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Remember in happier times last year when the sun disappeared in defiance of all primal reason? Our household had snacks. Well, it turns out that was quite the event for the birds as well. Since most of them didn't have tiny little solar-eclipse glasses to enjoy the festivities (probably because...

Here's a broad idea for a cinematic "impossible stuff happens"-type roleplaying campaign, based on a balancing trick some GMs use: When devising threats and adversaries (especially for a game with lots of options and power variability such as GURPS), a GM might run those threats in a quick mock-combat with...

I've been a gamer for a long time. When I was growing up, the beverage of choice to indicate a hyperkinetic over-caffeinated state of being was any variety of mountainous sodas. (I generally got the "generic" stuff from the grocery store, with names like "Mojave Mist," "Sierra Rain," or "Bornhardt...

I can't do better than the headline from Dexterto: "Florida woman wins Mortal Kombat tournament playing with newborn baby in arms." But the article is worth a read, especially for the adorable picture. Our household doesn't have quite the same story; we were eight months' pregnant when our kiddo attended...

Thought experiment, and possibly a hook for folks playing a super-heroic game: A supervillain has gained the ability to immediately access all information said directly to pets. Not near them . . . to them: "Don't let me forget that the money's hidden in the coffee can in the cupboard,...

You can now buy the latest Car Wars book from Three Ravens, Convoy of Chaos, from Amazon. Intro by Wil Wheaton. This anthology is available in both softcover and Kindle editions. Go do it! -- Steve Jackson

I discovered something fun recently: Kiwix, an offline reader for various appropriately licensed content you typically find online, such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Project Gutenberg, TED Talks, and more. It's all completely free (although they take donations) and seems to be limited primarily by the storage space of your device. (I...

Whatever you may expect to read on a Wikipedia entry for a random fish – say, a black neon tetra – you quite probably aren't prepared for a subheading entitled "Credit Card Fraud." The whole entry is worth reading (it's short!), but the summary is that a YouTube channel rigged...