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Philosophy & Science / Re: Rupert Sheldrake
« on: October 19, 2013, 06:52:52 pm »
Given how often I encounter skeptic assholes, despite largely agreeing with their position, it wouldn't surprise me to see them slobbering over the chance to defame Sheldrake.

But then I also encounter believer assholes, and I think a big part of this has to do with the nature of the internet.

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The Forum of Interesting Things / Re: Sciborg's Indie Game Thread
« on: October 18, 2013, 08:45:15 pm »
Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages is Pay What You Want on Indiegamestand:

https://indiegamestand.com/

Probably worth checking out that site's deals in general.


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RPG Discussion / Re: Any pen&paper roleplayers here?
« on: October 18, 2013, 06:00:29 pm »
The Strange, a Tabletop RPG by Bruce Cordell & Monte Cook

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1433901524/the-strange-a-tabletop-rpg-by-bruce-cordell-and-mo

"Monte Cook Games is thrilled to announce its next big tabletop roleplaying game: The Strange! Written and designed by Bruce Cordell and Monte Cook, The Strange is a game that crosses multiple worlds, called recursions, which player characters can explore and defend. In The Strange, your characters change with each world they travel to, taking on new aspects suited to help them function in that recursion's unique laws and structures. But dangers found in these recursions threaten not only characters, but also our very own Earth. If characters persevere, however, they can not only save themselves and Earth, they may even gain the ability to create a recursion of their own!"

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Good stuff Royce. I've been on a mini vacation chilling with my cousin who does a lot of work with medicine plants.

Some great conversations related to this topic, will try to distill and [at] some point.

I think one of the pertinent things we discussed was separating the recreational and medicinal, and how to take this understanding in older cultures and bring it into a modern, legalistic + healthcare framework.

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The Forum of Interesting Things / Re: Sciborg's Indie Game Thread
« on: October 13, 2013, 02:37:46 pm »
http://indiestatik.com/2013/10/11/dopaminium-the-heal-journay/

"You’re about to go on a journey, an out-of-body experience, even. It will involve taking drugs, dreams, nightmares, demons, happy bears with pink slippers and a brain bug. I’m no shaman, but I’ve already been on this journey. It’s called Dopaminium: The Heal Journay."

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The Forum of Interesting Things / Re: Sciborg's Indie Game Thread
« on: October 11, 2013, 03:32:53 pm »
Olav and the Lute:

http://www.olavandthelute.com/

http://indiestatik.com/2013/10/10/olav-the-lute/

“Dive into the post-apocalyptic fantasy world, solve puzzles, discover melodies, change the game-world with your mystical lute and .. fix it?

It’s kept simple and mysterious and has a sense of Germanic dark fantasy about it, but is grounded in the harsher realities of a post-apocalyptic reality too. Play Olav & the Lute for free, either in your browser, or you can download the game separately (Windows only) if you wish. ”

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Thanks for that Royce. Looks like the ability to self-medicate just took a big hit:

Feds Seize Silk Road, Everybody's Favorite Illegal Drug Website

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RPG Discussion / Re: Any pen&paper roleplayers here?
« on: October 07, 2013, 09:04:10 pm »
Another new setting called Accursed:

www.accursedrpg.com/

"This tale begins with  a world of dark fantasy and perilous adventure, where the forces of evil have triumphed.

In such a world, those who remain uncorrupted by wickedness must rely upon monsters to fight against the darkness. Witches have ruled the land since the last battles of conquest, but their Grand Coven has been sundered, leaving behind remnants of a once-mighty army. The remnants of the horde include captured citizens of the conquered nations that fought as the Witches’ shock troops.

These are the Accursed—the Witchmarks burned into their flesh and souls transformed these men and women into monstrous forms. Now, unable to return to their former lives, the Accursed   wander the land, giving aid to those in need in an attempt to atone for past sins. Some have joined the Order of the Penitent, an organization devoted to ridding the world of the Witches and their evil influence. Others offer their skills as warriors, alchemists, and spies to the highest bidder. Yet others have succumbed to corruption, greed, or insanity.

Light has failed, darkness is ascendant—only those bearing the forms of monsters can stand against the tide of the Witches’ evil. The Accursed are this world’s only hope—they must learn to embrace their curse or to fight against it, and find some way to free themselves forever of their Witchmark.

