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ROBERT: See, here’s the problem. The Haircut Value Index isn’t an index at all! In fact you can realize this just by looking at the units. The more you spend, the higher the H.V.I. – and the more time you spend looking good, the lower the H.V.I. So really I think what you described is more of a Haircut COST Index.
KEN: I just wanted to help people
KEN: Now it’s all
KEN: It’s all falling apart at the seams

KEN: I take pride in my haircuts! I want to get good value from them! I’m not a mathematician, Robert! I barely an aesthetician. But now I’m ruining people’s lives! I inverted a fraction and people are dying. They’re DYING in the STREETS! I don’t know how to stop it! I DON’T KNOW HOW TO MAKE IT RIGHT!

ROBERT: Come on, Ken. Nobody’s DYING from a haircut
KEN: They’re not dying from a haircut they’re dying from a SEVERE STAB WOULD THAT I INFLICTED

{{go too far at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: t-this isn’t really about haircuts anymore, is it, ken}}

#710; The Cracks Widen transcribed by in

ROBERT: See, here's the problem. The Haircut Value Index isn't an index at all! In fact you can realize this just by looking at the units. The more you spend, the higher the H.V.I. - and the more time you spend looking good, the lower the H.V.I. So really I think what you described is more of a Haircut COST Index.
KEN: I just wanted to help people
KEN: Now it's all
KEN: It's all falling apart at the seams

KEN: I take pride in my haircuts! I want to get good value from them! I'm not a mathematician, Robert! I barely an aesthetician. But now I'm ruining people's lives! I inverted a fraction and people are dying. They're DYING in the STREETS! I don't know how to stop it! I DON'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE IT RIGHT!

ROBERT: Come on, Ken. Nobody's DYING from a haircut
KEN: They're not dying from a haircut they're dying from a SEVERE STAB WOULD THAT I INFLICTED

{{go too far at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: t-this isn't really about haircuts anymore, is it, ken}}

t-this isn't really about haircuts anymore, is it, ken

#710; The Cracks Widen

  — March 11th, 2011

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(Continued from Part 1 and Part 2)

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New ways to get Bolted!

July 24, 2026 by David Malki !

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.


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