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Bundle of Holding: Sigil Stone OSR (from 2022) Revived Sigil Stone OSR Bundle with two tabletop fantasy roleplaying games from Sigil Stone Publishing – Five Torches Deep and Vagabonds of Dyfed. bundleofholding.com/presents/Sig...

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I just realized that with my latest Aurora nomination, I now have half as many Aurora nominations as the person in my Wednesday gaming group with the most nominations. Well, almost half.

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The Briefcase by Hiromi Kawakami An elderly teacher and his middle-aged former student's lives are transformed by their chance encounter in a bar. jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-p...

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Avoiding unpleasant conversations by feigning deafness is known as heard immunity.

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The Aurora Awards are Canada’s annual English-language Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards. The 2025 Aurora Award Ballot has been released. Congratulations to the finalists! jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/2025-au... #mememememe

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Bundle of Holding: M.T. Black Games Tabletop fantasy roleplaying sourcebooks and adventures by designer M.T. Black for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and compatible systems. bundleofholding.com/presents/MTB...

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Many GRT users on seeing me, a person with a cane, reflexively want me to board first. I've found that because I walk faster than people expect a cane-using person to move, it's best to go last if I want the bus kneeled. Otherwise, I will board and get to my seat before the driver acts.

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Five Books Featuring World-Changing Visionaries Characters hell-bent on reshaping the world, for better or worse... reactormag.com/five-books-f...

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Really looking forward to the Mayday episode on the penguin-instigated R44 mishap.

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Fly to San Francisco, see the inside of an El Salvadoran prison! Entertain your grieving relatives as they try to discover if you've been enslaved or just shot!

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Cluster (Cluster, volume 1) by Piers Anthony Futuristic caveman Flint stands in the way of Andromeda's plot to steal the Milky Way's energy! jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/lose-...

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Unless song lyrics count, I don't think I have 20 poems that stated with me. I do have one, which I thought I encountered in Brunner's The Sheep Look Up. It was actually quoted in Scortia and Robinson's The Prometheus Crisis.

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When I ran DragonBane, the players ended up with an amulet in which a demon had been imprisoned. The demon was more than willing to help anyone who had the amulet and he did have an impressive skill set. His magic was all necromancy and his idea of helping was to turn people into durable undead.

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In an SPI's Dragonquest campaign, the party ventured to a ruined palace on a swampy island called Baslisk Island after its most prominent wildlife. Someone noticed the palace floors were marble. OK, so we can tear those up, transport the marble and make out like bandits. Except

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Can someone explain to me WOTC's strategy for D&D 5.5?

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My comment on reactor that I behave as though I assume everyone has Covid and wants to give it to me also applies to measles. www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/health-an...

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The only reason I could think of to be worried that Americans would not embrace the hard work and risk involved in opposing the slide in dictatorship is if Americans had a track record of eschewing or fumbling the easy stuff they could have done before this.

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Is there a way to fast forward through the interminable talking scenes in Halflife 2?

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Bundle of Holding: Defiant Be the master of your Domain with this new Defiant Bundle featuring Defiant, the Game Machinery tabletop roleplaying game of supernatural aristocrats ruling modern-day Holdings. bundleofholding.com/presents/Def...

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1993: Durham Coalfield closes, ending seven centuries of mining coal there, the Chunnel is traversed by its first high speed train, and the Labour Party begins the arduous task of becoming the Conservative Party. #ClarkeAward

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Six years ago, every audience member of a show I worked was handed a hatchet by the client. Until then, I had never considered the ideal hatchet to audience member ratio.

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Huzzah! I am now as cautious about cars as I am bikes! Unfortunately, this is because car drivers got much worse in the last five years, not because bikers have become in any way more considerate of pedestrians.

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