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Lizard Predicts!
Last night, during Lost, I said "You know, every drooling fanboy on the net is going to be freeze-framing that scene and analyzing every damn pixel."I was right. -
Who Says Smaller Is Better?
Doug, if you're reading this, why do I have a feeling you'd want one of these monsters? -
Borders and Waldenbooks Pay The Dane Geld
Dane GeldBy refusing to carry a magazine which is featuring several of the "anti-Islamic" cartoons, they are saying, without any ambiguity or lack of clarity:"Threats work. If someone says something you don't like, threa… -
Ve Must Haff Discipline!
I used to have discipline. I mean, during my stint for Mongoose, I cranked out 4000 words a day, every day, despite the fact everything in my life was falling apart. In the past year, I think I've written, oh, 50 or 60 t… -
Reality Outpaces Satire. Again. Film at 11.
In 1978, MAD Magazine did a "Lord Of The Rings Musical" entitled "The Ring And I". In 2006....To Emamid: Yup, that was it. I'm pretty sure there was also a bit in there about "A half pint of beer". (Doubly amusing in lig… -
Murloc: The Gurgling
Well, someone went and did it -- a Murloc online CRPG. It's all Flash, which is impressive...I never knew you could do so much in Flash. The game is pretty simplistic and repetitive in spots, but it does have an ever-unf… -
Muppets...in....Fireflyyyyy....
From the "Way Too Much Free Time" school of creativity... -
Another long, slow, stretch...
Haven't been blogging much lately, as life seems to have been going on its usual path, and Jane pretty much covered the events of Millenicon well enough. It was your typical small local con, actually a bit smaller than I… -
"If you want to send a message, call Western Union." (Sam Goldwyn)
Someone on rpg.net asked:How many of the games do you write speak to the times you live in, reilgion, sociopolitical climate etc ? And how effective has that been ? And if so, did your players catch on ? … -
Dreams...
Weird dream time: I was in one of Tony's games, along with the Usual Suspects. My character was, I think, some kind of political lobbyist in a wheelchair, and two pet NPCs of mine were a tyrannosaur and Jesus Christ.I'd … -
Just did some math...
I have paid off 2.6% of my house. Now I'm depressed. -
Osama Bin Laden:STEALTH JEW!
But then again, so was Abraham Lincoln. And Adolf Hitler.Would someone this sane and logical lie? -
Seen On The Net...
I did not write this and do not take credit for it:"D&D ecology makes sense if you just assume that, every now and again, a god wakes up face-down in a ditch, surrounded by a breeding population of, say, displacer … -
Cool Links...
...because I have nothing else to say at the moment.Firstly, apparently, Penn & Teller once made a videogame.Secondly, those of you remeber Zork and its ilk should get a kick out of this. (Granted, I used to play Dra… -
Colbert on D&D
Watch here.Evidently, he really did play. -
Dear Uncle Sam...
...if you insist on taking my tax dollars, please spend more of them on Cool Shit like this, and less of them on 'public art' that looks like an airplane crashed in the center of the park. Thank you. -
More History THEY Didn't Teach You!
The Old Negro Space Program. -
Great Quotes Department
"But moviemaking isn't about business. It's about art!" (George Lucas) -
Great Patch Notes...
"You no longer teleport to your flight destination when hit by snowballs." -
Two things I hate...
are insomnia and basketball.The latter cost me Lost, and probably was the reason only one person showed to my writer's group last night (the first time that's happened in a year), and the former is costing me way too muc…
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