Cute Korean edition of my book about anxiety, COWARD, just hit my doormat. Lovely to think of it reaching readers on the other side of the world.

Any folks I know going to UK Games Expo this year?

I enjoyed this Top Ten games list a lot. Mildly biased because the games in there I've played I really like, but there's some great granular drilling down into *why* a certain design choice or mechanism feels rewarding. I dig this sort of analysis a lot:
youtu.be/qVEwuNosr2c?si…

Gotta catch 'em all.

Does anyone know the specs I need for a PC laptop if I want to edit video? I'm trying to save up for a new one as my current one is very old with an intermittently broken screen, & I'd really like to develop some basic competence at making simple videos

The Cass Review rejected around 50 studies (98%) submitted to it, but accepted studies not focused on trans people. It claims 24 year olds are children. It claims that toys children play with is determined by biology.

This report is anti-science and is for ideological zealots.

Do you have a strongly-worded opinion on all things Scrabble?🧩

Tim Clare's wonderful piece on the Scrabble controversy and the disconcerting possibility of a Scrabble movie is live on the Guardian ✨

Sophie Lambert

'Cooperative Scrabble’ won’t ruin the game – the real threat would be Scrabble: the movie | Tim Clare theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I wrote a piece for the The Guardian about the new cooperative edition of Scrabble, which, predictably, has riled up certain people who fear Scrabble has 'gone woke' & the next generation is doomed.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Brilliant and funny piece from Tim Clare in the The Guardian today on the new Scrabble game update - thank you Katy Guest!
Look out for Tim's new book THE GAME CHANGERS this November 🎲🧩👾

TLDR of the Cass Review:

'we disregarded nearly all studies because they weren't double blinded controlled studies. We also stopped reviewing newer studies released in the last two years. As a result, we were left with very little evidence.'

This is an impossible standard.