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[[Two travelers are riding in a wagon. It is dark.]]
Nonchalant Traveler: Getting late. Let’s stop for provisions at the next hitching post?
Concerned Traveler: The “NEXT”? Just WHATEVER place it happens to be? You’ll let PROXIMITY determine who gets our business?

Nonchalant Traveler: If a place is along our path, then yes, they will be of help to us, and so deserve our business.
Concerned Traveler: But you don’t know who those people ARE! Strangers! OPPORTUNISTIC strangers, by DEFINITION!
Concerned Traveler: I thought we were PAST this! We have the WORLD’S INFORMATION in our pocket!

Concerned Traveler: We can make informed decisions about what PRECISELY we are underwriting with our customer choices! Ignorance is no longer an acceptable justification for unethical behavior!
Concerned Traveler: You don’t know their POLITICS! You don’t know if they’ll use our money to advance REPUGNANT AIMS! How can you be so CAVALIER about PATRONIZING someone you LITERALLY DON’T KNOW EVEN EXISTS YET?

Nonchalant Traveler: Ill-informed decisions are also known as ADVENTURES!
Concerned Traveler: I refuse to participate in any adventure that I cannot Yelp first!

{{header: stock up at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: there is no occasion more wasteful than an experience that I have not, in advance, verified utterly that it will conform to my every expectation}}

#1026; In which a Stop is evaluated transcribed by in

[[Two travelers are riding in a wagon. It is dark.]]
Nonchalant Traveler: Getting late. Let's stop for provisions at the next hitching post?
Concerned Traveler: The "NEXT"? Just WHATEVER place it happens to be? You'll let PROXIMITY determine who gets our business?

Nonchalant Traveler: If a place is along our path, then yes, they will be of help to us, and so deserve our business.
Concerned Traveler: But you don't know who those people ARE! Strangers! OPPORTUNISTIC strangers, by DEFINITION!
Concerned Traveler: I thought we were PAST this! We have the WORLD'S INFORMATION in our pocket!

Concerned Traveler: We can make informed decisions about what PRECISELY we are underwriting with our customer choices! Ignorance is no longer an acceptable justification for unethical behavior!
Concerned Traveler: You don't know their POLITICS! You don't know if they'll use our money to advance REPUGNANT AIMS! How can you be so CAVALIER about PATRONIZING someone you LITERALLY DON'T KNOW EVEN EXISTS YET?

Nonchalant Traveler: Ill-informed decisions are also known as ADVENTURES!
Concerned Traveler: I refuse to participate in any adventure that I cannot Yelp first!

{{header: stock up at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: there is no occasion more wasteful than an experience that I have not, in advance, verified utterly that it will conform to my every expectation}}

there is no occasion more wasteful than an experience that I have not, in advance, verified utterly that it will conform to my every expectation

#1026; In which a Stop is evaluated

  — May 4th, 2014

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Bolted! Shipping is UNDERWAY

April 4, 2026 by David Malki !

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!


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