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Hi remember TF2 let's play

@cola and I have decided to bring back Wednesday TF2. No matter how many squad-based games come out, they've never quite grabbed on to the Icrontic community like TF2 did. There is just something purely magical about TF2 and it's still going strong. So let's play.

WEDNESDAY, 9PM EST (6pm PST), let's assemble on Discord: http://discord.gg/m5qJP2g. Since we no longer have our own dedicated server we'll have to likely bomb some poor unsuspecting soul's server as a group.

Here, meet the team if you've forgotten:

primesuspect

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Expo 2019 theme and logo reveal

It's time to announce our theme and logo: It's a tiki party!

A big thank-you to Elyse Maxwell for creating this event logo.

Tiki culture in the United States began in 1933 with the opening of Don's Beachcomber, later changed to Don the Beachcomber, a Polynesian-themed bar and restaurant in Hollywood. [..] Although inspired in part by tiki carvings and mythology, the connection is loose and stylized, being an American form and not a Polynesian fine art form. [Wikipedia]

You've never been more likely to get lei'd at an Icrontic event. [groan]

if you're planning an event or prize, bonus points for tying into the theme.

Linc

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Flash Fiction Podcast Season 4

Hi! I know some Icrontians listen to my podcast, but, like me, they may be podcast-backlogged, so haven't gotten to the most recent one yet. So: Here's a link to the listener survey which would be super helpful if all the listeners would fill out: https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/JM7JBVQ

AND! If you do not already listen to my podcast: now is a good time to jump in. Season 4 just began! Listen to me reading stuff! Here's the promo copy:

Our weekly podcast brings you short-short stories from authors around the world. With a wide mix of stories, both literary and genre, tragic and comedic, deeply-thought and light-hearted, there are stories for everyone, and each episode is less than ten minutes. Find Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast where ever you find your podcasts.

Thanks, friends!

CB

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Re: What is Icrontic playing? Beginning of 2019 edition

After @TheRedburn got a copy of Train Valley as well, we both started trying to one-up each other. He would 100% a country and then I would have to. I would get a high dollar score on an end map and then he would have to. So on and so forth. The circle of life. End result is that we've both 100% completed the game and gotten the "Chancellor" achievement (all 75 stamps). I'm working on Train Valley 2 and I didn't like it as much at first but now I love it. It's way more complex and rewarding.

primesuspect

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Re: AI has reached critical mass

So it works as planned.

Kwitko

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Re: What are you listening to?

@Kwitko said:
Today I'll highlight a band I'm rather fond of: Morphine. >

I love Morphine, been awhile since I've listened to their stuff. As a three piece with just a two string slide bass, sax and drums, it's a funky sound you don't get from any other band. Morphine was Morphine, nobody else sounds like them.

Cliff_Forster

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Re: What are you listening to?

If we're in a curating mood, I'd like to offer up a playlist of some of the more obscure bands I listen to. "But Seth, you just listen to the Grateful Dead and other old person fuddy-duddy music!" Yes, this is true to an extent, but I also listen to a variety of other music. For example, Dead & Company (surviving members of the Grateful Dead fronted by John Mayer), Dark Star Orchestra (Grateful Dead cover band), and Jazz is Dead (a jazz-influenced Dead cover band) See? Lots of variety!

All joking aside, I do listen to a lot of classic rock, but my playlist has everything from Pink Floyd to Meshuggah and everything in between. Today I'll highlight a band I'm rather fond of: Morphine. Their sound has been described as "low rock." The guitars, vocals, and horns are all baritone. Generally the songs hold their tempo throughout, but the albums themselves have a manic feel to them; going from slow and low to fast-paced in the breadth of two songs. Mark Sandman, their lead singer and songwriter, had a heart attack on stage at the age of 46. They only put out 5 studio albums.

Below is what I would call my personal Greatest Hits. The order is somewhat important. I put fast-tempo in the middle with slower bookends. The final song, however, is just a sonic crush of low rock.