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It's Not A Watch, It's A Time-X
In my universe, Archduke Ferdinand survived. World War One
never happened; instead, Europe enjoyed a time of tremendous
prosperity. In 1933, Einstein Industries' research division began
experimenting with time travel, and by 1977 anyone wealthy could
buy a wristwatch-sized time machine. As far as I know, mine is
the only one still in existence.
New this week:
The
Becoming Of Eric
"The variant
we used for Martian Chess was cool but hard to remember to do
it."
- Kristin Looney
ugsome (ugg'-sum) adj. :
frightful, loathsome (fr.ME uggen "to
fear, or inspire fear")
- The Whole Nine Yards :-|
- Terrible accents --
just bad acting, or are we
missing some deep theme?
 Around
the World in 80 Days
I've seen numerous adaptations of this Jules
Verne classic, and while I have a special fondness for the vintage
Saturday morning animated series (I wish Cartoon Network would
unearth that one), I think my all-around favorite is the version
that won the Oscar for Best Picture back in 1956. Although Pierce
Brosnan did a fine job with the lead role in the 1989 Mini-Series,
no one can beat David Niven's classic performance. (Phileas Fogg
has always been one of my heroes... he's eccentric, punctual
and well-organized; cool under pressure; and ready to play a
game of cards in any and every imaginable circumstance.)
 
Boycott
Amazon!
Radio.SonicNet
Road Waffles
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Button-Man Tirade / Fluxx
2.1 Tuckbox |
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the spur of the moment, we decided to attended JohnCon,
a good old-fashioned cheap college gaming con, held last weekend
on the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and we
had a great time. We took over a classroom for the whole of Saturday,
and just played our games there all day long, with whoever wanted
to join us. We played just about everything we've released, including
IceTraders
(shown), the Human
Game Board T-shirt (which one of our rabbits just happened
to be wearing) and this week's new release RAMbots
(another totally great Icehouse game designed by Kory Heath).
It was a great day.
Since this was a local con, lots of Toasters
from the Home Office turned out, as did several Rabbits
from the Blacksburg Warren, who just happened to be attending
the con. As you can see, Kory,
Tucker, and John
were there, as were Gina,
Dale, toK and
Todd, Renee
and Scott, Jake
and Peter, Emily, Jay and Adam, and of course, Alison,
Kristin,
and myself.
Also in attendance was James
Ernest (who was actually the Guest of Honor) and as usual
it was fun hobnobbing with him, talking shop and such. I competed
in his Brawl
tournament (and was humbled) and he hung out a lot in our gaming
space, playing games. Somewhere along the line (who's idea was
it?) we got the idea of doing an officially licensed Button
Men third-party expansion, of (who else) Tirade,
and it was such an obviously great idea that we started working
on it the moment we heard it.
Since the Blacksburg Warren actually plays Button Men, they
were totally into the idea of a Tirade Button Men button. They
got together with James and brainstormed ideas for his stats,
playtested him extensively, and sent me the final numbers just
when I was starting to work up the art. We'd already been planning
to submit a button order to our manufacturer this week (we need
to fill an unexpected order we got for 4 dozen of one of our
buttons),
so we decided to press the Tirade Button Men release directly
into production. If all goes well, it will go on sale here in
a week or two, along with a dozen other new buttons we've been
cooking up this week.
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2.1 Update: This week the deadline was the art for the new
tuckbox. As you can see from the image at the right, it's
not all that different from the current box. The biggest change
is on the back panel, where we've added a couple of icon-sized
images of cards, so that you can get a better idea by looking
at the outside what's actually on the inside. We're still using
the great little blurb Zarf
wrote for the original edition, but this time Kristin thought
to break the paragraph up into a series of shorter thoughts,
and it works really well. We had to drop the use of the Fluxx
border on the back to make room, but it was worth it. Up Next:
revising the instructions insert. |
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Hail the Internet!
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Secret
Project 39-C is coming along REALLY well! |
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It's amazing how many productive hours you can
cram into a day if you simply go without sleep. |
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"The well-funded and powerfully persuasive
view that marijuana is dangerous dominates every media outlet,
except one: the Internet. Positive marijuana messages rule cyberspace,
where it doesn't require millions to state your case, just a
mere $20 a month. This, of course, infuriates anti-drug forces." -- Saul Rubin, of the San Francisco Bay Guardian,
writing about the misleadingly named Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation
Act, which seeks to make all "pro-drug" information
illegal |
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