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“The Greatest Story in Gaming”
My buddy Matt! writes about what he considers “The Greatest Story in Gaming”… the L5R Clan War. It’s always very humbling to hear such talk about a thing we were doing by the seat of our pants. Yes, we did catch lightning in a bottle, and yes, subsequent storylines are lessons to be learned for…
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More Reasons Not to Vote for McCain
I don’t care if you’re a Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Scientologist, a Mormon, a Discordian, a worshiper of Thor, Zeus, or Joe Pesci. Stop trying to revise history to favor your own religion. The Founding Fathers specifically kept any mention of god, Jesus, the bible and any other religious icons out…
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You Don’t Mess with the Moyers
I’ve often used the phrase “The Last American Journalist” when talking about Bill Moyers. Thankfully, my attribution is more hyperbolic than correct, but here’s an example of why “journalists” like the small fellow below really shouldn’t mess with the bull. You get the horns. Bill O’Reilly (not a journalist) sent one of his producers to…
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Richard Stark: Dirty Money
Parker is back! Dirty Money is “part 3” of an unofficial trilogy that started with Nobody Runs Forever and Ask the Parrot: two novels that prove Stark is just getting better with age. The book isn’t in my hands yet (Amazon sent it today), but I can’t wait. If you want to read an excerpt…
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Morality and Ethics
One of the biggest criticisms I hear about books such as The God Delusion and God is not Great is this: “Where does an atheist get his morals?” Ah, see. We’re begging an important question here. Sonny, I don’t have morals. I have ethics. Ethics trump morals. Let me explain. When we talk about crimes…
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Choke Clip
When I recommend Choke, I often add in a little quip: “It’s got the world’s funniest rape scene.” When I say this, most folks just… you know… look at me that way. The way that says, “You need therapy.” For your viewing pleasure, the prelude to that scene… And folks, that ain’t even the funny…
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Snuff, by Chuck Palahniuk
The premise is simple. An aging porn queen wants to go out with a bang. A gang bang. 600 men, one woman, breaking the record, setting an impossible task for any woman to follow. And yes, she plans to be dead at the end. The last Palahniuk novel I tried to read was Diary.…
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F&%$ing Index (sans formatting)
Gamers like ’em. I think a clear TOC does the trick. I’m compromising. An index for HotB. I’ve been burning on this for about 6 hours and this is what I’ve got so far. I count six more hours until I’m completely done, but I’m handing it over to my editor first so he can…
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HotB: Cover, v.2
Read about Daniel’s process in making the cover here.
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The Cohen Brothers’ Next Film