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Get the ‘GeekMom’ Book, Great Coffee, and Instant Photos in the Daily Deals

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Ken Denmead

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You can still pick up a copy of the beloved GeekMom book in time for Mother’s Day, and save 15% off the list price!

For a lot of people, the best part of waking up is the taste of good coffee in your cup. Today, the Bodum Chambord 8 cup French Press Coffee Maker in on sale for just $23.

Technology has come full circle, and what was old is new again. Case in point: Get this Polaroid Snap Instant Digital Camera for just $100 today. There’s no better way to share a pic than to actually hand it to someone!

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Daily Deals: Anker Bluetooth Speaker for $30, Lots of Crayola!

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Ken Denmead

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The Anker SoundCore Bluetooth speaker with mic is beloved on Amazon, and today you can pick one up for just $30. Yes, you can take your music with you anywhere, but consider that it also makes an awesome speakerphone, perhaps for your home office?

Every now and then, Amazon tosses a batch of cool Crayola products up on sale, and today is one of those days. Find deep discounts on pens, chalk, and other cool coloring-related items (including coloring books for adults).

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5x Video and 5x Tabletop – 10 Awesome New Gaming Projects on Kickstarter This Week

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Ken Denmead

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Quench: A Narative Puzzle Game

Play as an avatar of nature and guide animal herds in this narrative puzzler.

Gunkatana – Lightning Fast Cyberpunk Action

Live. Slice. Die. Repeat! Fast, top-down action murderfest.

Potions: A Curious Tale

“Combat is not always the answer” for this young witch.

Beholder

Sniff out enemies of the state as a Big-Brother-ish building manager.

Stardrop

Space is not the final frontier. Keep exploring and discovering.

TABLETOP GAMES
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Larklamp | Magic Lantern Game System

“An ancient kind of game console” that casts shadow-boards on a tabletop.

Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game

Incredible marriage of theme and system in this Euro-style board game about insurrection.

Rifts for Savage Worlds

You’ve always wanted to play a Glitterboy using the Savage Worlds rules.

Super Hazard Quest

Retro side-scroller as card game!

The Golfing Dead

Ought to be polite to a man with a golf club. [Swings club.] Only common sense.

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RiffTrax Ticket Giveaway! Win Tix to the ‘Time Chasers’ RiffTrax This Thursday!

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Ken Denmead

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We are huge RiffTrax fans, and go to the live-in-theater broadcasts whenever we can. If you’re a fan as well, we have something cool: we are giving away 3 pairs of tickets to this Thursday’s live showing of RiffTrax. Enter below, and we’ll pick three winners at random to get a pair of tickets, presumably for the nearest movie theater to you that is showing the Fathom Events broadcast.

RiffTrax 'Time Chasers' Ticket Giveaway

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And stay tuned: next week, we’re going to give away three pairs of tickets to the big RiffTrax/MST3K reunion show, in theaters on June 28th!

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FireTV HD for $85, Dell Desktop Computer for $150 – Daily Deals!

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Ken Denmead

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The FireTV is one of the best deals in streaming boxes around, since it now includes 4K as well as voice support via Alexa, and the deal gets better when they mark the price down to $85!

Getting a small form-factor Windows PC is really, really inexpensive these days, and the Amazon Daily Deals makes it even more so. For example, this Dell Inspiron i3050-3000BLK Desktop (Intel Celeron, 2 GB RAM, 32 GB SSD), running for just $150 today (just add monitor, keyboard, and mouse).

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