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Nov 1, 2024 | 
geekeratimedia.substack.com | Christian Lindke |Aaron Neuwirth |Wyrd Science |Matt Thompson
Wow! That was a long section title for this week’s Weekly Oddity, but it gets at the core tension that I want to discuss. Yesterday Anne Thompson, Editor at Large of IndieWire and one of the best film industry commentators, shared an article discussing how The Academy is cutting staff from their Archives and Library divisions as their Museum expands.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
geekeratimedia.substack.com | Christian Lindke |David Poland |Alec Worley |Wyrd Science
A while back I talked about the and how one of the things I love about discoveries like this is that they demonstrate how the infinite and the finite intersect in nature. In the case of the Einstein tile, researchers discovered a shape that can be laid out (aka tiled) on a plane without ever having the pattern of shapes repeat. That’s amazing right? What’s also amazing is that the intersections of these shapes create hexagons which do repeat.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
wyrdscience.substack.com | Wyrd Science
It’s a literal unboxing this week as a box of Wyrd Science made it out of Brexit island and arrived here in Belgium. I’ve said this before but as someone with no training or hands on experience of graphic design before this mag, the wait between sending our printers several thousand pounds and opening a box up to see if i’ve made some terrible mistake is, let’s say, fraught. Thankfully, once again, we seem to be in the clear.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
wyrdscience.substack.com | Wyrd Science
Tabletop games have often used fictional dystopias to, overtly or otherwise, critique our own world but what happens when we ditch those fantasy and science-fiction analogues for the real thing? Dan Thurot speaks to the designers of three games that haven’t shied away from putting historical events front and centre, confronting head on issues of race, gender and sexuality that continue to resonate today. You’ve heard the refrain before: ‘Why does everything need to be all political?
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
wyrdscience.substack.com | Wyrd Science
“Wyrd Science is a really cool magazine with fantastic articles about TTRPGs!And now it's also a really cool newsletter with fantastic articles about TTRPGs!”The Twenty Sided Newsletter, Twenty Sided Newsletter
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
wyrdscience.substack.com | Wyrd Science
Right, we return from a not particularly relaxing few days off to bring you this week’s newsletter. Usual reminder before we get to the good stuff that issue 6 is up for pre-order, print copies of 3, 4 & 5 are available in a discounted bundle, PDFs of issues 1-5 are available for a steal at both Itch & DriveThruRPG and we have some incredible t-shirts on sale, including our brand new Łukasz Kowalczuk collab and a handful of the ones we did with MÖRK BORG’s Johan Nohr.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
wyrdscience.substack.com | Wyrd Science
Ages: 12+Players: 1-6Lead Writer: Tomas HärenstamArt: Johan EgerkransPublisher: Free League PublishingThe latest title from Free League Publishing, Dragonbane, describes itself as a “mirth and mayhem” roleplaying system. Set in a magical fantasy world, you play humans, dwarves and other mythical beings, banding together to travel on adventurous escapades. Now, this probably all sounds a little bit familiar, right? You see, Dragonbane has a surprising amount of historical baggage.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
wyrdscience.substack.com | Wyrd Science
Hey there, greetings from an overcast Scotland! Much shorter newsletter this week as I’m travelling and have only managed to grab a few minutes on the laptop.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
wyrdscience.substack.com | Wyrd Science
Well, this is becoming a regular occurrence. Right, in case this is your first newsletter… Wyrd Scienceissue 6 is still up for pre-order -shipping at the end of July- it’s going to be great, with everything from Mausritter to Pendragon inside. Please do check it out as it’s kind of what we do. At the same time we’ve a print bundle of issues 3-5 for just £20, and for those averse to paper we’ve collated issues 1 to 5 for less than £5 at Itch.io and DriveThruRPG.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
wyrdscience.substack.com | Wyrd Science
Hey, 2 newsletters in less than a week, what is this a vaguely functional media operation? Of course not… Anyway, last week we showed off some of the art from the upcoming new issue by our Polish art wizard Łukasz Kowalczuk, and let’s just say that’s not all we’ve been cooking up with him, I hope you’re all ready for a #HotRatSummer.
