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DarkPages: Zeppelin City Imprint [20 Aug 2008|02:18pm] judd_sonofbert "A few friends of mine are moving back into town and I was excited to read that DarkPages prefers a GM and one or two players. I have been enjoying those smaller groups lately quite a bit. So, I jotted down notes on an old idea, Zeppelin City and modernized it, taking the optimistic Spirit of the Century shine off of it. Rather than Z.C. being a place of gleaming super-science and post WWI hope, it has become a floating slum where the various over-used comic book tropes rub up against one another." Link to Forge post here. post comment

Cartoon: Philippe's Birthday. [20 Aug 2008|12:00am] achewood http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=08202008 Achewood strip for Wednesday, August 20, 2008 post comment

Austin update [19 Aug 2008|11:40pm] kodalai [ mood | still alive ] [ music | Still Alive - Jonathan Coulton - Portal ] I'm still in Austin. I haven't left for Seattle yet. My parents are not yet sick of me enough to kick me out of the house. :) What have I been doing in Austin? Well, not much, and at the same time a lot. For a week after I got here ayelle and cypher_0_ were both here as well, as well as aging_parents the Mrs. being on semester break, and there was a lot of family reunion and fun time. We went out to dinner, or made celebratory dinners at home, and went on walks and played with the dog and talked a lot. We also made arrangements to transfer the car from cypher_0_'s ownership to mine. (It would be 'back' to mine, but technically, I never owned the car -- the parents did.) We watched Seirei no Moribito, which is an astoundingly good show and I abslutely recommend it to anyone. ayelle flew home on saturday and cypher_0_ flew home on monday. The dog pined a lot. I pined a little too. Mum went back to work too so it's been a little quiet. However, that has given me the chance to really get to work on my preparations for the trip. I bought a bike rack for my car! And took it through the wash and generally tried to get it ready for the trip. Got directions from google maps. Got everyone's cell phone number that I'll need. Other than that it's been a pretty quiet break, which is what I needed, really. The last week before I left Japan was an adventure, but it took a lot out of me. And in a way I'm just relaxing from 2 years of being in Japan. I'm not sorry I went, and I won't say I wasn't happy there, but I'm glad to be home. I've been reading a lot. When I got delayed for 7 hours in LAX, I went to one of the stores and bought one of R.A. Salvatore's new Angsty Angsty Drow books. It had been so long since I read those. I got nostalgic and when I got home of course I had to dig out my old copies of the trilogy and read them. Then I got the sequel to the new book and read that. God, those books were formative of my childhood years. And although I'll never argue that they were good, they were very enjoyable. ( Cut for spoilers for Salvatore's books, AS IF ANYONE CARES. ) What are you writing here, Salvatore? Epic fantasy adventure or interspecies soap opera romance? Sheesh. Yesterday I saw WALL-E with my father. I don't really have anything terribly insightful to say about it. It was a good movie. Very cute, very Pixar. I've also been playing some WoW, although I've been trying not to spend too much time doing that instead of actually socializing with my family. And I also joined facebook. I'm Sophie Hatter on facebook if you want to find me there. And although I'm aware of how intrusive it can be, I think it's what I need right now. I grew steadly more disconnected from my friends and family while I was in Japan. What I need to reconnect right now is exactly this kind of background, immersive, little-details way of socializing with people again. 2 comments|post comment

I am a bad, bad man [19 Aug 2008|06:53pm] vanguardcdk [ mood | Evil ] Friend: "What have I gotten myself into?" Me: "You'll get used to it" [to a different friend, but within earshot] "We have the Star Trek fight music ready right?" hee.. My other quote of the night "I love this place! I just stand here and beautiful women come up to me!" post comment

[19 Aug 2008|03:46pm] vanguardcdk Happy Birthday lilcrazy! 1 comment|post comment

Things that are not awesome [19 Aug 2008|11:41am] mkwilson Waking up to no water pressure in your apartment, and ironically a toilet that will not stop running. Joy! This is even better when you cannot find your landlord's phone number, and thus can do nothing about it today. 1 comment|post comment

