matt | June 29, 2011
So, Liz and I took a week off, and a bunch of the old crew from college came up to escape for a bit. There were massive quantities of beer consumed (homebrew Noisy Wingnut Steam Hefeweizen, and Cream Ale), good food, good friends, lots of gaming. One of the things which consistently impresses me about [...]
Category: Games, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games, Shadowrun |
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matt | June 22, 2011
I’m certain I’ve written about this before, but I’m no stranger to repeating myself, so I will do so here. Eclipse Phase is an interesting roleplaying game which deals with conspiracy and horror (always good things for fiction), and far future science fiction concepts of post-scarcity economies (Star Trek style replicators) and transhumanism (consciousness transfer, [...]
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matt | June 19, 2011
So, I’ve been working on this for the past week. Take: An old swingset A reciprocating saw with a metal blade A couple cans of Rust-Oleum Misc hardware Cutting it down: Painted: Know what it is yet? Here’s the burner (which I had already) And a pot and pulley: Anyone still not sure? Turkey fryer [...]
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matt | June 8, 2011
Skimmers and keypad overlays installed on ATMs, on the swipe cards to get in to the ATM area, and on fuel pumps. http://krebsonsecurity.com/all-about-skimmers/ Be paranoid.
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matt | June 6, 2011
I showed my Shadowrun book to a guy at work, and even let him borrow it for a couple of days. He returned it, and asked me “But what about all those people who take it too seriously and hanged themselves when their character died”. Dude? Really? You play guitar in a rock band – [...]
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