Shim consists mostly of hair, and has a secondary stomach to help digest dense texts. Despite allegations, he does not speak 'every language' and is not a hardened criminal. His tastes are eclectic, which is an excellent word.
- 2014-07-17 00:43 - Timeo Daneos et Donar Ferentes - link Some scattered thoughts, sorry quite long. My first question would be, “what is a value”? There’s obviously the rather dubious list, but leaving that aside, what is meant by values in terms of teaching them; what sort of status ...
- 2014-07-04 22:25 - Michael Bay Is America - link Thanks Alasdair! Sterling work as usual.
- 2014-07-04 15:12 - Michael Bay Is America - link An update - I came looking for this article as I've been chatting about the Transformers thing, but sadly the linked pdfs now seem to be gone as well. If anyone has another version it would be handy.
- 2014-05-14 21:16 - This Town Ain't Big Enough For the Monogamous - link Having had a read, it seems like it would either exasperate me or become a kind of rhythm that carried me along like Wodehouse tends to. Not sure which.
- 2014-05-09 08:12 - Episode 10 - The Final! - link For my part, I don't mind at all. Providing of course that you cast people who can do the accents right :p
- 2014-05-05 23:37 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Halloween Special Girl Books for Girls: Episode/Phase/Part Five - link Would be glad to hear them, so please keep at it! It's a shame about the podcasts, and listening to them again does give me the urge to Text Factor things. Life just got on top of everyone though - speaking for myself, another time-consuming and ...
- 2014-03-07 10:18 - Kickstopper: Deathpledge - Spam of Neverfunded - link It's interesting in some ways, because from my point of view one of the massive strengths of POD is enabling minority publications. Minority languages can get stuff printed without the risks of trying to estimate demand - the cost-per-volume curve changes...
- 2014-03-06 22:43 - Kickstopper: Deathpledge - Spam of Neverfunded - link The publicity aspect could certainly be a help if you have up-front payment arrangements with other contributors and could do with getting that money back quickly. Moving sales forward in time could be a big help in that regard, so a Kickstarter rather th...
- 2014-02-16 20:04 - Kickstopper: Funding the Pit - link As a player, I also found the game very smooth and painless, despite having never moved past the gamebooks before. The monster entries seem to be efficient enough to pull out and deploy more or less at a run, so despite being improvised there were no leng...
- 2014-02-09 10:02 - The White Wolf's Rehash - link Blood lost me when I couldn't even get through the paragraph where you explained the plot. I'm sort of gravitating towards a policy of discarding any books that feature a multiverse. It's one of those elements that seems to correlate very ...
- 2014-01-12 16:22 - So Is Monopoly Crap, or What? - link Sticking my oar in for the usual comprehensive slating, I would say that Monopoly does suck, categorically. I don't know whether the eliminate-opponents thing is coming from the actual rulebook or you've made a judgement call, because I don't have...
- 2014-01-05 13:21 - Anxiety, Anger, and Porn - link To clarify, I didn’t think Tomoko’s problems were “teenagerness”. Because I was being negative, I just wanted to acknowledge that there were some moments that I did find very believable, either as teenage situations or as mental he...
- 2014-01-04 12:44 - Christmas Boardgame Roundup - link Ah, Zombiecide. That was a lot of fun. I think the biggest hurdle for me was the missing explanations. It shares that problem with the D&D boardgames, for one. As a player, it's always confusing to find a stack of components that are...
- 2013-12-18 19:56 - The Stereotype Business - link This is arguably one of the advantages of hanging on to stuff. I inherited a lot of my toys and books. As the previous generation featured mostly girls, me and my brother ended up playing with dolls alongside Meccano, and reading Claudine at St. Clair...
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2013-12-09 23:30 - Anxiety, Anger, and Porn -
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This does sound ... pretty remarkable actually. Uncomfortable as hell, but pretty remarkable.
Great. You can have my copy. Please. I just read this, though I had no idea you'd written an article Alasdair. Didn't rat... -
2013-12-08 22:08 - Ferretbrain Presents: Fighting Fantasy Podcastingness Part 1 -
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I thought you already used preferential voting, actually. I had never looked it up and for some reason I had the impression that no one seriously uses first-past-the-post.
You'd think, wouldn't you? But no, we've be...
