The Japanese site for Phantasy Star Online 2. YES

Characters created by fans using the character creators. WAAHOO

It's alive! O_O O_O

The first book I ever wrote, even before Vortex Trigger, eight years ago, I published last night. It's called Oracle Dream, about a ghost hunter named Sybil Avasa who several of my friends have said has a really distinct voice and personality. The villain of the novella, a gang leader, didn't give her the oomph a strong opposition provides, and so ( Read more... )

I've been watching Mass Effect 3 develop, sometimes intentionally. People on my Twitter throw me links about it and I explore them maybe a bit more than I should. How can I not, for the series being a huge splash in the world of space opera, and scifi in the grander scheme? I haven't read many of the tie-ins yet, but believe me, I'm eyeing them ( Read more... )

I thought about not doing this for weird personal reasons, but two of my friends did it so I thought what the hell.

( 2011 In Review )

I joined Serenity Mush as Mistrala (reusing a name I've used so often, because of the surrealism of different people with different names) and have played six or seven scenes in this month alone. I played an epic eight-person scene where we loaded illegal cargo onto the Pathfinder, interacted with the Director of Alliance Intelligence without words ( Read more... )

Apparently, a Chinese national named Kexue Huang, was more than a biotech researcher. He was also a bloody spy for China! The article says he was freelancing for China instead of a regular government agent and stole information from Dow for five years before he worked for Cargill. You know what, this is seriously fucked up and disturbing anyway! ( Read more... )

I had another instance just today - they recur but I try to ignore them - of "what was I doing between high school and college"? This article, wherein an RPG writer (Monte Cook, of 'one of the triad that built D&D 3E' fame) talks about his first experiences with the PDF and digital publishing ten years ago, and the changes in the RPG industry since ( Read more... )

Glancing through the archives of zis thingy, and adding the appropriate tags, I see a RPG Purity Test ( Read more... )

All right, Chandler's definitely higher up on my reading list now. The Simple Art of Murder, his essay on writing noir from 1959, describes a couple of the reasons why I've become extremely appreciative of hardboiled detectives ( Read more... )

When I was listening to the Chrono Trigger soundtrack, something occurred to me that I may have mentioned to some of my RL friends but hadn't posted as a thought on the journal ( Read more... )