Minority Mindset

As a huge movie buff, I was really struck by Jon Stewart’s recent take on things. He was rightfully angry about how quickly some on the right switched gears regarding Trump. They used to tout him as someone who’d achieve “peace through strength,” but now it feels like it’s “peace through war,” and we’re all just caught up in it. It’s scary because there doesn’t seem to be any real plan or end goal, just whatever Trump decides. He even showed a clip of Trump just rambling, and it led him to make this killer point: it’s unbelievable that our military technology is more reliable than the person in charge of it.

According to AIPT Comics, Marvel is releasing a new series of variant covers this spring for 20 different comic book titles. The artwork on these covers will be based on the popular Marvel’s Spider-Man set originally created for the Magic: The Gathering card game last year. Both regular and virgin versions of the covers will be available.

James D’Amato and Dillin Apelyan, hosts of the One Shot podcast, are sharing their expertise to help RPG players and game masters create truly memorable games. Their new book, The Ultimate RPG Villain Backstory Guide, published by Simon & Schuster on March 10th, provides the tools to develop fascinating villains – complex antiheroes and terrifying bad guys – whose stories will stay with players long after the game ends.

The video features Nam and his fellow cast members playing exaggerated versions of themselves. Nam plays a character called “Eric the Vengeful,” while Rausch, known as “Robby Bobby,” is holding the other players captive on his ranch and making them do hard labor – but still look fashionable! The Wild West theme is a fun change after weeks of filming in muddy Scotland, and Higgins, or “Maura the Velvet Blade,” looks surprisingly different in a denim outfit reminiscent of Alyssa Milano in the early 2000s. Nam jokes that riding a horse reminded him of when he pretended to be a cow during a painting challenge, and he wondered how he could continue that storyline. Eventually, the players manage to tie up Rausch, symbolically removing his overalls – a moment Nam compares to Jo cutting her hair in Little Women – but his friend, Funches, arrives to rescue him. Funches had previously posted a video openly rooting for Rausch and against the other players.