Berin expounds on his theory of gaming systems as food, and the GM as the sheft, in this lengthy post inspired by comments during the lengthy -- and interesting -- thread for "Jumping the Dire Shark". In related news, the blog for Silver Agents, the play-by-post game Berin's using to demonstrate his theories, has been launched.

I made some minor repairs and upgrades to The Atomic Age the other night -- I cleaned up the blog roll, killing out a few of the bad links, adding in some fresh ones, and I finally got my Technorati profile working on both this blog and Nuketown, which allowed me to add a link to my profile.