Monthly Archives: May 2008

Frontier: opening the book

Posted on May 30, 2008 by matt

I find myself thinking a lot about Frontier these days. (It’s probably because I have some self-imposed deadlines for ‘Illusion’ and ‘6’.) Over the last couple of years I’ve harvested some twenty names from the freelancer forums of RPG.net as … 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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M&M2e: hero or zero?

Posted on May 25, 2008 by matt

Mutants and Masterminds gets a lot of airplay on the internet forums: any time someone asks about superhero games, a raft of people come out of the woodwork to impose it upon you. I bought M&M 1st Edition a few … Continue reading →

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Transhumanism

Posted on May 24, 2008 by matt

In 1966, Transhuman was defined by F. M. Esfandiary (later, FM-2030) as: included physical and mental augmentations including prostheses, reconstructive surgery, intensive use of telecommunications, a cosmopolitan outlook and a globetrotting lifestyle, androgyny, mediated reproduction (such as in vitro fertilisation), … Continue reading →

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