I know I have once mentioned Tim Powers [https://thelastredoubt.com/on-higher-powers/], and specifically the book of his that left an impression on me for nearly 40 years to the point of tracking it down and buying it. Drawing of the Dark was as good as remembered, possibly better and weirder - and so I bought a couple more of his books. While one of his better known works, Anubis Gates, is in my reading pile, I ended up reading a much more recent work first, the hidden-world modern fantasy Alte…
See the tweet below: > "Game as a Whole" - rules should make sense and be consistently applied or there is no "game", it's just wankery. "Campaign" - your setting/adventures should be consistent with the world YOU create. "Participants" - should abide by the preceding two points. — Werekoala (@Werekoala2000) April 24, 2020 [https://twitter.com/Werekoala2000/status/1253727763145674760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] I would be hard pressed to better state in so few words why Gygax and his contemporaries h…
(Updated to add a few more notes below) The basis for the Sourdough loaf I've been making, with some input from other channels already mentioned, is here [https://foodgeek.dk/en/worlds-easiest-sourdough-bread/], the relevant video linking that recipe is below: A few notes. I personally don't have a bench scraper, though I do have another tool that works as well. Worst case, a clean, broad putty knife should do the trick. I also haven't bothered splitting the dough as I've scaled my recipe to…
If you recognize the not-quite-Chris Foss image gracing this article, you've likely spent a few hours lost in a truly groundbreaking game called Homeworld - one which, a few years back, had been released in a "remastered" version that took the original game, ships, adn strategy and dressed them up with much more detailed models and texture maps. Well, it looks like a new iteration of the game is on its way. For those of you not familiar with the game, the below does a decent job of reviewing…
I recently spotted this tweet: > As a kid I remember watching a documentary about how we do not know how to build somethings our ancestors built and I thought it was ridiculous. This video explains process knowledge in the best way. — Yemi Johnson (@yemi_uc) April 20, 2020 [https://twitter.com/yemi_uc/status/1252054914131546112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] I've made the point before - it is less efficient, in a bottom-line, quarter-to-quarter profit margin way to maintain process knowledge of everyth…