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I WAS A GOBLIN: There is another world, there is a better world
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— 2 Jan 2007 Tom 12 comments

A big selling-point of tabletop RPGs – possibly a legacy of the era they appeared in, the liberal 1970s – was their non-competitive, open-ended aspect. Individual players wouldn’t “win” games, the group would only achiev[…]

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— 2 Jan 2007 Pete Baran Comment

List of Films With The Most Utterances Of The Word Fuck in it. I luv Wikipedia…[…]

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Talking Parrot Confounds Science, Article Confounds Sense
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— 2 Jan 2007 Pete Baran 1 comment

I haven’t really got an awful lot to say about N’Kisi, the talkative parrot whose ability to talk seems to contradict the usual suggestion that that parrots merely mimic. I don’t know enough about the science, my philosophy of lingu[…]

Trends Of 2006 Movies: The Disguised Time Travel Movies
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— 2 Jan 2007 Pete Baran 3 comments

Time travel, its just science fiction right? WRONG. Well, right, but you tell that to people who want to see Keanu Reeves/Sandy Bullock romance films or Jerry Bruckheimer police procedurals and they might not go see your movie. You see 2006 was notab[…]

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