I just want to make it clear that in spite of my huge misadventure of a life here in the US, a large part of which was dedicated to gaming and so-called "geek culture" as it stood in the 70s and 80s, I still like the United States, and still keep all that I've read about the founders of this nation close to my heart.
I never could get in the groove of American culture. In spite of the stock car races I attended, in spite of all of the SF Giants and 49er games I went to, in spite of all th
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So, Gene Roddenberry, in his various spiels about Star Trek, often stated how we humans were capable of so many more things and how "the human adventure is just beginning" and other nonsense. To me that kind of stuff I just chalked up to artistic eccentricity, but, as it turns out, it may have been intentional to loop in the more delusional section of the fanbase. There's a portion of fans of any fiction who take things way above and beyond reason. When Star Trek the Next Generation aired I
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Film and TV are all about behavioral science. Given the amount of abuse I received over the last 40+ years from behavioral science, I really despise it (film and TV).
Someone tried to get me to stop writing for games--the concept being that the worse I got treated then, in theory, I should let my pride take over and move onto something else that's more high profile to meet someone else's criteria for my life.
Well, too bad for you.
Again, my objective was to get some tips to creat
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What if I were to run an Alternate Earths campaign set in the Terra System with the Traveller setting substituting for Homeline. The Third Imperium is funding parachronic research from a base on Luna, instead of parschronic projectors they have wormhole drives, which are similar to jump drives except they move sideways in time to the same system they are in but in a parallel universe.
What sort of starship would be best, scout ship or free trader. Only one starship can visit a parallel Eart
So, this time I had my YouTube channel shut down without any warnings. I got into a heated argument with an Indian behavioral scientist acting on my mother's and families behalf, and he had my account suspended for disagreeing with him about WMDs in Saddam Hussein's arsenal. Even with clean language, even on my Discussion board, the comment was deemed offensive.
Over the years it's largely private security people doing the doctor's dirty work, and no matter how many times I contact the Sta
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Apparently the commies were the cause of the unrest in my father's home land, and apparently they tried to screw with me hoping I would turn out to be a POS "alpha" male with all kinds of nasty criminal habits.
Well, too bad for them. Putin and Pozner can go straight to hell.
Thanks to the US Navy and US Army I got my gray matter back in order, although there is one particular individual (who shall remain nameless) who has some explaining to
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My mother, my biological mother, does not understand science fiction as a whole. She did not, and presumably now, does not understand gaming. I've complained about her in this log in previous entries. This one will be no different.
Things I never got to do in games because of her ignorance, and presumably that of my immediate and extended family;
1) No SFB Campaign. I created rules for operational deployment for a "Space Action Group" for Star Fleet Battles, but because I was being sc
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So, this is for my parents and family, and that is I would like to pose this question to all the Citizens of the Imperium, and just gamers in general, old school and young alike:
Have you ever gotten any personal values from any popular media? Notably, have you ever gotten any sense of right or wrong from a television show?
Have you ever gotten any personal values from a novel, a radio program, a comic book, a piece of music or poetry? Has media, in any form ever given you a sense of
A thought occurred to me as I was thinking about why Star Trek the Next Generation was so … poorly written, or just outright bad. It’s more than the fact that original Star Trek was an adventure and police show, and more than Star Trek the Next Generation being a “family psychology” show dressed up as science fiction. But if you look at the bad stories for TNG, you’ll note that the psychological phenomenon presented are things that people tend
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Dungeons and Dragons, as I was reminded by timerover51, are designed as power trips for pre-teens and older.
I don't like them for all of the afore mentioned reasons in my Fantasy entries' i.e. a mish mash of time periods and technologies from classical era to the renaissance.
I never saw the D&D feature film, but it looked like garbage. And where I didn't see it, I did see that dim witted cartoon on Saturday mornings. If you liked it, then I'm sorry for trashing it.
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December 31st, 2020 06:17 AM 
