Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Category: Science Fiction
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If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance – Inuit proverb Drew stared, blank-eyed, at the doctor. He was watching her intently, probably thinking his expression meant something to her, but to him he was just the same as all the rest. A man, not old enough to be…
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Date: 6th October, 2177 Weather: Rainy Mood: Inconsolable. One day I will be powerful enough to come out from under these shadows, and destroy the people who have made me beg and cower. When that day comes the list of people I have to shoot will be long and detailed, and I am going to…
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This is a report of a one-shot set in the world of the flood, specifically in the gyre. There were three characters: Crimson, an aging warrior once famous for his military exploits but now gone to seed, slower and past his prime Quark, a man of genuinely diminutive size (a dwarf, in fact), albino and…
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Date: 5th October, 2177 [will this day never end?] Weather: Rainy Mood: Disappointed. Does our hacker really have to be this incompetent? Outfit: Today I wore my maid outfit, because we were torturing this Rice dude and Pops wanted me to get coffees. I don’t know why this hunk of existentially doomed meat needs coffee,…
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Following up on yesterday’s post about the new Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, today I investigated his involvement in computer game economics a little more. I found this article by Brad Plumer, written for the Washington Post in 2012, which describes the growing role of economists in computer gaming. Modern online multiplayer computer games are…
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Date: 5th October 2177 Weather: Rainy Mood: Frustrated and exhausted. Who knew killing Americans was this tough? Outfit: My shiny new combat armour, that I bought with the proceeds from icing Lima. It’s snug and super tough at vulnerable points where other armour fails. Not very breathable and the peripherals on the helmet are…
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I’ve recently been building a fairly complex series of Bayesian spatial regression models in BUGS, and thought I’d share some tips based on hard won experience with the models. The various BUGS packages have the most cryptic and incoherent error messages of any stats software I have ever worked with, and although various Bayesian boosters…
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[Editor’s note: this is a guest post giving an account of another downtime, played by Bart, who is responsible for our hacker, Ghost.] After loading in the loot from their latest gig, the hacker Ghost and kid mechanic Tail have separated from their companions to bring the stuff to their hideout quickly and are preparing…
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Sometime ago I wrote some posts about a campaign idea set in the world of Stephen Baxter’s Flood, where sea levels had risen to cover the entire earth and what little remained of the human population had been forced to make its life on the open ocean. I envisaged raft cities and OTEC remnants, and…
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Date: 4th October, 2177 Weather: Rainy Mood: So so so happy! I got to see Fae Ling Moon! She played her new anthem and the lights were amazing and I only missed the last two songs because of rioting, and Alt spoilt it a bit but we did good business. I didn’t get to kill…
Compromise and Conceit 