I have this morbid curiosity about how people around me would react to my suicide. Not how they think they would react, not something I could learn by asking them. No, how people would actually react. What kinds of crap would come bubbling to the surface, who would really miss me and who wouldn't, what arguments would break out as proxy for dealing ( Read more... )

So, I took the state civil service exam for a clerical position ("Keyboarding 1"), and finally started getting notifications in the mail for such jobs. The minimum pay grade for that position in the civil service is a base annual salary of about $27k. More than twice what I was making at the toy store, and I managed to live... acceptably, if not ( Read more... )

Random thought. If, according to relativity, changes in velocity result in changes of (subjective, perceived) time-flow, with time growing slower the closer one gets to the speed of light ( Read more... )

"I hate 3D girls. But there's something I hate even more! That is, a 3D girl who uses stun guns!"
-Katsuragi Keima, The World God Only Knows

"I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I'm sure you will agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged on to a half-submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split ( Read more... )

Not to alarm anyone, but I think I can hybridize together the Illuminati and Mwahahaha!! card games' rules into one grand game of world-conquering megalomania.

Also what the fuck this better come out in English and not edited all to hell, if only because any effort to sanitize it will probably butcher the hell out of the story.

Biggest achievement of this up-all-night? Digging the name of a song out of the depths of Google with only a snatch of half-remembered lyrics.

...fuck, I feel useless and drained. Or maybe not drained, but never filled in the first place.

I pretty much just want to quit everything. Quit doing, quit thinking, quit living ( Read more... )

RPG work is coming along somewhat smoothly. It seems like every time I think I've got the game pinned down, though, another new aspect pops into my head and demands attention. It'd still be a very short game printed out - just the mechanics would be a very small booklet - but sometimes it feels like it's just going to get more and more complicated ( Read more... )

notes on a game mechanic idea ( Read more... )