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Sick Game, Bro

It could be COVID with mild or extreme symptoms. It could be the flu... with or without fevers. It might be just a common cold with sniffles and coughs. Perhaps it's that  explosive diarrhea  that's been going around. Walking pneumonia keeping you from walking? Gallbladder attack in your back? Food poisoning? Hand cut off by box-making machinery ? And then the hand started crawling around and tried to strangle everybody? Any popped eyeballs? Whooping cough? Chicken pox? Mumps? Measles? Cholera? Scarlet fever? Typhoid fever? Disco fever? Dysentery? Maybe it's just preparation for a medical procedure. Whatever it is, there's no doubt about it, no getting around it, no deal you can make with the Devil... you're sick . Should you be gaming when you’re ill? (Even if you have a license to ill ?) Gaming is always an amazing escape from what ails you, but illness can prevent you from doing what you love and enjoy. In this post Never Say Dice will discuss the Dos and Don’ts ...

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Typically, you’ll see posts from me attempting to break a particular meme or trope related to gaming and the ways the rules of our fantasy worlds play out . It's rather enjoyable to pick apart the bait content engagement farmers put out there without giving them credit. For this post, I’d like to take a look at a particular trope that involves something very important in our lives today: when the jester makes fun of the King, they're likely to lose their head... something our TV court jesters have felt lately, particularly Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. What I’m talking about is censorship. Which is something that should worry those of us who consume media in all its forms just as much as it worries content creators, both big ones like the Colberts and Kimmels of the world, and small fry like us folks here at Never Say Dice. So for this week, let's talk a bit about censorship.  Funny What happened to Kimmel and Colbert isn’t funny. Of course, there are some that would a...