Planet Earth, The Swine Hunt, Gaming, OS Wars

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This Sunday I'm giving a presentation at the Melbourne Unitarian Church on "The Future of the Planet Earth", where I discuss potential disasters in international relations, politics and especially the environment. I neither seek to alarm or to appease, but rather to give a solid presentation of factual information to the best possible knowledge provided scientific knowldge.

I was supposed to be the the poster child of the revolution in the great hunt against The Swine (those who support theory and system in RPGs). I was supposed to become 'the first stuffed pig mounted in the commemorative smoking room of the Great Swine Hunt". Instead, it seems it was a total disaster for the the RPGPunbdit and jimboboz. Read it yourself for great amusement value. My personal favourites were the enlightening "It's written on the box" and phasmaphobic's summary. When I get around to it I'll also do a write-up of the Ten Thousand Islands game too. I guess The Year of the Pig is not the time to call a Swine Hunt, eh?

In other gaming news, I've started an epic-level high fantasy HeroQuest Glorantha PBeM with eleven players. AD&D Norman Britian on Sunday will see further investigation of the slavelords of Navarre (and the tie to the historical War of the Three Sanchos). Next Friday is Everway Aesheba. Next Sunday is the first game of Dragonlords (at the moment little more than RuneQuest (3rd ed) plus house rules). Adopting a holding position in Diplomacy. I think that brings the number of people I do regular gaming with to over thirty. Oh, I've been told that my Rolemaster Companion will be re-released this year (after fourteen years!)

Senior IT security expert warns to stay away from MS-Windows Vista. ("The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history"). Eric Raymond tells Linux developers that 2008 is a hard deadline in their attempts to gain world domination.

And valedictions to the great author and discordian philosopher: Robert Anton Wilson has died.

Comments

[lula-neith.livejournal.com]

Yes.*sniff* Damn that rooster! I wonder if it was really what Socrates said in the end? Even if not -- wow. I have to start thinking of something great to say...

What can one do but carry on? And you--YOU-- are brave and I'm grateful for those who speak out. I can't believe that there are still people who believe that human beings aren't 'big' enough to do that much damage o_0. I get so discouraged sometimes. I get mad that I'm so lazy and leave the work you you, <lj user="tcpip". I'm proud of you!

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I can't believe that there are still people who believe that human beings aren't 'big' enough to do that much damage

That's an interesting angle. I really hadn't thought of it that way. I'll see if I can include it somehow in the presentation.

Thanks for the (too kind!) words.