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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #405 on: August 09, 2007, 03:47:08 AM »
I found this awesome guy's awesome blog!
Only, it's not so much "found" as "wrote."
And at least one of those "awesomes" may not apply. :D
I'm specifically posting this for people in my old gaming group (e.g. 42, EP, Cyan, and if they can let Nate know about it) but anyone who has interest can check it out.
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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #406 on: September 24, 2007, 03:09:56 PM »
who here hasn't tried to make a game? Here's an elegant list of game design principles presented in an entertaining manner.

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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #407 on: September 27, 2007, 10:12:12 PM »
Has anyone else heard of this site?

http://ficlets.com/

Apparently John Scalzi started it?  Anyhow, I think it's lots of fun.  Then again, I'm a writer.  :)
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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #408 on: October 02, 2007, 01:24:52 AM »
The Folly of youth is to think that intelligence is a subsitute for experience. The folly of age is to think that experience is a subsitute for intelligence.

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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #409 on: October 02, 2007, 02:47:16 PM »
That is so weird, yet so fascinating.

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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #410 on: October 03, 2007, 06:19:20 PM »
I don't know if this is so much a "cool thing" as "cool news".  Read it on slashdot.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/01/164234

Interesting idea.
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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #411 on: December 22, 2007, 06:13:05 AM »
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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #412 on: December 22, 2007, 08:10:34 PM »
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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #413 on: December 22, 2007, 10:03:00 PM »
After each question there's a little "right" or "wrong" that comes up.  I didn't see it at first, either.
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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #414 on: January 03, 2008, 05:05:58 AM »
Steam punk....laptop?
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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #415 on: January 03, 2008, 06:24:29 AM »
I've seen photo's of that so it's cool to see someone using it.
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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #416 on: January 03, 2008, 04:09:57 PM »
I think it's incredibly cool. The guy's website is datamancer.net and you can buy your own keyboard for a mere $1000.
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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #417 on: January 04, 2008, 05:04:16 PM »
I didn't look through the entire thread, but I hope this hasn't been posted before.

Actually, I don't care, because if it has been posted, it deserves another look. (-:,`

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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #418 on: January 10, 2008, 02:14:54 PM »
When I was a teenager, my friend Jon Clark (we called him Schroom for reasons completely inexplicable) bought a book at the skate shop in the mall (it was the only store in the mall that sold RPG and bookshelf games like Avalon Hill). It was called Killer and was released by Steve Jackson games.

Killer was proto-LARP (published, I believe, in 1985). The idea was that all the players were assassins. Last one standing wins. You used squirtguns, nerf darts, or anything else that you registered with the referee as a weapon (variant: assign cash values and give the assassins an allowance). The problem was you were only allowed to kill your assigned target, after which you inherited their assignment. If you killed someone else, or an innocent bystander, you died too. The other rule is you couldn't be witnessed -- with one exception. If you wore a mask you could kill *anyone* you wanted, but in turn anyone was allowed to target you.

We played a massive game in high school, many of us getting detention for doing things like running into AP History classes wearing a ski mask and using a squirt gun on a target, then running out. My crowning achievement was taking out Raymond Soper. We were year book "computer editors" together, which meant we spent most of fifth period in the other room playing Bard's Tale (ah, Bard's Tale, how I loved thee! -- but that's another story). I renamed the Bard's Tale executable, and wrote a BASIC program that made the screen flash and present the words "BOOM! This computer has just blown up. You are now dead." Begin fifth period, I call John (the other "computer editor") into the main room to "ask him something." Wait 120 seconds. Hear scream of frustration from the other room. Grin with unnatural glee.

All this is a long way of preparing you for how awesome this link is. The problem with Killer is our current political environment. "Killing" people in public can not only get you detention, depending on how paranoid the local citizenry are, you could wind up in jail. At the very least you freak the crap out of everyone.

Enter Cruel 2 B Kind. The principles are the same as Killer, though there are some complexities and point systems that I find very interesting. The main difference is that you "kill" by an act of kindness, three official "weapons" being determined by the referee and given power in a rock-scissors-paper scheme, so you can mediate ties. Thus, at worst, the local people will live in fear of packs of gamer nerds performing random acts of kindness.

By the way, Dan, I really admire those shoes.

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Re: Cool Stuff Found on the Internet, again
« Reply #419 on: January 10, 2008, 03:30:15 PM »
That looks pretty damn neat. Reminds me of Organized Crime, a group game where you have to find the two secret killers before they kill off all the innocents. Much fun.
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