Tech Tuesday - Floaters

Three from Science Alert this week with the first being "This floating UFO home lets you live off-grid on the ocean" here.

Also, "Physicists just made their own clouds using a chemical grown in trees."  Find out more here.

Finally, "What are those floaty things in your eye?"

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RPG Media Monday - Star Trek, D&D, & More

Three from io9.com this week with the first being "The Star Trek TV Teaser Promises New Crews, Villains, Heroes, and Worlds" here.

Also, we've been following this news but let's get their perspective as "The New Dungeons & Dragons Movie Has a Director" here.

Finally, they inform us "Philip K. Dick Is Getting an Anthology Show, Courtesy of Bryan Cranston and Ronald D. Moore."  Learn more here.

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Sunday Funnies - Gamer Goofs

Over on geeksaresexy.net, they look at "When Disney Princesses Enter the Warhammer 40k Universe" here.

Also, there's been a meme that those into Napoleonic wargaming should find useful.

Finally, on nerdist.com, a few months ago, they posted some Catan themed party eats here.

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Saturday Crowdfunding Roundup - Badges, Moods, & the Renaissance

Three from Kickstarter this week with the first being "The d12s you've always wanted: Mood and Weather dice!" by Andy "Cosmo-Joe" Watkins here.

Also, have a look at "Gamer Badges" by JBM Press here.

Finally, checks out "Princes of the Renaissance - Reprint!" by Mercury Games here.

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The Friday Grab Bag - ACD Gameday 2016

I got over to the ACD Gamesday 2016 yesterday to attend some seminars, catch up with some old friends, and demo some great games old and new.  Thanks to Jason from Lake Geneva Games  (the LGG Facebook page is here). for giving me the opportunity to go while he held down the fort at LGG with Jake and Caroline.  You can find more of my pics from the show in my Facebook albums here.

They had a good crowd at the show and I was glad to catch up with my buddy Curt from Games Plus in particular.

It's frightening how big Magic has become!

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Throwback Thursday - D&Disms & Index

Over on buzzfeed.com, using Gygaxian SCIENCE, they discover "What Kind Of Person Are You Actually?"  Find out for yourself here.

Also, on cracked.com, they share "15 Idiotic Dungeons and Dragons Monsters" here.

Finally, on aeolia.net, they give us the "DragonDex,"an index of the print publication of Dragon Magazine here.

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Events & Play Wednesday - Lake Geneva Gaming, April & May

Lots of gaming in and around Lake Geneva and Southern Wisconsin.  Here are some pictures taken at the various events, many of them at Lake Geneva Games (Facebook page here)!  Check out more pictures on my Facebook album here and a Google Photos album here.

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Tech Tuesday - Tiny Breakthroughs

Three from Science Alert this week with the first being "Multicellular life was caused by the same gene that suppresses cancer, study suggests" here.

Also, "IBM says it's designed a molecule that could fight off any human virus" here.

Finally, "Scientists just found even more evidence that RNA is behind the origin of life" here.

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RPG Media Monday - Old Tomes

Over on listverse.com, check out "10 Ancient Books That Promise Supernatural Powers" here.

Also, on ancient-origins.net, have a look at the "Codex Gigas (the Devil’s Bible) - the largest manuscript in the world" here.

Finally, on livius.org, they discuss "The disappearance of ancient books" here.

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Sunday Funnies - Against the Odds & Ends

Over on mashable.com, the "Scooby-Doo Gang Battles Zombies in Spooky Photo Series" here.

Also, on toyland.gizmodo.com, they tell us "A Fire-Breathing Dragon Scorching Gnomes Is the Only Garden Decor You Need" here.

Finally, on nerdist.com, check out the fake news for Game of Thrones on "All Kings Considered" here.

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Saturday Crowdfunding Roundup - Schemes, Depths, & Survival

Three from Kickstarter this week with the first being "Ultimate Scheme - A Board Game for Evil Geniuses" by Sasquatch Game Studio here.

Also, have a look at "The Depths of Durangrar: A Dungeon Crawler...in the dark" by Creative Cove Games here.

Finally, checks out "Outlive" by laboitedejeu here.

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The Friday Grab Bag - Play More!

Over on tallahassee.com, they tell us "'Dungeons & Dragons' makes a resurgence" here.

Also, on gazettextra.com, they let us know the "Janesville Pegheads welcome new people to hobby gaming" here.

Finally, on the 42 Lounge YouTube channel, they shared a video from the run up to "42 Lounge | 42 Ale House: International Tabletop Day 2016."  Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday - Music, Fashion, & Soda

Over on mic.com, they remind us of "10 Songs We All Know But Can't Name" here.

Also, on canyouactually.com, they tell us of "40 Cringeworthy Men’s Fashion Ads From the 70’s You Can Never Unsee" here.

Finally, on metv.com, they share "10 defunct sodas we wish we could still drink" here.

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Events & Play Wednesday - Gygax, Cannes, & Gen Con

Over on their Facebook page, the band known as Gygax has announced their Summer 2016 West Coast tour dates and cities here.

Also, on multiverse.world, the blog of the new TSR, Susan Silver writes "The Cannes Games Festival Celebrates its 30th Year" here.

Finally, on gencon.com, check out the map for the Gen Con Indy 2016 Exhibitor Hall here.

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Tech Tuesday - Biological Advances

Three from Science Alert this week with the first being "Newly discovered microbe does something textbooks say is impossible: it lives without mitochondria" here.

Also, "150 scientists just met in secret to discuss creating a synthetic human genome" here.

Finally, "A biotech company has been given permission to try to resurrect the clinically dead."  Find out more here.

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RPG Media Monday - 1215, 1066, & 1000

A few books to check out on Amazon that might help GMs with atmosphere in their (early) Medieval Fantasy tabletop RPGs.  First up, check out "1215: The Year of Magna Carta Paperback" by Danny Danziger and John Gillingham here.

Also, have a look at "1066: The Year of the Conquest" by David Howarth here.

Finally, check out "The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium" by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger here.

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Sunday Funnies - Death, Dismemberment, & Beheadings

As gamers, we watch a lot of our favorite characters and villains get killed on television and the big screen in many, many ways.  We sometimes chuckle about it, which is probably wrong to do.  Today is one of those days.  To start us off, The Nerdist had a fine article here recently on how to build your own Star Wars Severed Limbs collection though I dug around a bit online and found a complete one to picture for this blog post.

Of course, to get the full picture, you really need to go to starwars.wikia.com and the entry on Dismemberment which recounts the total severity of lost limbs here.

Finally, what discussion of genre fiction would be complete on the subject without "A Brief History of Beheadings on ‘Game of Thrones’" here.

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