Scattershot Updates
12 August 2009 01:09 pmMy brother and Vicky got married this weekend, an event that was eight years in the making. As an usher, I was forced into a monkey suit with a white-and-lilac waistcoat (not a waistcoat I'd normally wear, I much prefer purple) and had to direct busses around the wilds of the East Riding. Thank fuck for phone-mounted GPS. As brother of the groom, it was a fantastic day, warm and refreshing, and the place were absolutely fantastic.
Photographic proof that I'm not lying at all lives on my Flickr stream.
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Guy on the tourbus opposite looks just like a bearded![[profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cairmen. How rare.
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The House Always Wins, my free introductory scene for Geist: The Sin-Eaters has got some good feedback so far. Why not check it out if you haven't? It's got card games, ghosts, dead people, not-yet-dead people, and a mad motherfucker desperate to save his murderer.
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Currently, I'm doing a lot of linking to the free PDF of Æternal Legends. This isn't just because I want people to grab the game. It's because the PDF acts as a massive discount on the print version.
How massive? $11 in US money, taking a print copy of the game from $26.95 to $15.95. For those of you in the UK, the corebook would normally be £19.19. With this PDF, the book is £11.36. Still on the fence? How about five reasons to play the game!
Æternal Legends a paperback so it gets printed locally and the shipping isn't totally brain-damaged. However, it's always a good idea to order multiple books at once.eyebeams did up a list of three great games you could order at the same time.
I was considering doing my own list, but I can't do better than M. already has. Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium, REIGN (hardback only), and the MSG™ Executive Edition deserve to be on every gamer's bookshelf.
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Back from the wedding and straight into the festival. Monday night we went to the Pleasence to see Lucy Porter: Fool's Gold. Maybe because we saw her first, but she's the benchmark for other Fringe comics—and it's a very high mark. She's great on TV but really thrives doing stand-up, and this show continues the trend by blending the nature of acquisitive capitalism, alchemy, and the soul of Dubai into a long comedy train of thought on one thing: Gold.
And last night we saw Dylan Moran: What It Is. Easily topping both Like, Totally and Monster, this new show demonstrates the sheer comic genius at work. Ranting from the stage like a mutant hybrid of Dave Allen and Bill Hicks, he manages to so accurately skewer everything from the attitudes of humanity towards pleasure, the need for something to believe in—and how everything is corrupt, and the defining nature of the protracted argument that is the couple.
The rest of the lineup for this Fringe so far: Saturday is the Amateur Transplants, Monday is Mark Thomas' Manifesto, Friday is Jimmy Carr, and Saturday is Amanda Palmer. To be honest, they could all be shite (they won't be, but they could). The first two days have blown me away.
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Rediscovered the magic of Lidl yesterday: enough shopping to last two people for four days: £18.
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Trying to work out what to do this afternoon. I might risk it and go see what they've done to G.I. Joe on the big screen, but I'm not sure my brain can take it. Ideally, I want to be writing something but I don't know what. I've nothing freelance on the table, and I worry about burning through too much inspiration, so the call for paying work comes in and I'm just sat on the sofa dipping bread into anything that's worth money. Which is probably just a side effect of taking time off work and needing to adjust to doing nothing again.
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Christ I go on a lot when I don't have anything to say.
Photographic proof that I'm not lying at all lives on my Flickr stream.
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Guy on the tourbus opposite looks just like a bearded
cairmen. How rare.* * *
The House Always Wins, my free introductory scene for Geist: The Sin-Eaters has got some good feedback so far. Why not check it out if you haven't? It's got card games, ghosts, dead people, not-yet-dead people, and a mad motherfucker desperate to save his murderer.
* * *
Currently, I'm doing a lot of linking to the free PDF of Æternal Legends. This isn't just because I want people to grab the game. It's because the PDF acts as a massive discount on the print version.
How massive? $11 in US money, taking a print copy of the game from $26.95 to $15.95. For those of you in the UK, the corebook would normally be £19.19. With this PDF, the book is £11.36. Still on the fence? How about five reasons to play the game!
Æternal Legends a paperback so it gets printed locally and the shipping isn't totally brain-damaged. However, it's always a good idea to order multiple books at once.
eyebeams did up a list of three great games you could order at the same time.I was considering doing my own list, but I can't do better than M. already has. Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium, REIGN (hardback only), and the MSG™ Executive Edition deserve to be on every gamer's bookshelf.
* * *
Back from the wedding and straight into the festival. Monday night we went to the Pleasence to see Lucy Porter: Fool's Gold. Maybe because we saw her first, but she's the benchmark for other Fringe comics—and it's a very high mark. She's great on TV but really thrives doing stand-up, and this show continues the trend by blending the nature of acquisitive capitalism, alchemy, and the soul of Dubai into a long comedy train of thought on one thing: Gold.
And last night we saw Dylan Moran: What It Is. Easily topping both Like, Totally and Monster, this new show demonstrates the sheer comic genius at work. Ranting from the stage like a mutant hybrid of Dave Allen and Bill Hicks, he manages to so accurately skewer everything from the attitudes of humanity towards pleasure, the need for something to believe in—and how everything is corrupt, and the defining nature of the protracted argument that is the couple.
The rest of the lineup for this Fringe so far: Saturday is the Amateur Transplants, Monday is Mark Thomas' Manifesto, Friday is Jimmy Carr, and Saturday is Amanda Palmer. To be honest, they could all be shite (they won't be, but they could). The first two days have blown me away.
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Rediscovered the magic of Lidl yesterday: enough shopping to last two people for four days: £18.
* * *
Trying to work out what to do this afternoon. I might risk it and go see what they've done to G.I. Joe on the big screen, but I'm not sure my brain can take it. Ideally, I want to be writing something but I don't know what. I've nothing freelance on the table, and I worry about burning through too much inspiration, so the call for paying work comes in and I'm just sat on the sofa dipping bread into anything that's worth money. Which is probably just a side effect of taking time off work and needing to adjust to doing nothing again.
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Christ I go on a lot when I don't have anything to say.
