Rosalie and Rosalind

by on October 14, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Rosalie and Rosalind were some of my best friends growing up. We explored the forests together, we did the whole Boy and Girl Scouts thing together. Eagles all the way. We did the tour guides for vacationers thing, and showed them wildlife they’d never imagined existed. We grew up learning everything about the land and animals around us, and learning how to show off everything to people who’d never guessed what the open world could be like. We got to know which animals were normal and which ones were as smart as us, and we worked with them to keep the dangerous animals away from our tour spots. We worked with them to put on wild life shows for visitors that never did realize we were working with truly sentient partners. Me and those girls did everything together from the moment I was aware to the time they started dating.

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Rosalie and Rosalind

by on October 13, 2022 at 12:01 am
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I grew up with Rosalie and Rosalind. They were twins, and they did everything together. Absolutely everything. We were knocking each other upside the heads with plushy toys long before I knew there was a difference between boys and girls. And they may have been the first girls I noticed when I started to realize there was. Not that anything came of it, you understand. They’d figured out the difference long before me and were already dating. They found themselves a pair of twins from… Arkansas if I remember correctly. One of those Southern States. Those boys came up to vacation every summer, let me tell you. Never missed a single day they could spend with those two girls, and kept in virtual contact the rest of the year. It pains me to admit it, but they were actually good boys. Exactly the kind of boys Rosalie and Rosalind deserved if I’m being honest. And yes, I am very biased on that subject.

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Game Demo

by on October 11, 2022 at 12:01 am
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I ran another game demo on Friday. The first Friday of the month per my agreement with the game store owner. It was another good day of demoing Alpha Strike, a fun time was had by all involved, and the little tool I designed and printed off worked well. It is a 2 inch by 6 inch piece of playing card paper with the mech and vehicle critical charts on it. We used it a lot. One thing I realized is that I need a sheet to hand out to players with various links on it to show them where they can get resources to play the game at home. It’s been over a decade since I’ve demoed games, and even the way we network online has changed radically in that time. We did everything on message boards back then. I don’t think I was even on Facebook. Alpha Strike was still a subset of the BattleForce rules that a few of us were pushing as the future of BattleTech. Thank God I committed to running demos the first Friday of the month only. It gives me time to adjust to all the changes.

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Happy Columbus Day

by on October 10, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Today we celebrate the day Columbus found the New World. Yes, he never set foot on the American continents, and he wasn’t even the first European to find the New World. That honor goes to my Viking ancestors. But it was a very great day for all of us. Europe had gone through centuries of invasions and plagues that destroyed their greatest nations and killed what many historians believe to have been one third of all human life on the continent. From that near civilization-ending catastrophe, Europe picked itself back up, rebuilt its economic systems, and went out in search of new-to-them lands. The Age of Discovery was Europe’s answer to their near destruction, and it paved the way that brought every nation on Earth together to talk in one place. The New World. The world we live in now, with all its limitless progress, is thanks to people like Columbus, who sailed the ocean blue in search of new opportunities.

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