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Paladins: The Blue Death is a New Pulp team-up novella by Bobby Nash, published by Moonstone Books. It’s available in three editions: a regular paperback, a deluxe paperback with illustrations, and a hardcover with illustrations. Cover...
Jenn drove our coach just 13 miles, about 20 minutes of driving, with me following in our truck, from Oregon Motorcoach Center in Eugene to Cummins Coach Care in Coburg, Oregon. Since OMC didn’t have any luck figuring out the check...
EGG Con III starts tomorrow!I will be out with Elf Lair Games to run some games of NIGHT SHIFT.I am running two NIGHT SHIFT games.Elf Lair Games Presents: Spector Detectors!Thursday, July 16th - 1st day of gaming from 11:00 am to 12:50...
The Cutting Room Floor’s article on Gameboy Tetris has an interesting fact. The first 25,000 copies sold in Japan, distributed as part of a bundle, had different music! Instead of the now-iconic Russian tune Korobeiniki, a different,...
I’m co-teaching a lesson for the Carpentries next week about the impact of LLMs on teaching. Here are a few things I’ve been reading to prepare: Barba2026 Lorena A. Barba and Laura Stegner: “The Conversational Exam: A Scalable Assessment...
Oramai è parecchio che la bolla AI imperversa nel globo, e i vari modelli hanno fatto un sacco di strada rispetto alle follie generate da Midjourney o Centipede Diffusion solo una manciata di anni fa.
Agnes Callard just dropped a new conceptual tool for understanding we moderns:The uni-context is a scenario in which the ways you should act become the same across all different contexts. There’s just one set of norms you should follow...
More often than not in our culture, when someone is talking about "success" we assume they are referring to either material wealth or the result of someone having achieved some sort of victory or prize. And often they are. Most of us are...
Many of you will be aware of Bring Out Your Lead (BOYL), the annual Oldhammer event that has been hosted by Wargames Foundry since 2013. Unfortunately, due to a change in circumstances, this year's event will not be happening, leaving a...
Two weeks ago I wrote that CIDER 2.0 was brewing. Today the brew is ready - CIDER 2.0 (“Terceira”)1 is officially out! I promised the release would follow the preview within a week or two if nothing serious surfaced, and for once in my...
Giant Baby. Moving on from yesterday’s elderly woman and baby I present to you Giant Baby. There’s the giant Buddha in recline and now, there’s Giant Baby in recline. A Giant Newborn Baby I should point out. Complete with simulated...
Heat mediated by a breeze. A hummingbird clearwing moth visits the garden, sipping nectar from bergamot tubes with a straw-like tongue swifter than thought. I read up on the species: its migratory habits, its lack of any hearing, its...
Mary Shelley must be rolling in her grave, what with two big-screen flicks interpreting her
One interesting thing about the world of Arden Vul, Magae, is that it is polytheistic with very clear and obvious stand-ins for the Ancient Greek gods, up to and including having a goddess of wisdom and battle whose main symbol is an owl...
One of the things I've always loved about We the Kingdom is that they don't just play four chords in a key they can sing. This song has transition chords, diminished chords, and so much flavor.