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Esperanto, Gaming, Politics and Religion
Jan. 5th, 2015 11:28 pmI've started 2015 rather enthusiastically, working through a number of outstanding items on my (shrinking) 'to-do' list with some vigor. After ignoring it for about a year, I've added four lecionoj to my Esperanto book, which should surely delight ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fluffyblanket. It remains an imperfect artificial language to me, with it verbal conjugations and the like, but nevertheless with some clever uses of affixes, vocabulary (largely Romance languages) and phonemics (Slavic). Of course, it has meant that I have been neglecting my account at Duolingo, which does seem to a very effective way to pick up some core languages.
It's been a few good days gaming-wise as well. I've had a few sales on the RPG Review store, extended the line by adding a few boardgames, and have began to reformat and re-edit the first issue of said magazine for an epub format, whilst at the same time collating articles for the twenty-sixth issue (goodness, that many already?). Accordingly my review of Flashing Blades has found its way on RPG.net and in actual play had a great double session of Call of Cthulhu on New Year's Day, where the Investigators stormed their way through a Shanghai cultist's abode like it was a D&D adventure, followed by GURPS Middle-Earth on Sunday where my character was both assisted and troubled by the carousing trickster antics of my occasional ally - a pixie were-hedgehog.
Initial political article for the year on the Isocracy Network was on Nations, Self-Determination, and The Future Political Landscape and reposted on talk_politics, where it received "recommended" status. Quite pleased with Jonathan Korman's 'blog entry, Why I insist that I am a feminist. Finally, attended a gathering of friends at the Unitarians last Sunday; was asked to bring along some light-hearted material, and inflicted Moral Orel on them. People familiar with the series would know it is not standard church-fare - but we're dealing with some fairly open-minded individuals who were not at all perturbed by the sex or drugs references and certainly understood both the confusion felt by the morally naive Moral as he is confronting a contradictory conservative religious code.
fluffyblanket. It remains an imperfect artificial language to me, with it verbal conjugations and the like, but nevertheless with some clever uses of affixes, vocabulary (largely Romance languages) and phonemics (Slavic). Of course, it has meant that I have been neglecting my account at Duolingo, which does seem to a very effective way to pick up some core languages.It's been a few good days gaming-wise as well. I've had a few sales on the RPG Review store, extended the line by adding a few boardgames, and have began to reformat and re-edit the first issue of said magazine for an epub format, whilst at the same time collating articles for the twenty-sixth issue (goodness, that many already?). Accordingly my review of Flashing Blades has found its way on RPG.net and in actual play had a great double session of Call of Cthulhu on New Year's Day, where the Investigators stormed their way through a Shanghai cultist's abode like it was a D&D adventure, followed by GURPS Middle-Earth on Sunday where my character was both assisted and troubled by the carousing trickster antics of my occasional ally - a pixie were-hedgehog.
Initial political article for the year on the Isocracy Network was on Nations, Self-Determination, and The Future Political Landscape and reposted on talk_politics, where it received "recommended" status. Quite pleased with Jonathan Korman's 'blog entry, Why I insist that I am a feminist. Finally, attended a gathering of friends at the Unitarians last Sunday; was asked to bring along some light-hearted material, and inflicted Moral Orel on them. People familiar with the series would know it is not standard church-fare - but we're dealing with some fairly open-minded individuals who were not at all perturbed by the sex or drugs references and certainly understood both the confusion felt by the morally naive Moral as he is confronting a contradictory conservative religious code.
