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.
- 2014-03-07 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.
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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... - 2013-11-06 19:33 - Gilded Curlicues - link So I bought this a couple of years ago after reading this review, and just got round to reading it. Or rather, reading the first 80 pages of it and giving up :( For some reason I just could not get into this. I didn't have any obvious problem wi...
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2013-10-30 22:21 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Halloween Special Girl Books for Girls: Episode/Phase/Part Five -
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Shimmin: I don't think I could give the beginning of either Fallen or Morganville a fair shake, knowing that massive bait-and-switches will rapidly render the first tedious to me and the second revolting
Robinson: I...
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2013-10-29 07:45 - For the Love of God, Tim Powers, I Thought I Could Expect Better of You -
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I can't actually think of a single memorable female character in any of his books.
The Anubis Gates, which I just finished, does feature one female character who isn't just in passing. She spends most of the novel ... - 2013-10-01 22:32 - Ferretbrain Presents Fighting Fantasy Podcastingness Part 2 - link Just been relistening to these, prompted by enormously fun expedition into Firetop Mountain with my folks which they're extremely keen to carry on next visit, and it's as much fun as I remembered it being. We should do more!
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2013-09-12 23:10 - City of Celluloid -
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Three Swedes walk into a schwa?
...and say "əw!"? - 2013-09-03 07:58 - Fists of Beauty - link A recording from Eastercon (available here, this isn't the recording I heard but should of course be identical) sheds some interesting and fairly definitive ...
