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Aside from the extra hoops I’ll have to jump through to get my hands on John C Wright’s earlier works, the biggest pain point for the TORcott originally, for me, was Brandon Sanderson. I had enjoyed the Mistborn series, and though the second Way of Kings had followed the first in a lot of unnecessary angst to drag the book out before finally coming to a decision, I was at least mostly looking forward to the third one. Mostly. There were a few hints from the “strong women characters” he kept wr…
Yes, the massive howitzers of the ogreverse have a [real-world inspiration]( https://infogalactic.com/i](GHOST_URL /content/images/2018/05/Nuclear_artillery_test_Grable_Event_-_Part_of_Operation_Upshot-Knothole.jpg) Here’s a video of the Upshot Knothole Grable test firing of Atomic Annie [https://infogalactic.com/info/M65_atomic_cannon].…
This is a tale of two games that I am, sad to say, disappointed in. Ogre Ogre, by Steve Jackson games, has a long and storied history. I went in for the Kickstarter, and am – shipping delays aside – overjoyed at what I received. Even the 6ed boxes are well worth picking up. As a result, I was happy to hear that a new, updated computer version would be released. What we received was well rendered, with nice sound effects, that consistently applied the rules of the game, and… is still buggy as h…
The quote above, courtesy of Razorfist on twitter [https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/996255627759382533], is one I’m glad to run across, as I’ve long hated the “you’re just angry” disqualification the left likes to use. Wrath is a sin. Anger is but a response to a perceived injustice. Your perception may, of course, be wrong, or not in accordance with objective reality, but if it is correct, it is not only valid, butmoral. In that sense, while fully understanding both John Ringo’s stance re…