Source: dresdencodak.com
Q:Dang. I forgot the name of that thing that you told me about already. I shoulda written it down.
I’m guessing this is in reference to examples/inspiration for your skill-learning game idea? Was it SFZero? The Games of Nonchalance? I need to be better about tracking other interesting games like these, since there are other things going on that, while I have no interest in playing them, they’re fun inspiration.
Burritar
- Adam: sorry to be all BURRITOBURRITOBURRITO and then pull it away
- Jason: WE ARE YOUNG / TRUCK TO TAQUERIA WE STAND / NO MILD SAUCES, NOTHING CANNED / BOTH OF US KNOWING / BURRITO'S A BATTLEFIELD
Role-playing Games - Stack Exchange
Ask/answer questions about RPGs. StackExchange seems to come from Stack Overflow, which does a bunch of useful sites for web techies that I often end up on when I have questions like “How do I do ______ in Django?” Looks like they’re approaching a whole bunch of other topics, including mathematics, photography, a few flavors of Unix, bicycles, cooking…
(via Buccaneer’s Guild)
Source: buccaneersguild.com
Fable 2 - Blind Date Quest with super awesome surprise! (via EmoPrinny)
I think I’ve mentioned this quest in Fable 2 before, but here it is, being played through. Earlier in the game, you help Giles, a retired guardsman with a bandit problem (or you help the bandits with their retired guardsman problem, but let’s assume the first scenario for now). After some time passes, Giles’ farm is doing great, and he’s trying to get his son to settle down and start his own family to take over the farm. The son, Rupert, has other ideas.
You don’t get this quest if you took this area’s evil choice earlier in the game. Helping a young man come out to his father is not something evil characters get to do. That concrete cause-and-effect that eliminates moral ambiguity around the quest dealing with queer themes, a very definite position to take, is one of the reasons I love this game so much, and why I’ll disappear for a few days once Fable 3 arrives later this year.
Source: youtube.com
“Dance me to the End of Love” - A video of dance and men (via ArcaEnCiel and Seldo.com) Awww. Now I’m feeling all fuzzy.
Source: youtube.com
“The Hero Your Hero Could Smell Like” - the latest episode of our Marvel Super Heroes: What The—?! series.
This has been in the pipeline for months, since way back when I invited Isaiah Mustafa aka The Man Your Man Could Smell Like aka The Old Spice Guy to Marvel. Isaiah is a HUGE Marvel fan and one of the nicest dudes around. When we brought this What The idea up to him, he said yes before we could even really finish describing what we wanted to do. We did a few takes and this is the awesomeness that resulted.
I hope you guys enjoy this as much as we all do here at Marvel.
Posting this for Mister J.T. for the Luke Cageness.
Source: marvel.com
Games of Nonchalance
So when I lived in SF among the many fun things I did was THIS. I loved it so much that I recommended it to everyone, and when people came to visit me, I would even make them go while I went off and did something. It’s a really eye-opening and interesting way to see San Francisco, and it sure as hell beats being a tourist in San Francisco (in one of those hokey sweatshirts that you bought at the Wharf).
So, I’m saying. You need good walking shoes, $1.10, and 2-5 hours. And you need to get to 580 California, Suite 1607. I suggest getting there on the days specified between noon and 1PM to start.
Seriously. If you have not done this, you are missing one of the coolest things to do in SF. And it’s practically free. Seriously.
You’re an unemployed web worker, what else are you going to do anyway?
I absolutely agree, and while I’m more of a passive player myself, I totally recommend this, especially to people who have just moved to SF who just wanna take in something cool about their new city.
Let me just go off once more about this awesome thing I’ve been lucky enough to participate in…
One thing I found interesting, if perhaps self-defeating, about the project is that it started on the down-low, so that you either had to be invited to play (by cryptic email from a fictional party), or you saw a flier on the street about some crazy invention, or a post on Craigslist, and it was up to you to figure out what this thing might really be. Despite it being fairly easy (at least I thought) to figure out that the self-actualization cult was fictional through some basic Googling (they say they’ve been around since 1972, but there’s nothing on them anywhere online until 2008?), I’ve been asked by more than one person, “how do you know they’re not a real cult?” And even then, I have to admit, they did such a good job on constructing the facade’s verisimilitude, that when I went down to start the game, and the intro video mentioned connections to EST and Scientology, I almost bolted, and I had to remind myself that I was sitting in a fiction. A different flavor of fiction from Scientology, anyway.
So now they have a website that tries to tell you what it is, without blowing any of the mystery that makes it fun to interact with as you piece the narrative together.
Source: glenda
