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  • Diplomacy Animals: The Barnacle

    Barnacles are a sticky issue. A barnacle is an arthropod, a creature that has no backbone (invertebrate) and that grows a shell. Like many arthropods they attach themselves to other surfaces, although barnacles tend to grow into the surface rather than just stick themselves to it. Not quite as sticky an issue as I might…

  • Diplomacy Animals: The Aardvark

    The aardvark is a strange looking creature, somewhere between a wallaby and a dog in appearance, with a nose that looks like it got trapped in a car door and somebody pulled the poor creature out instead of just opening the door. But I’m not having a crack at anybody’s looks, here. If you play…

  • Diplomacy Animals

    “A bit of an animal” is a phrase that is often used admiringly for a ferocious person. In the UK, it’s been used to advertise a spicy ‘pork’ snack called Peperami. It’s meant to show just how spicy it is. The adverts are a little… strange; you can find a compilation of them here. But…

  • Is Diplomacy a Hateful Game?

    I decided that it might be fun to make a page for other blog posts on WordPress that mentioned Diplomacy. Well, when I say ‘fun’, maybe interesting. Well, I say ‘interesting’ … I came across one from the blog Board Game Hot Takes Podcast which had a podcast on Missing (Board Game) Homework Assignments that…

  • The End of the ‘Diplomaticon Quarterly’ Zine

    For a while now I’ve been working on my Dipzine Diplomaticon Quarterly. I first published in December 2024, got to issue 2, and almost all the way to issue 3. Unfortunately, at that point, I became ill and, in March this year, suffered another stroke. This stroke was heavier than the first two and I’m…