Author Archives: Jeff Watson

Gentle lady Clarissa, I wish I had known you longer and loved you better.

Posted on Jul 30, 2014 by Jeff Watson

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Last Week Tonight on the prison-industrial complex

Posted on Jul 24, 2014 by Jeff Watson

John Oliver breaks down the prison-industrial complex in this darkly comic and well-researched piece of editorial journalism. Also: singing muppets. h/t @didacticmatt

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Donjon.bin.sh

Posted on Jul 21, 2014 by Jeff Watson

The “cookbook” in TSR’s 1991 D&D tome, The Dungeon Master’s Design Kit, is a legendary cheat sheet for rapidly conceiving remarkably fleshed out RPG scenarios by rolling dice and consulting tables. Donjon automates the template-and-die-driven scenario generator contained in TSR’s … Continue reading →

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A man is always a teller of stories…

Posted on Jul 17, 2014 by Jeff Watson

“[A] man is always a teller of stories, he lives surrounded by his own stories and those of other people, he sees everything that happens to him in terms of these stories and he tries to live his life as … Continue reading →

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Sunlight on water on plum

Posted on Jul 12, 2014 by Jeff Watson

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Things that only games can do

Posted on Jul 10, 2014 by Jeff Watson

“[There] are many games where what the player brings to the table is not “choice” of using a tiny set of verbs on a tiny set of largely irrelevant props, all aiming in the end towards the same predetermined authorial … Continue reading →

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“It was one of the most interesting fads of the night, or at least the early part of the night.”

Posted on Jul 4, 2014 by Jeff Watson

R. A. Lafferty’s crisply-written short story, “Slow Tuesday Night” (1965), envisions an oddly-familiar world of frenetic hustle where up-to-the-second “trend indicators” chart the fates of fads, fortunes, and families. A mini-masterpiece of time distortion science fiction, this classic short story … Continue reading →

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Backyard lurker

Posted on Jul 2, 2014 by Jeff Watson

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“The one world may be taken as many, or the many worlds taken as one.”

Posted on Jun 30, 2014 by Jeff Watson

“If there is but one world, it embraces a multiplicity of contrasting aspects; if there are many worlds, the collection of them all is one. The one world may be taken as many, or the many worlds taken as one; … Continue reading →

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Thunderhead over Canadian Tire

Posted on Jun 29, 2014 by Jeff Watson

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