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Get ready with me: Ruling Candy Land edition!
April 1, 2025Editor’s note: Queen Frostine wishes for readers to know that normally, she wouldn’t bother writing for any publication less prestigious than Vogue or the The New Yorker, but she picked up her Ouija board last night. When she asked if she would be punished with 100 bad hair days if she didn’t publish in a board game magazine, the ghosts moved the planchette towards YES. Hello, my loyal subjects — I mean loyal followers. GRWM, Queen Frostine, to rule over all you sticky little cretins here in Candy Land, while I explain how incredibly hard each day is for me…
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Mattel CEO to fly to SFU to settle UNO card debate
April 1, 2025By: C Icart, President of the Superior Players Against Sore Losers Society Four SFU students have found themselves in a peculiar situation — they need to win a game of UNO against their professor to pass their class. This unorthodox…
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How to Play The Pawn’s Special Game
April 1, 2025Are you on the hunt for a fun way to waste time? Never fear — The Pawn is here! After multiple months of testing, we’ve come up with the perfect game for you to play during the extraordinarily lengthy 10-minute…
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Letter from the editor: We’ve rebranded
April 1, 2025Dear SFU community, It’s time to say farewell to The Peak and welcome our board game magazine. The Pawn is now your weekly source for the latest news, trends, and tips in tabletop gaming on our beloved mountain (excluding table…
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Y2K chronicles: tales from the digital frontier
April 3, 2024December 31, 1999 Wassup LiveJournal virtual peeps! It’s New Year’s Eve 1999, and while some of you unprepared geeks clearly didn’t get the 411, the world as we know it will end at midnight tonight! Yes, that’s right! The year…
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The ultimate 2000s quiz
April 3, 2024By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer and C Icart, Humour Editor Ah, the 2000s! A time of Webkinz, Club Penguin, every type of iPod under the sun, binge-watching every show on Family Channel, the height of the pop diva, and, of…
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The battle of LimeWire vs. FrostWire
April 2, 2024Nothing says early 2000s like borrowing your parents’ bogged-down desktop to use a sketchy music downloading platform and illegally download your favourite chart-topping jams. Are you even a music fanatic if you didn’t at least attempt to download thousands of…
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The greatest iPod shuffles of the 2000s
April 2, 2024“Servant of Evil” by Kagamine Len. A must-listen saga of loyalty, heartbreak, and . . . dun dun duuun!!!! Sins! You better cry when you listen, or I'll haunt you! You obviously also have to listen to the rest of…
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xx A LoNeLy Makeup Tutorial xx
April 2, 2024By: shy_kelly Welcome back to another lonely makeup tutorial, broken hearts!i! Today, I am going to show you a lewk to mimic your inner soul . . . rawr xD! Make sure to put on some Paramore and get in…
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The horror of lying about your age online as a kid
April 2, 2024My first encounter with swear words didn’t even involve real swear words — but it was just as horrifying to my eight-year-old self. Yes, I was eight when I first started playing Runescape, and yes, it was probably evident to…
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