Ages ago I read what was – at the time, for a younger self – a “groundbreaking” book by Neal Stephenson calledSnow Crash. It was an interesting blend of real and virtual word technothriller, had some interesting ideas, a fun opening chapter, and despite putting out a number of books I’ve gladly reread like *Anathem, *SC did not age well. Mostly for it’s self-awareness, as demonstrated most clearly by the name of our viewpoint character, Hiro Protagonist. Nick Cole’sSoda Pop Soldier gets compare…
Over at Vox’s there was a post on whether or not “agile” development made it easier for SJW’s to infiltrate an organization [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/07/mailvox-technical-entry-point.html]. Now, I know a little programming, but will never claim to be great, and certainly don’t have project-management experience with the pro’s and cons of waterfall vs whatever. What caught my eye was this comment: > “Anyway, I still like agile, but there’s a huge tendency for people to want to say they’r…
Today as a GM I got a valuable lesson in the craziness of reaction rolls and how it can cause some utterly unique moments in gaming. This is the kind of thing that happens when you run a “decision loop” as Bradford Walker has laid out, and the world is a simulation with the GM being the arbiter instead of the narrator of a “story” game. Background. We’ve got a 1HP cleric in the party, “Three Steps”. His stated goal is to “advance the candle into the darkness.” In the past encounters with orcs,…
Have a good weekend.…
First, Owen Benjamin giving an overview of what’s been going on with the #GunnBan, and others: At 1:35 – always leading to starvation and genocide? Socialism is a death cult. Of course it ends in starvation and genocide. Around 8:40 – he states that if you’re defending James Gunn don’t bother being a fan of his. I fully agree. I’m a fan of his. Owen also brings up that Oscar-nominated border-pedophile movie about the underage boy. At 16:20 he reminds us – “This is what they think is funny that…