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On the challenge of giving your interstellar empire a cool name
Have you ever thought about what a challenge it is to come up with an original, yet cool-sounding, name for your type of interstellar empire? It’s a challenge keenly felt by the major factions in most...
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Unexpected gaming finds: a journey into the dark heart of Cyborg Commando
There are few things more fun than browsing through a big used game collection at a hobby store—you never know what you’re going to find. There’s a comic store near my house that has a selection of...
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Cool gaming finds #2: Space Master extravaganza!
My last post recounted one of my favorite used-game-store discoveries. Here’s another one, which differs from the last story in that it involves a game I might actually play someday. Not long ago, I...
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The walls of this 10×10 chamber are adorned with…
When my wife and I finally made the choice to became real Americans (i.e. go tens of thousands of dollars into debt to buy a house), one of my requirements was that said house have some sort of...
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The reason for the season
It’s that time of year! That’s right; it’s time to turn on the holiday music, assemble the Christmas tree, and haul this sucker out of the basement where it has slept dreaming for the last year: It's...
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“We’ll have to destroy them ship-to-ship. Get the crews to their fighters.”
I like library used-book shops, because you never know what you’ll find in them. Usually they’re little more than a closet full of James Patterson novels selling for $.25 each. But the library shop in...
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This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone…
Also, your character could die during character generation. Or so I am told.As fortune would have it, I’ve read a number of (non-Dungeons & Dragons) novels lately that have contained clever...
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More human than human
Hey, ‘net punk! Look what some clever console cowboy has revealed on the inter-tron today: OK, so it’s just a video game. But this is a kind of a big deal if you’re into tabletop roleplaying games,...
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Falling back into The Black Hole
I just watched The Black Hole with Michele. I haven’t watched it in probably twenty years, but it’s always held an extremely powerful nostalgic pull on my imagination. When I was a kid, I went through...
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Stephen King Short Story Project, #27: “I Am the Doorway”
The story: “I Am the Doorway,” collected in Night Shift. First published in 1971. Wikipedia entry here. Spoiler-filled synopsis: Years after he took part in a space mission to Venus, a crippled...
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Who’s Flying That TIE Fighter?
One thing that’s always struck me a little odd about Star Wars is that, for a film series that features so many epic spaceship battles, few of those spaceship battles feel very personal. With a handful...
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