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February 23, 2004: But Where I Come From They Do It This Way

Zompist.com takes a stab at preconceptions about "the way things work" with an ever-growing set of culture tests that lay out explicitly just how various parts of the world approach life. With everything from expectations about how police will take bribery offers to what TV shows everyone watches to what kind of container milk ought to come in, these snappy lists of cultural assumptions give a new perspective on how other people think. There are tests for places from Canada to India to Italy, plus a few for fictional cultures people have made.
-- Fade, Warehouse 23 Clerk

Warehouse 23 News: Fast Food, Scarier Than Ever

Unknown Armies: To Go presents a campaign of epic events; even the Invisible Clergy are taking sides as the occult conspiracy of Mak Attax rolls into motion with the power of billions of unknowing consumers behind it. No matter who ends up controlling the outcome, something big is going to happen . . .

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