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Roleplaying

Shadowrun: the horror…

The postapocalyptic horror of Shadowrun finally hits me.

Not only is this a world where the the global population has been decimated by plague, war, famine and eco-disasters, not only is this a place where a sizable precent of humanity has mutated into Trolls, Dwarves, Orks and Elves, not only is North America a balkanized warzone threatened by corporate interests and dark magic.
[ see this timeline for details ]

Oh no. The true horror is this:

That tablecloth of terror has replaced the tasteful flags of both the USA and Canada, according to this page.

Makes you want to go out and frag something…

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Resources short

images

Images That Still Don’t Suck, an archiver of images posted to usenet. Found this while looking for Pinky and the Brain pics.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Link roundup

I just found an interesting-looking Manila site called Singularity , that links to all sorts of cool science stuff, including this WIRED article about Consciousness being based on magnetic fields or something, and a review on the New York Times of Stephan Wolfram’s book.

All this from a link on BoingBoing pointing to John Robb blog with the sad news that Dave Winer is in hospital.

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Roleplaying short

Link from Yossi

I got a link from Yossi Gurvitz, who went so far as to call me “a good friend”. Gosh.

Slowly slowly, I shall prise some flow from LiveJournal’s tight grasp…

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Comics

Funkapella Patrol

Nir‘s vocal band, Funkapella are going to play the Eilat Jazz Festival.

Nir has prepared a publicity poster for the occasion, with the members of the band as superheros:

Of course, I immediately identified the underlying characters as members of the latest and perhaps most obscure incarnation of the Doom Patrol. Writer John Arcudi’s main innovation in this remake of a remake of a wonderful, surreal remake of a remake of a remake of a classic “bizzare superhero” comic is his (remake of) the character of Negative Man: Unlike his predecessors, Negative Man from the original Doom Patrol and Negative Woman from the 2nd Doom Patrol, he doesn’t have any weird anti-matter nega-energy powers; he’s just a guy that’s really negative about everything…