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    EVENTS

    A Quick Game

    A meme-god friend of mine sent me this:

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 6, 2023
    • Art, Fun, memes, Things That Delight Me
    • 5 Comments

    The Signal Man Joke

    This is an old joke told by Billy Conolly.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • January 30, 2022
    • Fun, Things That Delight Me
    • 8 Comments

    Help Yourself to My Multi-Million-Dollar Brain-Flash

    Lately I’ve been playing Pillars of Eternity (which is really good, BTW) and I noticed that the game has been tracking one of my favorite pieces of game-tech: Unity engine.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 27, 2020
    • Fun, Gaming, TrumpUS
    • 10 Comments

    3 Strikes and You’re Far Out

    This is a pretty funny story.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 16, 2020
    • Fun, Things That Delight Me
    • 13 Comments

    Always a Complainer

    This comes via Dan K., and Reddit.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 24, 2020
    • Art, For laughs, Fun
    • 6 Comments

    Let’s Play a Game

    At one company where I worked, we had a few deliberately stupid conversational games that we would sometimes play, just to fill silence.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • December 15, 2019
    • Art, Fun, Gaming
    • 35 Comments

    More Fuel Rats in The News

    Sagittarius Eye is an Elite-based fanzine [sa] that is clearly a labor of love.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 27, 2018
    • Art, Fun, Gaming
    • 8 Comments

    Is Fun a Mark of Intelligence?

    It seems to me that, in order to have “fun” a creature needs some sort of self-awareness: “I am doing something that amuses me.” There’s some more than basic cause/effect analysis going on, there, as well: “I do this thing and I have fun.” Can we say it’s a creative process?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 3, 2018
    • Art, Fun, Philosophy
    • 13 Comments

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