🎲📐Marcus Ross ⚡️🚗
@marcusross.bsky.social
Tabletop Game Designer / EV Enthusiast / Software Dev Play to Z Games investor My newest design, Jingle 🔔 Bell 🎄 Roll 🎅 is available at Barnes & Noble right now! https://linktr.ee/marcus.o.ross
How do you like your candle scents? Food, flowers or feelings?
Alright procrastinators, now's your time to shine
🚨 We're extending our submission deadline to October 31! 🚨 One more week to submit your innovative, weird and experimental games to the 2027 Experimental Games Showcase at @officialgdc.bsky.social! Find the submission form and more info here: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
A whole house in Florida and no one went to even look into the man’s face for how long exactly?
Cangrejo Ermitaño: Mi Casa Móvil
Alt: Hermit crab with a house styled shell in its back
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A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.
Ok so You Can See Everything was simply wild as hell. No details from me, but if you ever got aboard the theranos fallout train this has a lot to offer.
I got a message this morning. Someone bought "But Then She Came Back", played it, and said it made them realize they were being abused and leave that relationship. I am profoundly moved that something I made helped someone in that way. Been sobbing since I got the message.
These Games Are Not For Sale celebrates artful games made for the sake of it. This one-day festival inside PAX Unplugged will spotlight games that money can’t buy. Come experience games, not buy them: 🚫🪙🚫🪙🚫 🎲✂️ 🪙🚫🪙🚫🪙 🗺️ Pennsylvania Convention Center 📍 Terrace Ballroom 🗓️ Saturday, Dec 5 🕙 10am-10pm
Announcing the newest peer-reviewed series for Carnegie Mellon University Press: games! This week during @meaningfulplay.bsky.social, we're launching our first-ever CFG (call for games) for Promptuary, a playable anthology. www.cmu.edu/university-p... #boardgames #tabletopgaming #stayanalog
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Carnegie Mellon University Press has expanded publishing to include a new series of tabletop games, one of the first game series by a university press.
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You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.
THE ABSOLUTE PERFECT BIT BOWL FOR BOARD GAMES HAS ARRIVED AND IT’S $1.50 AT DOLLAR TREE! Not an advertisement but definitely an endorsement; I just bought all five. www.dollartree.com/greenbrier-k...
Wells Fargo has been my primary checking account since college and they’ve ABSOLUTELY NEVER offered me a mortgage on *any* terms and I’m in *software development*. I don’t know which of these racists to be madder at.
The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl...
Just found out: 1. My house came with one of those fake plastic rocks you can hide stuff in. 2. It’s a big one. 3. Big enough to contain a beehive. 4. It in fact, does contain bees. 5. They were happier when that was a secret only they knew.
Omaha Gaming Convention is returning in 2027! Join us July 9th-11th, 2027, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Omaha Downtown Old Market, featuring more convention space, and more room for events and #boardgames! Let's get it! Buy your badge EARLY for a discount: tabletop.events/conventions/...
OCT 31 == DEC 25 so honestly this new Halloween expansion for my Christmas game makes total sense. chriscouch.games/products/jin...
Jingle Bell Roll: Tricks & Treats Promo
The Tricks & Treats Promo adds bite-sized, Halloween-themed gameplay to Jingle Bell Roll. Perfect for the spooky season, you can include this mini-expansion to add a bit of toil and trouble to you...
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Mattel rabbit hole has led me to previously unknown depths of Scrabble-ing. Words fail to describe word game man. Understanding the rules <<< Playing the game youtu.be/p94DqHv3xk8?...
Nigel's Most Mysterious Move Isn't Even A Word
YouTube video by Will Anderson
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There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other.
Apropos of nothing in particular, here’s how you freeze your credit with all the major reporting agencies www.experian.com/blogs/ask-ex...
How to Freeze Your Credit at All 3 Credit Bureaus
Learn how to freeze your credit online with all three credit bureaus. Review what information you need to freeze your credit and how to unfreeze your credit.
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Now that’s a job. Kinda feels like a bat signal with my face on it. www.linkedin.com/posts/chris-...
I'm looking for a game nerd. Not just someone who loves games. Someone who's fascinated by why they're fun. The kind of person who can't help but tweak the rules after game night. Who...
I'm looking for a game nerd. Not just someone who loves games. Someone who's fascinated by why they're fun. The kind of person who can't help but tweak the rules after game night. Who builds ugly pro...
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Hey do you feel sane? No? Okay, don’t buy a water distiller. It works great, but you’re gonna find out what’s in your tap water and you are NOT GOING TO LIKE IT.
In 1990, an elementary school teacher won $16,500 on a game show, and used her winnings to publish a board game about the Exxon Valdez oil spill. This is her story. youtu.be/r1g7C0o9Oqc
Tracia Newman's Board Game: Oil Spill & Amateur Art
YouTube video by Hollandspiele
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Vote with your dollars / Scream into the void (tip jar at Spielbound)
Games are art Make games for the sake of art Celebrate artful games this December at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia Follow for more details coming soon
I have seen the Star Trek (and even as a person who actually liked sillier episodes like Rascals or Move Along Home) I have some thoughts for Paramount:
For Natalie I’ll make an exception: *PLEASE* use AI to write your terrible letters. Mine poor eyes had to read and mine brain… comprehend? The thoughts are all dog water, but the struggle is real. Just Bad. Bad bad bad.
“And please, when I fail, will you tell me? You have the absolute right to cuss me out, if need be, when I deserve it, because no one knows or cares about me more.” … “With all my heart, Natalie”
Currently playing Obsession with friends and I can’t help wondering what it would be like reskinned with Klingon events and houses.
Whenever someone asks how to make a comedian laugh this will be my go to example. youtube.com/shorts/ovypV...
Conan blames Jason Bateman for his father's death. #podcast #comedian #comedy #conan
YouTube video by Team Coco
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