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A wooden folding stool sitting on a kitchen counter next to the sink. There’s also some rags and a bottle of mineral spirits. Stool uses dowels for hinges

A clipboard with an array of items, listed below:
- mechanical pencil
- printer paper with some planning doodle
- cut index cards in sleeves, in varied colors and stripes vs solid. Each colored index card quarter is mostly covered by an offset white index card
- 2 binder clips
- a full mint tin. Resin ducks, ‘mingoes, blank die, wood die, lock symbols, chevrons in progress pride colors, halved index cards, acrylic cat and dog, rubber catducks,

A coach class Amtrak seat. This time it’s a side view of my rolly bag because it’s currently occupying the space in front of the seat next to me. There’s no more curtains. But don’t mind this comparison. Amtrak seats, space, storage, and charging are well superior to planes. I could lift this bag over my head but there’s some 20lbs of giveaway games I’m trying to not shuffle around too much. And I generally don’t have to share seat space

Front seat in the Amtrak business class car. It has tons of extra space between my knee and my rolly bag. I’ve even expanded the normally-carry-on-sized bag the extra 2 inches. And on top of that bag is a tiny blue and yellow backpack with pins on it. The tiny bag is leaning against the outer wall of the train. It’s resting on some corporate-durable-style navy curtains that run along a tracks in the wall

3 staggered cards on a table. Each card has 2 word particles, and their definitions, one on the top half and one on the bottom half. The cards are aligned in a way that creates "auto-nov-verb" which could mean "your own new word".

The top half of the first card reads "self- auto- own, same". The second card's bottom half reads "nov new". The last card's top half reads "verb word".

The other, unused particles are not important to the picture, but are as follows:
- 1 "-ise -ize to cause, to become"
- 2 "pan bread"
- 3 "zyg joined together"

A clusterfuck of a store map for Lowe’s home improvement store. There’s 72739405 aisles numbered and labeled in ways that are sorta helpful but also way to zoomed out

3 old Craftsman hand planes aka metal contraptions with a blade, for woodworking. They all have darker wood handles on both ends. 2 of them are several inches shorter than the third. All 3 have some wood shavings sitting on them, implying successful planing.

screenshot of the mac window for adding new fonts. At the top it says "VickHandwrit (VickiHandwrit.ttf)" and "Regular". In the display box, it shows a handwritten typeface with three rows: the alphabet uppercase, alphabet lowercase, and numbers. This is all great and really cool to see my handwriting as a font, but in each row, there are a couple letters showing up as subscript aka tiny and unreasonable

A four panel comic arranged 2 x 2.
frame 1 says “roasting (not burning) time”. There’s an arrangement of graham crackers, marshmallows, unnamed chocolate bars, and chocolate covered peanut butter discs.

frame 2: a beautiful s’mores being squished. It says “yours is beautiful” then “Hold this for me” with a hand offering a graham cracker. In frame 3, it says “2s later..” and has a marshmallow on fire with three bursts of wind like people are blowing it out. In frame 4, there’s a partially burnt marshmallow upon one of those chocolate covered peanut butter cups and it says “Top me”

Please pay no attention to the fact that squish is clearly backwards.

An outdated version of Dumpster Heist. In front of me is an adorable pic of raccoon hands. In my hand I have cards with words. I can make out “big dreams” and “wristwatch”. There are other cards on the table in different rooms but they’re not super discernible

a crop of the xkcd comic where randall explains instead of being shitty someone doesn’t know something, they are one of 10000 lucky people that day to learn about it. image is just a stick figure saying “you’re one of today’s luck 10,000”

Screenshot of the green library signs, but drawn in procreate. The arrow sign has a tombstone on it that say “ Here lies
Education and imagination
june 2025”. I swear it does say that, but the contrast is horrible. Sorry, if you can’t see it. I wasn’t initially planning to share it like this

A pair of typical US green and white road signs meant to give directional information. The small bottom rectangular sign is a rightward arrow. The top square green sign is an iconic human torso facing an open book. All of this is on an absurdly blue background. But, that’s what public domain pictures had available

A pencil-scrawled floor plan. several areas to play, read, chill, whatever. With an area in middle for a table.

