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Robert Johnson @robert@boardgames.social

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Hello! My name is Robert, and I have migrated my accounts from several other instances to start this board game instance.

I love games, ala The Gaia Project and Through the Ages as well as most board war games. I clip my counters.

I also am interested in , , , , , and

I plan on posting lots of pics of games played and projects worked on.

On to Five Tribes. Such a great game.

Hello! I’m a newly-minted CS PhD (UC Santa Cruz) and Assistant Prof at Pomona College. My research area connects videogames, AI, verification, and specification recovery. I’m also really interested in GPGPU and other forms of energy-efficient computation. I’m on a mission to help my students replace the games industry and Silicon Valley with more humane alternatives.

I want to learn more about equitable instructional, assessment, and evaluation design!

#introductions

I bought a Mastodon T-shirt and sticker instead of a new board game. Tells you how much I appreciate the software.

The book that is mandatory reading at every data collection and aggregation company

Going to have some people over this weekend. I need some more suggestions. Wits 'n Wagers / Codenames is getting a little old.

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A new mastodon instance for the (english speaking) #OpenStreetMap community! It's under construction, but might be a nice place for #OSM people!

A mirror of the OSM twitter account: @openstreetmap

en.osm.town

It has been a while since I listened to Amorphis; just heard a song with some saxophone and it worked well.

Walking new people into the hobby is like people getting into cigars, wine or scotch/whiskey. You have to get them started on an easy, light, palatable experience before you start to introduce deeper, richer more complex experiences.

I once made the mistake of introducing some right into Dominant Species with 6 players. 3+ hours later her response was, "I was just waiting for it to end."

I'm no nerd, but reading hacker News is like reading Reddit but everyone is trying to be clever and shitty OH WAIT

I'm setting up some armies to play a game of Star Wars Legion tonight with my girlfriend. Anyone else play it?

Welcome aboard @pavinson ! Glad to have you here. Let me know if you have any questions.

Watching Transformers Last Night. What did they do with my childhood?