Tobolds

In 2024 I backed a board game called Avalon: The Riven Veil on Kickstarter. It was supposed to be delivered end of 2025, but had a pretty typical delay of around half a year and arrived this summer. The game is very pretty and has great table presence, but i...

After retirement, I built a house and moved. So now I live just 1 hour’s drive away from the location of the world’s largest video games event and trade fair, Gamescom. I didn’t go last month, I never went, and I’m not planning to go in the future. Gamescom feels irrelevant to me, because of its time horizon. And I am writing this because I felt that even stronger about Blizzcon...

Once upon a time, which is to say before Trump got elected for the first time, there was a narrative of demographic inevitability in America. Many people believed that minorities would always vote for the Democrats, and that demographic trends would result in Republicans getting stuck with an ever dwindling voter base. Even the Republicans believed that, which is why they went f...

In 1968, Andy Warhol said that “In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes.”. While you might argue that fame on the internet lasts longer than 15 minutes, and that not everybody achieves internet fame, Warhol certainly got the trend right. More people are now “famous” in the internet age than there were famous people in the age of print media and television. ...

It is somewhat unfortunate that the Trump dividend of $5,000 for every adult American is never going to be paid. First of all it is linked to a condition even Trump knows is impossible, Republicans winning the mid-terms. And then it is just an empty promise, with Americans still waiting for the cheques Trump previously promised and never delivered.
But if the Democrats win ...