A longer description:
a sorta octagonal room on one end and rectangular on the other. The rectangular side has 2 90° angles with 2 windows on the short end. Each of these corners has reading nooks that double as seating. Each nook has a small table next to it. Between the 2 windows is a Murphy bed. On the long/bottom wall is another pair of windows with a second Murphy bed option. Beyond the windows, the walls start to angle into the octagonal shape. Part of it is a window seat. Part is a coat closet. Part is a closet for the room. And the last part connects right outside the bathroom, outside of the room. The last part is labeled “secret passage?”

Not pictured: a walkthrough pantry with a wall of 🫙🫙 is adjacent to the bathroom door

Note written in the front of a book. In teal ink:

“This weekend I talked to Dr Langer, a well-educated special education teacher, about how I felt after sharing a rather short list of things, in my lite, that helped me realize I am autistic, years ago. I felt brushed off. Which really felt shitty, when I was scared to share such things. I guess I’m not qualified to understand my life. Doc Langer has just now reminded me I don’t have a diagnosis. That's interesting, since my dad doesn’t either and actively denies the label. However against her husband’s will, Doc Langer has confidently diagnased him. She has also informed me that, if anything, shed label me With Aspergers because for some reasan it’s worth distinguishing from Autism.”

Small Brown dog laying in a car seat. they’re wearing a harness that is attached to a seatbelt. The dog is looking at you lovingly. Dog’s legs are long enough that his front legs bend over the front of the seat at their elbows. Their paws are tipped white. Legs are light brown with feathery flags. Pup has a white chest. The rest of their body is black and brown. Black mask around their eyes and dark head and pointy ears.

We’ve been told, via dna, that this is a 25lb chihuahua. He looks like a papillon with Aussie or sheltie-like or shepherd coloring and longer smooth fur in a gajillion directions

Top cards read: “flying a kite”, “wearing white after Labor Day”, and “healthcare”. A long skinny board just wider than applying card has multiple sets of half poker cards clipped together and then along the edge of the long skinny board there’s a shoelace woven in one card and out another an in one and the other in one and out the other all the way down, the shoelace goes from green at the top to red at the bottom

Printed paper flyer photocopy. It’s quite rudimentary. Sorta zine style but not intentionally. In the middle is a QR code to book on wattpad.com.

Above the QR code is the title “FLAGG” and its letters are filled in with spectrum-like stripes and along with stars on a dark background. It reminds me of the Malaysian flag.

Behind the title is some sort of bird (eagle?) insignia emblem. Behind that is a globe with circles around it.

In front of that is a business-suited person next to a “happy 4th of July” and a speech bubble that says “god bless America”

Below the QR code, there’s are a few things written in marker. “BEST COMIC BOOK EVER!!!”. “5 STARS ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ “. “SUPER GOOD!!!”. “WATTPAD.com”. And “JMUSE58”.

Note from op: I have no clue if this is a legitimately patriotic work or if it’s something I might actually enjoy. Either way, please don’t troll him

There are two index cards with two cards paper clipped to each of them. along the left edge there’s orange and yellow laces threaded through four holes in each index card.

Oh, and the most important part but I almost forgot. There’s a white kitty with tabby spots attacking the yellow string that’s coming out of the top index card.

The cards (top to bottom) read:
- wearing sneakers with dress clothes.
- Dumping water out of bottle at airport security.
- responding to a group email via “reply all” to talk about that game.
- mowing thy neighbor’s lawn.

My across-the-street neighbor’s view. It’s a soy bean field then a wall of beautiful green trees below a pretty blue sky. If you zoom all the fucking way in and say “enhance” 2 times, you’ll notice a smattering of color to the left of a telephone pole, roughly in the middle

A short stack of orange wallets that look like the ones buttons I uses, they say not a real word game on them. Next to that is a stack of tiny craft notebooks that will fit inside the wallet on the front they have an‘ S and then it says not a real word game dictionary. Underneath all of that are some rules folios.

