Today's Irregular Webcomic has a long discussion of tabletop role-playing games, their rules, and the different approaches to creating them that Morgan-Mar has encountered throughout the years. One part of this essay goes into the differences between computer "role-playing games" and their tabletop namesakes. In my opinion, Mr. Morgan-Mar's ( Read more... )

On my way in to work this morning, I saw a van with big, green letters on the back that read "3TB PLUMBING".

Seriously, the integration of computing into the construction of homes is just going too far now...

Yesterday, Halloween, I played poker with Death:


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Hello, everyone. I know I've been kinda sporadic about posting things on LJ (and even FB) lately. I blame three things: work stress, health issues, and (since Friday) Batman: Arkham Origins
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Yesterday, when I was playing Skyrim, I was looting a chest. When the chest's contents popped up, I thought for a second that it read thusly:

Amethyst
Flawless Garnet
Flawless Sapphire
Iron Sword
Eben Brooks

I had to blink a couple of times before I realized that the last item was "Elven Boots".

Star Wars: The Old Republic To Receive Content Updates Every Six Weeks

According to Matt Bromberg, the General Manager of Bioware Austin:

We’re committed to: about every six weeks, doing a major update for the game-which would be a new Warzone, a new Operation, a new Flashpoint, a new event-and to doing that on a really frequent cadence, every ( Read more... )

Continuing the analysis of the Yahoo! Finance article 21 Ways Rich People Think Differenly, a condensed “interview” with Steve Siebold, author of How Rich People Think.

4. Average people think the road to riches is paved with formal education. Rich people believe in acquiring specific knowledge.“Many world-class performers have little formal ( Read more... )

This is a list of people who influenced my life, for good or ill, all of whom have died in the year 2012, so far:

1. Mark Adams, Jan 26
   
2. Jan Berenstain, Feb 24
   
3. Davy Jones, Feb 29
   
4. Ralph McQuarrie, Mar 4
   
5. Robert B. Sherman, Mar 6
   
6. Moebius, Mar 10
   
7. Jim Duffy, Mar 23
   
8. Earl Scruggs, Mar 28
   
9. Mike Wallace, Apr 7
   
10. Dick Clark, Apr 18
    
11. Levon Helm, Apr 19
    
12. Maurice ( Read more... )

This is like a kick in the stomach.

Farewell, from all of us at Paragon Studios

Yes, City of Heroes is ending. Before the end of 2012.

Ouch.

I mean, I knew it would have to happen eventually, but I'd always hoped it would be because a newer, more awesome game was replacing it. But with the closure of Paragon Studios, it looks like the CoH ( Read more... )

A while back, I subscribed to Lifehacker's Google+ feed. For a while, I wasn't really paying much attention, but the other day something caught my eye . . . and now I'm finding new gems every day. Not huge life-changing revelations, but little things that seem like they'd be useful to know.

For instance, an article today entitled "How Turning My ( Read more... )