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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 10h

It's the climax of the Shadow War, and it's a few of the best moments of Babylon 5 across the entire series. Let's discuss season 4, episode 6: "Into the Fire"

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Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Into the Fire” - Reactor

Sheridan makes aims to deal with the Shadows (and the Vorlons) once and for all...

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Keith R.A. DeCandido @kradec.bsky.social · 5h

On @reactorsff.bsky.social the Shadow War comes to a disappointing end, while the Morden-Mollari pas de deux comes to a much more satisfying one. The BABYLON 5 Rewatch goes "Into the Fire."

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Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Into the Fire” - Reactor

Sheridan makes aims to deal with the Shadows (and the Vorlons) once and for all...

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io9 @io9dotcom.bsky.social · 5h

The Most Iconic Genre Movie Posters of Drew Struzan

In honor of the legendary poster artist's passing, we take a look back at the very best works of a master.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.

Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.

A tweet by Theo Nash, which reads, "The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value."

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Polygon @polygon.com · 1d

Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech

30 years ago, Katherine Bigelow made a sci-fi flop that changed her career for the better

Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 9h

Super-excited for this talk!

Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social · 1d

TOMORROW we reach into the depths and explore hypnosis in horror cinema - ONLINE!
Tickets here: billetto.co.uk/e/sunken-pla...

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2d

I sometimes joke that I was trained by the jesuits.
As a punk rock dropout I met the bad-assed Michael Czerny who advised us about political organizing. He faced down death squads in El Salvador.
He married my wife and I.
He is the pope's right hand.
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Meet the Jesuit Cardinal Behind Pope Leo’s Social Justice Revolution

From drafting Leo's first apostolic exhortation to championing migrants and the planet, Cardinal Michael Czerny is shaping the moral heart of this papacy.

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GMT Games @gmtgames.bsky.social · Jul 30

Check out our latest InsideGMT article from designer Morgane Gouyon-Rety: "The Hubris Histories – Book 3: The Lay of the Land" @morganegr.bsky.social insidegmt.com/the-hubris-h...

The Hubris Histories – Book 3: The Lay of the Land

We have introduced in the precedent entry of these Histories the main players and movers of things in Hubris – Twilight of the Hellenistic World: the Kings and their Friends. Now we are going to ex…

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Retroist @retroist.com · 7d

In the 1970s Brigantine Castle cast a dark shadow on the Jersey Shore. This haunted attraction didn't last long, but with its memorable advertising and foreboding appearance, it has remained well-remembered. Today on the Retroist I look at its history.

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Brigantine Castle Photos (haunted house attraction on a pier in NJ)

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Charles Hildebrandt @cghildebrandt.bsky.social · 13h

My dad painted the cover, board, and all of the cards, including the suspects, all of which were portraits of friends and family!

(Madame Rose - first on the left side of the cover - was my mom.)

Amra_the_Lion @nlogan77.bsky.social · 13h

The Clue Master Detective Game 1988 board showing the extra outdoor and indoor locations, extra weapons, and suspects and the Clue 50th edition in collector's tin with additional weapon poison and the board.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social · 14h

Box Art from CLUE*

Clue or Cluedo goes back to Britain in WWII, subjected to the anxiety of blackouts and air raids. Anthony Pratt, a musician and factory worker, and a fan of Agatha Christie, and his wife Elva, fashioned the game to pass the time, originally called Murder

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Also, yesterday's derided pop culture is tomorrow's high culture

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Spy Fi 🇺🇦 @spy-fi.bsky.social · 1d

The map of Hyboria from a Greek version of Marvel’s Conan comics is somehow more evocative of “an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars”.

#Conan
#Comics

Map of Hyboria with the labels in Greek.
©1986 Conan Properties, Inc. / Marvel Comics Group.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

It's not that I necessarily think RPGers who like combat should play wargames instead. It's that I think RPG designers making games with a lot of combat should take influence from wargames. (I would say this works both ways, if not for the fact wargame designers learnt this years ago).

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

You can't tell me the designers of 50 Parsecs or Reign in Hell aren't openly aware of RPGs and happily borrowing from them. They quite obviously are. It's just RPG designers who seem to have fetishised a willful ignorance about other game genres.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Jul 25

Wow, this intricate net bag is an extraordinary survival from ancient Egypt 3,600 years ago!

Made from linen string, it was used to suspend the ceramic flask from a wooden carrying pole.

Excavated at Qurna, near Thebes, in 1908. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

My photo shows a red ceramic flask contained within an intricate bet bag with two plaited handles and a tassel at the bottom. The net bag was woven from linen string. Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, 2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, c.1585-1545 BC

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Alberto B. Foglia @abfoglia.bsky.social · Jul 26

Haven’t posted any personal art in a while! Every once in awhile I get seized with the need to figure out a trireme from the 3rd C BCE, with the constraints of it being build around one of the Egadi rams (in this case Egadi 4), and to have a oarbox with all three rows of oarports in it.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Phil Barrett @philbarrett.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is Colchester as a #Lidar Flyaround.
Removing the buildings reveals the #Roman town of Camulodunum in all its glory.
The impressive Norman Castle earthwork covers the site of the Temple of Claudius, a major target during the Boudican revolt (60/61AD).
#Archaeology

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · Aug 14

What Cyberpunk 2077 can teach real-world cities
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Stephen DeCasien, Ph.D. @sdecasien.bsky.social · 1d

Four years since starting the Ancient Naval Casting Project! Finishing the bow, the beeswax model, and casting it was the highlight of my PhD. Hopefully future projects will be as rewarding.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 2d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Tired Of Reality? Press advertisement for London’s Games Workshop

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Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) @antonpnym.bsky.social · 2d

I whiled away some chore time listening to this interesting history of the NATO phonetic alphabet, which apparently is not a phonetic alphabet and wasn't created by NATO. (There's some Can-con in there for my fellow Canucks.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAT-...

The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet

YouTube video by RobWords

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