I cried very loudly in the roaring moving room-thing on the way here, because I thought the awfulness and strangeness was all happening over again forever. I still always think that when they put me in the box that smells of fear and the roaring moving room-thing. But except for that I have hardly cried at all since coming here.
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(This is the eighteenth installment of Dice Tales, an ongoing series of posts about RPGs as storytelling.) *** So let’s talk about combat. If you open any RPG core rulebook, odds are pretty good there’s an entire chapter devoted to … Continue reading
(Picture from here.) I’ve been hearing for a long time the perils of strong AI— a general purpose implementation of artificial intelligence. It will bootstrap itself to become so much more intelligent to the maximum of its resources. It will … Continue reading
A string of fantastic (see what I did there?) books got me thinking about how much fantasy has evolved since I first started combing library shelves for it more than fifty … Continue reading
I admit I was concerned about this one. Normally tests aren’t a problem for little Miss Clever-Clogs here, but this one required years of study, some experimentation in the lab, and more than a pinch of intuition. And it was … Continue reading
Hurricane Carla had a profound effect on me when I was a kid. It came barreling head-on into Galveston, the biggest one to hit that city since the 1900 storm that killed 6,000 people, and then went on down to … Continue reading
The May Book View Cafe newsletter offers a special treat: a “Find the Title” game. Winners receive a coupon for a free book, but act fast: the contest ends May 6. The newsletter also includes a huge stack of specials. … Continue reading
On Saturday, April 30, BVC member Mindy Klasky received the Career Achievement Award from the Washington Romance Writers chapter of the Romance Writers of America. The award acknowledges a chapter member’s ongoing professional career, making specific note of the quantity … Continue reading
I would sometimes come to work to find five full-size cakes, two batches of cookies, cheese, salami, crackers, corn chips, potato chips, a jar of olives, an oh yeah a lonely little plate of celery sticks. Our word processing center was very popular on those days.
Continue readingSport is full of amazing stories. But last night Leicester City achieved one of the most amazing turnarounds in sporting history. They won the English Premier League. To put this in perspective, only four teams have won the Premier League … Continue reading