Deviant Robot: Meandering adventures into interesting ideas.

It's a kind of Magic

If you have ever found yourself wishing that like Harry Potter, the heroes of Dungeons and Dragons or the Dragonborn of Skyrim we live in a world with magic in it, Well I good news... I think we do.

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Thoughts

The Infallibility of Parents

However many parents you have, however your specific configuration of parents works; and regardless of them being your biological parents or not; you don't get to choose them and they come a wide range of ability and aptitudes.

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Interview

Jason Steele - Filmcow, Creator of Charlie the Unicorn

If insane kidney-stealing unicorns, murderous police cats, psychotic ferrets and even more psychotic llamas are your thing, then you need to know about FilmCow.

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Thoughts

Labelled

From the moment you were born (and probably even before), many of the characteristics that combine to make you unique were being labelled.

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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

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Books

The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

Love is infectious. When you meet someone who truly and honestly loves something, it's almost impossible for a little of that love not to get passed on. Mark Forsyth loves Etymology.

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Video Games

Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein 3D might not have been the first first-person shooter, it wasn't even the first Wolfenstein game; but it did change the landscape of video gaming forever.

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Blog

A fork in the road ahead

The relaunch of Deviant Robot is underway, but unfortunately, there are several things that I can't make a start on just yet. Not only can I not make a start, but the future of the project is going to hinge upon something that's almost entirely out of my control.

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Graphic Novels

V For Vendetta

We present a humble vaudevillian veteran, both victim and villain, a vestige of the vox populi, a valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, vowing to vanquish venal and virulent vermin: V For Vendetta.

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Thoughts

Emotional Responses.

Everyone copes with misfortune differently. Those who fall apart and those that stare it coldly in the face are both dealing with it in their own way.

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Movies

Mad Max: Fury Road

Thirty years after being the one man leaving Thunderdome, Mad Max is back, and if the post-apocalyptic landscape he inhabits may be pleasingly familiar, the cinematic landscape the film emerges in is very different.

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Interesting

Cognative Bias

The Framing Effect.

Find out how a small change in the way something is presented can have a surprising impact on the decisions we make.

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Thoughts

Be skeptical of your limitations

We can't all be exceptional at everything we do; but it's worth applying some healthy skepticism what we belive are our limitations.

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Blog

Whats going on with The Deviant Robot Transmission?

You literally haven't heard the last of the Deviant Robot flagship podcast, find out where we are with with our plans for the mighty Transmission.

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Blog

What's the plan for Deviant Robot?

Recently I posted about the end of Deviant Robot's involvement with the gaming meetup events; so if we aren't doing the gaming events… what are we doing?

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Blog

The rise and fall of the Deviant Robot monthly gaming meetups

At the beginning of 2019, I made the difficult decision to end Deviant Robot’s involvement with the social and tabletop meetup groups. Find out why.

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Blog

Website Updates

A new website (again)

A lot has changed at Deviant Robot this year, but one thing that hadn't changed was the website; until now.

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Blog

A word on international solidarity

As a proudly international project, Deviant Robot would like to reassure our community that it stands united with our European friends; just as it stands with our friends around the world.

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