NFL Crunch Time!
June 21st, 2008 at 9:59 pm (Humor, Sports, Video Games)
Mighty Marvel Game Exchange
June 11th, 2008 at 2:16 pm (Comics, Roleplaying)
Before I post this advert to PBeM2, I wanted to run it past you folks:
Mighty Marvel Game Exchange
They are the multiverse’s mightiest heroes, but there’s one problem: they tend to work best on their own (the Avengers notwithstanding). So what’s a would-be superhero to do when most solo games revolve around various and sundry sexcapades? Offer a game exchange.
I’m not looking for a long-term commitment; two or three months with an option to go longer if mutually agreeable ought to be plenty to tell a fun little story in a PBP or PBeM environment. Similarly I don’t expect to find a good match right away. Solid storytellers willing to give me a good time will receive some solo fun in return. Sorry, no cyb0rZ, despite how that last sentence read.
A few preferred heroes:
• Captain America
• Nick Fury
• The Hulk
• Iron Man
• The Punisher
• Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
• WolverineClearly I seek something specific, but as for what you’re looking for… let’s discuss it. Genre is fairly open, though I have system/systemless preferences we’d have to hash out.
I am no Obamaton.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:22 pm (Election '08)
In what seems like an age ago, but was only February 2007, I wrote candidly about my support for the then-proposed (and soon to become real) Obama run for President of the United States. I said that was comfortable with Obama’s stances on various issues and that I also had great admiration for the man personally. These things have never changed, even when I faced criticism from strangers both online and off- for my position.
Today Barack Obama faces off with John McCain. I still have no doubts as to which man would make the better President. The John McCain of 2000 might have appealed to me in a Hillary Clinton versus McCain match-up, but it turns out not only that McCain 2008 isn’t that McCain, but in fact McCain 2000 might have just been an illusion all along.
As Americans we are hard-coded in our national genes to root for the underdog. This is a positive legacy of our American Revolution and it reminds us how united voices — even the voices of the marginalized, the disenfranchised and the powerless — can make a positive difference against seemingly overwhelming opposition. Our quintessentially American hero is the cowboy, one man against the world, and so the image we have of McCain tends to invoke that archetype. The problem arises when we try to marry reality to our dreams.
