Watchmen
A look at the dark side of heroes Watchmen is a classic 1986 comic by the legendary Alan Moore that became a movie in 2009. Just as the original was a reaction against a somewhat sappy optimism inherent to (most) comics of the time, the movie adaptation found...
Chrononauts
There’s a reason casual time travel isn’t possible Chrononauts is a game where you play as meddling time travelers, each with a secret agenda to alter the course of history to your own enigmatic ends. Played as a tabletop card game, it starts out with a grid of...
Universal Vaccines
Is this the end to mutation whack-a-mole? Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a universal coronavirus vaccine. That’s awesome. Full stop. There’s a related article if you want the nitty-gritty (link below), but I want to talk more about the...
Murder at the End of the World
In Murder at the End of the World, main character Darby Hart is a true-crime junkie who wrote a book about a cold case she helped crack. That notoriety earned her a spot at a billionaire Andy Ronson’s Icelandic apocalypse bunker, where he is essentially...
Minds Beneath Us
A game for now and the future—Keep an open mind to subtext Minds Beneath Us is a narrative game where choices can get a little more complicated. You play as Jason Dai… sort of. Actually, you are an MBU (Mind-Body Unit), basically a digital mind that can be...
Poll: Who creates the AI Singularity?
With AI on everyone's mind these days, it's as good a time as any to talk about the Singularity (the kind where the S is capitalized). Tech CEOs throw around buzzwords, diluting the traditional meanings of sci-fi concepts, so let's start with defining...
Elio – a lighthearted sci-fi romp
Elio is a Pixar film that rigorously ticks all the boxes. Protagonist is an orphan? Yep. Found family? Check. A minor on a poorly supervised adventure? Let’s get this thing in gear! Elio lost his parents before the start of the film to an undisclosed accident. He...
Blade Runner TTRPG
Do Androids Dream of Tabletop RPGs? Is roleplaying a replicant a step less human than being one? I'm trying something different this week. Rather than share a game I've played and enjoyed, I'm sharing one I've heard about and want to hear if YOU'VE played it. Because...
Tangible holograms
Images you can move with your hands Did you ever watch Minority Report or any MCU movie and drool over the idea of having a computer interface you could reach into and manipulate through touch? Well, researchers at Universidad de Navarra have come up with a...
Wheel of Time
There Are Neither Beginnings or Endings to the Turning of the Wheel of Time. But the show had to begin somewhere... Amazon Prime’s adaptation of the Wheel of Time has been fraught with controversy. For a beloved series older than many of the viewers, changes...