Notes from the NFL Combine, Day 1

Alex_Demote - March 5, 2026March 5, 2026

Reddit gave me and three other moderators the opportunity to travel to Indianapolis to cover the NFL Combine! Over the course of three 12-hour days, we conducted 90ish player and media member interviews and spent 10 hours on the field during drills. The following are my notes from day 1,

Donkos Season Preview 2025 – Enter the Church of Bo

Team Previews

Alex_Demote - September 4, 2025September 2, 2025

Welcome, welcome! All are welcome here in the Church of Bo. Kneel at the feet of Saint Blucifer and repent your sins my child, and you shall be saved. In this year of our Bo 2025, the Denver Broncos shall rise again and lead us to the promised land. So

I hate bugs. So I made a game about them

Alex Makes Games

Alex_Demote - June 14, 2025June 12, 2025

Six years ago I moved from Colorado to North Carolina. We got to the new rental house ahead of our furniture, but we'd brought sleeping bags and a big pad to lay on, so that night my wife and I 'camped' in our new bedroom. These moments can be pretty

A Surgeon Rearranged My Guts And All I Got Was This Lousy Weight Loss

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Alex_Demote - May 19, 2025May 19, 2025

On March 27th, I ate a Dave's Double, a large fry, a small frosty, a spicy chicken sandwich, and 6 spicy nuggets from Wendy's. That was my last meal, because since then, I have only eaten 2 protein shakes a day. For the past couple weeks I've been working in

Tuesday Evening Open Thread

Open Threads

Alex_Demote - May 13, 2025May 13, 2025

Thread's open, people. We got the NFL international schedule today, plus I saw a bird! Discuss.

Back From Getting Milk

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Alex_Demote - March 17, 2025March 16, 2025

Hello! Despite what RTD may have told you, I didn't get lost on my way home from the corner store. For the past 8 months I've been living the highest highs and lowest lows of my entire life. I have a tiny window of calm (about 5 days) and I wanted

A Very Denver Broncos Season Preview

Alex_Demote - September 5, 2024September 4, 2024

Broncos fans have left behind the "Let's Ride" motto in favor of "It's Bo Time," a slogan long employed by southern regional fried chicken powerhouse Bojangles. This definitively sideways trade is perfectly indicative of the overall sideways movement of both our roster construction and performance outlook this season. Maybe that's

Notebook Nations Devlog

Alex Makes Games

Alex_Demote - May 9, 2024

A month or two ago I mentioned that I'd begun work with my creative team on a new board game called Tiny Conflicts. The premise was to create a casual 4x game that takes place in the margins of a student's class notebook. The title has evolved to better evoke

Rearranging my guts

DFOing Good

Alex_Demote - May 2, 2024May 1, 2024

I've been 360+ lbs for about 15 years now. In that time, I've managed to get back into the 200s twice and have always regained the weight. Over that time I've also developed diabetes that at one point was a significant issue and I had to get on a statin

The Taylor Swift Experience: The Tortured Alex Department

Music?

Alex_Demote - April 25, 2024April 24, 2024

During the 2023 NFL season I lost a bet that resulted in me writing a paragraph about every single song Taylor Swift had ever released, all within the span of 7 days. I had a blast posting them for you and when some requested that I do the same for