Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-26
- Finished sidebar explaining why you can't name a new planet "Spank Me" without GM approval. #
- Wu-Tang Lego: Da Mystery of Chessboxin' http://vimeo.com/5452385 #
- Re: ENnies. Vote for things you've read/played over slate choices. Thanks! #
- That woman on CNN/Fox telling you Canadian healthcare wouldn't treat her tumor is lying. http://preview.tinyurl.com/l9m6bx #
- @rdonoghue I have issues with the ENnies but folks I like have been excited about them, so I'm being quiet. #
- RT @mightymur How covers go white. http://bit.ly/1QtQg #
- @eddyfate @jasonlblair I would have rather had rich content evolve from that than the parade of poor content, 1-trick systems I see now. #
- RT @AllenVarney "Choose Canadian" promo. Where your food comes from. http://vimeo.com/5477517 #
- Oh Old Schoolers, saying you can differ on elf level limits and whether d10s are permitted are not signs of robust diversity. #
- I'm watching http://www.celebritytweet.com/ where Courtney Love is seemingly doing back taxes. This fascinates me. #
- @rdonoghue at least that means the games had real impact. #
- Also, there should be awards for RPGs that are at least 2-3 years old to weed out uplayed trendy stuff. Said this before. #
- There really shyould be Torchwood vs. The Invisibles fanfic. #
- Company promises its robots will not feast on dead human flesh for power. http://tinyurl.com/mttbyd #
- I've taken to calling The Tudors' Anne Boleyn "Saucyface." #
- @Nikchick I love me WordPress, esp. 2.8. I'd just advise you add a plugin to make it more secure. #
- @flamesrising Works fr me. It's a preview TinyURL; have to click twice. direct: http://bit.ly/seAFT #
- NOT WANT THIS CUSTOMER http://preview.tinyurl.com/nupl8e #
- @criticalhits Portuguese-speaking gamers are awesome. I've done some interviews and such with them. #
- 40th anniversary of Whitey on the Moon http://bit.ly/94kIT #
- Looking forward to @EddyFate's work at http://whitechapelproject.com/ #
- But watching on CNN about how the system that's saved my life is EVIL is annoying. #
- Actually, equal time: We do have a doc shortage in my area so some of us are stuck with clinics that are a pain to make appts. for. #
- Terrible Canadian healthcare rationing: I have to wait until 2PM today to see my doc! After calling 5 min ago! #sarcasm #
- Watched Torchwood last night. Like Who, Canadian TV pays for it, then gets it later than everybody else. #
- This is the kind of thing I used to *say* on RPGNet – and the seeds of my banning from RPGNet. #
- Nerdrage owes itself in no small part to the rude discovery that they don't have the class privilege to match, IMO. #
- Geekcult has serious issues of entitlement founded in sex/gender. Fans are often white guys who cultural privileges media promised them. #
- @simonmay Dunno. Don't think it should be yr main identity bt I respect it more than geek-denial macho: *loudly* talking about your gf/bike. #
- @simonmay Few of them self-identify as geeks either, They have girlfriends and motorcycles and such. #
- Neanderthal killed by modern-type human? http://preview.tinyurl.com/ljmfdv #
- It's exactly how I intended it — well, its designed for LARPers too. #
- http://bit.ly/2Aahx
Dave has a talent for seeing how things I've added to Mage ought to be used. # - Oh, Trent Reznor, we hardly knew ye — except for the angry parts. #
- @sjmonkey. Also, would you know anything about dynamically generating PDFs from inputs in a form field, by any chance? #
- @sjmonkey we may have something in my office. Not sure. #
- @sjmonkey. Want to send your resume to me? #
- @davidahilljr Yeah, the system's too complicated right now, but OTOH, fans really like rotes. I argued otherwise and have been proven wrong. #
- @strangeasangels Re: Mage "No ideas but in things." I think more examples, sig char emphasis would've helped. #
- @davidahilljr I think Changing Breeds was committed to its concept, which I respect. Keep in mind I'm skeptical of "toolkit" books, though. #
- @filamena Yeah. One thing I've noticed in Mage is that the Asc. fans played way less than Awk. ones. On WW boards people talk abt. play now! #
- @filamena Basically. Can't always trust what people say they like. #
- @brennantaylor That was re: Professor Griefer on City of Heroes. #
- @strangeasangels But remember, that was the fashion. Web fans said the fiction/atmospheric stuff suxxors. Then they complained it was gone. #
- @strangeasangels We wrote Mage like three times. I think it functions well as an RPG text at the expense of being immersive fiction. #
- @strangeasangels @ChuckWendig Writers've written in an OWoD everybody hates tone fr. time 2 time, but not so much for fans 2 spaz. #
- @ChuckWendig I should emphasize that there is no actual drow porn on my blog, for reputation's sake. #
- However, Brian Blessed is not Robert Baratheon, which is a crime. #
- Sean Bean is Eddard Stark! Peter Dinklage is Tyrion! Not bad HBO! #
- PoD game service won't do booklets. Pity. http://preview.tinyurl.com/m6asvo #
- @ChuckWendig I got dinged on "drow porn" a couple of days ago. Unfortunately I apparently rank 7 on Google for it. #
- @brennantaylor Something makes me think the paper was written somewhat after the fact. #
- Omnia Creative Consultancy ominousdubai.blogspot.com/2009/06/burned-in-dubai.html #
- @ChuckWendig @simonmay It does turn into a pretty conventional story. Like I said, I feel like it's prose exhaustion. #
- @ChuckWendig Of course, this Clarkesworld article is obligatory: http://bit.ly/17ctxx #
- @ChuckWendig Besides the adventurers returned from the vault of the trow, there's numerous other stuff. Wraith fan, apparently. #
- @ChuckWendig Actually, it made me sorta proud to be a gamer, to see those elements woven into something special. Might blog about it. #
- @ChuckWendig I can see Meiville hit "prose exhaustion." He sets the bar high early on though. Must admit, tickled by RPG shoutouts. #
- On the home stretch of Perdido Street Station. Finally. Not bad at all. #
- TR @simonmay Check out http://stores.lulu.com/room207press #
- @simonmay Ah, there you are. #
- Nirvana v. Rick Astley: http://bit.ly/VIlCh #
- @mytholder However, it's designed for demons, so they can threaten a whole PC group. Form or function? Matter of taste. #
- @mytholder For example, I added a multiattack power in WoD: Inferno. If offends the no multiattack principles people read from the game. #
- @mytholder I think so. Past a certain point, design quality gets subjective, though. #
