The Meme-Mandated, Semi-Regularly-Updated, Occasionally Coherent Thoughts of G.M. Skarka
Remember the classic electronic board game from the 80s–Dark Tower? Click the link to a brilliant bit of web time-wastage: You can play it on-line!
In other news, re-location back to the Kansas City area may be in the offing for this summer. Events have been set in motion. More on this as it develops.
If you’re looking to be irritated, check out this link (found via the comments section on Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s website): a tally of all of the heinous BS pulled by Bush since day 1 of his junta. Read, absorb, take a calming breath, and then go out and beat the living crap out of a Nader voter. Because, after all, we have their self-righteous asses to thank for the current situation. If they complain while you’re pounding on them, just tell them that you’re only doing it “to send a message to the major parties.”
For the writers in the audience, here’s an exercise for you: Go to this “action film trailer generator”, generate some random goodness, and run with the ideas it gives you. For example:
In a lost universe of blasphemy, a psychiatrist and a philosopher fight an army of psychics intent on stealing the source of all magic.
Cool, yes? Or how about:
In a hellish kingdom, in an era of mysteries and secrets, five spies quest for revenge and oppose a horde of murderers intent on stealing the souls of the innocent.
Novel? Screenplay? Comic? Game? Your call. But there’s no shortage of ideas….
“You know, if this is how you act in the real world I can see why your wife left you. “
This little gem was posted to RPGnet this evening, after I made the radical suggestion that a forum where regulars argue in support of bestiality really shouldn’t be part of an RPG site.
A lot of folks criticized me for playing the “think about the children” card….but goddamn it, my oldest daughter occasionally reads that site with her friends. Hence, I felt that the explicit threads were a problem.
Of course now, I get to deal with her having to read shit like the above quote, and numerous other gems about her Dad.