Future neo-log-ists, it's time to break-ify the rules! Define and create neologisms of your own.

Next to those are two tall stacks of cards With two word parts each on the top that’s visible

2 different cards from a single deck of Not a Real Word Game cards. The left card says “astro-“. “star, celestial body”. on the top half. The bottom half says “-ee”. “receiver of”. The card on the right says the same but the “Astro-“ on the bottom and “-ee” on the top

A pyramid of 3 barn-themed sheds. There’s a base of 2 and 1 on top. The top one has a banner that prominently reads “strong enough to stack”

Bags of Progress pride colored chevron tons are lay on the counter around a block cut for printing the boxes these bits will be going in. The block says “not a real-word game” in some scribbly fonts. It also has a game stats block of 5-15 minutes, 8+, and 2-12+. This last box doesn’t have an icon yet because idk what to do in such a tiny space. In the back, you can see the tops of 3 spotted bananas.

Three rows of four stacks of cards. Each card is split into two sections and has a word on top and on bottom. Some cards have prefixes and suffixes while other cards have bases and roots.
Card pile 1: Etym- and -ward.
Card pile 2: lun and employ.
Card pile 3: allo- and -athon.
Card pile 4: rely and derm.

Card pile 5: sculp and vener.
Card pile 6: dys- and -mobile.
Card pile 7: -venator and intro-.
Card pile 8: sapphir and mob.

9: gyro- and -monger.
10: zym and gust.
11: graphic and cap.
12: -licious and inter-.

A screenshot shot from today’s WTFJHT email.

Pentagon said actions that “subvert President Trump’s agenda will not be tolerated.” Then links to the sources: BBC. / Politico. / Associated Press. / New York Times. / Wall Street Journal.

There’s an arrangement of ungulate cards surrounding a wolf card. All of these cards seem to have corners that should be overlapped to demonstrate usage.

The Wolf card is in the middle is showing that the left two corners of the Wolff card can overlap with the right most corners of the cards to its left.

On the left, there is a deer and a bison. The left side of the wolf card shows locks in the corners and a key in the middle, but connected to those two corners.

On the right, there is an elk and a deer. The right side of the wolf card shows keys in the corner and a lock in the middle, but connected to those two corner keys.

At the top, there is an elk and a bison. The top side of the wolf card shows a padlock on the left and a skeleton key on the right they are simply connected by a plain line.

A form asking for: “industry career goals” with options for “full time” “part time” and “fun hobby”. Part time is broken down into two options. One “working toward full” and “no plans for full”
Then a required open text box for “professional experience”

The ends of 1”x4”s and 1”x6”s shown with a measuring tape. The 6”s are 11/16” while the 4”s are 3/4”

A tableau (array of cards) layer out in an angular pattern. Cards are forest themed and kinda blend in with the rug underneath them

A mostly black and white playing card.
On your turn
Then a large block of gray and green handheld emojis.

Grab one item, then place it.
Place.
set item upon (minus the typo) quadrupedal companion.
ensure your body is comfy and calm.
End condition success?
Do it again. maybe take a picture.

A collapsed box marked up. Each flap has a spot for a player card and for a room board. At the corners of the flaps are round spaces connecting the adjacent flaps. In the middle of the 4 flaps is the bottom of the box. This section is covered in small Cattywampus piles of polyomino tiles set on small squares. There is also a banana for scale. The flaps are about the same depth as the banana’s length

Flattened cardboard box, except it’s just a square at the center with 4 flaps off its edges. It looks like a plus sign. Each flap is a player mat. On said player mat is a poker card with a picture, along with a cluster of Tetris like tiles. These tiles have various handheld tools from a drill to an apple peeler. This sorta resembles (because it will be) a board with 4 player mats.

