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Christian Lindke ๐ง๐๐ฌ retweeted
This Day in TSR History, November 8, 1976
50 years ago today, a letter was postmarked that would help launch one of TSRโs most memorable games outside of Dungeons & Dragons.
The recipient was a young Merle Rasmussen, who had been developing an espionage role playing game with his friends while attending college.
The sender? Mike Carr, Vice President of Production at TSR Hobbies, who wanted to review Merleโs game idea.
That little letter, postmarked November 8, 1976, helped set in motion what would eventually become TOP SECRET, TSRโs classic 1980 espionage rpg.
And hereโs the really cool part. We know the exact date because Merle himself told the story in The Dragon #38, published in June 1980, in an article called โThe Rasmussen Files.โ
Nearly half a century later, I had the pleasure of meeting Merle in person. Thatโs the two of us in the photo.
From a college studentโs homemade spy game to one of TSRโs classic role playing titles. All because somebody at TSR was willing to take a look at an idea.
Happy 50th anniversary to that little piece of RPG history.
Who remembers playing TOP SECRET back in the day?
Congratulations to the Team...and to a couple of former students!
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The Broncos are your co-champions of the Pac-12!
#BleedBlue | #WhatsNext
Posting this because it explains more about the recent election than you will get from pundits left or right.
Christian Lindke ๐ง๐๐ฌ retweeted
For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter, which turned 20 this autumn โ undistracted notes on the search for meaning through art, science, philosophy, poetry, and various other tendrils of wonder โ a one-woman labor of love that remains free, ad-free, AI-free, and fully human: themarginalian.org/newsletteโฆ
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Raise your hand if you are ๐ฃ๐๐-๐ญ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐๐๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆ ๐โโ๏ธ
#BleedBlue | #WhatsNext
A co-worker called me the Criss Angel of data analysis. I don't know exactly what they meant, but I think it was a complement.
Mind-Freak...
One of my group's favorite moments in our 3.x campaign was when they decided to take a shortcut through the wilderness to the next city. The journey was about 21 days and they had 7 days of rations. They were making hunting checks (and failing often) and arrived at the location of the next challenge nearly dead from starvation.
They loved it. It was frustrating in the moment, but when push came to shove it made for a better experience in the long term.
Christian Lindke ๐ง๐๐ฌ retweeted
2027 is Traveller's 50th Anniversary - and we are kicking off the celebrations with a reprinting of the Classic Traveller box set and a selection of the famous LBBs!
Sign up to be among the first there for the launch in January!
kickstarter.com/projects/monโฆ
#ttrpg #TravellerRPG
Christian Lindke ๐ง๐๐ฌ retweeted
Don't trust the polls(?) New from me: I tried to sign the bias on historical Senate polling misses. First, we can see while polling has favored both parties, it consistently overestimated Democrats this decade. Not news for Dems battling 2020 PTSD. But this hides a pattern: (1/n)
When my students ask how I vote. I tell them that I follow a spatial ideological model and vote for the candidates closest to me in ideological space.
Then I begin discussing Hotellingโs 1929 linear spacing model and Downsโ 1957 Economic Theory of Democracy.
After this, I show them clips of Eddie Murphy in The Distinguished Gentleman.
Christian Lindke ๐ง๐๐ฌ retweeted
Officially cemented in Boise State history.
#BleedBlue | #BuiltDifferent
This is the best of America. Community and connection. Happy Halloween!
BREAKING: Massive turnout at Pav IV for Trick-or-Treating on the @UVA Lawn! No exit polls, no precinct reports, no recounts. Just thousands of happy little monsters and goblins exercising their constitutional right to free candy.
That's not a popcorn bucket. That's an Arborian rite of passage.
youtube.com/watch?v=80sCD2p0โฆ
Christian Lindke ๐ง๐๐ฌ retweeted
Each of the first three Kal-Arath zines all started out as ink drawings, sketches, and longhand notes in an art book.
They were a lot of fun to make. I hope to get the time to finish the editing process of turning them into one coherent whole with new artwork.
Very cool tool that will make election night a little less stressful for many and that adds information rather than mystery to the process.
Interested in learning more about why we see "blue shifts" and "red shifts" in post-election voting returns? Give our simulation a spin, it's based on published research with @yimenglipolisci and synthetic data.
rmichaelalvarez.github.io/blโฆ
It's also true that @RackSpinner is a reminder that people bought more comics when they bought them to read instead of collecting them.
I love @RackSpinner. My budget was limited as a kid so I never have a full bingo card. There's always a wild card in there that has me 3 out of the 4, but I check it every day.
It never ceases to amaze me how much pure entertainment @Dean_Devlin has provided the world. I don't think he gets discussed enough. From Stargate and Independence Day to The Librarian(s) and Leverage, not to mention Universal Soldier and Almost Paradise, he's one of the Kings of Popcorn Fun.
Oh, and he was Milton in the film Real Genius.
Thanks Dean for all the entertainment!
Wow, 32 years since Stargate hit theaters! @rolandemmerich and I had no idea how far that ring would take us. To the incredible community that keeps the gate open every single day, thank you.
