OH NO! A BEAR!

HE LOOKS PRETTY DANGEROUS. YOU SHOULD PROBABLY HAVE THE MAGE SLEEP HIM. ~dreamshade

[dzee-szed]

I used to rewrite board game rulebooks as a hobby. I rewrote about 20 different rulebooks as practice in technical writing. I thought I was getting pretty good at it, but something still felt wrong about my rulebooks.

Then I took grad school classes in technical writing and communication.

And then I started to hate all rulebooks.

I hated rulebooks so much that I drafted an outline for an essay about it. I spent months looking up lectures and columns about technical writing in multiple genres. By the time I had finished, that "essay" had stretched to about 90 page of material. It started to feel like my graduate thesis.

This essay includes:

Writing advice from editors, teachers, and writers in different disciplines

Examinations of scientific evidence about learning styles and memory

Case studies into the rulebooks from On Mars, Keyflower, Stardew Valley, Acquire, and Teotihuacan

A prototype model rulebook for Stardew Valley: the Board Game that suggests a new rulebook model based on textbooks or tutorials

Plenty of quotes from people complaining about the mind-numbing awfulness of board game rulebooks

I tried to write this document in a casual tone for a general audience. I've started a discussion thread on BoardGameGeek, and I'm asking around for feedback. I'm a grad student trying to critique an entire genre of technical writing, and I assume that this concept will need testing and iteration. I appreciate your feedback!

[willowrunes]

Oh yeah there's a part 2 of the horse desensitizing that I love.

🐎: Hey what's with that tiny predator, the one you're hold- WOAH WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS IT UP SO HIGH

[3liza]

everyone should do this to their dogs too

[elodieunderglass]

Horse levelling up as we watch

[witchlinda]

Taisiia Onofriichuk from Ukraine performs her hoop routine to the sound of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson at the 2024 Paris Olympics Rhythmic Gymnastics Individual Qualifiers

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This isn't. Physically possible. The hoop throws.

[roach-works]

hi! what the fuck.

[godlessondheimite]

this is my favorite exchange in all of twitter

[dzee-szed]

Whenever someone says that She Hulk or some Star Wars show is the worst show on TV, I instantly know that they don't actually watch TV. You would be amazed at the bland schlocky copaganda that gets millions of viewers every night on primetime network TV.

[rosalinesurvived]

https://x.com/trtworld/status/1785959608168731091

[mysharona1987]

Oh, I watched the video. The CNN news anchor lady couldn’t look at camera. I have never seen someone look so deeply ashamed in real time.

She knows what she is saying and doing wrong.

But she wants to keep her job.

[mysharona1987]

That’s what part of a genocide is. Not necessarily hatred or evil or religious fervour. Nothing so dramatic as that. This is not Game of Thrones.

It’s more mundane and boring.

Just desperate people want a promotion at their network.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[friendraichu]

[snake-and-mouse]

JEANS

[liberalsarecool]

NYT has a bias.

Look what they did in 2016 to Hillary.

NYT is racing to the bottom with conservative owners and push to platform bad faith opinions.

[funny-tik-toks]

[everydaylouie]

More Far Side Blender Recreations

[mysharona1987]

[yamujiburo]

the best birthday gift of all. hanamusa

please follow the link and look at the full thing it's the CUTEST

[freakinasheet]

DUNGEON MESHI OST ART I OWE YOU MY LIFE

[freakinasheet]

The testimonials from band kids are truly taking this to another level, thank you

[freakinasheet]

Who up hurding they gurd

[travalicious]

why is this the hottest thing i've ever seen

[travalicious]

HE SHOWED UP WITH A DUEL DISK TODAY?????

[schakira]

AND ALL FIVE EXODIA PIECES

[gay-jesus-probably]

I need everyone to know that I looked it up, and Noah Lyles is doing this as part of an ongoing bet he has with shotput competitor Chase Jackson. She's wearing Naruto accessories every day, and if Lyles whips out Yugioh cards at every race, then for the shotput finals Jackson will re-enact the scene of Rock Lee dropping his weights.

This is now the only part of the Olympics that I care about.

[firefox-official]

i wish i was famous in the 70s so i coulda gone on the muppet show and flirted with the muppets

[reallyndacarter]

Yeah, yeah. It’s all fun and games until Miss Piggy tries to fight you in the studio parking lot for “stealing her man.”

[shencomix]

[juliedillon]

Another new illustration! I've been wanting to do another Minotaur painting for a while now.

[t4timekeeper]

> “mannish features”

> look inside

> literally just common physical traits among women of colour

[t4timekeeper]

you can’t separate transmisogyny from racism. the radical feminism movement is so overwhelmingly white because their idea of what a woman is is so thoroughly steeped in white supremacy.