Another hot lazy summer day. I'm sitting here at work, which is mostly deserted, with not really much to do. With the temperatures soaring over 30 degrees Celsius, the few who are here work in a leisurely pace and with two off us on support, we're really a little overstaffed today.
The warmth and lethargy spills over into my free time as well, so I don't really feel I'm doing anything nowadays, beside lounging in the sofa watching TV-series and animé. The Big Bang Theory and Death Note…

Today, we're fucked. By we I meanthe place I work, and by fucked I mean fucked. Last evening, the filesystem which has been out-sourced to a third party company, went down. It has been down all through the night and is still down, even though they've "had HP technictians working on it through the night." Reassuring...
This means several of our key applications are simply not working, like Outlook. (Why the hell are we running Outlook over vpn as our only way of accessing mail?) Even more critic…

"In other words, games can and should combine the sensibilities
of a 1980s cop show with a mutated version of the aesthetics
of a Regency romance."

The quote comes from a sidebox in the adventures chapter of the new GURPS Infinite Worlds: Britannica-6, a new PDF from Steve Jackson Games for their Infinite Worlds setting. And it's brilliant. The "timeline" is a what-if world where the victorian age newer occured, and the sensibilities of the regency period combined with an frantic obsess…

I really have to start updating here more often...
Anyway, the summer is fully on us as I write this and lots have happened. Since my last writing I've quarreled with the university over my eligibility for taking the exam in one of my classes (I lost), Arcon has come and gone (with the same ups and downs as usual) and I've gotten a new job (VSD Logistics, as a tech monkey). All in all things are pretty good overall. What's kinda cool is the fact…

How to download YouTube Vids as superior quality MP4 files

Dressing up as a pirate for a party. Cool.
Getting the sniffles for wearing shorts when it's really a little to cold outside. Not as cool...

So now I'm unemployed once more. My contract went out today, and apparently I was sent a mail last week letting me know it wouldn't be renewed. That wouldn't have been much more advance warning though. But I kinda knew it would come. While the job was very slack, as well as paid good, the terms was awfull. One month contracts for an undetermined period? If I hadn't been so lethargic the last months, I would have been looking for something new. But now I'm back at my ass, low on cash and unemploy…

Gary Gygax died monday morning 69 years old, a gamer till the end. The shame is how so many people will never know how much this man directly or indirectly influenced their lives, sitting there playing World of Warcraft or some other D&D spin-off. The father of RPG's died on March 4th, GM's day, strangly appropriate. He will be missed.

I'm considering putting up a tribute game in his honor, anyone up for rolling it Gygax style?

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The Empty Chair

Eulogy for a Gamer

There is an em…

So I'm sitting here on the subway on my way to yet another fantasy game, listening to Ladytron and with Hackers fresh in mind (starting to watch a movie at 0500 am, what were I thinking), pondering: I'd really in for a cyberpunk game right about now. It's been ages since I've played anything sci-fi, which is a shame since I'm really more a fan of sci-fi than fantasy, but I still end up playing the latter more. But then the game I'm currently gming has good…

I just love Hackers. It's got the most psychedelic representation of hacking and computer use ever, but it completely rawks. In fact, it totally hacks the Gibson.