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September | 2015 | Music and Zombies
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Musings about life and living. List of Short Stories. Monthly Archives: September 2015. September 18, 2015. Jeanie glanced over at Bambi and slowly placed the mug down on the stone wall. Her other hand wrapped around the wooden handle of her knife. A fur paw, wrapped itself tightly around Jeanie’s wrist. “No.”. 8220;Just how do you plan on stopping me this time? 8221; Jeanie glared. Jeanie glared at Murphy. “This is how you plan on stopping me? 8220;I’m a winter. Studying works for me. Just...8221; Jeani...
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February | 2014 | Music and Zombies
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Musings about life and living. List of Short Stories. Monthly Archives: February 2014. February 22, 2014. This is a writing challenge from a good friend of mine. We both play a wonderful game known as Dystopia Rising. It is put out by the amazing people at Eschaton Media. She challenged people to write a story about our characters from when they first began. I first began playing Jeanie in July of 2011. Here is the Jeanie of 2011. Why didn’t anyone use it? No But it was a kind of bird. The hard part ...
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March | 2015 | Music and Zombies
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Musings about life and living. List of Short Stories. Monthly Archives: March 2015. March 30, 2015. Some days, you just need the RP Fix. I sound like an addict when I say that, though, I guess I’d prefer to be addicted to roleplaying games than addicted to drugs, but that’s just me. Then again, it’s been a few weeks since my last game (almost a month at this point) and I still have to wait til May before I get to play again. There is a game coming up at the chapter I’m leaving. It’s this ...March 25, 2015.
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11 ways to be a better roleplayer - LOOK, ROBOT - LOOK, ROBOT
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The stars are coming out. What is Look, Robot? 11 ways to be a better roleplayer. 11 ways to be a better roleplayer. June 20, 2013]. Because it's about fucking time someone wrote one of these. Published: June 20th, 2013. 8211; MASSIVE ARTICLE ABOUT TABLETOP ROLEPLAYING ALERT –. But it’s incredibly rare to find an article that teaches you how to play, and surely that’s more common? Surely for every GM there are, on average, four players? And from my friends on Facebook, this video on Improv. You are the s...
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Chris | Not Quite Literally
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Musings. Teachings. Ramblings. Work in progress, night thoughts, endings, beginnings, words. He wasn’t that different. But apoptosis says otherwise. Time says otherwise. Seven years, give or take. Seven years since he’d stood in this spot. Since he’d first visited this place. It was nothing like it was. His blood was here. Hers, too. Maybe, in another time, he could’ve felt the scar of the scale he had ripped from his chest. Now? All of them, really. And so he left, again. When he returned, though, there...
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Bogost’s Unit Operations (Part 1) | Not Quite Literally
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Musings. Teachings. Ramblings. Bogost’s Unit Operations (Part 1). Yes — part 1. This isn’t a blog post so much as it is a “freewriting” post. Why? Because Bogost, that’s why. When I was constructing my reading list for this independent study, I knew there were two authors that I absolutely had to have somewhere in my proto-syllabus: Espen Aarseth and Ian Bogost. Aarseth’s. Is cited just about everywhere, as is Bogost’s. While time dictates that. So, yeah, those things. Unit Operations are not universal (...
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A more thorough proposal… | Not Quite Literally
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Musings. Teachings. Ramblings. A more thorough proposal…. Last week I briefly touched on what my “final project” is shaping up to look like. This week I’ll go over what I’m trying to say/do in a little more detail. So, the general idea at play here is that. Is transgressive in the sense that it achieves a “postmodern goal” of “beating” the metanarrative. How is a piece of fiction truly interactive? Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern give us away around this with agency — they show us that interactivit...
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grad school | Not Quite Literally
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Musings. Teachings. Ramblings. Tag Archives: grad school. A scribbling of notes… (In Progress). Bricolant/bricolage — Bogost uses Derrida here (sort of? This is how it did it,” I was interested in showing how that linearity advanced a narrative of a lack of female agency. In my current project, admittedly, I’m swinging away from this a little — I’m talking mostly about mechanical things. But still! Those mechanical things are nothing without the stories inherent within them. Posted in Grad school. When I...
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So, how are we doing? | Not Quite Literally
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Musings. Teachings. Ramblings. So, how are we doing? Today’s reading was. Maps of Digital Desire: Exploring the Topographies of Gender and Play in Online Games. By Nick Yee. This was a formal book chapter based on Yee’s research in T he Daedalus Project. The article itself uses the data within the project to fuel a conclusion: that game communities are more impactful on gendered play than gameplay mechanics. Progress, power, status, numbers, analysis, challenging others, provocation. Yee notes, however, ...
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Uncategorized | Not Quite Literally
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Musings. Teachings. Ramblings. Work in progress, night thoughts, endings, beginnings, words. He wasn’t that different. But apoptosis says otherwise. Time says otherwise. Seven years, give or take. Seven years since he’d stood in this spot. Since he’d first visited this place. It was nothing like it was. His blood was here. Hers, too. Maybe, in another time, he could’ve felt the scar of the scale he had ripped from his chest. Now? All of them, really. And so he left, again. When he returned, though, there...
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