Tag: gaming

  1. Another weekend in the nation's capital.

    14 April 2008

    Aside from a few bouts of tenderness in the new dental work on Saturday, the pain and infection in that one particular molar are gone. Praise be to the gods of dental medicine. I go in on Friday morning to get fitted for the mounting post and temporary crown. Whether or not I'll be able to afford them is a different matter entirely. Time will tell, as it always does.

    On Saturday, Lyssa and I meet up my mother and Judy, who happened to be in DC taking a bus tour of the nation's capital. Even though they were staying …

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  2. Time Lords, like fine wines and Commodore-64's, get better with age.

    18 February 2008

    On Friday the 15th I turned 30.

    I know that I didn't make a big deal out of it, and that wasn't out of any shame or wanting to keep things low-key as it was I've been really busy lately and didn't have time to post about it anywhere. The company I work for has pulled me from fieldwork for at least the next couple of months after what happened in Tuscaloosa. I've been moved to another project much closer to home and I spent all day Friday in the field with my cow-orkers getting stuff set up and running …

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  3. Okay, enough with the silliness.

    23 August 2007

    Or not.

    The Chinese government has decreed that - get this - they have officially banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission.

    I can't make this stuff up, folks.

    Well, I actually could, but that's beside the point. Resuming...

    They went so far as to draft official procedures by which one could apply for permission to reincarnate on the material plane in the future. It sounds daffy, but scholars of the Buddhist path have said that this could be a move on the part of the Chinese regeime (which doesn't much like religion of any kind, not just Buddhism …

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  4. Even gamers stationed overseas need dice^wlove.

    22 April 2007

    The troops stationed overseas aren't having a fun time of their hitch in Iraq, let's be honest. They do everything they can to keep their spirits high and burnout rates low, but it's hard having something for everyone. You've got your football games, softball games, even dodgeball games.. but now they have a gaming convention. On 9 June 2007 at Camp Adder, the US military forces in Iraq will have their own con, dubbed ZigguratCon. It looks like they'll be heavy on the D&D, but a few other publishers have stepped up to the plate and are donating books …

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  5. Two famous RPG magazines will cease publication in September of 2007.

    20 April 2007

    Two of the most famous RPG magazines, Dungeon and Dragon (about Dungeons and Dragons, unsurprisingly) will cease publication in September because more and more gamers are turning to the Net for news and articles about gaming.

    Subscribers with issues left in their subscriptions will have a couple of options to get their money's worth. First of all, they can opt for back issues on a one-for-one basis. They can also get refunds, credit at paizo.com's online store, or convert to a subscription to Pathfinder, which is a monthly perfect bound magazine of adventures for OGL-compatible RPGs.

    The final …

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