May. 27th, 2013

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Sunday was National Sorry Day where hopefully a number of Australian of the Anglo-Celtic heritage give some consideration of the rape, pillage, and murder that accounted for the invasion of this country and the succession of policies that was either effectively genocidal or assimilationist. On other social media, I particularly drew attention to Lang Hancock, especially given his solution, to "the aboriginal problem", an act of particular hypocrisy given his more private activities. On a slightly more positive orientation, there is at least proposals for indigenous recognition in the Australian Constitution in a referendum during the election this year. This is also a proposal for the consitutional recognition of local government, although with a majority of votes in a majority of states required for a constitutional change to occur, any optimism I may have or rationality of the proposals must be tempered. My preferred referendum - which would see local government recognised and states abolished - is probably one of the most unlikely options.

On a very different note, the past several days has seen plenty of gaming activity. Pretty happy with another Eclipse Phase session on Thursday night. Perhaps as expected we're coming to the conclusion that Firewall, the organisation which PCs typically belong to, engages in some interesting situational ethics (i.e., sacrifice the PCs for the greater good). As if reading Halting State hasn't been enough. Apropos horror and conspiracy, three reviews of mine have just been published on RPG.net, specifically D20 Call of Cthulhu, Cthulhu Dark Ages, and Delta Green. Have also submitted a number of other reviews which should be up next week.

Very pleased with the quick developments in the next edition of RPG Review, a 'Monsters and Aliens' special with a lot of article offers coming in, although I suspect a few people will be surprised with my 'Bunnies and Burroughs' combination (homosexual junkie rabbits against the Gibraltar rock apes). Sunday's game was another episode of Twilight 2000, where the PCs utterly failed to prevent a shipment of biological weapons to a Warsaw feudalist warlord (as if being hit by tactical six nuclear bombs wasn't enough). Sunday also saw plenty of action in my HeroQuest Glorantha pbem game which is now well into its seventh year.

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