Compromise and Conceit

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An Australian statistician and role-player living in Japan, interested in the theory and practice of role-playing…

Category: Kickboxing

  • Analyzing the USA’s Masculine Insecurities Through UFC Freedom 250

    Here at the Faustusnotes Academy we’re big fans of the signifiers of elite culture, mixed martial arts (MMA) in particular, which means we have to bring all our analytical tools to work on UFC Freedom 250. That’s right folks, I watched this fascist slop so you don’t have to, and I’m going to give you…

  • My Year in Gaming: A Review of 2017

    Another year has passed, and a chance to review the games I played and the great things I did in them, as well as to preview what I hope to play (and GM) in the year to come. This year was a relatively quiet one in gaming, actually, possibly because business travel for me interrupted…

  • A Brief Analogy about Sexualization, Sexism and RPGs

    I have posted before on my opinion of why women don’t play RPGs very much, and recently there is some debate doing the rounds on RPG blogs about this topic. Debate about this topic seems to founder on two rhetorical points, viz: Women are biologically different to men so won’t ever get into RPGs (or,…

  • My first kickboxing fight: Video

    Video of my kickboxing fight is here, at blogger… WordPress don’t allow it. The first video is very small and hard to see but the second one is clearer.

  • My first amateur kickboxing fight

    On Friday night I had my first ever amateur kickboxing fight, in a ring at a summer festival by the beach here in Beppu. I was up against a local pimp, who is the same age as me but perhaps 5 kg heavier, and from the same gym as me. I think he lied about…