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On this day in 1613, the Globe Theater burned down during a performance of Henry VIII. (This is why we never got a Henry IX.)

There’s a phenomenon where someone writes an essay about this or that but someone else wants to discuss something that has not yet made it to the front page.

This is unfair to everybody involved. It’s unfair to the guy who wrote t...


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I’ve mentioned before that I spent some of my youth being a Young Earth Creationist and, a handful of other times, talked about how I grew up with


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I don’t have a whole lot of experience with “autobattlers”. It’s not exactly an “idle”, game (where you turn it on and walk away, only having to tune it every day or so) but it’s a game that you can turn on and then go into another window for 5 minutes and, say, write a Saturday Morning Gaming post, and then go back between paragraphs.

The basic conceit is that...


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