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Jun. 28th, 2015 10:53 pmSpent much of Saturday stomping around Ikea for semi-disposable Swedish furniture. Having purchased an "almost new" queen-sized mattress from a neighbour earlier in the week, we also purchased a new queen sized bed frame, which didn't fit in our nook so back to the store it goes. So the old futon frame has been restored and that fits just snugly. Also purchased was three additional bookcases, making twenty-five through our homesmall library with still more yet to be shelved ("If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you" - Terry Pratchett). Blockout curtains are on the way to replace our cheap, bent, and ancient Venetian blinds. We're also looking at major upgrades to our increasingly dilapidated kitchen but that will have to wait for another day. The day concluded with my 4 G LG Optimus F5 ceasing to work after falling from a short height (will not turn on), so switching everything to a 3G HTC One; technically a generational downgrade, but with better technical specifications, it seems to be an improvement.
The next issue of RPG Review is due, with an overall subject matter of 'The Undead', and being late I am scrambling for articles. Unusually I am having a couple of quirky pieces on variations in the spectrum of dead and living, courtesy of some of the elaborations one finds in near-future games such as Eclipse Phase. It is fair to suggest that in the future what we largely consider a binary state (dead and alive) will be broken down more into a continuum, a proposal which Eclipse Phase takes to a speculative conclusion with the complete separation of mind and body into various skins with multiple backups and save points in consciousness. A very confusing situation indeed, and yet quite plausible. In other gaming news, played in Andrew's Laundry Files game on Thursday which involved several bureaucratic challenges (it is very like Paranoia sometimes) and today ran a session of 7th Sea which involved pretty much an battle with a (small) dragon for the entire session (discovery and battle write ups available).
The next issue of RPG Review is due, with an overall subject matter of 'The Undead', and being late I am scrambling for articles. Unusually I am having a couple of quirky pieces on variations in the spectrum of dead and living, courtesy of some of the elaborations one finds in near-future games such as Eclipse Phase. It is fair to suggest that in the future what we largely consider a binary state (dead and alive) will be broken down more into a continuum, a proposal which Eclipse Phase takes to a speculative conclusion with the complete separation of mind and body into various skins with multiple backups and save points in consciousness. A very confusing situation indeed, and yet quite plausible. In other gaming news, played in Andrew's Laundry Files game on Thursday which involved several bureaucratic challenges (it is very like Paranoia sometimes) and today ran a session of 7th Sea which involved pretty much an battle with a (small) dragon for the entire session (discovery and battle write ups available).
