Morfedel writes: “I think its because my conservatives watch Fox news because they (and I) feel that many other news media are liberally slanted. And of course, when you do that as a retreat from “other news sources,” then your news source you do watch is attacked, it comes off as an attack against you…
Author: matt
Gamer. Writer. Dad. Serial Ex-husband. Creator of The 23rd Letter, SpaceNinjaCyberCrisis XDO, ZOMBI, Testament, Creed. Slightly megalomaniac
Unborn Ghosts
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia….
Live for the moment
Last Monday, a friend of mine found out they had cancer after a couple of months of complaining about an upset stomach. Five days later, she found out it was inoperable. And she died this morning, a mere 6 days later.
Watchtower: Just in over the wire
++++ADVANCE NOTIFICATION ++++ WATCHTOWER EYES ONLY++++ Five superhuman individuals have been contracted for operations unknown in East Coast North America, most likely New York. All operatives in the East Coast region are to collect information and relay to WatchTower Central Services Command. Codenames Sewer (powers unknown) Gridlock (speedster) KillerWatt (electricity generation) Asphalt (solid material shaping)…
Zombie Links
This isn’t a link blog, but these are very fun. Zombie World News “ZombieWorldNews.com is , as far as we can tell, a departure from other Zombie sites. Instead of the reader being a spectator, we hope to draw you in through a dynamic, ever changing scenario, that you can just read and enjoy, or…
Captain America and other patriots
From onegoodmove we have Stephen Colbert on the tragic death of Captain America One of my friends, Gav, mentioned the Civil War storyline. Cap represents the forces of liberty and Iron man is a defense contractor. I can’t help but think that there’s a writer in Marvel’s hallowed halls who’s sick of the current government…
Local Boy living the dream…
BBC News Northern Ireland writes: A man accused of a stealing underwear from a shop in a knifepoint raid believed he was a female elf at the time, Belfast Crown Court has heard. He told defence counsel Anthony Cinnamond that within his small social circle he had been participating in a game known as Shadowrun….
Watching the box last night…
and The Ordinary Boys came on the box. I was amazingly struck by the similarity between Samuel Preston and the late great Troy Tempest. The difference being that Troy Tempest could probably survive a comedy game show without crying off.
Episode Two – 26th October 2000
At 9 am, the doors to the conference room open and a motley crew of individuals file in. At the head of the table sits Jack White, the marble-faced CEO of WatchTower New York. Clockwise around the table we see Father Julian Devon (later to be known as Balance), Jason also known as INDIGO and…
WotW: Earth – The Martian Outpost
In another moment I had scrambled up the earthen rampart and stood upon its crest, and the interior of the redoubt was below me. A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter places. “I stood staring into the pit, and my heart lightened…
Do women look for more depth?
Inanna Jones writes a bit about this sexism thing here on the IrishGaming livejournal: So generalising remark: women look for more depth. I disagree with Inannajones. I think both men and women look for depth. The depth is just in different seas. There is a group of guys who look for cheesecake art. They like…
Shakespeare at least had Viola.
Apparently, I’m exercising the power and privilege of my gender by criticising the idea that we should actually de-cliché a cliché in order to make everyone feel secure about themselves. (Question: if a cliché is de-fanged, doesn’t it become meaningless?) The author goes on to criticise my statistics because the sample size is not representative…
So I had to go ask some women….
The Bitter Guy calls this a really retarded response. Fair enough. It probably is retarded to point at something that’s fucking stupid and say that’s fucking stupid especially when the stupid thing is something that is “pro feminisim”. Yes. Terrifyingly stupid. I do have to wonder however as I’ve brought this up with just about…
More on sexism (plus registration and comments)
I’ve turned off registration for comments because it should be off. Bit of a mea culpa there. I am enjoying the discussion on sexism in RPGs which has been continued on thedeadone.net and Mary’s blog. I wrote: “Some game companies are currently trying to market cute and fluffly and romance and “social†games to women…
It’s about starting conversations with new people
I started a little storm in a teacup with my last post. Even got someone else linking to me. And some of the comments on that posting (e.g. “Enh, I went and read the Late Gaming post, and it’s so stupid, I couldn’t even work up the energy for a reply.”) just prove the point….
If Jesus had tits, would you believe in God?
On mer writes about rpgs we find an opine about how it’s such a shame that the pulp-rpg “Spirit of the Century” included archetypes such as: Gadget Guy, Gentleman Criminal, Jungle Lord, Man of Mystery and not Gadget Girl, Lady Criminal, Jungle Queen, Woman of Mystery Yes. It’s a bloody shame. So why don’t we…
WotW: Earth – Air Superiority
“They’ve gone away across London,” he said. “I guess they’ve got a bigger camp there. Of a night, all over there, Hampstead way, the sky is alive with their lights. It’s like a great city, and in the glare you can just see them moving. By daylight you can’t. But nearer–I haven’t seen them–” (he…
WotW: Earth – London
“And as I looked at this wide expanse of houses and factories and churches, silent and abandoned; as I thought of the multitudinous hopes and efforts, the innumerable hosts of lives that had gone to build this human reef, and of the swift and ruthless destruction that had hung over it all; when I realised…
Episode One – 24th October 2000
Tonight…. We introduced two of the characters to each other. Father Julian Devon, a priest with a secret, is taking his orphans to Liberty Island. Meanwhile, a young scientist is trying out his new Stealthsuit, a suit of armour which also gives him the ability to turn almost invisible and, wait for it, teleport 25…
Conventions for the remainder of 2007
I missed Warpcon in Cork which annoyed me and I just realised that this weekend is Leprecon in Dublin. Would I go all the way to Killarney? That’s a long way. As is Galway. I’m not really into going across the water to England or Scotland at this point unless I can get a small…