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Things Which Are Actually Just Remakes of Seven Samurai
Demon Knights Crime and Punishment The Hangover Twilight Star Wars Star Trek Babylonian creation-mythology The Little Mermaid TRON Catholicism Bhagavad Gītā Cats! Glee Dungeon World On the Origin of Species Charlie Brown My college Calc textbook Unified Field Theory The Treaty of Versailles The War of 1812 Hello Kitty Power Rangers Yojimbo Robocop (actually a [...]
Best Whatever of 2011
As is traditional, here are a few of my favorite things (from 2011). Best Album: Bon Iver by Bon Iver Bon Iver’s first, For Emma, Forever Ago is still one of my favorite albums ever. Bon Iver could easily have been a letdown but it’s the exact opposite: a second album that establishes that For Emma wasn’t a [...]
Best Whatever of 2010
A few random thoughts about my favorite things of 2010 in a few different categories. Best Album: The Monitor by Titus Andronicus An epic concept album revolving around the Civil War about conflict, strife, and the need for both. Complete with dramatic readings of Lincoln speeches and musical cues from The Battle Hymn of the [...]
Computerpocalypse Now
(Sorry to do this, but Skarka’s rant about the shrinking industry was just too bad/good not to parody. This is entirely a work of humor, and certainly does not reflect my actual opinions as part of the technology industry.) It’s undeniable that the computer industry in shrinking. Fewer computers means fewer users, which means the [...]
A Little Magic With InDesign and XML
This post is a little walkthrough of using an XML document to provide content for an InDesign document. I’m far from an InDesign expert, but hopefully this post will lay out a process that you can adapt to your own needs.
Just Enough Subversion For Dungeon World
A couple of weeks ago I made the Dungeon World text available through a Subversion repository. So what’s Subversion? Subversion is a version control system. There’s two parts to it: a repository that lives on the server and keeps track of every change made to every file, and a client app that allows you to [...]
Thinking About PAX 2011
So, PAX 2010 was a hit, what can happen to make PAX 2011 better for indie tabletop RPGs?
PAX 2010 Recap
Penny Arcade Expo 2010! I took point on organizing the indie games presence at PAX. The whole thing was pretty last minute, with no official support. We just grabbed a room, called it ours, and tried to keep games running in it. In the end it all turned out pretty well. I ran something like [...]
