Authoritarian Apologism
(Originally posted here) In a comment on a friend’s post, something that’s been bugging me finally came together in my head. In various recent events (Peter Watts’ Squidgate, the g20 mess, etc.), there...
View ArticleSuperhero Re-imagining – Rise of the Expies
I have been thinking about superheroes again. I blame the Avengers. And the book Seven Wonders. And Mark Waid. And Cirque du Soleil, oddly enough. Cirque are the word leaders in good looking spandex...
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Batman and Arrow
I discovered, this weekend, much to my surprise, that the new show Arrow is quite watchable. It’s a sort of gritty, soap-opera friendly reboot of the Green Arrow character form DC Comics. In this...
View ArticleGrace, unconventional spirituality and Leonard Cohen.
This is another old Livejournal post I’ve dredged up because I want to have my essays here. Grace In Christianity, the concept of grace refers to an unearned gift or blessing from God. The term is most...
View ArticleSuperjournalists?
I just had an idea (and I can’t be the first to think of this) for a comic book or superhero RPG; The Super Journalists. In a world with superheroes, but that more closely works like the real world,...
View ArticleAll apologies
What does it mean to be “sorry”? As a Canadian, I know that our greatest verbal tick isn’t “eh”, it’s “sorry” – when two Canadians bump into each other, both generally apologize. When someone suffers a...
View ArticleGamenerd: On Site Game Creation
An idea I have had for an RPG, swiping ideas from FATE and Prime Time Adventures, but trying to cast it into a diceless modality, so that, among other things, it will work at Ambercon. Like many indie...
View ArticleFear and Authority
Bob Altemeyer’s excellent (free!) book The Auhtoritarians goes into a fair bit of detail about how the Right Wing Authoritarian (RWA) mindset works, and how it happens. It’s a great book you should go...
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Appropriation, symbolism and magic.
I have a symbolism problem. The problem is, essentially, that the symbols that have a strong resonance for me have meaning derived from a toxic culture. The meanings they have for me that seem so deep...
View ArticleGameNerd: Super Hero Eras
Wonder Woman’s surprisingly enjoyable movie has me thinking about an RPG for supers that spans blocks of time. Each PC has a character for each era, and for extra fun, you could rotate GM by era. You...
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