Ken Newquist “Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.” — Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love The willfully ignorant really piss me off. You know, the sort of people who have a great number of opinions about a great number of things, none of which are based on actual fact. Not only that, they are … Read more
A handful of humans struggle to survive in a world ruled by dragons.
One of the most divisive issues among science fiction geeks in 2003 (even more than Matrix sequels) was the re-make of Battlestar Galactica. Richard Hatch, Apollo on the original series, had been fighting for years to see Galactica resurrected, and many fans of the original science fiction series wanted to see his vision realized. Another, less … Read more
A few months ago I reviewed Futurama: The Game, and I was disappointed. Where Futrama the series was funny and entertaining, the game was repetitive, frustrating and boring, with none of the wit that made Futurama so damn good. It had the look, but it just didn’t have the feel. Now I’ve got The Simpsons: … Read more
The gaming world is abuzz with an online auction being held at Christies.com for a Roman twenty-sided die (d20). Check it out for yourself. The item’s described as a “Roman Glass Gaming Die” that was created around the 2nd century A.D. It’s deep blue-green in color, and has different symbols carved into each of its … Read more
Time to geek out a bit. Ok, ok … it’s time to geek out a lot. Those of you who aren’t interested in programming, Julian or Gregorian calendars or Neal Stephenson should probably stop reading now. I’m working on a project at work where I have to select a bunch of dates from a MS … Read more
This year’s Geek Tree is almost complete. So is the feature about it for Nuketown, which will include a browseable database of the ornaments (with each one reviewed and commented on), photos and maybe, just maybe, video. I’m also looking to create a section linking to other geek trees on the Web. Which brings me … Read more
News of another science fiction blog’s reached my inbox. Michael Kantor has launched a Battlestar Galactica web log called, simply enough, Battlestar Galactica Blog. You can check it out at www.galacticablog.com. Recent topics include “Mormon influences in ‘The Living Legend’”, ” It’s a Human Universe” and “What to do with the Cylon head box?” Michael … Read more
I’m in the process of reviewing Wolverine’s Revenge for the Mac — so far it’s playing like a fighting game crossbreed with a traditional third-person adventure game. Unfortunately, because of its console background (it was released for PS2 and Xbox before coming to the PC and now finally the Mac) the keyboard-and-mouse combination that’s served me … Read more
I’ve been gaming for a hell of a long time. For the last few years ago, most of the stuff I’ve been doing is d20 based. There are a lot of reasons for it, the biggest being that we converted our Greyhawk campaign to D&D 3E in 2000. It’s worked well for us (none of … Read more