Car News

Links and news I've spotted over the last few weeks:

The Facebook group League of Librarian Gamers, which is affiliated with and supported by the American Library Association's Games and Gaming Roundtable, has a variety of interesting discussions that might, on occasion, overlap with our interests. If you are a librarian or "the library-adjacent" (including educators &c.), you might want to drop by see if it's your sort of thing: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeagueOfLibrarianGamers/

International Games Day at your Library (http://igd.ala.org/) also has a Facebook group. If your local public library doesn't celebrate Games Day, why not? If they do, are there tabletop RPGs on offer? If not, would you be interested in running one? Talk to them about it! https://www.facebook.com/internationalgamesday/ and

On a similar note, there's a Facebook group I don't know much about called "Men Ending Slurs and Sexist Attitudes in the Gaming Environment" (or "The MESSAGE" for short). Given CAR-PGa's longstanding feminist policy position, this might also be of interest: https://www.facebook.com/Men-Ending-Slurs-and-Sexist-Attitudes-in-the-Gaming-Environment-258542624266218/

Via the latter source, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation piece: "Wizard-filled quests of D&D empower Prince Rupert B.C. girls." Of note is the second paragraph: "Weekly Dungeons and Dragons gatherings have attracted up to 100 young gamers at a time, and the girls outnumber the boys these days." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/girls-dungeons-and-dragons-wizards-1.3717582 (The full version is an audio report available at the link)

The latter source also shared a link to a survey on "Women's Experiences in the Table Top Gaming Community," but it appears to be (temporarily?) closed: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9P6Z3FC

Several sources have reported on the link between the critically-acclaimed, hit Netflix show Stranger Things and D&D—some of which will are linked to from the following article—and at least one has posited that knowledge of D&D could help in the quest to understand the season finale: http://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Dungeons-Dragons-Theory-About-Stranger-Things-42199709 (I'm attaching a PDF, but the original has a GIF, so it's not a perfect record.)

Table Titans has published a nice anecdote from one of its readers discussing how a D&D game helped teach two kids about being considerate of others and consequences (or at least that's my reading of it): http://tabletitans.com/tales/post/sibling-rivalry

Vitalina Batsarashkina wore multiple pieces of videogame RPG paraphernalia when competing in women's 10 meter pistol at the Olympics. She got a silver medal. Everyone thought this was neat. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/an-olympic-athlete-wore-witcher-gear-during-compet/1100-6442587/

—M. Alan Thomas II