Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Category: Plain old conceit
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So, the English press is afire at present with the decision of British “workers”[1] to protest supposed off-shoring of their work to Italian workers. There really is no reason for me to care about this except that I am British but I feel like a foreign worker, because I’m really Australian[2]. So today I am…
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Having lived in Japan, I have on occasion been called a “Japanophile” or an “Orientalist” because there are some things about Japanese life I think are good and should be adopted in the West. I am interested in the possibility that these accusations actually represent a racist rejection of critiques of the West based on…
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Of course one complains about one’s DM in private, but it is not often that one gets the opportunity to complain about a DM in public. Today I joined a new role-playing group (one of these pub-based ones) and went along for my first ever session, proudly clutching my newly-created character, and my session was…
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It appears that John McCain’s campaign blogger has covered himself in infamy by saying bad things about Dungeons and Dragons. His particular comment: Goldfarb compared the editors to a blogger “sitting at home in his mother’s basement and ranting into the ether between games of Dungeons & Dragons.” This is apparently terribly offensive… so offensive…
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Buried deep in the google pile of a search on “Warhammer fantasy role-playing” I found a “scholarly article” by one Mark Wegierski, a grumpy old palaeo-conservative curmudgeon writing for the “literary journal” known as Praesidium, which appears to be sponsored by The Center [sic] for Literate Values. Praesidium, of course, stands for “Watchtower”, and like…
Compromise and Conceit 