Category: words

  • She looked at him, seeing him again, and the future be damned, since all possible futures ever envisaged are — rusty sinks, two-week vacations and bombs or collective fraternity or harps and houris— endlessly, sordidly dreary, all delight being in the present and its past, all truth, too, and all fidelity in the word, the…

  • Raph Koster’s advice for breaking in to the game industry.

    See, the filter here that many employers will use is “motivation.” Games are hot now, and everyone says they want to be in the industry. But given that there’s no huge barriers other than time, the way to get in the industry is to just get in it. Don’t be fooled by the idea that…

  • Destination Imagination District Champions for Pandemonium Challenge.

  • kochalka: Flarf puffs from the Glorkian Warrior game.  It’s fun to share this stuff with you.  The game is almost here!

  • elmerseason: ooblium: The Risk of Deciding “Dune” was to be his most ambitious film production: a personal adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel of the same title, published in 1965.  The science-fiction saga was ideally suited to the choreography of transgressive visual and narrative genres of the sort in which the method of Alejandro Jodorowsky partakes,…

  • Waiting for my beloved to venture through sloppy weather. (at Shwayder Art Building)

  • How many male novelists does it take to change a lightbulb: SFF edition

    teapotsahoy: fozmeadows: Inspired by Mallory Orburg’s wonderful Male Novelist Jokes. Q: How many male SFF writers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: The buxom young barmaid winked at him as she leaned over the bartop, her full breasts brushing the wood in a none-too-subtle metaphor for touching his penis, which was where the encounter…

  • Big, experiential, game design works in progress. Three teams in the hyper cube.

  • kateordie: riansygh: Mar 5th Today I witnessed something amazing. Almost in stark contrast to yesterday, today I saw tangible impact of lady-representation in comics. At the bookstore I work at, we have a dedicated Adventure Time section. This family came in and those kids were SO EXCITED to see their favourite characters in comics. I…