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The double issue of RPG Review 23-24 has been released with the final article, a top-twenty of RPG game worlds concluded. Still working on the web version, as opposed to the PDF, up-to-date, but that should occur soon. Also have had two reviews published on rpg.net, Never Unprepared, for session preparation and Odyssey for campaign management. Thursday night was an enjoyable session of Masks of Masks of Nyarlathotep, with two investigators deciding to take a general plot to seek a sanatorium on Cyprus, rather than continuing their journey to Kenya. They arrived just after Cyprus has become a Crown Colony, and sought assistance from new player-investigator, Constantin von Economo. This afternoon was a session of GURPS Middle-Earth, which ran well.
The LNP Federal government continues to their utmost to destroy any notion of the Commonwealth of Australia, with demands that the unemployed make at least forty job applications per month. Some have shown that this can achieved easily, albeit at a processing cost for business. This clearly ties-in with their work-for-the-dole programme, which is shown to reduce one's chance of finding employment. The practical upshot of all this is that a number of us are plotting a job search agency that automates the application process with relevant positions. Watch this space for further developments in Zardoz Employment Services.
Also in the realm of practical politics is the Isocracy Annual General Meeting (FB link) for August 16th at Trades Hall. Guest speaker is Sol Salbe from the Australian Jewish Democratic Society, and we're hoping to have a speaker from Australians for Palestine, all due to recent events in Gaza. The Network has already made its position quite clear (Apartheid and Zionism, A Zero State Solution; a secular, democratic, liberal, socialist Palestine that is a Jewish homeland. Impossible? In the realm of political change, you start with the ideal and work backwards on how you're going to achieve it.
Wore my The Clash hoodie into work on Friday, causing a flurry of activity and discussion on musical tastes. I had previously discussed my recent acquisition of the Rob Jo Star Band, a very obscure 1975 French version of Hawkwind (or at least that my reading of them). Later that day spent a small fortune to buy two VIP tickets to see the new Pop Will Eat Itself. Ever since my mid-teens my musical tastes have been generally eclectic with an emphasis on the alternative contemporary styles, matching with other aesthetic choices. From the early and mid-70s, there's a tendency towards the amalgam of progressive, psychedelic, art-rock and proto-punk (Hawkwind, Brian Eno, Yes), are my preferences. From the late 70s to late-80s strong punk, gothic, and post-punk influences (The Clash, The Dead Kennedys, Bauhaus, Joy Division/New Order, The Chameleons, Shriekback, The Cure). The late-80s to the mid-2000s my preferred sounds are mainly in the industrial, electronic body music, and other electronica styles (Front 242, Skinny Puppy. Pop Will Eat Itself, Leftfield, Nine Inch Nails). Don't ask me about post-2005 I'm still thinking about it!
The LNP Federal government continues to their utmost to destroy any notion of the Commonwealth of Australia, with demands that the unemployed make at least forty job applications per month. Some have shown that this can achieved easily, albeit at a processing cost for business. This clearly ties-in with their work-for-the-dole programme, which is shown to reduce one's chance of finding employment. The practical upshot of all this is that a number of us are plotting a job search agency that automates the application process with relevant positions. Watch this space for further developments in Zardoz Employment Services.
Also in the realm of practical politics is the Isocracy Annual General Meeting (FB link) for August 16th at Trades Hall. Guest speaker is Sol Salbe from the Australian Jewish Democratic Society, and we're hoping to have a speaker from Australians for Palestine, all due to recent events in Gaza. The Network has already made its position quite clear (Apartheid and Zionism, A Zero State Solution; a secular, democratic, liberal, socialist Palestine that is a Jewish homeland. Impossible? In the realm of political change, you start with the ideal and work backwards on how you're going to achieve it.
Wore my The Clash hoodie into work on Friday, causing a flurry of activity and discussion on musical tastes. I had previously discussed my recent acquisition of the Rob Jo Star Band, a very obscure 1975 French version of Hawkwind (or at least that my reading of them). Later that day spent a small fortune to buy two VIP tickets to see the new Pop Will Eat Itself. Ever since my mid-teens my musical tastes have been generally eclectic with an emphasis on the alternative contemporary styles, matching with other aesthetic choices. From the early and mid-70s, there's a tendency towards the amalgam of progressive, psychedelic, art-rock and proto-punk (Hawkwind, Brian Eno, Yes), are my preferences. From the late 70s to late-80s strong punk, gothic, and post-punk influences (The Clash, The Dead Kennedys, Bauhaus, Joy Division/New Order, The Chameleons, Shriekback, The Cure). The late-80s to the mid-2000s my preferred sounds are mainly in the industrial, electronic body music, and other electronica styles (Front 242, Skinny Puppy. Pop Will Eat Itself, Leftfield, Nine Inch Nails). Don't ask me about post-2005 I'm still thinking about it!
