I grew up on RPGs, not tabletop strategy games, but the one exception was Car Wars, a dystopian science fiction game where you kit out vehicles with weapons and then fight them in giant duelling pits or in freeway battles. I loved Car Wars and played it like crazy.
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Kickstarting a union onboarding kit for workers at Kickstarter (and other tech companies)
Kickstarter’s workers have been trying to form a union, and they say that the company fired its most prominent union organizers under the pretense of performance issues, but really in order to get them out of the way and head off the unionization drive.
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Kickstarting STRIKE! The Game of Worker Rebellion
Brian Van Slyke writes, “STRIKE! The Game of Worker Rebellion is a board game about building a city-wide rebellion to stop a mega-corporation’s takeover. It was created in collaboration between The TESA Collective, a publisher of games about changing the world, and Jobs with Justice (JWJ), a leading labor rights organization. It has just launched on Kickstarter.
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Crowdfunding “Vital,” an sf anthology about the future of health care
“Vital: The Future of Healthcare” is a crowdfunded anthology of short science fiction stories about the future of health care, with contributions from top writers like James Patrick Kelly, Seanan McGuire, Annalee Newitz, Paolo Bacigalupi and Caroline M. Yoachim (they’re also open to submissions!).
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Kickstarting a deluxe “Dracula” edition in a suitcase full of “primary source materials” from the novel
Josh O’Neill writes, “We’re doing a box set edition of Dracula in which we reconstitute the novel into the primary source documents from which it’s drawn: Mina’s diary, Lucy’s letters, Dailygraph newspaper clippings, even an actual phonograph record from Dr. Seward. It comes in a suitcase. Or a wooden casket or stone crypt, depending on the edition.”
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A good day for kid RPGs!
I woke up this morning to two exciting announcements about crowdfunders for kid-oriented RPGs, which is outstanding news indeed: the first is a set of adventures for Martin Lloyd’s superb Amazing Tales, a (four and up) kid-and-adult RPG that’s endlessly fun and incredibly easy to get started with; the second is Destiny Dez, from Scott Wayne Indiana, last seen around here with his pacifist RPG Lotus Dimension, now back with an RPG for 3-8 year olds, in which “kids come up with their own plans to navigate situations before rolling a 20 sided die to decide their fate and move on in the story.”
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Kickstarting a new feminist bicycle science fiction: this one’s about dragons!
Elly Blue has kickstarted a series of successful feminist bicycle science fiction anthologies; her latest is Dragon Bike: Fantastical feminist bicycle stories, for which she is seeking $6,000 ($10 gets you an ebook, $13 gets you a printed book, $15 gets you a book and a poster).
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Kickstarting a two-book collection of Anthony “Tonky” Clune’s street photos
For many years, we’ve brought you the delightful arts and crafts of Anthony “Tonky” Clune: beautiful felt housewares, giant wall-stickers, a short film about thrifting, cool reflective cycling safety badges and more.
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Kickstarting a cover of GRIM GRINNING GHOSTS with mashup legend dj BC and friends!
Dj BC (previously) writes, “I’m the producer behind Ghost Cave. You might know me from the mashup albums The Beastles, Ziggy Stardust Remixed, Wu Orleans, the Santastic Christmas Collections, and others. Up next is a glorious 7″ vinyl record package, in a limited edition of 500 (100 purple, 400 black). And it’s LEGAL!”
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Kickstarting a clever, tiny wireless mouse/presentation controller designed for tight spaces
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I am addicted to Thinkpads in large part because of the trackpoint (AKA “The Nipple”) — the little wiggly joystickbetween the G, H and B keys that allows me to control fine mouse-movements without bending my hand into the RSI-inducing trackpad position; between that and the amazing, best-in-class warranties, I am a committed Thinkpad user, to the point that I actually bought and returned three different systems this year because (between the new Intel chipset and the new Nvidia cards), I couldn’t get any flavor of GNU/Linux to run on them (many thanks to Canonical for eventually getting me running on a Thinkpad extreme).
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