#371; In which the Whole Point is missed

Comic Transcripts

GREG: All right, cell phone manufacturers. You’ve been doing fair to passable so far. I can talk on your things. I can check my email. I can listen to music pretty okay.

GREG: But I still got my pockets too full of stuff. You gotta get on this problem. I’m talking about expansion slots.

GREG: Let’s say there’s an expansion bay on my phone. I can buy third-party modules specific to my needs. Maybe I want a digital tape measure and a level. Maybe I want a micrometer or a magnifier. Sometimes these are things I have to carry with me. Why can’t they be on my phone, linked to the processor and the camera and the bluetooth chip? I could turn my phone into a scanner or a nutritional scale or camera binoculars or fishing radar. My examples aren’t that broad-reaching, but if it’s open-source then any tool a sufficiently nerdy subculture can’t live without, they’ll develop for themselves. Whaddya think? Good idea, huh?

[[The cell phone manufacturers respond:]]
CHIP FROTTLEY: why your head so tiny

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#371; In which the Whole Point is missed transcribed by in

GREG: All right, cell phone manufacturers. You’ve been doing fair to passable so far. I can talk on your things. I can check my email. I can listen to music pretty okay.

GREG: But I still got my pockets too full of stuff. You gotta get on this problem. I’m talking about expansion slots.

[[The cell phone manufacturers respond:]]
CHIP FROTTLEY: why your head so tiny

{{header: plug and play at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: i never have a tire pressure gauge when i need one. but if it was built into my phone? ROAD SAFETY GET ON IT}}

#371; In which the Whole Point is missed transcribed by in

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one, except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.