Friday, November 30, 2018

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 30

The Pit of the Serpent by Robert E. Howard

They claimed that the old man had a knuckle-duster on his right, which is ridiculous and a dirty lie. He had it on his left.

Thursday, November 29, 2018

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 29

The Return of the Sorcerer by Clark Ashton Smith

Among the weird appurtenances of the room, in that atmosphere of unmanifested evil, of untold horror, the rational part of my mind began to succumb slowly to a recrudescence of dark ancestral fears.

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

RPGs and me

10 role-playing games, a rough timeline:

D&D: Moldvay and Advanced
Marvel Super Heroes
RIFTS
Vampire: The Masquerade
GURPS
D&D 3e
Burning Wheel
Dogs in the Vineyard
3:16
Apocalypse World

10's not nearly enough.

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 28

Smoother by Terry Bisson

And no matter what we do, it keeps going at the same speed, winding its way around the world, smoothing out whatever is in front of it, leaving behind a mile-wide smooth strip of nothing, like a yellow brick road.

Tetri-ffected

I don't play video games much anymore, and I likely won't get into VR (let alone get a Playstation), but this Tetris Effect trailer (much like Beat Saber before it) has me fondly daydreaming about an alternate reality in which I am immersed in alternate tetrical realities on a regular basis.

https://youtu.be/PFVL6t8IHE8

Image result for tetris effect

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 27

Pop Tarts by Lauren Beukes‬

‪It’s a very competitive market now that everyone and their domestic worker has public access broadcast rights and a private channel to call their own. Not to mention big-time sponsor deals.‬

Monday, November 26, 2018

WoShoStoReMo 2018 Day 26

Inglaf’s Dream by Ama Darr Rogen‬

“And then, I understand that these folk believe that . . . that they are us and that we are naught but their fantasy, their playthings for an idle hour.”‬