September 19, 2025: Talk Like A Pirate Day Sale

In th' great American tradition of monetizing ARR most sacred holidays . . .

we be proud to present th' Warehouse 23 Talk Like A Pirate Day Sale.

Th' grand event be running right now, September 19th, through the 21st. All hands on deck!

As always, we wants yer doubloons, but fer this sale we be takin' 15% fewer of them than usual. Or, if ye be payin' in pieces of eight, seven of them will be close enough fer pirate work.

All kinds of piratey items, games, and coins be on sale. So do yer treasure chest a favor an'  click here . . .

-- Cap'n Evil Stevie

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September 18, 2025: Repurposing Accoutrements

There are a lot of games out there. If my math is right, my closet contains about 94% of them. All of them . . . all the games ever.

One of the fun elements of having a large library is that certain game bits can be repurposed from one game to another. What prompted this post was seeing people using the Dark Tower of Mordor-inspired dice tower from The Lord of the Rings: The Fate of the Fellowship as a thematic card holder for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game. It looks amazing.

We tend to use counters from one game to another to add some flavorful bling. Fantasy Flight Games' unified Arkham Horror line means we've swapped some figures between those games. Of course, I'll scavenge any cool six-siders for my GURPS games . . . and, decades before that, my beautiful multi-colored Torg 20-sider ended up being repurposed for other d20-using RPGs, back when swirly dice were a lot rarer. . . . [more]

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September 17, 2025: Friends From All Squawks Of Life

According to a Financial Times article (which may or may not be paywalled . . . my browser keeps acting weird with that link), scientists have devised a way for parrots to communicate via the Internet. The 26 participating parrots would have video chats for up to three hours a day, and most of them had "favorite" friends that they liked to interact with most often.

I guess the only question I have is: If the birds can't get online for some reason, is that a parrot-y error? (I'm probably showing my late-1900s origins with that joke . . .)

-- Steven Marsh

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