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Orccon Revisited: Into the Magical Citadel

Edit The Examiner 28 Jun 2016
It was the twelfth of February, in the year 2016, when three intrepid adventurers stepped over the threshold of a magical citadel in the land of Los Angeles ... The citadel is also known as the Hilton Los Angeles Airport ... He retorted with the assertion that “Chess was one of the first war games.” This is true, but games such as GURPS, Car Wars, and Squad Leader transform the player to other places and times ... “I am large ... Lady Godbey (Dr....

Comment on [UPDATE] Sorcery! Parts 1 & 2 Review – Old School, New Twist by calbeck357

Edit TechRaptor 22 Mar 2016
I’d only ever heard of one “Steve Jackson” whose name prominently featured on just about every product he put out – the guy who did GURPS ... Together with Ian Livingstone, ... Gamebook series ... ....

Salt-N-Pepa: Pushin' It Real Good for Pep's 51st Birthday Surprise

Edit TMZ 11 Nov 2015
Pepa told us her husband, Gurps Singh Rai, was the mastermind behind the whole thing ... Pep says she and Gurps are vacationing in Dubai later this month. Of course ... ....

ALP National Conference, Gaming Activities

Edit Minds 27 Jul 2015
Current Location.WillsmereCurrent Mood.sickCurrent Music.Heartbeat City, The Cars. Spent the better part of Saturday the ALP National Conference, which was a pretty average affair ... It was particularly good in relation to climate change mitigation ... It's been a busy week for gaming; last Sunday week was GURPS Middle-Earth where we went through the second session of The Battle of Four Armies at Almost Helm's Deep ... ....

#ENnies 2015 interview 13: Fabled Environments

Edit The Examiner 10 Jul 2015
In this interview, the latest installment in my annual series leading up to the 2015 ENnies, I interview Charles White, the co-founder/ and director of marketing for Fabled Environments. Fabled Environments' Cake Walk is nominated for a Best Adventure and Best Electronic Book ENnie ... Michael Tresca (MT) ... I have been gaming for about 30 years and have played a wide variety of systems from D&D to GURPS to Savage Worlds ... MT ... CW ... MT ... CW ... MT....

Holacracy: A workplace structure that's the brainchild of a local ex-CEO

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 08 Jun 2015
The CEO relinquishes power, changes compensation to a "badge" system of rewards for skills, and has "governance" sessions in place of daily meetings. Welcome to the trademarked workplace known as Holacracy ... And 86 percent of Zappos employees stayed ... At their kitchen table recently, Robertson and Bowers and friends were playing GURPS, a fantasy role-playing game with table-top figurines, campaign maps and dice ... W.L ... ....

Tampa Bay AT&T; employees honored with service awards

Edit Tampa Bay Online 22 Apr 2015
Statewide, 214 AT&T employees earned the honor ... Richard Borden Jr.; Nancy Jones; Jerome Van Gurp; Michael McNall; Scott McKenney; Jacquelyn Yoas, of Forrest Hills/Lake Magdalene; Rob Lavielle; Shannon Gittleman; Michael Mays; Shin-Yi Henderson; Michael Cartoon; Carrie Burchett, of Lutz; Kevan Riese; Delia Bora; Daphne Dilbert; Lisa Wilkes; Linda Tambini, of Oldsmar; Melissa Krinos; Ahmed Bhutta and Sonia Green-Sanders ... Next page ... ....

Eastern Florida State evens up with sweep of Palm Beach State (NJCAA - National Junior College Athletic Association)

Edit noodls 07 Apr 2015
(Source ... It was a matter of time ... And the batter with the bases loaded and two outs was Palm Beach's best player, sophomore shortstop Soclaina Van Gurp who was 0-for-1 with two walks. With nowhere to put Van Gurp, Snyder went to a 3-2 count before inducing a game-ending pop up to second base, one of her 13 fly ball outs ... On the next play Titans freshman centerfielder Natasha Kistler made a diving catch on a ball off the bat off Van Gurp....

Building Community through Games and Gaming @ your library Nov. 15, 2014 #IGD14 (ALA - American Library Association)

Edit noodls 10 Nov 2014
(Source. ALA - American Library Association) ... On Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, libraries around the world will showcase gaming programs and services in support of IGD14. This year marks our 7th annual event ... This year we are repeating some of our well-loved worldwide events, but have added in the new as well ... Global Gossip Game ... About Konami ... Other top sellers are GURPS (the Generic Universal RolePlaying System), Zombie Dice, and Illuminati....

Season finale review: 'Halt and Catch Fire' - '1984'

Edit IMDb 04 Aug 2014
"Halt and Catch Fire" wrapped up its first season tonight, and I have a few thoughts on the finale coming up just as soon as I darf you very gurp... This » ... ....

'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: season finale '1984'

Edit Celebrity Café 04 Aug 2014
I don't darf you very gurp. “1984” capped off what was an odd and disappointing debut season for AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire. And while the job of a season finale is to begin preliminary set up for the next season while also wrapping up the main plots of the first season, “1984” calls into question the entire existence of this debut season ... Luckily Joe comes clean so Gordon doesn’t have to do anything ... Follow @celcafe. Tweet ... ....

Thomas Middleditch: The Supergeek Star of 'Silicon Valley'

Edit IMDb 12 May 2014
If you really want to get Thomas Middleditch fired up, ask him about Gurps ... But with Gurps you can, like, play a game ......

SWU student researches video games and aggressive behavior (Southern Wesleyan University)

Edit noodls 05 May 2014
(Source. Southern Wesleyan University) Study sheds light on behavior of winners, losers. The effects of violent video games on the gamer is a hotly debated topic and a research subject for Southern Wesleyan University student Gordon Overholtzer ... The Thirteenth Annual Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology (GURP) Conference and the Tenth Annual South Carolina Upstate Research Symposium ... Losing related less to aggressive behavior."....
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