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[04 Nov 2012|11:03am] |
So, I've had a few people message me on LJ now who are evidently unaware how LiveJournal works. I.e., they've sent me a private message, but they have messages turned off in their own settings. If you do this, I cannot respond to you. If you have no entries on your LJ, or all of your entries are Friend's locked, and you have no other contact information on your profile page, I have literally no way of getting back to you.
I was able to track one of them down to a message board using their handle, but others not so much.
In essence, this is to say that if you want to ask me something, ensure there is some way I can respond to you, or there won't be a response.
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| The Mist and anti-cliches |
[18 Sep 2012|07:48am] |
So I watched The Mist tonight, having seen it crop up over and over as one of f!s's top "movies with depressing endings". As a fan of Asian cinema, I've seen any number of films with depressing endings, but this was American. Also, I noticed a horror film - and they said "depressing", not "scary". Interesting...
What they neglected to mention was that it was one of the best horror film endings ever.
( Cut for possible spoilers by inferenceCollapse )
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| History is Written by the Victor |
[26 Jul 2012|09:27am] |
The healthy human mind does not wake up at 10pm to prepare their thesis defense the night before, but I think that's a luxury, not a curse.
To know you're near the end is a kind of freedom. A good time to take inventory. Outgunned, outnumbered (by the committee), out of our minds, on a suicide mission. But the podium and the chalkboard, stained with decades of students' bitter tears - they will remember us, for this.
Because out of all our vast array of nightmares, this is the one we choose for ourselves. We go forth like a breath exhaled from the Earth. With vigor in our hearts, and one goal in sight: We. Will. Graduate.
ETA: So, yeah. I passed my defense.
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| Sheesh, some people |
[19 Jul 2012|12:57am] |
What I'd give to be a fly on the wall in someone else's head some time. Fascinating and inexplicable things seem to go on in there.
Case in point: as you may or may not know, I am an uber nerd who still plays Dungeons and Dragons tabletop games, and now that I'm done my thesis, I've put another game together. The system is ORE Nemesis (a horror game) and the setting is Afghanistan. The vast majority of feedback I've received for my pitch has been very positive - from players and forums and unrelated friends alike.
However, a certain new player declined to join us on account of it. What was his problem? The setting. There is, he feels, nothing to do in Afghanistan, and would prefer it if the game were set in the US or Canada instead.
Nothing. To do. In Afghanistan.
Poll #1854753
Are you for real?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 18
So what is this guy's major malfunction?
View Answers
| Severe brain damage. |
   10 (26.3%) |
| Bad genetics. |
| 5 (13.2%) |
| Only familiarity with "Afghan" is from a song by The Lonely Island. |
| 10 (26.3%) |
| There is no Jamba Juice in Afghanistan. |
| 11 (28.9%) |
| Already served four tours there, can't go back now. ....But did he ever really leave? |
| 2 (5.3%) |
His particular damage aside, I'm pretty satisfied with the characters my players have pitched me:
-An old, washed out, ex-Special Forces American PMC
-An ambitious Chinese arms dealer and smuggler
-A patriotic young British embedded reporter
-A feminist Muslim aid worker from Qatar
Waiting on one more person who may or may not be playing to get back to me, but so far it looks like it's going to be a blast. This is a far cry from the usual high fantasy/Space Marines/Steampunk/Vampires and werewolves fare of most games I've run or played.
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