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Friday afternoon V3 hosted it's second researcher presentation, this time with Dr. Andrew Hung of the Health Innovations Research Institute of RMIT. His talk was on Novel Treatments for Neurological Disorders, specifically the use of conotoxin receptor interactions with Gromacs. Who would have thought the little blighters could actually be useful, eh? The next day Saturday was Software Freedom Day, held at the Electron Workshop. It was the first Melbourne SFD for several years that I did not have an primary organising role, although I was responsible for promotion from the LUV side of things. One speaker didn't show, so with half-an-hour's notice I cobbled together a talk on Opportunities and Issues in Free Software where I argued that free software will be increasingly dominant, but will increasingly suffer free rider problems. Another talk was on bitcoin; whilst an advocacy talk it contained what would be expected - I have more negative opinions on this collectible code, based around the realisation that it doesn't deal with liquidity problems and doesn't have the status of legal tender.
Last Thursday, ran a session of Pendragon specifically the Castle of Maidens scenario from Malory; it's almost ended in a TPK. I now have the troubling situation where one PC is very powerful compared to anything else that beginning characters can come up with, but it's also near the end of the epic story. As a weird spinoff, it looks like I might be giving an address at the local Unitarian church on the Arthurian legends; after three years of pretty thorough research on the subject, perhaps this is understandable. Apropos gaming, Sunday was the third chapter of Werewolf:The Yugoslav Wars, which introduced the classic Valkenburg Foundation set of scenarios, but located near Novi Grad in Republika Srpka. I think I'm going to quite like this scenario pack; it actually speaks seriously about introducing thematic concerns into the narrative with the gradual introduction of an over-arching general theme.
Last Thursday, ran a session of Pendragon specifically the Castle of Maidens scenario from Malory; it's almost ended in a TPK. I now have the troubling situation where one PC is very powerful compared to anything else that beginning characters can come up with, but it's also near the end of the epic story. As a weird spinoff, it looks like I might be giving an address at the local Unitarian church on the Arthurian legends; after three years of pretty thorough research on the subject, perhaps this is understandable. Apropos gaming, Sunday was the third chapter of Werewolf:The Yugoslav Wars, which introduced the classic Valkenburg Foundation set of scenarios, but located near Novi Grad in Republika Srpka. I think I'm going to quite like this scenario pack; it actually speaks seriously about introducing thematic concerns into the narrative with the gradual introduction of an over-arching general theme.
