Fear effects! Wah! I hate them. Piss. Moan. They're a crutch for bad RPing. If I'm not actually afraid, why should I be forced to act that way?

It amazes me sometimes the amount of vitriol that Fear effects generate. I mean, really? You're not really afraid? That's the issue? You know, when I suffer a Pain effect, I'm not really hurting ( Read more... )

So I'm sure some of you read my most recent post and thought "That's not why we come here!" Not wanting anyone to go away disappointed, I present a review of the game Crysis. This is a game that came out a couple of years ago, but I only recently started playing. When it was first given to me, my computer couldn't actually run it (in my computer ( Read more... )

Something I've encountered repeatedly in both tabletop gaming and LARPs is the glass ceiling of power level. This is the sort of thing that shows up most promimently with spellcasting, I think because the power of spellcasting is measured in a very literal, quantifiable way (spell levels, or circles, or whathaveyou). It exists in other aspects of ( Read more... )

If you ask around enough, eventually someone will tell you what you want to hear. I hope you're fucking satisfied.

On the execution of Sadam Hussein:

This is horrendous and against basic human dignity. The U.S. and its partners in Iraq proved to be more savage than Hussein himself.-- Jennifer Hanson of Atlanta, GA ( Read more... )

In response to my last rant about the trouble with American society, the following exchanged was posted:

There are lawyers out there who are unscrupulous enough to find loopholes or little grey areas in the law and exploit them to the benefit of, well, themselves.

That's not unscrupulousness. That's called doing a good job of representing your ( Read more... )

I think there are two major problems with living in the United States these days. No, I don't mean health care, or inflation, or taxes, or crime. These are big problems, don't get me wrong, but with the exception of crime, I don't think they're necessarily representative of what's wrong with American society today. The issues I'm thinking about ( Read more... )

When I was a kid growing up in Miami, we had hurricane scares all the time. We only ever got hit by one (David) in all the time I lived there, but every year we had warnings. They would tell you to stock up on bottled water and canned goods, batteries for lamps and flashlights. They would tell you to fill the bathtubs with water, because that ( Read more... )

I read the following in a recent journal entry:

the thing I LOVE about art is that it debunks science. I say fuck science.That kind of bugged me, but I didn't care enough about it to say anything. I got home last night and I was watching my daughter, waiting for my wife to come home from work. We were in the living room. The stereo was playing ( Read more... )

So, as most of you know, outlawcoon and I were robbed over the weekend. Someone in the airport broke into our luggage and stole two things: the digital camera my mom bought us when Marie was born so we could take lots of pictures, and the cross that outlawcoon's parents bought Marie for her to wear at her baptism. This was especially important since they ( Read more... )