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Movies

A Few Fantasy Movies

To go along with my latest urge to design my MMO, I have been also wanting to watch Fantasy movies. I went through the entire trilogy of Lord of the Rings over the last couple of weeks, but I’ve also had a few movies sent out to me via Netflix of late as well. I had three fantasy movies rented in fact: Stardust, Spiderwick Chronicles, and The Golden Compass.Continue readingA Few Fantasy Movies

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Game Design

Cartographer’s Annual ’07 part 2

Second part of my run through of the Cartographer’s Annual 2007 takes me from May through August. These four don’t seem quite as good as the original four, but there is still quality in it.Continue readingCartographer’s Annual ’07 part 2

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Game Design

Cartographer’s Annual ’07 Review pt. 1

After two long years of putting it off, I finally get around to using and reviewing the first four months of the 2007 Cartographer’s Annual by ProFantasy. Everything a budding cartographer might need for their CC3 software.Continue readingCartographer’s Annual ’07 Review pt. 1

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Life

Christmas has Begun

For me and my family, Chrsitmas isn’t entirely beginning with Thanksgiving, it really begins when the Tree goes up. This weekend we finally put a tree up, and it was a brand new fake tree.Continue readingChristmas has Begun

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Game Design Writing

The Wrong Kind of Itch

Of late, I have had an itch to work on my game design. This is great in some respects. I love thinking about how MMOs work and it offers me a good number of posts as I start bringing my thoughts onto my blog. Which obviously this blog is about game design in the first…Continue readingThe Wrong Kind of Itch

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Politics

Automotive Bailouts

Anybody who reads my blog fairly regularly realizes that when it comes to politics that I tend to lean to the left fairly strongly. So it is odd to me that I am here blogging about a subject in which I apparently am being conservative on. Because honestly when it comes to all these bailouts,…Continue readingAutomotive Bailouts