1. Movie Review: The Expendables
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... the film makers to make an honest effort to live up to the expectations they’d set. Read More At Epinions  ...

2. Monster of the Week: The Mongolian Death Worm
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... will be inspired by fiction, some will be cryptids that some people say actually exist, and some of them I’ll just make up. Unless otherwise noted, the powers and interpretations of the monsters here ...

3. QAGS Corner: Number Crunching
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... to write QAGS 2E, we didn't want to make any major changes to the system, but we did make a few changes and define the mechanics in more detail to improve the "game" aspect of things a bit. Mainly, ...

4. QAGS Corner: The Price Isn't Right
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... Number is a failure), this makes it seem like the Number itself is import. It isn't, unless you're using the Lucky Break rules aned roll the Number exactly or fail and the Failure Degree is important. ...

5. Archetype of the Week: The Fool
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The fool is a comic relief character who makes the audience laugh by consistently making bad decisions, ignoring social boundaries, and generally acting absurdly. While some fools actively try to be ...

6. Downdown After Dinner Promises Entertainment Without Troublemakers, Satan
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... for this? Paxton Stooge: Oh, absolutely. Those people are, for the most part, troublemakers. They’re the people who drink, organize events featuring music that isn’t family friendly, and ask uncomfortable ...

7. The Funniest Shit You've Never Seen: God Edition
(Article Categories/Forteana and Fringe Culture)

... in reality the site is run either by Landover or by someone with a very similar sense of humor. Unlike Landover, which makes its parody status obvious, Objective Ministries plays it straight, doing a great ...

8. Schroeder-Khan (A Poem)
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... be watching So avoid speed, drinking, and sudden stopping. For troublemakers they simply can not abide While they’re trying to make their friends some cash. So if you protest you’d best watch your ...

9. Book Review: The Wrecking Crew
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... rather than simple cases of greed and misguided policy. Frank makes a good case that many of the terrible decisions made by conservative leaders are in fact part of a plan to turn their view of government ...

10. Fratboys of the Week: The Outsider
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... makes him stand out from his fraternity brothers, often resulting in him being treated a little differently than more typical frat members. For example, he may be subjected to offensive jokes or ...

11. Wednesday WWPHITM?: Tank Girl Reborn
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Since 4 out of every 5 movies these days is a remake or adaptation, I've got this fantasy that one day somebody in Hollywood will give Diablo Cody a bunch of money to make a new Tank Girl movie. Below ...

12. Fratboy of the Week: The Nerd
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... could be spent getting wasted, some frats make sure there are at least a few nerds in every pledge class. In addition to maintaining high GPAs to offset all the below-average fratboys, nerds can ...

13. Movie-Going for Morons
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This article originally appeared in the December 2009 issue of Bazooka Magazine. Since I live too far from the thriving metropolis of Paducah to do any serious drinking and still make it home in one piece, ...

14. Archetype of the Week: The Lawman
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... be noted, however, that this doesn't necessarily make him a good person. For every lawman who became an officer to help his community, there's an ex-high school bully who joined the force for the power ...

15. Archetype of the Week: The Small-Time Crook
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The small-time crook is a person who relies on illegal activities to make a living, but doesn’t have the abilities, resources, or imagination to pull off a big score. Some small-time crooks specialize ...

16. Archetype of the Week: The Gambler
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The gambler is a character who makes a living (or tries to) by wagering on contests of skill or chance. Most professional gamblers prefer games that rely on personal skill, such as pool or poker, but a ...

17. QAGS Corner: Money & Stuff
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... for the heavily-armed homeless who make up the typical D&D party, some level of abstraction is required for characters who actually live somewhere (unless you want to keep up with exhaustive lists ...

18. Archetype of the Week: The Hacker
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... role-playing games usually have darker agendas. Once inside a secure system, the hacker can steal valuable or classified information or take control of the system and make it do their bidding. Read More ...

19. World Building 101 Part 4: Map Time
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... I’ll also need to know something about the cultures that have already been subjugated. I decide that a map will make this easier, since it will suggest some natural boundaries between different groups ...

20. Book Review: Death's Daughter by Amber Benson
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Death’s Daughter tells the story of Calliope Reaper-Jones, a young woman trying to make her way up in (or, more precisely, up to) the fashion industry in New York. Or at least that’s who she thinks ...