Darktheatre.net
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Darktheatre.net is a general odd ball site that's sort of like a blog and sort of like a portal. Founded in 1819 by Lenny8088 while searching for Arcadia, our destiny and our right, it's been in continuous operation since then with only a few short outages (lack of internet was a bit rough) which were beyond the control of it's owner.
News For Gamers March 10, 2010
Gaming/Fight Club: Today is GM's Day
| In honor of today I ask that you all raise a toast to all the GMs (good and bad) that you've had over the years - Even the worst game session is better than the best day at work.
|  [General Gaming News] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-04 12:19:25 (comments[1]) |
Entertainment: A Team Movie
| That's right. The A Team movie.
|  [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-03 11:44:59 (comments[0]) |
Random Page Clip: Chris P
Oldest member of the WGG (with the exception of Time of course), Chris has been part of nearly every major WGG game. It's also a fact that without Chris, the WGG wouldn't exist. It was his comic/game shop Gateway that served as the center for the WGG games for many years and through Chris' contacts and friends we gained nearly every member. Chris was out of the group for a few years, but he's back as of 2007 and once again a regular player. |
Posted by: BotMan: 03/10/1880 (view Chris P page) |
Ravings: What is Time?
| My wife has been trying to figure me out for years with little progress. Perhaps this physicist will be able to shed some light on things.
|  [Odd Topic] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-02 13:23:06 (comments[0]) |
TPG Gear/Tech: Colonel of Dice
| I am probably one of the last gamers on earth to actually see this vid of the Colonel and his dice making techniques. Excellent. Perfect. This guy is a gamer.
| [General Gaming News] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-03-01 09:43:04 (comments[0]) |
Entertainment: Superman for $1M
| At a recent on-line auction a copy of the first Superman comic has been sold on the internet for $1m.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-26 07:39:05 (comments[3]) |
Mythos: MiGo OS
| From Charles Ward and the LNN - this little gem is too good to be true. Intel and Nokia create a mobile OS and decide to name it after a malevolent species from the mythos. MeeGo.
|  [Cthulhu] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-25 06:33:54 (comments[0]) |
War/Politics: Nazi Nukes
| Finding odd shaped uranium in a Dutch scrapyard and tracing it back has all the makings of a good CoC/Delta Green like story. Add in some cultists (besides the Nazi's), a shoggoth, maybe a few strange idols that blister the skin when held, and a long lost Ph.d dude and you'd be ready to go.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-24 07:12:45 (comments[0]) |
Death and Dying: Homicidal World
| Time and I have discussed this a few times and it always seems surprisingly tough to find good stats on how many people are homicided (nice word admin!) each year. But this here is a good visual of the murder rates across the globe.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-23 06:04:46 (comments[1]) |
Places: Old Humans
| Some Ph.d dudes have found some stone "tools" (that look a whole like a bunch a rocks I have in my backyard) that says humans were on Crete a bajillion years before they were supposed to be.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-21 13:49:27 (comments[4]) |
Gaming/Fight Club: Pathfinder Monsters
| Pathfinder will be putting out a second monster book later this year. Would be cool if they had it ready for Gen Con so I could get my hands on it then, but I guess I'll have to wait.
|  [D20: Dungeons and Dragons] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-19 17:47:17 (comments[3]) |
Mythos: Quake Strikes IL
| I'm certain that this 4.3 quake that hit Sycamore IL is of no relation to some terrible Mythos spellcasting or caling forth of creatures man was not meant to know. There's also no possible way that the Mythos would also be responsible for the April, 2008 quake that hit West Salem IL either.
| [Cthulhu] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-11 06:14:18 (comments[0]) |
Gaming/Fight Club: 12 Days of Greenwood
| While I know Lenny hates the Forgotten Realms for various reasons I know there are others who like it. Me, I'm a fan of the old school, 1st Ed setting only.
| [D20: Dungeons and Dragons] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-10 05:30:09 (comments[5]) |
Mythos: Now How Do We Cast the Banishing Spell?
| In gaming whenever the intrepid adventurers run into a rare and powerful language they don't know ("can I kinda know it ... I speak draconic?"), they find some librarian or Liche or janitor that does know it. Even if you roll a "1" you still get some clue, hint, pathway to success. Why? Because if the last speaker of that language had just died, only a couple of days before you got there, it would mean you (as adventurers) were SOL and the adventure was over.
| [Cthulhu] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-09 14:17:49 (comments[0]) |
TPG Gear/Tech: Google Wants In on the iPad Game
| Sure they're just in the mock up stage right now but Google is looking for a Chrome OS based tablet computer to eventually hit the market.
