Category: Commentary

I’ve read a fabulous article about Opium which dictates why we should blame the British Government for the modern drug cartels. Not to mention toe futility of the War on Drugs. Hypocrisy at it’s best. Also an interesting one about Onanism and how it relates to the general pessimism in Christianity from the New Testament…

Welcome to the oceans in a labeled can, Welcome to the dehydrated lands, Welcome to the self police parade, Welcome to the neo-golden age, Welcome to the days you’ve made. – Welcome (to the future), by Hawkwind If some smart bugger can’t make a game setting out of this in 24 hours then I don’t…

The arrangement today is that I’m getting my kids at around 8 pm and having them for the next 4 days. After a morning of catering for my nephew and being excited for others as they regale me with tales of delight on the faces of their little ones, I can’t help but feel a…

I’ve been writing a lot on the WIKI recently and quite a bit in prepared posts for sending out later this week maybe. Most of it is is WotW: Earth stuff with one little diversion into game design theory. I’m writing alone at the moment, real life having intruded with my co-writers. I’m not sure…

“When it come to emotions, even great heroes can be idiots.”–Sir Te to Yu

It’s definitely a little crap when both of your gaming groups have to cancel due to the Real World encroaching. It does leave me with a slightly deflated outlook for the rest of the week. Especially as I was really looking forward to it today, having had a visit to the dentist and 3 work-related…

Again The Mulley comes up with the linky-goodness. Looking at all of this makes me want a Wii. ( 😀 chuckle. See what I did there. I’m SO funny. 😀 )

I get a lot of SPAM. Never mind the amount that gets grabbed by my ISPs filters (which are raised one level of strength every year or so), I commonly have 300 or so that make it past the ISP and into the Junk Mail filter of Mail. There’s 50 or so that make it…

It’s funny how things in your life can dovetail so nicely when you’re working on a project. I just finished rewatching Episode III of the Star Wars saga, and it really hit the nail on the head regarding perspective having everything to do with alignment. Especially near the end, where Anakin is so certain that…

So, I’ve been a bad, bad girl about my blogging lately. I’ve not been flogged yet — not that that would motivate me one way or t’other — but damn if I don’t have a bunch of stuff to post about. However, that’s just adult life, isn’t it? It was so much easier when I…

And the reason I’m a crazy-magnet may be entirely due to me being interested in shit like this. Maybe I’m a normal magnet? I’m the crazy one….

There must be another way.

A Fathead (genus Psychrolutes) trawled during the NORFANZ expedition at a depth between 1013 m and 1340 m, on the Norfolk Ridge, north-west of New Zealand, June 2003 (AMS I.42771-001). Photo: K. Parkinson © Australian Museum. The scientists and crew on board the RV Tangaroa affectionately called this fish ‘Mr Blobby’. Note the parasitic copepod…

It’s one thing to go head-to-head with an Evil being. And still another to play an Evil character. But what happens when you’re minding your own damn business and someone else in your troupe decides they don’t want to be Mr. Nice Guy? Now, that’s a real dilemma. Probably one of the biggest difficulties is…

Now that we’ve had a bit of introductory discussion about Evil, let’s move into the most intimate placement of Evil in a game: within the Character. An interesting comment was made regarding whether or not an Evil character knows that what s/he is doing is wrong. Are Evil characters simply misguided? The idea of “misguided”…

Comments really are the sweet spot on a blog, aren’t they?  I get such great ideas from someone bouncing off a post I’ve written and before you know it, you have a chain reaction of kinetic ideas.  The hardest thing is ALWAYS remembering all of the great “You know, I should write about that” topics. …