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RACE IN AMERICA: At 6 p.m. on Tuesdays April 6, April 20, May 4, May 18, June 1 and June 15, Dr. Jennifer Thompson Burns will lead a Race in America: A Reading and Discussion Group through the Troy Public Library. This reading and discussion series will explore the inception, inculcation, and function of race in American society. We will discuss this topic in order to improve our understanding of systematic, and social, inclusion and exclusion in American systems. Our goal is to tease out the implicit ways race serves as a real, and imagined, force in the lives of all Americans. This group will explore racial dynamics in America, expanding beyond the black-white binary and our understanding of race, and develop a d
Anybody who’s played
Bugsnax knows that it’s a lot darker than a first glance lets on, but early concepts could have made the game even darker. Developer Young Horses showed off a concept video on Twitter of a
Bugsnax build that had you interactively “peeling and dismantling” the bodies of bugsnax before serving them to the other residents of the island.
An early idea for Bugsnax was that in addition to catching them, you’d have to peel and dismantle their bodies before serving them to your friends! #Bugsnax#ThrowbackThursdaypic.twitter.com/CZG1ddGJlG
Given the inclusion of the video in the tweet, the idea of tearing apart bugsnax was more than just a casual idea thrown out during a brainstorming session. The gameplay mechanic was actually concepted, showing an Olove (known in the final game as Green Lollive) and Pinkle being ripped limb from limb before landing on a plate as an entrée ready to eat. The Olove’s wings are torn off one by one before it’s pimento to
Iron Spring Farm’s stallion Uno Don Diego continues to be a sire of note, with numerous offspring making headlines over the last few months. His son Independent Little Me was honored as the 2020 KWPN Gelders Horse of the Year. Daughter UNO Day Sun was named to the Danish team for the World Championships for Young Horses. Killian TF returned to the US Young Horse Championships and also took home a GAIG/USDF Regional Championship. Koa earned five year-end titles, including Dutch Warmblood Horse of the Year, from the Rocky Mountain Dressage Society.
Photo - Independent Little Me, by Iron Spring Farm s Uno Don Diego, was the 2020 KWPN Gelders Horse of the Year. (Photo credit: DigiShots)
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UNDERSTANDING SHAKESPEARE: Join us at the Troy Public Library on Thursdays, February 18th – March 18th from 6:30 – 7:30PM for our Understanding Shakespeare workshop. This will be a five-session program on how to understand Shakespeare s plays. We will start our discussion with Act 1 of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Hamlet.” Then in the following four weeks we will discuss the play one act at a time. This program will allow the participants to put the play in a variety of contexts, such as its relationship to his other works and to the modern existential world. Tom Bulger, Shakespeare Scholar and retired professor from Siena College, will lead this workshop. Please have Act One read for the February 18th discussi
In Bugsnax, Grumpuses Used To Be Frogs With Thicc Butts
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Thinkin bout Butt-snax. (Image: Young Horses)
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Bugsnax developer Young Horses shared some early design concepts for its what-if-we-ate-the-Pokémon-instead, body-horror game, and they are as out there as you’re probably hoping.
Starting on the more mild but technically ambitious front, the developers original experimented with making the Grumpus’ relationships more dynamic and fungible: