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Different Kinds of Crunch 01 April 2025 - 3 comments

It is a truism that RPGs can be divided into "crunchy" (lots of fiddly details) and "fluffy" (never mind consistency, let's just tell a good story). But I think there's a significant subdivision.

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Bye Bye Smith's 31 March 2025 - 3 comments

Back before the pandemic began I named WH Smith in my corporate dead pool. At long last it has happened.

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The Weekly Challenge 314: Stringy Columns 30 March 2025

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string manipulation and sorting. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Mystic Marriage, Heather Rose Jones 29 March 2025

2014 Ruritanian fantasy-romance, second of its series. Antuniet Chazillen left the country after her brother was executed for treason, but someone's after her and she's run out of places to flee. Jeanne de Cherdillac is a scandalous widow and social butterfly.

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Three Colours: Blue (1993) 28 March 2025

1993 drama, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent; IMDb / allmovie. After the great composer dies in a car crash, his widow tries to pick up her life.

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Spellswept, Stephanie Burgis 27 March 2025

2018 fantasy novella, side story in the Harwood Spellbook series. Before the events of the novels, Amy Standish is a rising young pollitician who must marry a magician to gain rank in the Boudiccate. But Jonathan Harwood, resolutely non-magical, remains her temptation…

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The Blair Witch Project (1999) 26 March 2025 - 4 comments

1999 found-footage horror, dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, Heather Donahue; IMDb / allmovie. Three filmmakers enter, no filmmakers leave.

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Wraith, M. R. Forbes 25 March 2025

2021 SF, first of a planned five-book series. An exploration ship vanishes. The captain's father, a naval hero from the last war, doesn't trust the authorities to do a good enough job looking, so arranges to "borrow" a starship and go hunting himself.

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Airecon in 2025 24 March 2025 - 2 comments

My eighth Airecon, and the event's tenth anniversary. With images; cc-by-sa on everything.

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The Weekly Challenge 313: Broken and Reversed 23 March 2025

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved sliding strings and partial modifications. (Note that this ends today.)

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