Check in [19 Aug 2008|12:30pm] sectionchild Naples residents & affliates: Tell me you're OK. Thanks. me 4 comments|post comment

baby stuff needed [19 Aug 2008|11:20am] gilana No, not for me, don't be silly. But my cousin in New York is going to have a baby very soon now, and she needs some things. She would much rather have pre-owned stuff: she says "i'd like to keep the stuff already created in circulation -- and i'd like to likewise pass it on when i'm done. i think this would be a lovely gift to my son: less pollution, less stuff, less clutter in the home and mind; more clean air, water, space, simplicity, time for mommies and daddies to love babies rather than working so hard to buy the stuff." So I thought I'd see if anyone here has anything on her list that they'd be willing to part with. I'd be happy to take care of shipping it to New York. Thanks! * a good, solid moses basket * a bouncy chair * baby carriers -- especially the ones liked but outgrown * a swing * baby monitors -- (motion detector, sound, and visual all appreciated) * white noise machines (2) * diapers and diaper covers of any and every size and type * those diabolical houdini swaddling blankets for (parental) dummies * whatever you might think i will want or need but as a new mom-to-be haven't thought of yet * pacifiers -- i'd be stoked to find some of the kind that shut when they drop * a few panels of dark curtains and help to hang them * a good book on diaperless babies/how to do E/C * postpartum care supplies, herbs, oils, arnica, shepherd's purse tincture, lavender oil, witch hazel, etc. * nursing supplies and offers of assistance with this lost art in the first weeks of my baby's life * of lesser concern, but also of interest: a good electric breast pump, bottles, clothing 2 comments|post comment

[19 Aug 2008|11:11am] vanguardcdk I'm thinking Scifi is missing a huge opportunity. They have tons and tons of bad movies that they produced. There are two former MST3K groups out there doing new things (The Film Crew and Cinematic Titanic). One of the reasons Scifi dropped MST3K was cost of licensing films. Now they have a whole boat-load of films they made (which should minimize licensing and permission issues) that could be easily mistied by one of the new groups. It's not like it would damage the reputation of the Scifi films unit, and theoreticaly wouldn't be all that expensive. But alas I'm not in charge of Scifi Channel. Hmph! 4 comments|post comment

Rapid Fire Gen Con Thoughts and Links Part II [19 Aug 2008|10:23am] judd_sonofbert The seminar I did with John on Marketing and Play went well, I thought. I learned a ton just hearing John talk and his talk and outline got good stuff out of me. I read something where John was being hard on himself about it. Being at the Playcollective booth was really rewarding and fun. I like those people. Misery Bubblegum was the game that Bret and Ellen came home after Dexcon raving about. I was skeptical. When Tony was at a table with Anna and Julie, all people I've wanted to game with, I sat down because of the company, not to play a damned RPG about teen angst. I was wrong. It was fantastic and was without a doubt my finest gaming of the con. Oddly, it was about another punk band; Flaming Taft is joined by Microwave Poodle, the teen emo-punk band on the rise. Luke Crane: "Face to face interaction is like flushing the toilet bowl on the shit of the internet." Jared Sorensen: "I saw these people who were talking about who could beat who and what was going to happen this season and what happened last season. And they were dressed up as their heroes. Football fans are weird." Luke and Julie and Vincent were having this interesting discussion about the rhythm of RPG play. Free play -> conflict -> dice -> character sheet -> free play, etc. There was interesting stuff going on in those conversations. DarkPages is reading like Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics: the RPG. The Magic Burner is burning a blue hole in my gaming shelf. Jeff and I had interesting conversations on the way back, thoughts about Ashcan seminars for Dreamation where people with not fully baked games could meet up and run a mini-session for a few hours and then talk about how it went...kind of a cross between the Indie Design Roundtable and a game slot. Game Idea #1: There was this mention of health insurance in the original Cyberpunk RPG and you could get this full-on insurance wherein a hover-ambulance would come in and get you if you should get hurt. I always wanted to play those cyberpunk EMT's. Thought thought of getting to both make a statement about U.S. healthcare and play bad-ass EMT's in a hover-ambulance feels too good to pass up. Also...cyberpunk city tiles. Game Idea #2: Punching the World, the FATE fueled game of The Authority, the JLA and the Watchmen. Characters don't change but the player who spends the most Fate points get's to put an Aspect on the world. Game Idea #3: Kings and Queens of October, a setting for 1st Quest or a DarkPAges imprint? Also, I need to read Eero's Solar System and pillage it for 1st Questy goodness. More on October later. 26 comments|post comment

