After playing 18CZ (again!), I was trying to pin down why I thought it was “OK” and not “Great.” Why does 1822 PNW make me want t...

Played 18CZ yesterday … apparently it was my second time, but the first was pushing a decade ago. (I do vaguely remember playing it, in that I can tell you where I was when I played it, but no details of the game). The “hook” of CZ is that there are small...

In S. J. Simon’s book, “Why you lose at Bridge” he invents a character “Futile Willy.” Futile Willy isn’t bad (per se) but his defining feature is making bidding decisions that have limited rewards, but huge risks. Playing in a two session event with Roxie, our opponents are mostly what I deem “experienced novices” (playing for years, know a bit of bidding, but have not progr...

This video on the attempted hacking of XZ (and therefore, all of Linux and most of the Internet) is great, not only for the story but for the clear/concise descriptions of key exchange, public key encryption and compression work

aka “Jorbs responds to Slay the Spire Beta Drama”

There is a video where Jorbs talks about StS2’s Beta branch and the many complaints about a Boss called the Doormaker. This is mostly “inside baseball,” but Jorbs brings up a problem...