Sean

@towerguardgames.bsky.social

Canadian board game designer.

Reject subscriptions at every opportunity. Imagine buying a watch and having to pay a subscription to get the time. This is not a made up hypothetical, it's happening now.

It’s absurd how long it’s taking companies to realize that, legally, AI can’t be used as the final output for the vast majority of workplace applications. It’s almost like the world is run by people who don’t understand their own regulatory obligations.

Just got around to watching Jurassic World Rebirth, and I don't know what I was expecting from this movie, but it is a shame they could never figure out what made the original Jurassic Park movie so special. I wish they would have ade a new franchise with whatever they're doing here.

This sounds insane but I think I'm ready to not have a personal e-mail address anymore. I've had the same e-mail since 1996, but it mostly just collects spam now. I have a work e-mail and a phone number, and anything that demands my email usually just sends me more spam. It's lost its usefulness.

I find it strange that, in an era and that has extremely tightened up with avoiding cultural misappropriation, the generation leading the charge on this also goes to ‘yoga’ twice a week.

When something we’re sure was in a specific spot goes missing our brains jump straight to half-accusing people of swiping it. Just watched a coworker do exactly that. Panicked about their “stolen” reading glasses, then found them buried under a stack of papers on their desk FIVE minutes later.

I want to know the odds that any given content or comment you see social media or an online forum is a real human or a bot. I would bet it's frighteningly high, like close to 50+%. I think about that often before I decided to engage anything online, no matter how menial, or even if I agree with it.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Public Service Announcement: You can really like someone and their kind manner and respectfulness, but also they can also be really bad at their job. These things are not mutually exclusive.

As I live far away from the greater board game industry and various publisher-attended events, I have not been able to pursue seeking a publisher as a potential path for Blast Tactics release. Would love the opportunity to present the game to any pub that could be interested - any recs are welcome!