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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

Image courtesy of Pixabay. For years, my game room sat as a quiet monument to a dream: a dedicated space where I could play Dungeons &...

From what I've read, their idea is to use radiative cooling and to overcome the mass challenges by bringing the cost of launching...

No, you’re absolutely right. Space data centers and lunar solar farms are terrible ideas, which is obvious to anyone who actually knows...

I would get really irritated as a player if I had to follow that Bard in the play cycle order. Why should my Thief fail at a pick...

First against the wall when the revolution comes.

When in doubt, you can always just blame Sam Altman

People learn by doing. Students need to be able to summarize their own work by themselves in order to grow into independent researchers...

That’s what students are for. And they (in theory) learn stuff while they’re writing. If I don’t have a student handy, I’ll write it...

Good lord, what is this, a Star Wars sequel trilogy?

For the first time, I'm on board with Vecna's desire to remake the multiverse.

I think the big question with AI doing a lot of that stuff is "Why would I want to read something nobody wrote?" and that very much...

Everytime I see this acronym for Dallas/Fort Worth I always have to double-take because in higher education we replaced "course failure...