Thanks, Daniel!

– c.

http://danielboshea.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/never-fuck-with-santa-a-christmas-memory/

I know what you’re thinking — TWO fucking Santa stories on your blog in the same week you pantywaist? Why don’t you shave, get a clean shirt and sober up for your guest slot on Oprah? I know, I know.

– c.

Not being a native speaker of English, it was very enlightening and encouraging – in fact, I was somewhat surprised about how much of it also applies to writing in my own language (Portuguese). I’ve never noticed how similar proper comma usage is in both languages.

Rock on!

– c.

And the shirt is in the mail from Threadless.

It is the awesome.

“What am I going to say? I killed the President of Paraguay with a fork. How are you?”

As far as rpg.net is concerned, I tend to avoid it due to the exact reasons I’ve seen mentioned here, but I will say that when an actual productive thread gets going, it is a great conversation point until it gets the inevitable geek version of Godwin when someone invokes the Holy Gygax or Eternal Arneson – especially when it comes to White Wolf players. That being said, more often than not it is the “play what you want, explore your imagination” types that instigate and fuel those conversations to the point of complete idiocy, while the supposedly less sophisticated power-gamers go with a more moderate approach. I find that single seeming paradox to be of massive entertainment when I read those threads, simply to watch the posters who come off so high-brow contradict themselves post-to-post.

But I want to stress again that the site has merit also. It is a lot like the Exalted Compendium community (or Redux, as you will). Any spot where people are sure to get passionate, there will be mindless antagonism and few things in my experience evoke passion like gaming, whether it simply to gain bigger numbers or unlock the childhood terrors of your character. I have seen people I wouldn’t trust to think their way out of a non-branching maze come up with the most insightful and powerful characters, and people I would consider brilliant performers balk at character so they can master the crunch over the fluff. It’s all in how you look at it, you know?

I might be getting back into Aion, as I mentioned previously. It’s just a matter of acquiring a second PC that can handle its blatant gorgeousness.

ZING, indeed, sir. ZING, indeed.

Grosse Pointe Blank is really one of my top 10 favorite films. And any reunion has to have that as a part of it — it is the essential reunion film.

I’ve never seen War, Inc, of course, which is supposed to be a half-almost-kind-of-spiritual sequel to GPB.

– c.