Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Category: Meat Life
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I found this through Monsters and Manuals, a website devoted to people kicking their World of Warcraft Habit. Nothing special! I hear you say – but it has a number for a suicide help line, and check out the comments. 2250 pages of them. Here’s a sample: It’s no game anymore it’s like a gigantic…
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The Guardian has a Friday article about which computer game its readers would most like to see deleted from History. Amusing points from this article: a surprising number of people hate Halo Guardian readers say really nasty things about people they don’t like WoW is seen by some commenters as a nasty influence on computer…
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Writing about Torchwood made me think of a conversation I had with a colleague about the show. She is your classic role-playing nerd, computer geek and all round otaku. When I mentioned – somewhat breathlessly – to her that I had watched 5 episodes of amazing Torchwoody goodness, she immediately launched into a tirade on…
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I read an article in the guardian on Saturday morning about the fall of Ceacescu’s Romania in 1989. The article is a bit rambly, and like most attempts at opinion by journalists it fails to reach a proper conclusion. But it has this excellent passage in the middle, which struck me as a classic moment…
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Much joking has been occurring among those playing the Feng Shui future of 2056, where the world is ruled by the ruthlessly benevolent “Architects of the Flesh” about how much it looks like London now. In short: excessive amounts of money are spent on rent the food is grey and tasteless police violence is the…
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Goddamn! The things one has to do just to get an argument these days! This is a response to my friend’s response to my previous post about Feng Shui’s 2056 dystopia. In essence, Paul objects to everything I say on principle, which makes it easy to argue with him. I just need to disagree with…
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Our DM (who is so old-fashioned he doesn’ t even have a blog) is drip-feeding us information about the Feng Shui world, so I can’t say too much about where we are or what we are doing, but our characters have ended up in 2056 in a strange future “dystopia” controlled by a bunch of…
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…by Rudolf Klein. Sometimes I feel my contribution at work is entirely too technical, so I have decided to broaden my knowledge of the political context of my work by reading this excellent introduction. This seems particularly apt since although I lived in England as a child, and have a British Citizenship, I am essentially…
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A few months ago I had a weird run-in with a DM, which I blogged about, most annoying it was too. It happened in a pub in South London, so I never went back to the group that plays there. Since then I have had two more moments of trouble at the role-playing club where…
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This is another off-topic rant which I’m going to cross-post with my other blog, because I’m a grump after watching a fortnight of insane british racism. The Guardian is the UK’s supposedly intellectual, left-wing newspaper, ostensibly well-respected internationally for its quality. Unfortunately it is in reality a propaganda organ for the labour party (who are…
Compromise and Conceit 