This is the world of Accursed."

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The Forum of Interesting Things / Collaborative Fiction Sites
« on: October 07, 2013, 07:22:55 pm »
Over on Planewalker we have Life in the Day of a Planar

http://www.planewalker.com/forum/day-life-planars?page=1

and Parallel Wheels:

http://www.planewalker.com/forum/enumerating-parallel-multiverses

The latter probably requires some cursory knowledge of the D&D Great Wheel cosmology, but the former can be thought of as a place for varied fantasy stories.

The Parallel Wheels threat starts off enumerating possible parallel Great Wheels then slowly builds up organizations and recurring characters.
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Special Containment Procedures

A collaborative fiction site where people write about creepy objects/places/people.

Here's the one that has kept me up 2 nights running:

Ronald Reagan Cut up while talking.

Is Baztek on these boards? Cause he has one in there that's also great.

There's spin-off Wikias from the SCP site but I haven't plunged deeply into those yet.

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I read some of your short stories,and the one about the rat(nr 8?) was fantastic ;) That one did something to me.Just thought I should mention it,since we all love some positive feedback :)

Thanks!

I've been poking around for some more credible research on the "encounter entities while tripping" phenomenon, but I don't think there's much out there.

I was actually invited to an ayahuasca ceremony, but at the moment I'm wary of subjecting myself to mind altering drugs of such potency.

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RPG Discussion / Re: Any pen&paper roleplayers here?
« on: October 03, 2013, 05:45:07 pm »
People might want to check out Eclipse Phase, especially Bakker fans who I suspect make up a large majority of this forum. ;-P

http://unpossiblelabs.com/index.html

From what I understand the books are all free under the Creative Commons license. You play in a transhuman setting where the solar system has been colonized. With a dystopian spin you could reenact the glory days of humanity before we killed our women and turned into the Inchoroi. ;-)

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The Forum of Interesting Things / Re: Sciborg's Indie Game Thread
« on: October 03, 2013, 05:41:25 pm »
I have spent a biblical amount of time playing 'Binding of Isaac'.

I keep meaning to look that game up. The indie scene is so vast. Definitely will need a new PC, but so far I've held out.

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TIMEframe

http://indiestatik.com/2013/10/02/experience-the-last-10-seconds-of-a-beauteous-world-in-10-minutes-timeframe/

"Upon playing a slow game, it becomes apparent that the vast majority of games go fast. There’s not enough time to take everything in, to admire the work the developer has spent their time crafting. Maybe the game you’re playing isn’t slow at all; perhaps it’s every other game that’s just going too fast. The most epic and jaw-dropping moments of playing SUPERHOT were when you shot a bullet and watched it slowly travel towards your target, hearing all of the sounds drag on, the clinks of metal and the slow boom of the shot.

TIMEframe is similar, in that time is slowed right down, so much so that the ten seconds the game takes place within take ten minutes to transpire. That’s the amount of time you have to explore this golden meadow, where symbolic stones form a magical circle, where a large statue has broken and now seems to be slowly reaching out from the ground that it’s sinking into."

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General Misc. / Bring me your huddled podcasts, yearning to be listened to!
« on: September 30, 2013, 06:44:23 pm »
Welcome to Night Vale

http://commonplacebooks.com/welcome-to-night-vale/

"WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE is a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff's Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events.

Turn on your radio and hide."

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The Forum of Interesting Things / Re: Sciborg's Indie Game Thread
« on: September 30, 2013, 04:45:37 pm »
Risk of Rain looks AWESOME Sci. Thanks for pointing it out, I will definitely give it a shot in the near future.

BTW: Did you play Hotline: Miami? I feel like I remember you mentioning it on Westeros, but I can't be sure. That's seriously the game that got me back into indies. Shit was fucking brilliant.

Yeah, Risk of Rain is incredibly fun though I was a bit surprised how slow it ran on a friend's old laptop. But then old Windows computers always seem to have that speed issue.

Hotline:Miami is incredibly fun. I actually need to go back to it, as I'm close to the end but got stuck at the police station level.

I was really surprised that there was a weird, Drive+Lynch story in there.

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I need to come back and look at some of the games people mentioned. It's a bit crazy how you can amass a huge game library with $50-100 just by waiting for deals.

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