Category Archives: Commentary

The Books

Posted on February 9, 2009 by matt

A few days ago I received some chilling and frankly angering news. We’d been distributed through Key20 for the last 18 months (and previous to that as well) and we’d sent them the vast majority of our stock. As of … Continue reading →

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SpaceNinjaCyberCrisis XDO

Posted on February 9, 2009 by matt

A self contained game set in a world filled with beautiful cyborgs, cute robots, superfast cyberbikes, powered exoskeletons, giant mechanoids, speed lines, comical pets, strange aliens, maniacal villains and demons with amazing groinal powers. The perfect bound A5 book is … Continue reading →

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•REC (spoilers! beware!)

Posted on January 22, 2009 by matt

Last night, due to the absence of Jim, we watched movies up at Graham’s rather than gaming. When I arrived (a little late due to teleconferences with NBC), they were just finishing off Dead Set. Michael’s opinion was that it … Continue reading →

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Our First Glimpse of an Alien World

Posted on January 19, 2009 by matt

Discover Magazine writes about our first glimpse of an alien world. Achieving a feat that seemed impossible not so long ago, a team of scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope captured the first visible-light image of a planet orbiting … Continue reading →

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Artistic Proofs

Posted on January 4, 2009 by matt

Thing I appreciate: Self-deprecating humour Thing I don’t: Humour that deprecates others. Self-deprecating humour is related to Ethos, one of the “artistic proofs” in rhetoric. Ethos is an appeal to the honesty, authority or qualifications of the individual. In humour … Continue reading →

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SinglePlayer AI vs MultiPlayer

Posted on December 12, 2008 by matt

Scott Anguish writes about Left4Dead: The other game I just tried out today was Left 4 Dead. This is one hardcore shooter that really ramps up the ‘fast zombie’ genre. Again, you come away feeling like you’ve been immersed in … Continue reading →

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23rd Letter RPG

Posted on December 3, 2008 by matt

The time is now. Psychics exist, not many, but enough – enough to worry those in power, and interest those who seek power. Governments and Corporations fight over them. The Network provides an imperfect refuge for those that escape the … Continue reading →

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Zombi RPG

Posted on November 15, 2008 by matt

the earth won’t hold the dead What if the people who were dead got up one day? What if they got up and started killing other people? What if the people they killed just got back up and killed some … Continue reading →

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The Great Game

Posted on November 15, 2008 by matt

Alternate Reality Games (or Layered Reality Games) are going to be big. When someone mentions ARGs, I always think of Total Recall (the film) [thanks Eamon]. The protagonist takes a virtual holiday which interweaves the real world with a spy … Continue reading →

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It’s been slow here…

Posted on October 5, 2008 by matt

…and I apologise. From June last year until July this year I was working in a very low creativity (but nicely paid) job which meant that from the very minute I left the office, I was bursting with creativity and … Continue reading →

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MURDERDROME: iPhone comic reader BANNED!

Posted on August 25, 2008 by matt

Wednesday afternoon I popped round to Paul’s house for a quick chat (and a couple of headache tablets) and I saw a demo of MurderDrome, the first iteration of a new comic application for the iPhone. There have been a … Continue reading →

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D&D 4th Edition … now with more!

Posted on June 17, 2008 by AJ

I had a poke through a friend’s copy of 4th Edition D&D. It seems it has been genericised to the nth degree, and everything has been made more powerful from the word go. On top of that, alignments have been … Continue reading →

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Sarcasm

Posted on June 14, 2008 by matt

Sarcastic quotes made me laugh this morning. Thanks to @darrylxxx for the link.

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The Morality of AI

Posted on June 10, 2008 by matt

On the Morality of AI (from an rPG net thread about Eclipse Phase “Their morality may seem alien because we may not want to grasp it but, at the end of the day, these will be our creations, our monsters. … Continue reading →

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Gallifreyans do it in Time…

Posted on June 9, 2008 by matt

Wired writes about Gallifreyan incest: “Doctor Who star David Tennant is currently dating Georgia Moffett — the actress who portrayed The Doctor’s daughter in the Who episode of that same name. Moffett is the daughter of Peter Davison, who played … Continue reading →

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Erick Wujick has passed away

Posted on June 9, 2008 by matt

Kevin Siembieda writes: “Erick passed away as gentle as a snowflake.” That’s how Kay Kozora, Erick’s ‘Beautiful Kate’ of nearly 30 years put it when she called with the sad news. She and other loved ones were present when Erick … Continue reading →

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Questions about Frontier

Posted on June 2, 2008 by matt

Back in the day, Eamon, Colin and I did spend some time discussing the concepts a long time ago but it’s clear that we had divergent ideas. Some of these were because we knew too much (when you mix biologists … Continue reading →

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Citizen: a skill?

Posted on June 2, 2008 by matt

In our BRP-based Runequest game, Michael has asked a few times for rolls on ‘Gloranthan Lore’ and ‘Human Lore’ so that we can remember items from our own cultures. Because we’re all grotesque combat monsters (with the exception of Jim’s … Continue reading →

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COPS – Japan Stylee

Posted on May 28, 2008 by matt

Eamon, a technologist in the area of Cybernetics I know[1], posted this: “If you peruse Japanese foreign-resident forums you’ll read a depressing amount of stories about foreigners being told to sign kanji-laden papers ‘so you can go’, only to find … Continue reading →

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Tonight…

Posted on May 25, 2008 by matt

…I’d like to be recording a podcast. But that’s, like, a heap of work.

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