Secret of Mana is one of the games that I mentioned in my Jill of the Jungle review that I missed due to not owning any 16-bit consoles. I remember playing it at friends' houses, and at the time I thought it was fascinating. A multiplayer RPG? A RPG that's not turn-based? Charging up weapons? What is this sorcery ( Read more... )

In preparation for the upcoming Dragon-Blooded game I'm planning to run (more on that in later posts), I'm going through and pulling NPC, spirit, and creature stats into a single document so I don't have to flip through multiple books to find everything I want to use the same way I did with Charms and martial arts ( Read more... )

Not outside, fortunately. We've had unseasonably cold weather and right now it's only 18°C out. But our air conditioning is broken and has been broken for two weeks. It was warmer yesterday, and when I got home it was 30°C, and apparently our apartment holds heat well because even though it dropped down to 20°C within an hour of me getting home and ( Read more... )

So I saw this picture on Facebook yesterday, and now it's time for me to rant about it:


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WELP.


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So I was reading one of the cyberpunk image blogs I have on my RSS feeds (Flesh-coated Technology, for the curious), and a post popped up there that wasn't an image or a piece of tech news, but was instead a musing on how terrible the world was. Unlike most of the ones they reblog, though, this was one of those libertarian screeds about how come ( Read more... )

Last night, I was getting ready to take a shower and I noticed that the old conditioner bottle that I had washed out but not taken to the recycling yet (because I was waiting for it to dry) had been moved to the other side of the tub, so I figured that I'd throw it in the recycling before I got in. In a rush, I grabbed the bottle, stepped out of ( Read more... )

Okay, backstory time. So every year softlykarou has gone to the NASP national conference, and as you might imagine, Loyola has funding available for grad students who are giving presentations or part of a presentation at the conference. softlykarou has qualified for that every year, and applied every year, and her application has been accepted ( Read more... )

This post is borne out of my annoyance with this article titled The Tragedy of Mozilla and with various comments on the internet complaining about how mean people are being to Eich, how if we decide to boycott Mozilla then what happens when "they" decided to boycott something we agree with, when will it end, stop the madness, but free speech lol, ( Read more... )

You know what I mean--the idea that your actions balance out on some impartial cosmic scale or something.

So, I got my yearly bonus, and that was really good. Here's what's gone wrong since then:

• I bought Final Fantasy Tactics like I was going to...except I bought the iPhone version and it's not a universal app, so I wasted $14 and I have to buy ( Read more... )