#884; The Menace of the Moment

Comic Transcripts

Host: With me today is technology observer Jonah Burrell, who’s just published an incisive essay on the heretofore-unknown phenomenon of “hashtag balkanization” on Twitter.
Host: It could be majorly impacting social discourse, and affecting everything from politics to education. Here to tell us more is Jonah Burrell.

Host: Jonah, please explain to us: what is hashtag balkanization?
Jonah: It’s nothing. I made it up.
Jonah: I wanted to see if people would buy a “phenomenon” based entirely on persuasively-worded claims and selective reading of incomplete data, and whether reporting organizations desperate to leap on tech trends would accept it uncritically.

Jonah: And now I’m here. It worked. That’s all.
Jonah: Thanks for having me!
Jonah: I enjoyed the fruit in the green room.

Host: So if I understand correctly…
Host: You trolled us?
Jonah: Ha ha ha! Trolling doesn’t exist either.
Jonah: It’s just called being a dick.

{{header: convince me of WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: you can tell this comic is fiction because he didn’t go on to write a book about his discovery and crown himself a ‘social media guru’}}

#884; The Menace of the Moment transcribed by in

Jonah: And now I’m here. It worked. That’s all.
Jonah: Thanks for having me!
Jonah: I enjoyed the fruit in the green room.

Host: So if I understand correctly…
Host: You trolled us?
Jonah: Ha ha ha! Trolling doesn’t exist either.
Jonah: It’s just called being a dick.

{{header: convince me of WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: you can tell this comic is fiction because he didn’t go on to write a book about his discovery and crown himself a ‘social media guru’}}

#884; The Menace of the Moment transcribed by in

The vast majority of Bolted! game shipments are already shipped, but I understand if you don’t have yours yet, who cares. Here’s a progress report:

Total orders | 1052
Surveys completed | 992
Fully shipped | 946

Incomplete surveys

Obviously, if I don’t have your shipping address, I can’t ship your game! Let me know if you are missing a survey link. As new responses come in, they are rapidly added to the shipping queue.

Orders containing certain add-ons

Some of the add-ons proved more popular than expected — which is lovely! But it meant I had to reprint some stickers, make all the individual comic prints, request a shipment of books from offsite storage, etc, etc. So, any orders which contain an out-of-stock item are still waiting to ship.

All that missing stuff, though, is en route to me at this very second! So those orders will be going out pretty dang soon!

Custom items

I’ve already been in touch directly with the backers who ordered custom collages! Those will be created (and sent to you) after all the other shipments are complete. I’m excited for those, they’ll be fun! My pleasant dessert after the hearty meal of all the other orders.

Anything wrong?

I’m very grateful to the few folks who’ve contacted me to report some kind of issue with their shipment! Thankfully, problems are rare, but when they do occur, I would like to solve them. Please don’t hesitate to send me an email (replying to your shipping confirmation works great) if there’s anything about your order I can correct.

Reviews & photos

On BoardGameGeek are highly appreciated!

Unless you hate the game! You are entitled to that opinion, but please send that review directly to me instead of telling anyone else, so I can eat it and bury it in the yard and watch it grow into a twisted, gnarled tree. Or whatever!