A tiny magic 8 ball 🎱 next to an apple peeler that could double as a torture device. Next to that is a dymo embossing label maker. In front of each of these is a Tetris-like piece of white cardstock. The 🎱 has been poorly rendered uponst a tiny square

a variety of polyominoes from Patchwork. They're separated by size and shape. Along with each Patchwork shape, there are matching white polyominoes. Some of the white polyominoes have various handheld tools sketched uponst them. The sketches are just black ink in a more iconic style than detailed. Tools include: tape, drill, tape measure, spray can, utility knife, goggles, earmuffs, level, caulk gun, paint roller, bike pump, paper guillotine, c-clamp. The tools are roughly to scale. each square is approximately 4-6 inches

A post by “gurovdigital” 15 hours ago.
“lol, over 20 scientific papers now feature the nonsensical term 'vegetative electron microscopy'.
all because an Al misinterpreted a 1959 article, merging 'vegetative' and 'electron
microscopy' from separate columns.

Then there’s a screenshot of the few lines that are mentioned in the op. The separate columns also create “Clos-exosporium”.

An array of freshly cut polyominoes (Tetris-y looking) bits of cardboard packaging. The bits each range from 1 to 5 sections. A single-section square has a cute little tape measure on it. A 1 by 4 piece drawn up to be a horizontal level.

2 panels. First panel as 3 boats in separate but adjacent differently sized ponds. Second panel way more water has been added. All boats are at the same level, well above their original level

Picture of the wall in my garage. You can see part of the door on the left. Then 3 studs with recessed space available in between. At spot one, there are safety glasses and earmuffs hanging along with glue, wd-40, and a tape measure. In spot two there’s some cattywampus boards holding up the newly installed insulation sheets. In front of that, a progress pride flag hangs loosely.

Screenshot of procreate. There are 2 crudely drawn parallel squiggly dark lines. The dark lines have been scribbled on, inside, with a pinkish red. Yes, you read that correctly. I colored inside the lines, but not within the in between space, like a coloring book

The Quiet Year, a mapmaking RPG with project dice and contempt tokens. There is a contempt token next to the recreation center’s horseshoe pit and the cursed seesaw.
An index card lists rain as an abundance and bunnies as a scarcity.

A white sheet of paper with scribbled drawing of 2 trees, a river, rain clouds, a rainbow, lightning that caught a tree on fire, mud, a kid striking gold, a no bunny sign, no slingshot sign, a cougar, a long river, a garden, shelter, a snapping turtle, a cursed see saw, a garden, a water catchment bucket, vultures, and a llama whisperer/dealer.

Ito the card game in a sturdy box that comes packed snugly with 2 stacks of cards. In the first few seconds of the video you’ll see I struggle to get the cards out and decide to just flip the box over. Now that the cards are out, I separate them into their 3 distinct types. Then I set forward to place the cards in the box in a way that makes the game easy to play again and again. I placed the number and theme cards standing up for easy access. I separated the player cards to make it easy to add players whenever. I’ve also shoved the extra (less often used) player cards in the bottom of the box. Lastly? I refolded the rules and placed the credits page against the inside of the lid. Ideally, with as many blank pages as these rules have, this could be glued to the inside of the lid

Screenshot of Spotify app on that Joe Rogan podcast. Apparently an episode with whoever Bryan Hubbard is

A domoishi bag with a couple dog bowls and bag of dog food. There’s also a few board game boxes. Ito, A fake Artist, not a real-word game, and a rubberbanded set of wildlife cards with some resin bones and houses.