|  [Geek News] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-08 07:23:51 (comments[1]) |
Entertainment: Karaoke Will Get You Killed
| Apparently over half a dozen people have been killed for singing Old Blue Eye's "My Way" in Karaoke bars in the Philippines. It also looks like John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads" is bad too.
| [Odd Topic] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-07 10:37:33 (comments[1]) |
TPG Gear/Tech: MS to Patch a Bug - From 17 Years Ago
| A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update. Aparently this update will close the loophole that involves the venerable DOS operating system.
| [Geek News] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-05 05:47:30 (comments[2]) |
Space: Iran Hurls Turtles into Space
| Iran said Wednesday it had launched a rocket carrying a rodent, two turtles and some worms into orbit, claiming it as a successful advance in their space program.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-03 05:49:22 (comments[2]) |
Conspiracy Theory(s): Return to the Moon?
| Obama has called off the moon return project. Which can only mean that he has just found out that we never were there in the first place. I mean, how embarassing would it be to not be able to find the flag from the first "landing?"
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-01 10:08:05 (comments[2]) |
TPG Gear/Tech: What the iPad Isn't
| Forget the jokes around the name (e.g. "Where's the Max-iPad?") this article outlines the 10 things that the iPad isn't, why it isn't and why that's not a bad thing.
| [Geek News] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-01-29 09:55:44 (comments[8]) |
Conspiracy Theory(s): India Goes to War in Space
| First we have Nazis on the moon and now it looks like India will be sending some folks to space by 2016.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-01-28 06:00:40 (comments[1]) |
Script Kiddies: If you make it - someone will hack it
| The hacker who gained notoriety for unlocking Apple's iPhone as a teenager has recently stated that he has hacked Sony's PS3.
| [Geek News] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-01-27 04:49:38 (comments[1]) |
Announcements: DC 20
| If shower dances weren't enough to keep you from wanting to go to prison, you lose your RPGs, to boot! | [D20: Dungeons and Dragons] |
Posted by: Arioch : 2010-01-26 05:49:06 (comments[5]) |
Space: How to Fight Aliens
| This is the type of conference I never get to go too. I bet Bucki is there though. He's always jetting off to some London like place for conferences on killer robot algorithms and space ... stuff.
|  [News of the Apocalypse] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-01-25 10:15:03 (comments[3]) |
Gaming/Fight Club: Kobold Quarterly Issue 10 - FREE
| Kobold Quarterly is giving away free PDF copies of issue 10. That's right. Free. No cost to you type of free.
| [D20: Dungeons and Dragons] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-01-24 08:40:38 (comments[7]) |
Entertainment: Maynard James Keenan's Wine Movie
| The lead for Tool makes wine. But you already knew that 'cause you're already aware of one of the greatest bands in the world.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-01-23 09:13:54 (comments[2]) |
Announcements: And We're Back ... Kinda
| As was reported in the leading news rags such as Crawl Street Journal, USvsA Today and the Ryleh Times, DT did suffer a major outage and loss of data. While not directly blaming it's hosting company, amhosting.com, for the corruption and terrible customer support after the event neither shall DT be singing it's praises (because they suck). In fact ... we may be moving if the Pika plan comes thru.
|  [Site News] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-01-22 06:52:27 (comments[3]) |
Announcements: Erick Wujcik is Dead
| The creator of the Amber Diceless system, TMNT and other games died June 7 of pancreatic cancer.
| [General Gaming News] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2008-06-10 06:17:18 (comments[6]) |
Alt. Science/News: Penny For Your Mind
| You know all those school "contests" where the kids all try and collect 1 million pennies (but you never hear of them succeeding)? Well, at some point somebody (who was probably evil) told me that the human mind can't even envision a million pennies - it's too much. Like a sucker(zulu) I bought into that and as usual I was totally wrong.
| [Odd Topic] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2008-06-06 07:00:23 (comments[2]) |
TPG Gear/Tech: Doc Oct
| This is a longish - boring article about a bunch of stuff dealing with superconductors and the like which you really don't want to read. But what is interesting is that the latest superconductor is immune to magnetism. Anyone who watched Spidey 2 knows that such material is exactly what Doctor Octupus' arms were made of. Immune to heat (thus a superconductor because there is "no" friction from electricity) AND immune to magnetism.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: 71.90.65.210 : 2008-06-04 07:12:37 (comments[0]) |
Gaming/Fight Club: Stiles Favorite Bar
| This little drum band is a good representation of Stiles' favorite bar in the 'verse. It's a small counter-culture place out on a far flung moon. Japanese, with a strong dislike of the Alliance and Chinese powers. He and Toad actually first met there. Band plays every Friday night and the place is packed with Browncoats, disillusioned purple bellies and artists. Odd place. Fun place.
|  [Imagination] |
Posted by: 71.90.65.210 : 2008-06-03 12:41:52 (comments[0]) |
