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In this episode, Robert Bohl (designer of Misspent Youth) and Joshua A. C. Newman (designer of shock: social science fiction) discuss major changes to the game, spend a lot of time with feedback, and discuss how Jewish someone has to be in England.

We took some during-the-show notes. If you have Google Wave you might be able to take a look at the Wave we created while recording. For those of you without, you can check out the Google Docs transcription

- The Weird Jews Livejournal group that Joshua joined
- The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution
- The Alas, A Blog entry about the New York Times piece on England and Jewishness
- Kat & Michael Miller’s Serial Homicide Unit
- The Starship Troopers and Robocop films
- Feedback from Doc Holaday, Luke Crane (sorta), Vincent Baker, Jj
- cat and man!
- We know who the game will always be about now!
- Larry Ellison
- Rutgers and Yale Universities
- Blackwater Worldwide
- Postmodernism
- On Mighty Thews, by Simon Carryer
- Frank Frazetta
- The Draconis Montreal convention

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The intro music is “Gotta Whizz” by Boris the Sprinkler, from the album Mega Anal. The outgoing music is “Taffy Lewis’ Night Club” by Vangelis.

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Good episode, even if you never got to the CYOA part, really.

Bizarrely, about halfway through, I realized you guys were describing a character of mine from almost 20 years ago- a hunter/assassin “bioroid” (biological android) that could change personality and gender at will (in this case, drawing from DNA/psych profiles of anyone s/he'd 'sampled'). S/he had the designation “void ” (that's epsilon), which I just thought sounded cool at the time, but a bit of research now reveals to be particularly apt.*

I'm sure there's plenty that's different, too; but I thought it was cool since I hadn't remembered that character in probably ten years and suddenly I was like “this sounds SO familiar!”

Anyway, keep 'em comin' and we'll keep listenin'. Except for those who don't.

* from wikipedia's list of things the epsilon symbol is used for: In automata theory, a transition that involves no shifting of an input symbol… Automata theory is the study of abstract machines and problems which they are able to solve.