NuketownSF – The One Ring, Abandoned Places, Futurma, Scrappy Starships, Fake Commutes, Summer Reading

Nuketown’s tweets for the week of February 27, 2022.

RPG | Gnome Stew – The One Ring: Roleplaying in the World of the Lord of the Rings Review

STREAMING | Deadline Hollywood (retweet)

• Futurama holdout John DiMaggio has closed a deal to reprise his signature voice role as foul-mouthed robot Bender and an assortment of other characters in the revival, which has a 20-episode order

PHOTOGRAPHY | Abandoned Places

• A list of 34 forgotten and deserted places.

COMICS | Nerdist – Miles Morales Goes From Spidey To Cap In New What If…? Comic

SCI-FI | SyFy – Star Trek’s 13 Scrappiest Starfleet Ships, Ranked in Honor of Lower Decks’ USS Cerrito

MINDFULNESS | Harvard Business Review – 10 Minutes of Mindfulness Changes Your Reactions

• Sure, training to be a Jedi is more fun, but mindfulness has more practical real-world applications (not that we wouldn’t love a lightsaber).

MENTAL HEALTH | CNN – The rise of the fake commute, and why it’s good for your mental health

• An older story from much earlier in the pandemic, but still relevant for those continuing to work from home. I should really do this more.

RPG | Gnome Stew – Star Trek – Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide Review

• One of these days, I’d love to run a Star Trek campaign.

READING | I started thinking about Nuketown’s summer reading list. Picked up issues of @fandsf and @asimovs_sf to try out a few new authors

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The U.S.S. Cerrito from Star Trek: Lower Decks. Credit: Paramount+