This book is the culmination of years of playing games with friends, random people and sharing ideas with them. What started as not wanting to keep using a standard sword and sorcery, European-style Medieval fantasy, evolved into a NaNoWriMo writing project, multiple years of editing, writing and “putting the finishing touches on it."
Election Competency, Not Election Integrity Should Be America’s Focus
That title probably is making a lot of you question: “But isn’t integrity really important?” It is. So, before I explain why I think America has an election competency issue, let me address why that needs to come before election integrity. The reason is simply this: Americans routinely distrust elections their candidate loses and trust … Continue reading Election Competency, Not Election Integrity Should Be America’s Focus
High Fantasy, Low Fantasy, Casual Fantasy
I dub this problem: Casual Fantasy
AI Golems, Humanity and Ethics
Apparently, Jim Acosta found a grieving family and had them create an AI golem of their dead son to interview to promote the parents and Acosta's political positions. We'll never know what their dead son's political positions would be today -- because he was murdered.
Suikoden 1 Tier List
I'm a nerd; I made a Suikoden 1 tier list.
Cassette Beasts & The Texas-Israel War of 1999
Two quick review-like things. Cassette Beasts Cassette Beasts is a Pokemon like with a nice, other-worldly story and great music. The early and midgame is exploration combined with beating special bosses and Range Captains. This is the best part of the game, through midgame when you're finished exploring and cleaning up captains. Before postgame, you … Continue reading Cassette Beasts & The Texas-Israel War of 1999
A Blast from the Past: 2018
This is a post from an archived blog of mine from 2018 titled: Why Republicans Pay Little Mind to Politifact. I want to keep the old blog archived, but I want this post for referencing ... uh, why Republicans pay little mind to Politifact. I haven't changed (or even checked) the links from 2018. So, … Continue reading A Blast from the Past: 2018
Star Trek: Resurgence
Finished Star Trek: Resurgence. And... I'm kind of ambivalent about it? It's not terrible; it's not great. It's not that it's bad, it's just the tone wasn't what I was expecting from Next Generation inspired Trek. It does a lot of the adventuring and the space battling stuff right -- the finale involves the captain … Continue reading Star Trek: Resurgence
Rogue Trader/BG3: Players Have to Choose to Behave Differently to Stop Bad Releases
I have an end of the year rant. It is games related. So you can probably skip it. It is also critical of BG3/Larian as well as Owlcat. I'm pretty sure everyone is fine with Owlcat getting insulted, but a lot of people seem to dislike criticisms of Larian/BG3. So, fair warning. Toy Box is … Continue reading Rogue Trader/BG3: Players Have to Choose to Behave Differently to Stop Bad Releases
Paranoia in Table Top RPGs
Paranoia is a weird thing.
Photowordism 