I don’t have a car. I live 3 minutes from work and spend at least one day travelling to the airport to fly to London. If I had a car it would either sit outside my flat or in an expensive airport car park. That’s why watching this T-Mobile ad is especially funny for me. […]
RPG Musical: Role Initiative
Okay, keep playing through the first few seconds of over dramatised musical and the actual video begins. This video is actually an entry for the 2011 Windy City 72 hour film competition. If that means they only had 72 hours to put it together – it’s very good. They had extra requirements; they had to […]
Fffuuu says: Merchants in RPGs are greedy buggers
I think this ffffuuu-style comic is 100% true. There’s no doubt in this blogger’s mind that this is exactly how merchants, traders and shop owners behave in computer RPGs. I suspect merchants and traders might try this approach in some traditional tabletop RPGs too! What do you think?
The Toilet Monster
Some monsters are especially scary because they’re good at getting you while you’re vulnerable. Imagine, then, that you might pay actual money in order to lure one into your home and into your smallest room. Yes; I’m speaking of the dreaded loo demon, the toilet monster, the crapper creature, the bog boggin! This dangerous menace […]
Emergency Defibrillator
My initial reaction was to laugh at this. What was yours? I’m asking because I’m pretty sure there’s a percentage of people who wouldn’t laugh. They’d worry. They’d scold. They’d point out how dangerous this is. They’d be right too. Well, unless this photo was staged briefly just for our amusement and then the defibrillator […]
Danger ahead!
Some parts of the office are not safe. In this blogger’s case he’s aware that some people venture up to the third floor, to the land of the finance department, and never return. People whisper of wild accountants that roam the hallways with timesheets and other horrors. Scary, scary stuff. Finally, now we have a […]
Kaley Cuoco warns of Slave Leia syndrome
Is it possible to have too many Slave Leias at a convention? Actress Kaley Cuoco thinks so! Whereas she stresses she’s not against cosplay girls dressing as Slave Leia, she cautions against Slave Leia fatigue in this helpful Public Service Ad from America. You may recognise her from the Big Bang Theory. I do. Thanks […]
Does your RPG suffer from female armour syndrome?
I nearly opened this blog post with “I wonder what the figures are…” that would have been a bad start. Let’s return to figure issues later. I wonder what the stats are; the percentage of male gamers who play female characters versus the percentage of female gamers who play male characters. Of the male gamers […]
Alien loo sign – chromosomes give directions
I can only begin to speculate at which conference this loo sign appeared at. I know, however, that I should have been at it. I’m no designer but I think it’s clever how the humanoid woman is on the far right of the female half of the sign and the humanoid male is on the […]
Road signs reveal sci-fi, Cthulhu and geeklore in every day life
Some people may think that aliens, sleeping dragons, portal generators and Cthulhu stalking the ocean play no part in our day to day lives. These people are wrong. In fact, these people don’t even know how to read basic road and safety signs. Should you encounter such a person, please direct them to this educational […]
