Alexandru Constantin posts a correction [https://barbarianbookclub.com/2020/01/27/the-highest-family-ideal/] to his earlier statement that: > I wholeheartedly believe that the ideal situation for raising children is having a stay at home mother and a father that is available as much as possible. I understand that this is not possible or desirable for everyone, but, once again I re-iterate that I believe that the above is the ideal. The correction? After some commentary, the realization that no,…
I happen to have a PDF of the core FATE rules because they sounded interesting. Not bad, but not a system I saw myself getting a lot of use out of even though I do like some of the more narrative systems, such as Dungeon World. Nevertheless, I'm in a position where another company has identified itself as one I'm not likely to hand money to. Though the fact that they went with the boy-aren't-we-clever soy-tier name of Evil Hat for their company should have been a sign all by itself. Courtesy…
Brian over at Kairos recently posted about a run-in with what he terms a "McBuddhist" [https://www.brianniemeier.com/2020/01/the-inverters.html]. > In point of fact, yes, the Church claims universal moral authority. That is why she calls herself Universal. Christians hold that Christianity is true, Boomer-grade solipsism notwithstanding. But more to the point, Christendom is Christian. It doesn't take a genius to see why living within Christian society while denying Christian moral authority i…
Aside from classics like Nethackfrom the open source community, a few enterprising souls figured out there was money in old games. There's a reason why GOG first got it's start as "Good Old Games" encapsulting and republishing old games like the original X-Com, Ultima IV, and Privateer. The graphics may have been primitive at best, but the gameplay logic was outstanding and engaging. The Dark Herald treats us to an overview of one such [https://darkherald.net/2020/01/23/it-came-from-my-hard-dri…
I was mostly going to leave this be. Hell, I barely heard about it as I don't usually care what Klavan and the powerline gang are saying, but "rebuttals" came up in my recommended vids, specifically one by Shad [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V56dVFBCQcc], who occasionally has interesting things to say, but man, the soy is real and he still swallows the mainstream narrative. He's also a bit too proud of his "what you think you know is wrong" schtick. Then the most excellent author John C Wrigh…