Hey, indie role-playing game designers! I love many of your games, but there’s this one thing’s been driving me nuts, and I think you could maybe do something about it: When you’re coming up with a name for your game, could you consider that people interested in it are going to do Google searches, not just for the game’s home page, but for online ( Read more... )

Aaaaauuugh! I managed to totally forget that there was a Sketchcrawl on Sunday! And the weather was nice, too! At least there’s another one coming up on December 11th; I’ve set my Backpack account to email me a reminder a few days in advance.

This here been one of them crappy days. Hot and sweaty, felt like someone had turned up the local gravity, and on top of that I had a headache for most of the evening. Didn’t feel like doing much of anything. Managed to get laundry done, strolled around the neighborhood a bit, had some iced tea and a brownie at Basic. Haven’t drawn anything in what ( Read more... )

Look, if I disobey the command to “Don’t read this”, what makes you think I’m gonna obey the orders hidden behind the cut?

WTF? The #1 hit for “papasan chairs” on Google is a negative search result on Lycos? What are they feeding those pigeons?


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Hey, did Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Moses, any of that crowd, any of them bother to mention that boxer shorts fit funny when you put ’em on backwards? Hanh?

Hal Lindsey with Hal Linden.

Maher Arar with Mahir Çağrı.

Leopold and Loeb with Lerner and Loewe.

Can anyone explain this to me?

N:\fake\path\here>dir *bur* Volume in drive N is fakevolumename Volume Serial Number is 12345678 Directory of [path deleted] 05/18/2004 02:08p 30,666 TX030_BUR.jpg 04/14/2004 12:44p 36,537 SO129_ECR.jpg05/18/2004 02:08p 28,059 TX032_BUR.jpg ( Read more... )

Been feeling kinda low-level crappy recently. Not so much today; yesterday I noticed myself clenching my jay and grinding my teeth a whole lot. Still don’t know why. Maybe it’s just not going to the gym ( Read more... )

Trying to make up a character for a Big Eyes, Small Mouth game has reminded me of the annoying things about a system that I generally like.

( RPG neeping here )