#1011; The Ceaseless Record

Comic Transcripts

[[Two companions, one wearing a top hat and the other something like a porkpie hat, are sightseeing near a bridge.]]
Tophat: Let’s go take a look at the other side!
Porkpie: I can’t. My phone is full.
Porkpie: Let’s just go home.

Tophat: Go… HOME? Do bridges tucker you out?
Porkpie: No, my phone is full. I can’t take any more pictures. So what’s the use of seeing anything else?

Tophat: So nothing has VALUE for you unless you can DOCUMENT it somehow?
Porkpie: Pictures are the glue of experiences!

Porkpie: Pictures are for sharing. Sharing elicits comments and reactions, which thus contextualize the experience within my life as a whole. Sharing provides PERMANENCE.
Porkpie: If you want to go GAWK at something just to ABANDON it to your MEMORY, be my guest, but I don’t see the point.

Tophat: I feel like we should have a talk about this, but then I worry that if we’re not recording it, you won’t remember it.
Porkpie: HARRY! I wouldn’t RECORD a private conversation between us! I’d just post a screenshot of the transcript

#1011; The Ceaseless Record transcribed by in

Bolted! games have been shipping to backers over the last couple of weeks! The non-US orders are (mostly) done and some folks have been reporting receiving them already!

@davidmalki.com My game arrived today!! It looks gorgeous 🙂 Hope you are well 🙂

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— Lar deSouza (@lartist.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM

My US inventory of games is now in-country, but still being staged at the fulfillment centers. It’s being distributed to regional warehouses, so the actual shipping to backers happens more efficiently. I hope the bulk of US shipping will start next week.

These are what the cartons (and games) look like!

bolted! games BOLTED! GAMES (pounding the table) B O L T E D ! G A M E S

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— david malki ! (@davidmalki.com) April 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM

I am also waiting on the bonus cards to be finished printing! I ended up needing many more of those than I had anticipated, so I decided to have the game factory print those too, for perfect matching with the base game cards.

Most people will be receiving two separate mailings: the game itself, and “anything else” (bonus cards and/or add-ons) which will be sent by me personally.

As of today, 86% of backers have completed their surveys so far! That’s pretty good, but it’s not everyone. I know YOU PERSONALLY have already completed YOURS though, so no worries!!

We have now moved OFF of Kickstarter and ONTO BackerKit for any new orders. You can bundle a game with basically anything else I sell on that there website, it’s pretty nuts!