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Food for geek thought.
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Which reminded me of David Brin's essay in Salon about Lucas as monarchist-elitist, versus Roddenberry as populist.
If you've not read these pieces, they're both highly recommended.
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Title: July RPGnet Mini Con
Description: RPG.net and EndGame bring you the July 2006 Mini Con.
Saturday July 15, EndGame along with our sponsors, RPG.net present you with a full day of gaming goodness. ( Read more... )There's still space available for many of the games, so check them out. Come out and play.
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Welcome! This is a community for gamers interested in Kublacon, the Bay Area game convention. Feel free to ask questions, talk about your convention experience, answer questions, talk about games you want to play, games you want to GM, or whatever suits your fancy.Which is to say, I just created an LJ community for Kublacon. Feel free to join me there. :-)
MATURE ROLEPLAYER WANTED
Five college-educated professionals, mid-20s-to-late-30s, w/backgrounds in humanities and non-gaming interests & commitments (i.e. lives), looking for 1 mature roleplayer to round out our weekly RPG group.
Current games include: Delta Green (modern Call of Cthulhu, run with GURPS), Earthdawn, L5R
We've also played: Ars Magica, GURPS Traveller, Pendragon, Star Wars (d6), TORG
Also interested in: Castle Falkenstein, Space 1889, 7th Sea
We do NOT play: D&D/d20, Palladium, World of Darkness, homebrews
We play Sundays, ~3-8PM, in SF or Oakland. We GM in rotation for ~2-3 months. Experience is not as important as attitude. We want people who:
- Can describe their character w/o referring to a statistic or goodie on their character sheet, but don't try to "be" their character.
- Learn & follow rules, w/o abusing them.
- Do not dress up and pretend they're vampires.
- Are looking for a creative outlet, but aren't "artistes."
- Enjoy politics, drama, literature, art, and history for their own sake.
- Don't take gaming (or themselves) too seriously, but aren't goofy.
- Will commit to regular attendance.
More info: http://home.covad.net/~spankyg/Gaming/MrGamesAd.html
Contact:* screened comments will get you an email address or contact info *We'll want to meet with you at least once in person before we invite you to play, to get to know you and make sure our styles are compatible. If you're the kind of person we want, you'll probably want the same.
In July 2002, the Marine Corps released a Universal Needs Statement that defined the Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion (SUSTAIN) concept that, if successful, will give the US a “…heretofore unimaginable assault support speed, range, altitude and strategic surprise” capability. SUSTAIN is an RLV that will carry a squad (13 men) into space and land it anywhere on Earth within two hours with, among other requirements, “flexible launch on demand… to any orbital inclination.”The article goes on to describe how the V-22 tilt-rotor plane is a direct result of Marine lobbying for a VTOL transport mechanism that had better speed and range than a helicopter. It would seem that using a similar timeline, the USMC could in theory, be dropping screaming Marines anywhere on the earth from space by 2045.