Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Tag: stupid stupid things
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Having slain an Infernal Remade Chimaeric Assassin, the characters visited a cheap infernalist and his houri in Albany, where they discovered that: they would need to find an infernalist in New York to identify the source of the brass components of the beast The white substance in its arms and ribs was dragon bone every…
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Yatta! We did it!!! Even though the pop-up porn virus Echo put in the world’s computer system didn’t work because the architects of the flesh knew we were coming to their space station to throw their god into space to join the christian god who is all beardy and looks down on you from very…
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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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I stumbled on this story at a blog I’ve never read before, and – though not surprised – was profoundly horrified at the content of the deception it involved. Truly, the possibilities for nastiness on the internet are endless, and the ingenuity of people in ferreting them out to be admired and pitied simultaneously. Also,…
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In response to the recent stoush over Tolkien, race and conservatism, I did a little more research on Tolkien’s racial theories and their similarities to other eugenic and racial theories floating about in the interwar period. I don’t have my primary or secondary sources with me, because my Tolkien Bestiary is in a box in…
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In the interview linked to below, China Mieville claims that high fantasy is conservative, and that due to its prominence the fantasy genre in general is judged as conservative by critics. This seems pretty uncontroversial to me, but over at Monsters and Manuals this claim was disputed as a shallow interpretation of Tolkien and of…
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Further to that last little critical warp-spasm, I just took the “what fantasy writer are you” quiz, and I’m Orson Scott Card – someone I’m pretty politically opposed to, I suspect. And my exact opposite is China Mieville. How timely! And how completely wrong…
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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…
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According to this awesomely stupid article in the New Zealand 3 news, I may have a methamphetamine addiction – apparently being into Dungeons and Dragons and “other violent stuff” is the big giveaway. So before I continue planning for next week’s campaign, I’m just gonna go smoke some “P”, and hack up a baby or…
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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…
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