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A Throne of Lies, RPG Updates
In a result which seems to have surprised pretty much everyone, the conservative Liberal-National government was re-elected on Saturday in Australia. As many others are doing, I've done my part in going over the entrails, but really the results come down to one basic fact, which I raised as an alert a several days prior; people were lied to, as Australia has no laws regarding truth in advertising when it comes to election campaigns. Trapped in my own bubble of being a politically engaged boffin who fact-checks everything by nature and training, I completed under-estimated how important this will be, and how democracy can be broken under such circumstances. As The Australian heralds the re-elected happy-clappy PM, as the "Messiah from The Shire", the trending hash-tag on Twitter is #LiarFromTheShire. I suspect it's the latter that's going to stick, especially given on the opening day of work a key promise of tax-cuts is broken. Curiously, Donald Trump has perhaps inadvertently revealed the issue by comparing the re-election of Morrison with his own election and the Brexit referendum. Yes, those elections were carried out with a fully informed voting public, too.
Whilst I have a new item in my political agenda that I now desperately want to see implemented, my highly structured life and leisure goes on. Of some note was our final session of RuneQuest Questworld on Sunday which came to an acceptable conclusion; the GM wants to shift to the most recent edition and its Glorantha setting. Later that evening was the monthly committee meeting for the RPG Review Cooperative, which reminded me that I have to get RPG Review 42 out this week ("Wilds and Wilderness" subject), especially considering that it's already about eight weeks late at least. For my own part, I have review articles on the old Avalon Hill boardgame, "Survival", and the AD&D supplement Wilderness Survival Guide. Not to mention I still have around 5,000 dull words (monster statistics) of the Cow-Orkers supplement for Papers & Paychecks. Also, this weekend coming will be possibly the final session of Eclipse Phase, or maybe it will stretch out for a couple more depending on actions. After this, we have slotted in place a truly interesting retrospective of playing Cyberpunk 2020, which is a real blast from the 80s. Must be said, I'm rather looking forward to it, and I'll find myself in the strange position of not GMing a regular game.
Whilst I have a new item in my political agenda that I now desperately want to see implemented, my highly structured life and leisure goes on. Of some note was our final session of RuneQuest Questworld on Sunday which came to an acceptable conclusion; the GM wants to shift to the most recent edition and its Glorantha setting. Later that evening was the monthly committee meeting for the RPG Review Cooperative, which reminded me that I have to get RPG Review 42 out this week ("Wilds and Wilderness" subject), especially considering that it's already about eight weeks late at least. For my own part, I have review articles on the old Avalon Hill boardgame, "Survival", and the AD&D supplement Wilderness Survival Guide. Not to mention I still have around 5,000 dull words (monster statistics) of the Cow-Orkers supplement for Papers & Paychecks. Also, this weekend coming will be possibly the final session of Eclipse Phase, or maybe it will stretch out for a couple more depending on actions. After this, we have slotted in place a truly interesting retrospective of playing Cyberpunk 2020, which is a real blast from the 80s. Must be said, I'm rather looking forward to it, and I'll find myself in the strange position of not GMing a regular game.