Worth the Candle is another loooong webfic, adjacent to several rationalist stories, but much less in-your-face about it ( Read more... )

AzulLiv knew she wanted this game for ages, and I wasn't sure but immediately fell in love with it. It's based on Portuguese Islamic-derived ceramic tilings. All the parts are absolutely gorgeous, the tiles are fairly simple design on simple plastic, but they feel sooo tactile and are sooo beautiful ( Read more... )

Oh gosh, this book is hard to describe. It started as a web serial, and was eventually published. By David Wong, who, if I got this right, is executive editor at Cracked.com. David Wong is a pen name he adopted for his online writing, and also wrote into these stories as the main character ( Read more... )

I'd been meaning to read this for ages, and it was really awesome ( Read more... )

PentapolisPericles set sail again, and there was a massive storm. Pericles was shipwrecked, but fortuitously his armour washed soooo close to shore it could be caught in a fishing net (spoilers), although all the sailors who didn't appear in the play presumably drowned ( Read more... )

Liv and I wanted to see one of the Cambridge Shakespeare plays this summer. The selection didn't have many we really wanted to see, so we ended up seeing Peracles, and I'm really glad we did ( Read more... )

Lots of the things I wished were possible turned out to actually be possible but it just hadn't immediately been obvious what the interface was ( Read more... )

"Thuurgla Disseminute", "Gleggrot Disseminute", the names of these Fungus' navy fleets are very very them. As are some of the others. Including the pirates! :)

PetsI found some alien pets! Alas they were on one of the fungus' core worlds, and for whatever reason the fungus' concentrated more on building warships than petting pets. I only found ( Read more... )

The latest (and penultimate?) big game in the game crate was one Rachel and I had both separately been somewhat interested in, Photosynthesis ( Read more... )

So now I'm less talking about every new experience I have and more talking about the SECOND dragged out war against the fungus people, this is less entertaining :)

WarMy God, this isn't good from my planets' populations point of view though. First war, they declared war out of idealism, and I screwed up the economy and got food shortages, and ( Read more... )