Rapid Fire Gen Con Thoughts and Links Part I [19 Aug 2008|09:29am] judd_sonofbert I introduced Princess Solo in our Episode LV Star Wars Primetime Adventures game after mentioning to the guys that our cast needed a strong female character. After she tore through her scenes and connected to every character and his issues, I threatened her. I have never seen so many people reach for their Fan Mail so fast. You'd have thought they were reaching for bottles to break on a table in a bar-fight. We got through two episodes and were hungry for more. It was amazing to see us all get better over the past year at the techniques (scene framing and PTA's stakes setting) that make PTA hum. We got better at gaming. Eero's dry as the Sahara sense of humor: "I designed Zombie Cinema to replace all other games. They are now not necessary. This is the next evolution of RPG's." Zombie Cinema might be my favorite buy of the con. It plays in 10-30 minutes and its just damned fun. Also, it is packaged in a VHS case. The Spanish game designers who stopped by the Playcollective Booth. They made a post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian setting in which the Dreamlands have crashed into the Middle East (among other catastrophes). I have this urge to take another week off and just GAME. I want to play these games I brought home and I want to play them something fierce. I need a nice, light and fast game for Sunday Gen Con gaming. Every year I kind of drool my way through a Sunday game that we are all just too tired to play. See Zombie Cinema above. There are not enough hours in the damned day. I spent way-way too much money on food. Holy shit it was good eating. Holy shit, where did my money go? JRS aka Julie gave me a great library school pep talk that might have very well been the most important thing to happen to me all weekend. I must wrestle Luke Crane. Storn, I have your comp copies of Messiah and Houses of the Blooded. Yes, I bought dice. No, I didn't need new dice, not at all. Being back in the real world is strange. You notice little things at first, like how every tenth person isn't dressed like Boba Fett but mostly just that people aren't having as much fun. 15 comments|post comment

First Gen Con Post, courtesy of Jason Morningstar [19 Aug 2008|08:51am] judd_sonofbert More to come... 5 comments|post comment

Cartoon: Educating Philippe. [19 Aug 2008|12:00am] achewood http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=08192008 Achewood strip for Tuesday, August 19, 2008 post comment

[18 Aug 2008|10:01pm] vanguardcdk Got to spend the night with a movie and a pretty girl. Sometimes life does not suck. 3 comments|post comment

er... problem [18 Aug 2008|12:24pm] sectionchild So.... there's a problem with this project at work (we're building an online timeline of the U.S.). It's one of those things that is technically accurate but practically speaking... not cool. In short: the words "JFK, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr." should not be listed under "fun facts" about the 1960s. I mean.... I just don't want people making assumptions about what we consider "fun." 2 comments|post comment

[18 Aug 2008|12:26pm] vanguardcdk [ mood | silly ] Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In May I gave za_undead a wet willie, then I took it back (-5 points). Last Wednesday I caught a purse-snatcher who stole ladrescher's purse (30 points). Last Sunday I set missmhart's puppy on fire (-66 points). Last Friday I bought porn for she_ragroupie (-10 points). Last Monday I committed Ewok genocide... Sorry about that, greenlily (-5000 points). Overall, I've been naughty (-5051 points). For Christmas I deserve a lump of coal! Sincerely, vanguardcdk Write your letter to Santa! Enter your LJ username: What? It made me laugh... 5 comments|post comment

[18 Aug 2008|12:10pm] vanguardcdk I have something resembling a few free nights this week. Bizarre. 4 comments|post comment

Happy birthday! [18 Aug 2008|11:31am] gilana Happy birthday barodar! post comment

Holy crap [18 Aug 2008|06:28am] brawdymchwil So, not long ago I talked about the whole Power 90 thing I did. Today I began Power 90X, which is basically for people who did not feel enough pain with Power 90 and were looking for a structured way to cause themselves more agony. I currently project a 87% chance of my survival. post comment

i broke my finger. [18 Aug 2008|01:32am] desultor my left middle finger, to be precise. i was wheeling a bunch of bags of clothes (heavy) on top of my shoe rack on top of a dolly (wheeled platform thing). the tips of my left and right middle fingers were curled around the edges of the rack to push the whole contraption. you can see where this is going. the rack collapsed on my fingers, bruising the right one and trapping the left one for what was likely only 2 seconds of the worst pain i have ever felt in my life. then i pulled it free. don't know whether it was the impact or the pulling free, but my nail broke clean in half across the finger and i started bleeding copiously. i dripped bright red blood on the garage floor for a bit before going inside to wash off and wait for my dad to take me to the emergency room. x-rays were positive, showing a fracture of the tip of my finger. they numbed the finger and pulled off the broken-off part of my nail. they also put in three stitches to close up the cut in my nail bed and i think one or two on the side of my finger/cuticle where some skin had been ripped back. i could not bring myself to watch most of this. side note: getting the shots to numb my finger was the second most painful thing that happened to me today. i get to take antibiotics and ultram (non-narcotic) rather than percocet because when i took oxywhatever it made me nauseous. wear the dressing on my finger for 24-48 hrs then just a band aid. try to keep it clean dry and elevated. RICE. Rest Ice Compression Elevation. follow-up with hand guy in three days to check the fracture, and then again to get the stitches taken out in 7-10 days. wear splint for ~4 weeks. (one positive: now it will be extra emphatic when i flip people off.) ~5 hours later, i left the hospital. i feel dumb. 4 comments|post comment

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