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Matt Thrower
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I have never in my life before been tempted by souvenir stamps.
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Board game writer. Words on IGN, GamesRadar, Dicebreaker and many others. There will be puns. And boardgames.
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Matt Thrower
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I have never in my life before been tempted by souvenir stamps.
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Matt Thrower
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Matt Thrower
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Mine don't slide. Or maybe I need to loosen those screws first. I suspect you're right about them being fixings for hanging hooks tho. The trouble is I've got a row of 3 and it feels like they're screwed together but I can't see the screws. Maybe under the covers if I can loosen the outer case
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Matt Thrower
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They all seem to be fastened together and I can't see how. I don't know if it's glue or something
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Matt Thrower
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That's what I'm now trying
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Matt Thrower
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Trying to unmount a wall cabinet in a kitchen. No matter how much I turn these screws they don't seem to come loose. Has anyone seen any covers like this before, and is there anything special in need to do to get them off?
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Matt Thrower
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Sorry :(
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Matt Thrower
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I don't think I've ever seen an expansion box that many times bigger than the base game!
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Matt Thrower
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They're measuring templates. A huge part of play is estimating distances before you choose them. It is very hard!
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Matt Thrower
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Redwood is *such* a peculiar game.
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Matt Thrower
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 12 / 20
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Matt Thrower
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It just struck me as a hugely artificial argument. Video games have always had a compulsive element that's partly why they're fun. & designing in addiction has been part of the process since coin op days
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Matt Thrower
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Really don't think there's much in this argument. I grew up at time of much greater hope for young people, much less supervision and much more accessible green space ... and my friends & I still spent hours in front of screens because it was FUN www.theguardian.com/games/articl...
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Matt Thrower
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This was perhaps my favourite game of 2023
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Matt Thrower
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 11 / 20
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Matt Thrower
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Matt Thrower
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Reawakened a longstanding question of mine. Where do Space Marines store their bolter ammo?
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Tade Thompson
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This is a subtweet about Frankenstein because I don't want to be a dick, but I also want some facts out there. 1. Most novels at the time were anonymous. We can't make definite judgements about why Mary Shelley's name wasn't on it. It was common practice. The novel was barely respectable. 1/?
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Matt Thrower
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Labour is trying to pin the state of the country - correctly - on the Tories as hard as the coalition - incorrectly - tried to pin it on Labour and I am very much here for it
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Matt Thrower
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It's Elon Musk tanking twitter. Twitter was always the best social channel for promo bc it wasn't algorithm-ised, so you had a chance to catch the zeitgeist however small you were.
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Matt Thrower
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This. I got all my early commissions on Twitter. ALL of them. Among all the good things Space Karen so thoughtlessly destroyed, the careers of a million aspiring artists is perhaps the most egregious.
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Sardonicus
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'Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the mid twentieth century, and remains stable for decades. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.' Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell
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Pavel
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Well this is grim
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Matt Thrower
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I briefly thought this was the cover of an old-style Traveller booklet
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Matt Thrower
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Really liked this. One of my favourite games of last year
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Matt Thrower
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As a young kid the only sense I had of the word vice was something my dad used to hold things in place in his shed, so I was very, very confused every week by the content of Miami Vice
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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍
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Matt Thrower
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Sudden thought: a lot of films before the mid 70s now feel absolutely glacial in terms of pace, and I'm wondering how much Star Wars is the pivot on which modern movie pacing turned.
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Matt Thrower
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Yeah I went straight for a str/dex build, as I like the fighting in Souls games. Never got on with the magic. But I've gone a long way on Bloodhounds Fang & Shield
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Matt Thrower
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Booted up Elden Ring again earlier on a whim. Had forgotten what an extraordinary thing it is. Now tempted to play through it again.
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Matt Thrower
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I liked it. I appreciated the novelty of it.
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Matt Thrower
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Wake the Tiger?
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Matt Thrower
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Great point. We've become so used to cronyism that appointments based on skills or experience seem bizarre. Not everyone in Starmer's cabinet is even an ally of his.
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Matt Thrower
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That's even worse design.
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Matt Thrower
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I've plugged an additional drive in for extra storage. Which looks ugly as hell because there's now a USB plug sticking permanently out of the front of the console
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Matt Thrower
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I've owned a PS4 for almost 10 years and only today did I discover that it only has USB ports at the front. Crazy design.
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Matt Thrower
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I would love journalists and academics to doorstep people in Reform's new constituencies and find out things like what age and income brackets they belong to, why they voted reform and what they expected their new MPs to do for them. So that we can begin to fight back against this corrosive force.
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Matt Thrower
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Yeah, I'm perversely unhappy at the political situation this morning and this is the reason why. It feels like politics as usual is just papering over chasms.
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Ren Zelen
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The Tories are out, deservedly so, but 14 years of Tory rule have caused incalculable harm. We can feel relief, but Labour won’t be able to fix all these problems & the Tory media will undermine them. It’s also clear that the far right is rising & will be dusting off their Bannon/Trump playbook.
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Matt Thrower
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For many, it's also a matter of principle. It's fairer.
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Matt Thrower
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I just don't really know how to process this. Perhaps it's tiredness, but it feels oddly catastrophic, a mammoth in the polling booth that no politicians want to talk about this morning. Britain is a country in terrible distress.
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Matt Thrower
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Please as I am to be rid of the Tories, the more I dig into the stats this morning, the more sobering they are. A hard-right party got a huge vote share. Starmer got fewer votes than Corbyn. LibDems and Labour barely changed their vote share & benefitted from a split on the right. This is not good.
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Matt Thrower
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Fair.
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Matt Thrower
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Yeah, I've been a PR supporter all my life because it seems the fair thing to do. Doesn't feel right to abandon it just because it offers a result I might not like
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Matt Thrower
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Fair, it's still a scary prospect tho
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Matt Thrower
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Reform's vote share is also a sobering slap to folk like me who support PR. That would have resulted in a hard right bloc that could challenge Labour. Gobsmacked to see LibDem Daisy Cooper bigging up PR on the BBC last night when her party - for once - actually benefitted from FPTP
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Matt Thrower
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The surge in the reform vote is terrifying. Suggests the tories were correct in thinking that quasi-fascism is a vote winner, that they'll now gleefully sprint down that path & that - contrary to popular wisdom - it'll pay electoral dividends.
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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava
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Matt Thrower
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Thirteen seats for reform?!
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Matt Thrower
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Yes. I'm very sorry.
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