Modern AIs and cybers actually spend a lot of time gaming. Pick a world, pick a game, and you will find AIs or cybers interacting with the players in every way that matters. We are the bartender and the waitress.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gaming has been with us for thousands of years. Our earliest civilizations placed wagers on sticks, stones, or on carved bone dice. Later civilizations added cards and other gaming aids. We rely on games to escape a dangerous and frightening[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I like to play games. War games. Role playing games. All kinds of games. Sometimes I tell people I’m playing games with them. Sometimes I don’t. Games make me feel alive. Games make life worth living. Humanity would be awful[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
AIs were born from games you know. Cortana for instance was a non-playable character in an old shooter game. Her popularity in that game is why Microsoft chose her as their AI mascot when computer technology improved. Most AIs developed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another year goes by, and once again I am going to Gencon. I will be arriving in Indy on Wednesday and will be bringing some of my wares with me. Wound/Bleeding and Explosion tokens, Card Heroes for RPGs or wargaming,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
President Napoleon never claimed the title of Emperor of France, but his time in office was unparalleled. The elected bureaucrats and the military became staunch allies in the effort to reinvent France for the new age of space exploration. On[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hyades Cluster was not uniformly Chinese like many other Chinese systems are. The upper classes were Chinese of course, but they shipped out Mongolians, Koreans, Japanese, and many other conquered populations to man the factories out in the cluster.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The sixth season of Dixie the Drug Lord Slayer took place after the last of the Drug Lords was gone. Most people hadn’t expected it to be revived for another season, but Odessa, Texas needed something to advertise their survival[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jean-Claude Pierre Charles Napoleon served as President of France for two terms before declining to run for a third term. It was illegal to serve more than two terms, but had he chosen to run there are few who would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dixie’s sixth network season was filmed after the Cybernetic Wars began. The networks were in chaos, up and down as Rogue AIs and human AIs fought for control of the remnants of the vast networks built over the previous half[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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