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Come Disco on the Discord

March 10, 2021Morgan Forbush 3 Comments

I personally started to use Discord late 2017, early 2018. I made a server to keep in contact with a few friends that had moved away from my undergraduate college and I was invited to another server to hang out… Continue Reading →

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Carrion: The Movie Monster Simulator

March 8, 2021Erik Kersting Leave a Comment

You can watch this in video form here! You can tell a lot about how a horror movie by considering who the film is asking you to root for. Sometimes, we root for the “final girl,” or some potential victim… Continue Reading →

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Fan Game Follies: Fortune Favors the Fandom

March 4, 2021David Kocik 2 Comments

Hello everyone! Unbelievably, we’ve already arrived to March 2021, and with a new month comes a new show in the Serious Play franchise. (Maybe the Serious Play Cinematic Universe!)   Every Thursday from 4-6pm CST, I’m going to be playing,… Continue Reading →

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Online Worlds and Communities

February 25, 2021Morgan Forbush 4 Comments
A screenshot taken after completing a raid in FFXIV

  I started playing Final Fantasy 14 in 2019. It was for my undergraduate senior thesis in which I compared communities of two Massive Multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPG). It was fun. I ran around on my first character getting… Continue Reading →

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A Machine for Lovely Thoughts

February 24, 2021Wren Dalton 4 Comments
Douglas Englebart Watches the Arena

But how does one love what’s made of light and so far away – Emilia Philips Latte foam, the smell of a hastily made lunch, and buzzing computer fans are the essence of Serious Play. Our little collab, spread out… Continue Reading →

Lunchzone, Serious Play, Shows, Uncategorized conceptual, live streaming, machines, Play, Serious, thinkertoys, twitch

ExcelDM: Let the Metadungeon Commence!

February 17, 2021@matthewkeracher 5 Comments
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Given the interest in last week’s episode of Lunchzone, I thought that I would put out a public version of my dungeon generator with a brief outline here on how it is to be used. The post is divided into… Continue Reading →

ttrpg, Uncategorized D&D, DM, dnd, Excel, Google, Play, roleplaying, Serious, Sheets, ttrpg

That feeling of over-grinding your coffee: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot and the Performance of Rigor

February 10, 2021Janelle Malagon 3 Comments

Originally, this post was going to be an exploration of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot as a JRPG—and I guess it’s not…not that, in some ways—but then I finally finished the Kakarot main story and thought it would be a good… Continue Reading →

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Doctors and Dungeon Masters – Two Years in Review

February 8, 2021Casey James 2 Comments

With the current campaign of Doctors and Dungeon Masters coming to an end, I wanted to take time in this blog post to reflect on some of the practices for streaming D&D that we adopted, adjusted, and abandoned throughout the campaign’s… Continue Reading →

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Prison Architect and the Banality of Evil

February 8, 2021Erik Kersting Leave a Comment

You can watch this essay above or just read it below! These observations are based on our Lunch Zone stream of Prison Architect from a few weeks ago! Find that here (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/890243261) Do you ever put down a game for… Continue Reading →

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The Freedom of Super Mario 64

February 1, 2021Erik Kersting Leave a Comment

You may watch this video here: The first game I fell in love with was Super Mario 64. I can remember first seeing my cousins play it at my grandma’s house when I was six years ol d on an… Continue Reading →

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