Things on Pedestals.
Blue noun card says "truss plate" "pronged metal plates embedded in wood to create secure connections"
Orange communication card says "Should you be heard?
More or less than others?" on one side it says "speak more - who did it and how" the other side says "speak less. only use green things"

Setup.
Each player:
• gets a experience card, keep hidden.
• reviews the card and makes their.
Gameplay
With no defined turn order:
• Look at the blue noun card.
Round 1
• Say "yes, and" then, within your card restrictions, give more detail. Repeat for each player.
Round 2 - Inform the Whisper Network*
• "Should noun even exist?"
• "Who communicated too much?"
• "Whose experience is most important?"
*If you spoke last, whisper to another player.
Repeat until each player has spoken

There are various green cards scatter on the right side. Mortgage haver, "unskilled laborer", recent grad, roof technician, suburbanite, interior designer, house builder

Whiteboard. Top corner has a scribbled scale labeled privilege. One end is labeled power and the other is labeled harm. To the right of that is a set of 3 steps that Lead to an entryway. There’s an arrow shaped sign that says “make impact” pointing at the entryway. Below these is a chart with arrows. Y axis is power. X axis is “need to uplift voices”. At the right end of the chart, we have a wheelchair user. At the top left of the chart there is a stick person, with legs, taking steps up toward the top left of the stairs. These stairs make up up the line the descends from the top left to the bottom right.

A whiteboard titled “primary sources”.
There are 2 lines drawn below it. The first line starts at privileged and ends at harmed. The second line starts at less and ends at more.

In the form of a standard “posted” sign that you’ll see all over rural areas:
POSTED
DEER SANCTUARY
HUNTING IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN AND WILL BE PUBLICLY SHAMED.
IF YOU MUST PULL THE TRIGGER MORE THAN ONCE, YOU, AND YOUR DOGS, ARE EXTRA NOT WELCOME. I IMPLORE YOU TO START WITH A PAPER TARGET

an arrangement of cards. The cards are all ripped up index cards. The left one is The Fisher monument that said they were brave and omitted and negative side effects. To the right there are 6 smaller cards

1: I was there and saw them help an eel school cross the ocean
2: I worked with them and I just did my job
3: I read Freshwater News. The lede was buried but they made clownfish move out of their anemone and forced them to act like squid
4: I was with my adult and I saw an army of water noodles stampeeding
5: I was told they poisoned the coral reef
6: I saw on O'Fish-al, a video, but it didn't show what started it

A torn up index card with a pencil. One half of an index card has a striped fish on a pole upon what looks like a trophy stand. The plaque says “In 1793, Fisher did brave heroic words that helped fish, like them, thrive. No words were used to describe the massive collateral damage”

2 plates with what looks like grilled cheese. One plate also has some purple grapes

An arrangement of 4 poker-ish sized-cards. 3 cards wide and 2 cards tall. The Each card is visually split into top and bottom sections. Each of those sections is divided into 2 sides. There are 2 cards aligned with each other on the right side. The others form a T. The first 2 cards have a pair of root words and and the vertical 2 have suffixes that align with the first 2 cards. All together, row by row, there are three words.
Row 1: digit- (finger) foli (leaf) -valent (combining power)
Row 2: aft- (before) fest- (from behind, farther back) rrhagia (excessive flow or discharge
Row 3: mock- (fake)

Each root word connects to the next card with green and orange. Each prefix connects to the next card with purple. Each suffix word connects to the previous card with green and orange.

An array of various colored carrots ranging from tiny to still small, nothing bigger than your average cis 🍆 . Next to them is a massive pile of ginger 🫚

A table top with various smores themed cards, bits, and resources. The board is camp themed with perfectly chosen bits to represent each resource. There’s so so so much amazingly intentional detail in making the resources that they look just like tiny s’mores ingredients!!! Also, the letter cards are themed like a cross section of a smores

Suitcase of games with a white and tabby kitty looking up at you with a hopeful (read: manipulative) look. Said kitty is sitting atop a copy of New York Zoo.

Calendar event screenshot from Pax app.

Are We The Bad Guys? -
Exploring Heroics and Villainy (13+)
Dec 7, 2024
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Kelpie Theatre
Description
Many of our stories media and games are based on colonial morals. Some of the themes the panel will explore include when heroics are actually villainous action why it's so fun to be bad and what it means to be a monster. Panelists will also tackle discussions of what decolonizing games means for the hero/villian binary and how culture and experience inform morality.
Panelists:
Lamia "@MentalWoke" (they/them) [Owner