SPECIAL NOTE for all TWD Fans: Tonight is expected to be a rollercoaster: do not have sharp objects within reach; think twice before throwing that brick at the flatscreen; have lots of tissues on hand. SPOILER WARNING: Leaked audio suggests that tonight will be a cliffhanger….(highlight to reveal)
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SOCIAL
Women in Tech: Features Brianna Wu
Mussolini, Franco, Quisling, Antonescu, Others, Would Be Proud: Fascism is Back
Male Birth Control: Don’t Sell Your Trojan Stock Just Yet
ENTERTAINMENT
From the “We’re too stupid to live dept:” Dog’s name shuts down bank transaction
Build Your Own Gemini Capsule Control Panel
SF: Accurately Predicting the Technologies of the Future Since at Least 1735
Uncle Doug’s Bunker of Vintage Horror Paperbacks
NRA-Inspired Fairy Tales With Guns (Mermaid Shotgunned on Beach; “thought it was a sea monster!”, shooter claims)
THE Star Trek Book Coming for 50th Anniversary
Unleash Your Inner Powerpuff Girl
Game of Thrones: All About the Dinklage
INDUSTRY
UFO #5 Call for Submissions (World’s funniest SF antho opens April Fools Day – no joke!)
NYRSF-Readings: Launch Party for Clockwork Phoenix antho
Cover Reveal for Dave Creek antho Trajectories
Editing The Big Book of Science Fiction (VanderMeer edition)
SCIENCE
We know what happened to Wanda: Where are all the other fish?
The Universe May Be A Giant Waste of Space
Jupiter Sucks Up More Space Debris
New Viking Settlement in NA Uncovered
Lab Grown Meats Are Closer Than You Think (Hunters will still slaughter and eat Bambi)
Modern Humans May Have Killed Off Hobbits
How Can We Find ET if She’s Hiding?
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RPGnet Newsletter #48
March 29, 2016
New Columns
Christopher Cecil started off the week with a new Fuzzy Thinking: “Size Matters Not.”
Kirk Johnson-Weider was back with a new Lawful GM, this time with some great advice on running LARP games built around political intrigue in “A Decent Scenario.”
Jonathan Hicks also offered some more Observations From A Gamer’s Chair focusing on techniques to keep a cool head when dealing with frustrating players: “Keeping Your Cool.”
New Reviews
RPGnet posted a bunch of great new reviews last week:
- Shelby “D.J.” Babb’s review of “I Am Zombie” (Horror RPG)
- Jonathan Hicks’s review of “The End of the World: Alien Invasion” (Post-apocalyptic RPG)
- Antonios S’s review of “Traveller Core Rulebook” (SF RPG)
- Antonios S’s review of “Traveller Adventure 4: Into the Unknown” (Traveller Adventure)
- Antonios S’s review of “Traveller Book 10: Cosmopolite” (Traveller Supplement)
- Shannon Appelcline’s review of “Feed the Shoggoth!” (Cthulhu card game)
- Antonios S’s review of “Cthulhu Wars: The Sleeper Expansion” (Cthulhu Wars supplement)
- Antonios S’s review of “Cthulhu Wars: The High Priest Expansion Pack” (Cthulhu Wars supplement)
Threads You Might Have Missed
Other Media offered up a very thought-provoking literary enterprise last week in the form of “Lines from Stories that seem to capture the essence of the whole plot.”
Much like crazy hypothetical threads, “Where I Watch” threads are a stalwart of Other Media. A great example of those started last week featuring one of yr. humble editor’s favorite nearly-forgotten TV shows: “[Where I Watch…] Space: Above And Beyond.”
Sign Off
We’ll be back next week.
- Iustum
Newsletter Editor
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