Looks like someone has decided to pad out their resume by reformatting LiveJournal to a more "modern" social media style.

Obviously functionality was not high on the development list.

This is just something I dashed off around 2AM last night, after working on my NaNoWriMo project. It has nothing to do with any controversies in gaming. Really. Honestly.

Note: I have no idea what an enchirito is. It just seemed like something a gamer would eat.

LEAGUE OF VIVIANS

( I'm taking my Vivian into the shop today... )

...If I did a story about Stupidevil Youth plotting to defund Social Security in order to pay for government handouts. Like subsidized video games ( Read more... )

Someone was complaining in a recent thread about most players in fantasy games acting like a pack of murderous, psychhopathic hobos. While normally I would commiserate about the sociopathic nature of most player characters, this time something went "Sproing!" and I thought: hey, isn't this a fantasy version of a slasher movie where the PCS are the ( Read more... )

A perfect example of predictive SF.
How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025)
It's not that I think it's at all likely that this future will come about, but like all predictive SF, it's really about the present. To whit, the various threats to the neutrally and openness of the internet.

Kevin W. Reardon wanted to be a well-known writer. He is. He doesn't seem to have gotten the message though -- after telling an editor who gave him a negative review should kill himself and his cat -- that really, not all publicity is good publicity. Now he's moved on to calling up and harassing bloggers who pan him.  I swear, he must log onto ( Read more... )

Oh boy.  Just look at what the silly fringe of Christianity is doing now.   Having fixed the problems of war, poverty and social injustice, the Passion For Christ is turning it's sights onto the next greatest problem with America: teenage masturbation.

In an effort to shape the youth of America into happy little sinless zealots, they are even ( Read more... )

One of the things I've been doing in my Under the Green Moon setting is simply writing up random setting elemts as they occur to me.  For instance, this is my response to the statement that any fantasy setting MUST have an elf race in there.  That notion immediately set of my sarcasm generator.

This is the result: the write-up for elfs in my fantasy ( Read more... )

Adbuster Magazine wants you to read their "Extremely Important Article on hipster culture, and how narcissist, shallow, and consumerist they are. Pity the poor fools who behind their ironic facade are merely puppets for the advertisers!

And on your way out, please stop at Adbuster's online "Culture Shop", and buy Adbuster logo t-shirts, shoes, and ( Read more... )

In his recent "Ruin Everybody's Day" post, Warren Ellis posted the numbers of the (at one time) major science fiction magazines, And boy, the numbers don't look good; you can barely call the mags mass media at his point.  To many many people's minds, this is a crisis. that's related to the general decline in the popularity of SF/Fantasy.  In ( Read more... )