Brian Phillips’ exposition on Star Trek: The Next Generation at its 25-year anniversary. (Via Gedeon Maheux, of course.) ★★ | Continue reading
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How Hollywood’s toxic (and worsening) addiction to franchises changed movies forever in 2014. | Continue reading
Before Risk, before Dungeons & Dragons, before Magic: The Gathering, there was Diplomacy. One writer enters international competition to play the world-conquering game that redefines what it me… | Continue reading
A sumo wrestling tournament. A failed coup ending in seppuku. A search for a forgotten man. How one writer’s trip to Japan became a journey through oblivion. | Continue reading
What It’s About: A couple of humorless dicks face many boring obstacles in the course of building a slightly faster and safer light-rail system. Who It’s For: Assholes and metallurgy bu… | Continue reading
Before Risk, before Dungeons & Dragons, before Magic: The Gathering, there was Diplomacy. One writer enters international competition to play the world-conquering game that redefines what it me… | Continue reading
Why did Anthony Gatto, the greatest juggler alive — and perhaps of all time — back away from his art to open a construction business? | Continue reading