd love to hear from you. docs.google.com/forms/d/1vjt...
Boss Fight Books: Moving the party from Kickstarter to our own web store.
Hey Everybody: Boss Fight Books is considering moving preorders away from Kickstarter, and we want to hear from you about it! For the curious, I'll share our rationale for the proposed change: 1. S...
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Genuinely inspired by how much of our stockpile of baby stuff is from friends a year or two ahead of us. Feels like community over capitalism. It'll be fun to pass it on to the next parents as Tiny Daughter grows up
I'd be curious to have conversations with folks who've successfully weaned off crowdfunding. I think I'm finally getting to the point where we'd do even better without it, which is exciting but scary!
Going through your website & repairing old links is important, BORING work. Grateful every day for Internet Archive, though
Thanks to Paul, Kyle, and Sam of the game podcast CTRL, ALT, HACKED for having me on! soundcloud.com/cybercrimema...
CTRL, ALT, HACKED. The Stories Behind the Games. Gabe Durham, Founding Editor, Boss Fight Books.
Gabe Durham, founding editor of Boss Fight Books, a series of nonfiction deep dives into classic video games, joins hosts Paul John Spaulding, Kyle Haglund, VP of Audio Engineering at Cybercrime Magaz
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My book BIBLE ADVENTURES is the primary source for a 6-minute chunk of the new Jacob Geller video. Well-cited, too!
Here's my impression of someone on substack SO excited to savagely refute an opponent: Interestingly,
My texts with Gabe these past weeks have been equal parts SUPER MARIO GALAXY book updates and “oh wow, we’re gonna be dads soon”
Gabe Durham@gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 7mo agoLast summer two days before we moved into a fixer-upper condo in need of big work, we discovered my wife @emmafyffe.bsky.social is pregnant. We're just recklessly speedrunning milestones over here
