Ken Newquist It finally happened. After an year and a half, I’ve finally managed to fill my 10 gig iPod. This may not seem like a particularly impressive milestone to some — after all, I know people who’s music collections are upwards of 100 gig, But for me, as someone who doesn’t steal music off the Net, … Read more
In 2002, a great science fiction series named Firefly debuted on Fox, won some critical acclaim despite the boneheaded re-scheduling efforts by network bigwigs, and was promptly pulled after 11 episodes. It was probably one of the great science fiction series never seen, and at the time its passing was mourned by only a handful … Read more
It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these entries summarizing StarGirl’s development and my own thoughts on Dadhood. Much has changed since the last one (back when StarGirl was 9 months old), but I’m going to focus on the more recent developments. No More Medicine: Every day for the last year, since that … Read more
There are a lot of liberals out there who think that the media is not biased in their favor; indeed, they think that the major media are play things of the government, and are handling the Republicans with kid gloves. Exactly how liberal (or conservative) individual publications are varies of course, and I do not … Read more
In Wish 91: Appropriating From Fiction (Internet Archive), Ginger asks: How often do you appropriate bits from books, movies, comics, and other sources as a player or GM? Do you like to steal names or flavor or go more whole-hog? Is there a difference between stealing for background and stealing for in-game use? I remember … Read more
Here’s my list of the RPG products I’d like to buy this spring, including Torn Asunder (a critical hits source book for d20), the Conan: The Role-Playing Game, and Gamma World: Out of the Vaults. Torn Asunder Bastian Press 96 pages $22.95 Buy it from Amazon One of the things that occasionally bugs me about … Read more
I’d gotten into a pretty good grove with posting updates to Nuketown over the last two weeks, but that all came to a crashing stop this week thanks to my cold. It was one of those “48 hours of misery” colds, starting off as post-nasal drip and ending with a stuffed up nose and a … Read more
In Wish 90 (Internet Archive), Ginger asks: What do you think about system updates (Paranoia XP, Amber 2.0, DnD 3.0/3.5) and conversions (d20 Silver Age Sentinels, GURPS Traveller)? What about world/setting updates that result in system reboots (the end of the Age of Darkness)? Do you buy them, run them, or use them for resources? … Read more
Warning: This is a long-winded article recounting my battle to replace Windows Me with a copy of Windows XP on my wife’s desktop computer. As such, it’ll probably only interest those who are facing a similar upgrade war. A few years ago, I was having problems with my Windows 98 desktop machine. It was a … Read more
For various reasons — renting Season 1 from Netflix, reviewing the X-Files: Resist or Serve (Amazon) game for SCI-FI.com, working on my Delta Green campaign — I’ve been spending an awful lot of time thinking about the X-Files, and about what went wrong with the series. At one point in time, the X-Files wasn’t just a … Read more