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Curtis Silver

Sarasota
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Covers:  Consumer technology, social media, Magic: The Gathering, board games, card games, LEGO, baseball cards, random collectibles, consumer tech, philosophy
Doesn't Cover: Fashion, entertainment, big tech, anything not under topics I do cover.

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Curtis Silver’s Biography

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Born in the stockroom of a deli, this human meat sack was raised on pastrami and matzoh. After his baseball-themed Bar Mitzvah, he decided that becoming a functional adult sounded like a terrible idea. It would be years until his brain finally clicked off back-of-the-bus-stoner and got to work. After a 25 year career as a business & financial analyst running parallel to a 15 year career as a pretend journalist, he finally filled out this little biography. This shredded human taco has written hu…

Curtis Silver’s Journalist Portfolio

The 5th Dimensional Squirrel Only Exists

The 5th Dimensional Squirrel Only Exists

Life can be something of a profound mystery. We elevate our own existence above that of say, the ant, never r…

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A Song Across Wires

A Song Across Wires

EDM Artist BT is unlike any other musician of this generation. Constantly underrated and devoted to true comp…

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100 Years Later, The Future Of Robots Still Lies In Science Fiction

100 Years Later, The Future Of Robots Still Lies In Science Fiction

Every year there is some version of this remembrance on the internet, dated January 25th and full of science …

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Toss A Coin To Your Payphone

Toss A Coin To Your Payphone

Nearly two decades ago I was in the payphone business. I worked for an independent 1+ and 0+ payphone carrier…

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A Twitter edit feature would be a wreck on a wreck

A Twitter edit feature would be a wreck on a wreck

Twitter, a tool designed for harassment and fostering misinformation, allows us a distorted view of the world…

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Check your soul at the door when entering the metaverse

Check your soul at the door when entering the metaverse

There's a scene in the middling but prophetic movie Surrogates when Bruce Willis' character awakens from his …

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Articles

'The Secret Of Weepstone' RPG Brings Back Retro D&D Dungeon Crawling

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By Curtis Silver
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The Secret of Weepstone brings back the classic D&D sketch skeleton Talesworth Game Studio If you were a child of the 1980s and you weren't spending all your time playing Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) then what were you doing? Riding your bike and playing Nintendo? All fine activities and not to be ignored as a free-range child of Boomers, but those were the years you'd find a mildly worn copy of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in many a basement.
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The Gathering Mono Red Deck From 1994

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By Curtis Silver
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Some of the cards that were in my 1994 Alpha/Beta Magic: The Gathering mono red deck Wizards of the Coast I don't have many regrets in life, most of them being food related, but one that persists to this day is selling my Magic: The Gathering mono red deck constructed in the early 1990s at the advent of Magic cards. This collection of 60 cards, at the time, didn't carry the thought of investment.
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Universes Beyond

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By Curtis Silver
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Since 2021 the Hasbro owned Wizards of the Coast has been inking very popular deals with known IPs to integrate into Magic: The Gathering sets, appearing first in Secret Lair drops, then as stand-alone expansions. MTG: Universes Beyond has brought us full expansions of Lord of the Rings, Fallout, Assassins' Creed, Doctor Who, Final Fantasy, and . That's not including Warhammer 40,000 Commander, Jurassic World, Stranger Things, and others mixed in with new expansions and Secret Lair packs.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Writing about the hottest clubs in town but being too young to gain entry to said clubs.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. I'm old like that.

How is social media changing news?

Hahaha news died with Nicole Simpson