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Article – Why I liked Stranger Things

By Paco Garcia Jaen Dedicated to my friend Jim Pinto. Because it will embarrass him to read someone considers him a friend. Stranger Things has been a very, very, very much talked about show in all sorts of social media. The Duffer Brothers – of whom I had never heard of until now, I must…
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Article – If you have a problem with LGBTQI characters…

By Paco Garcia Jaen I wish people understood that LGBTQI characters are *never* shoehorned anywhere. Not in videogames. Not in novels. Not in RPGs. Not in movies. Nowhere. Whenever they appear, they do so because the author thinks they belong in that place, adventure, universe… wherever. And there are reasons for that. Always. And those…
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Farewell Wayne England

By Paco Garcia Jaen For someone who likes to say nice things about people, I am finding very hard to write this. And I have a lot of nice things to say about Wayne England. I just wish I had said them 24 hours ago. Or longer ago. Just sooner than now. Wayne England passed…
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Article – A glance at Spiel just before it ends

By Paco Garcia Jaen Internationale Spieltage SPIEL is at an end tomorrow and this year’s show has been the best so far. Some very notable things, I have to say. I am ever so glad that I very early made the decision to ignore American companies and large companies too. I was going to see…
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Article – Modiphius hits it big… and great!

By Paco Garcia Jaen I like Modiphius. Since ever. I have bought as many of their products as I could, I have backed some of their Kickstarters when I had money, had them in podcasts, recorded an episode of Dice & Slice and had it edited really fast just to show their Thunderbirds game before…
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