Last night I played a game called Fury of Dracula (by locally based game company Fantasy Flight). Fantasy Flight is pretty well known for writing really complex, difficult-to-understand rules; the pages of their rulebooks tend to number in the 20s and 30s. One particular problem we had with the rules in this game (handily resolved by the FAQ, good ( Read more... )

Ahhh ha ha so. I was reading about abiogenesis and I was so puzzled! trying to figure out what roots it came from, I was like "ab-", okay, that's "away from", and "genesis", yeah okay got that, "creation" or some shit, now wtf is "io"?! Thank Christ for the Oxford English Dictionary Online and it's keen ability to show me what a dumbass I am (if ( Read more... )