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Desert Island Discs
So, desert island discs, idea brought to you courtesy of almighty_weasel. Eight songs, one book (plus Shakespeare, plus religious text), one luxury. Thankfully, the luxury can be somewhat truth-stretching, as befits a format where one is marooned with a functioning gramophone, eight records, three books but no emergency come-rescue-me GPS device or record of the ( Read more... ) -
Religion, a ramble.
So. Family, Loyalty, Religion.
It'll be easiest to write on the last of those three. Probably hardest to write on Loyalty.
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Hurdy-gurdy fnord.
Hey look it's that thing people are doing ( Read more... ) -
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
So, almighty_weasel posted the outlines for this here behind zis link.
the main conceit for this League draft is that Something Bad is Happening. A lot of this takes place using things that draw on the Cthulhu Mythos, and the likely powerlessness of Man to entirely stop the coming Mythos Badness is central. The exact amount of The Mythos used is up in the air, but ( Read more... ) -
Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Why howdy! It's repost time! Read this, it's fairly bloody important, on the topic of stopping idiots doing something bloody wrong.
Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.
Mississippi is ( Read more... ) -
The "Troubled Teen" Industry
Some fairly fucking unpleasant stuff behind the cut. No images, but discussion of systematic physical and mental abuse. It's not one I've ever wheeled out before, but I dare say a Trigger Warning is appropriate here.
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Not quite a pitch yet
So, Magic: the Gathering as a potential tabletop non-card-roleplaying-game? I think I can make it work.
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Freaky dreams strike again
And tonight's were mostly on the theme of video gaming. I think I'd drawn from the armoured core series for a vague theme, as 'western' giant robots abounded ( Read more... ) -
Yet another odd dream.
Ben and I were in sainsburys buying things. I was a bit late getting to the checkout, so I had to wait while somebody bought a huge number apples, which they just put on the conveyor belt and about half filled it ( Read more... ) -
On Google
Some conspiracy theorist rambling, for all and any that it may amuse.
Google has:- 23 offices around the US/canada
- 23 in the EU
- 22 in the rest of the world, subdivided into
- 14(1+4=5) in asia
- 5 in the middle east
