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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 39m

“John, why do you keep trying to shoehorn politics into games?”

“Because the Orlok impersonating vampiric presence that currently is the shadow president of the United States is about a week away from demanding he’s called Asdrubael Vect, that’s why”

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 47m

“Ok yeah so what you have to understand is the reason the US dropped a nuclear bomb on Venezuela this weekend is because of a major misreading of a key plot point from Dan Abnett’s Horus Rising, yeah kinda sucks doesn’t it”

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 52m

Totally not terrifying that there’s a very good chance that we’ll before the end of Trump 2, magazines like Wyrd Science will be required reading to understand why and how the most powerful people in the world are trying to immanentize the eschaton

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 5h

The whole era of exploitation films and transgressive cinema seems oddly quaint these days when there’s every chance you’ve scrolled past half a dozen real life atrocities in 4K ultra HD before you’ve had your breakfast

Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 5h

A new book? from pulse? all about Italian cannibal movies? sickos.jpg

Cannibal Worlds

The definitive book about the most controversial genre ever made: Italian cannibal movies! With more than 40 exclusive interviews.

www.kickstarter.com

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 5h

A new book? from pulse? all about Italian cannibal movies? sickos.jpg

Cannibal Worlds

The definitive book about the most controversial genre ever made: Italian cannibal movies! With more than 40 exclusive interviews.

www.kickstarter.com

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

Because games don’t exist in isolation we’ve introduced Sidequests, the new section of the magazine where you’ll find writing on everything from bands like Castle Rat through to fantasy inspired art exhibitions by artists like Jean Jullien…

A photo of the new issue of Wyrd Science open to an interview with the band Castle Rat

A photo of the new issue of Wyrd Science open to a piece on French artist Jean Jullien’s exhibition Juju’s Castle

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 7h

€31,000 raised in a few days, brb just changing the mag’s name to Not Quite Dwarf in the hope we get a c&d from Games Workshop

Grimace talking to Ronald McDonald, both are wearing construction site hard hats & Grimace is saying ‘lotta money in this shit’

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 7h

Ah perfect, what better way to start a Sunday than with a 50 minute long glacially paced mid 70s bbc paranormal documentary. Great stuff

HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 4d

Today on the BBC Archive youtubes, I have mostly been watching THE GHOST HUNTERS from 1975.

Strange goings on, indeed. Benson Herbert is a one.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTqt...

1975: Meet THE GHOST HUNTERS | Classic BBC Documentaries | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

www.youtube.com

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 1d

Love the new issue of Wyrd Science for covering Castle Rat!

It’s a great issue and you should grab it. Also because it has good coverage Possum Creek Games x Steve Jackson union.

Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

Because games don’t exist in isolation we’ve introduced Sidequests, the new section of the magazine where you’ll find writing on everything from bands like Castle Rat through to fantasy inspired art exhibitions by artists like Jean Jullien…

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 1d

finished up this bad boy yesterday! commission piece for @thegeoffskinner.bsky.social in their upcoming project about titans

mountain city, in fog, large winged creature in background

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

Much like our waistline @emielboven.itch.io’s DURF has massively expanded since 2021, find out more plus discover all kinds of other interesting stuff that might provide some distraction from the end times in this week’s super cool Gazeteer

Slay To Find Out

In this week's Gazetteer, one of our favourite post-OSR games, DURF, gets expanded, Frogs cast a spell on you and what is better than Warhammer? Warhammer and model railways, obviously.

wyrd.science

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

it's just a shame that most of the right is so brain poisoned now it would be hard to really delve into that without it becoming a nightmare to deal with

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

I do think there is some really good stuff to be written about how as a medium (artistic or otherwise) role playing games do have more of a conservative (or perhaps slightly more accurate would be libertarian) genesis than most cultural 'things'

or at least more RW ideas in the mix early on

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

players in the early days and pulling the game towards a more narrative form, ultimately winning out over the wargamers you could say

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

of people who play DnD, certainly today, don't really know (or care tbh) about.

but even that more nuanced understanding of US RPGs roots then leaves out the perhaps equally important role that the (often female led) SF/F zine scene played

both in providing a fertile recruiting ground for

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

but also that in itself is like a really interesting illustrative point because already just saying US RPGs evolved out of wargaming might seem obvious to all us, I'm sure we all know our Braunsteins and Blackmoors & what not

but that in itself is a level of history that probably the vast majority

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

and they can illuminate aspects of our lives, and the state of a society just as much as music, films, TV or books can

you can infer something about, eg Britain in the 1980s from Warhammer in the same way you can from anything else that is a product of its time

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, for me it's twofold

I think it's important within 'the scene' as it were, it's good to have a more nuanced truthful account of games history that isn't just winner takes all

BUT on a wider level, whilst sure RPGs or whatever are a niche interest, they are a part of our social history

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

News about new releases covering classic comics and heavy metal flyers alike…

All life’s wyrd pageant is to be found in these yellow pages…

Wyrd Science 7 out now!

shop.wyrd.science

A photo of the new issue of Wyrd Science open showing short features on the new EC Weird Science book and another book on heavy metal flyers from the 1980s

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

Short essays on everything from Doctor Who & Alien to Terry Pratchett and Nigel Kneale…

A photo of the new issue of Wyrd Science open to a piece on John Higgs new book about Doctor Who

A photo of the new issue of Wyrd Science open to a piece on Terry Pratchett’s elevation to serious respected author

A photo of the new issue of Wyrd Science open to a piece on Alien Earth

A photo of the new issue of Wyrd Science open to a piece on Nigel Kneale

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

Because games don’t exist in isolation we’ve introduced Sidequests, the new section of the magazine where you’ll find writing on everything from bands like Castle Rat through to fantasy inspired art exhibitions by artists like Jean Jullien…

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Cryptek

A pic of a Warhammer 40k model of a necron cryptek, who hasn’t been solicited

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 1d

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 1d

The last article in my Awards Debrief is up. What even is the point of an award show? Should anyone care?

www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-4/

Where do rpg awards go next?

An insider's look into the 2025 Ennie Awards. Part four. What's the point of an award show? And what do we want to see in the future?

www.explorersdesign.com

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 1d

October 20th is the order cut off for DIE: LOADED, sequel to the three-time Hugo-nominated DIE. I've pulled together a short primer it with all the info you need on it - what it is, previews, full cover details (check out our sketch variant!) and more. Go nose! Join our party. It's an experience.

DIE: Loaded

The sequel to the three-times Hugo-nominated, award winning dark fantasy comic, DIE.

bindings.app

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