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When I finished highschool I chose the workforce before I chose college. It wasn’t that I wasn’t interested in going to university, it was more that I was told “find a job or go to school” and I chose find a job. In truth I did choose both in the long run and I suppose […]
A prelude to a series of posts on the blossoming reputation economy Navigating the Complex World of Strategic Decision-Making In the world of game theory, various strategic situations are presented and encountered where individuals or entities must make decisions that impact not only their own outcomes but also those of others. These scenarios can be […]
In film especially, there is an opportunity to show rather than to tell. However what the viewer is shown is not always helpful for developing a character, a story, or drawing the viewer into the world being shown and connecting to the characters that reside there. This gap between the story and the audience is […]
Something was eating away at him. He wiped away another bead of sweat, and thought to himself damn this air conditioner. Cheap third world peltiers!. As he stared up at the fly covered strip of adhesive dangling from the broken ceiling fan. He hadn’t gotten his answers but a clearer picture of what was happening […]
Briggs Walters was still feeling jet lagged, as he stood partially covered by his umbrella, and partially covered by the coffee tree he was squatting under, to get a better look at the beans that weren’t growing properly. The farmer next to him, though exuberant, clearly didn’t fully understand why Briggs had flown all this […]
Note that this campaign was killed due to several players having to drop out after this session. note: this is a write up of the adventure our gaming group had in the roleplaying game: Nights Black Agents. All events are works of fiction. Vampires are not real. Back at their safehouse, the crew called it […]
note: this is a write up of the adventure our gaming group had in the roleplaying game: Nights Black Agents. All events are works of fiction. Vampires are not real. Somewhere in a small cafe in central Tel Aviv three men are patiently sipping on their drinks during a bustling Monday morning. One of them, […]
The rivulets of blood slowly coalesced on her abdomen, just below the wound. The gun shot. She had been shot. This wasn’t in the plan. She wasn’t expecting to be out here. Not in the January cold, slowly bleeding out from the stomach. A hole somewhere it shouldn’t be. A monkey wrench in the clockwork. […]
The evenings were always longer when Uncle came to visit. Uncle always came from the west, from the setting sun. He always brought his bag and his fancy attire. Father would grimace when Uncle would stroll down the stone path to our house, preferring to have his mead before Uncle arrived, and he never offered […]
This was a single session campaign (a one shot) run in Aliens: the Roleplaying Game, using the cinematic rules. This game was run by another member of our group and I wanted to share it here as it was such an exciting story that stayed true to the Alien aesthetic while also expanding on the […]