Shortly after the release of D&D 4E I began developing my own custom content, mostly PC races. My first (and so far only) “professional” release has been my 4E tortle, a race of anthropomorphic turtles (or tortoises) originally from the Savage Coast setting. This release includes PC race stats, weapons, feats, and monster blocks. (This [...]
Archive for July, 2008
D&D 4E Tortles
Posted in D&D on July 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It makes you a man
Posted in Internets, tagged postlet, spam, narcissism on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My little blog got its first spam this afternoon. Three comments already. Some of them are interesting (i.e. apparently useless) methods of spam.
Where are our Weathermen?
Posted in Politic, tagged Bush, Obama, Weathermen on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a strange post.
First, a disclaimer: I don’t like grand statements about “our times”, how they’re different or more important than what came before. I think history mostly repeats itself, with minor variations, because despite all our percieved advances humanity hasn’t actually changed much since history first became history. Please keep this in mind, [...]
Wishlist for the new Facebook
Posted in Internets, tagged Facebook on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After something close to a two-month delay (I believe the original announcement heralded the upgrade at the beginning of June), the “new Facebook” has finally arrived, and it . . . sucks. At least, that’s the general consensus among people I’ve talked to, and I agree with them. It’s clunky, mesy, unintuitive, and just generally [...]
“It’s about the characters, stupid”
Posted in Analyses, Television, Theory, tagged Doctor Who, The Wire on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Having finished the first season of The Wire (and the first episode of season two), I think I’ve figured out what my problem with it is: I’m not engaged by the characters. I don’t mean to say that I don’t like The Wire; I think it is brilliant, and great, and powerful, but so far [...]
Episodic and Seasonal Pacing on Television
Posted in Analyses, Television, Theory, tagged Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, The Wire, Veronica Mars on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you somehow weren’t aware, season two of Mad Men premiered last night. The episode was everything I expected and hoped for and more, with a couple of surprises along with the general thoughtful evolution of characters that have aged more than a year since we last saw them. (Season two begins in February 1962; [...]
Time
Posted in Fictions on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Note: I used to call this stuff “hastily written shitty fiction”. It’s officially lost the label, but it’s still hastily written, and as for the other part, well, I offer no guarantees.
Dim columns of light hovered over the black streets. Empty. The patrol officer leaned back against the hard leather chair and tapped the gas [...]
Nuking the Fridge: A Reexamination of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Posted in Analyses, Movies, tagged Indiana Jones, nuclear era on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in theaters for the second time. I’m a true Indiana Jones fanatic–hung above my desk, right next to my computer, are all four movie posters, framed–so when I saw the film for the first time, most of my response to it was as [...]
A meditation on The Wire, Battlestar Galactica, and Firefly, plus the relationship between comedy and drama
Posted in Analyses, Television, Theory, tagged Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, The Wire on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For years there have been (at least to my perhaps biased perceptions) two shows that have dominated television critics’ articles as the “best shows on TV”: Battlestar Galactica and The Wire. I’ve watched Battlestar since the beginning (and fallen completely in love with it, and become known as something of an evangelist for it), but [...]
The Dark Knight in Three Phases
Posted in Analyses, Movies, tagged Batman, Camus, Nietzsche, The Plan on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This isn’t a review; so if that’s what you’re looking for, go somewhere else. (Preferably to a theater, where you can buy a ticket to see The Dark Knight.) Nor is this a critical analysis, although that’s closer. I think the best term for it would be a “response” to The Dark Knight–if only because [...]
