Someone on Metafilter recently linked to a Twitter account called Hard Sci-Fi Movies. SF movie plots + slightly harder science – huge coincidences and plot conveniences = hilarity. The Metafilter thread is just as much fun, if I do say … Continue reading
Tag Archives: real life
Already five days without a post… Real life has been keeping me extremely busy the past few days, with no time for a real post here. Hopefully I should have more this weekend. In the meantime, how about an aphorism? … Continue reading
This Thursday, Real Life intervened again and we were short a player. Had been hoping to finish our playtest of The Bandit Map, the Blade & Crown scenario I’m playtesting. Instead, we played a game that one of the players … Continue reading
Iain (M.) Banks has passed away. I’m sad to see him go. His Culture novels are a great example of transhumanist SF, and they provide (through the Contact division, and especially its Special Circumstances group) a good example of what … Continue reading
If you haven’t seen it, go watch the “Kanye the Giant” sketch from Key & Peele. It has its problems — it plays into some of the sexist stereotypes in gaming culture, certainly. It gets a few small details wrong … Continue reading
This is a question that I think about perhaps too often: what is the ideal session length? I’ve played in groups where we met for an entire day, I’ve played in groups where we met for an entire night, and … Continue reading