There's No "Super" Without "You," In GURPS Infinite Worlds: Gotterdammerung
It's a place not unlike our own, except the "divergence" is an unleashing of four timelines at once, resulting in a setting that's . . . super. Welcome to GURPS Infinite Worlds: Gotterdammerung. Written by William H. Stoddard – author of GURPS Supers for GURPS Fourth Edition – Gotterdammerung presents...
Please Cancel All Visits To The Sun Until Further Notice
This is slightly old news, but still pretty cool. Aapparently the sun had a hole last month that looked like a giant butterfly. For those who seek signs of moth-like kaiju and/or the apocalypse, it might prove inspirational . . . -- Steven Marsh
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Around here, we love games, and we try to keep all the rules straight. Some edicts are easier to follow than others . . . such as the Laws of Thermodynamics. But apparently a graduate student has accidentally broken those laws – albeit not in any terribly useful way yet....
Does Artificial Intelligence Lead To Unnatural Stupidity?
Here's a link to a Guardian article with some really disturbing preliminary work about the mental effects of using generative AI. tl;dr It sure looks like ChatGPT makes you stupid. Read it and worry. -- Steve Jackson
Half-Baked RPG Idea: Jelly Bean Randomizers
They make specialty jelly beans in lots of different flavors, right? At least as many as are on the sides of any die that's d20-sized or smaller? It seems to me you should be able to use them as a randomizer for a game . . . Assuming everyone's on...
Fun With Science
I've got a double feature for you today with two topics that are cool things happening in science. The first is an experiment that happened in space. Steve Mould, who I had surprisingly never encountered before, has a lot of content about how strange chains are. In this video, he...
I'm Sure Those Zip Disks In The Garage Are Fine . . .
For those who love older tech, the BBC has an interesting article about the race against time to recover data off old, deteriorating floppy disks. If you're looking for McGuffin ideas for tabletop RPGs, the same article has some really intriguing details about Stephen Hawking's donated library of archival disks...
Applied Game Mastery Interview
At LibertyCon this summer, I recorded a mini-interview with Roger Carden of Applied Game Mastery. Seriously mini . . . you do not have to budget a lot of your time to watch this! Despite appearances, I was wide awake. It was late, the lights were bright . . ....