This episode is the first in a new endeavor by Robert Bohl (designer of Misspent Youth) and Joshua A. C. Newman (designer of shock: social science fiction), wherein they create a new roleplaying game before your very ears! Over the course of the next howevermany weeks, for one hour each week, Joshua and Rob are going to design, develop, test, and publish a brand new roleplaying game from start to finish.

In this first episode, we talk about what the show’s about, and decide what game we’re going to design. Linkworthy stuff we mention:

- Joshua’s earlier game, which makes you cry, Under the Bed
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Primetime Adventures
- R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
- The Penny Arcade series Automata
- Luke Crane’s Burning Sands: Jihad
- John Wick’s Houses of the Blooded
- HBO’s Deadwood and Rome TV series
- The Mob Justice RPG
- Emily Care Boss of Black and Green Games
- George Carlin on “servicing the account”
- The Shockwave Rider
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Sons of Liberty
- Neill Blomkamp
- PALEO-FUTURE
- Dogs in the Vineyard
- COINTELPRO
- The Project Orion engine
- Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
- Eclipse Phase
- Charles Stross’s Accelerando and Singularity Sky
- Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon
- The Joss Whedon TV series Dollhouse
- The Cyberpunk RPG
- The question of whether squids have brains, revealed
- The game may take place over the course of the technological singularity
- Bruce Sterling
- An episode of my other podcast where I talk to Ron Edwards about finding who the protagonist is in play
- Ron’s game Spione
- The Blomkamp film District 9
- The Big Three game design question
- Gardner Dozois edited Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future
- GURPS Transhuman Space

The intro and closing music for this episode is “Gotta Whizz” by Boris the Sprinkler, from the album Mega Anal.

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So, you know how Palin keeps talking about how they can’t let another Holocaust happen? It’s not out of respect for the humanity and distinction of the Jewish people. It’s just so we can die in the rapture.

Well, OK, that, and making the relentlessly Left-Wing, Progressive, pro-civilization and Democratic Jewish population of America waver in their support for the best Democratic Presidential candidate in my lifetime.

In August, just eight weeks ago, Governor Sarah Palin sat in her church, the Wasilla Bible Church, and listened to their honored guest, David Brickner, describe how the challenges Jews face in Israel is a result of their having rejected Jesus as their personal lord and savior. The talk was entitled, “The Jerusalem Dilemma.” That’s code for “The Jewish Question“.

If you’d like, you can download the audio file or read a PDF of the sermon.

If Jews have anything to fear from the upcoming election, it’s not that Barack Obama might be a Muslim (he’s not). It’s not that he’s black (that’s good). It’s that John McCain selected someone who believes that we should be converted en masse by being lied to. If you are, or know, Jews in Ohio, Florida, or any other swing state, make sure they know this. There’s been some ugly racism showing in polls of Jews, and it needs to be made clear which side the bread is buttered on.

Vote Barack “The Butter” Obama.

Hey, the Durham 3’s podcast #55, the one including me, is up on iTunes. Go give it a listen there or download it from their site directly! The show’s short, only 11 minutes or so, cuz we were tired and started late.

Thanks, guys. That was a fun time.