What I Think About Stuff-From Post Apocalypse to Post Misery

Ain’t no party like an “Everybody’s dead” party

What I Think About Stuff-From Post-Apocalypse to Post-Misery

The idea of the end of the world and the annihilation of our species (along with everything else) is nothing new to fiction. As a matter of fact, the end of the world has been a staple of human civilization since the time of the Babylonians, who were the first to annihilate the world by floods, barely a few thousand years into the birth of civilization.

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Human Slaves of An Insect Nation, Part 14-Machinations of the Space Princess

 MotSP-making balls-to-the-wall space opera action sexy again.

Human Slaves of An Insect Nation-Machinations of the Space Princess or Faster than the speed of awesome.

It takes a lot to sell me on a science fiction role-playing game. Sure, I love science fiction as a genre; in fact, I find it to be the most thought-provocative and entertaining medium in all of fiction

Mostly because its best and greatest examples involve predicting the madcap world of tomorrow that’s just around the corner.

But its representatives in tabletop roleplaying have been-in my experience-inadequate at best. This could be because I live in a country where D&D and its clones are mostly the only games in town (with the exception of WoD, for which I do not care for) but also because most of the science fiction rpgs I have come across so far have been huge, convoluted disappointments.

It would take a long for a science fiction rpg to sell me (especially in my current, overworked, grumpy state). It’d have to be easy on the uptake, lighter than a feather rules-wise and above all, fun. Which is why when I first encountered Machinations of the Space Princess, I did so with considerable prejudice. 

About 40 pages into it, I was so glad James Desborough had made me feel like a dick over my (unfounded) preoccupation. I couldn’t put the book down and I was pleasantly surprised to find myself taking down notes, modifying my Stormtroopers On The Lam campaign idea to fit it into the overall universe and philosophy of Machinations.

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Shamgar Shroud and the Quasid Emperor

Shamgar Shroud, the Last Champion of Terra.

 Bound by chains forged from the heart of a dwarf star, enclosed in an dis-entropic shell, contained within an orichalcum casing, held aloft by gravitron beams that reproduced the effects of Magamun’s crushing gravity, Shamgar Shroud was led before the Quasid Emperor.

“Quasid-Ya!” the Grand Templar, Host of the Star Legions commanded and the assembled myriad of the Emperor’s personal guard saluted on the spot, flame-lances at hand, void pistols at the ready, each reflected upon the other on their suits of mirror armor, an army stretching to infinity.

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What I Think About Stuff-Next Year In review: a futurospective

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What I think About Stuff-This Is Not A Nerd Rant

From left to right: Degenerate space horrors, Alien Policemen, Space Nazis (in Exterminating brown and Assimilating Silver), Rational Octopus People, Self-Replicating Miscalculation, the One Good Dalek and the man from Gallifrey himself, courtesy of SlightlyTwisted.

This is not a Nerd Rant Or Yes, it fucking Is!

UrbanDictionary.com defines nerd rage as:

          1) When a gamer becomes upset upon not getting his/her way or seeing a noob playing badly.

Oh thank God I suck at video games, then. I don’t play well with other people and when I do play on my own, I cheat up the ass

Because I didn’t pay 700 euros for a pc only so I could fucking lose to games I bought.

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Of Gods, Men And OverMen, part 3-The Tales of Men

“Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. ”

— Anaïs Nin

Of Gods, Men & Overmen, part 3-The Tales of Men

We’ve come a long way, haven’t we? Through the millennia, since our first proto-ancestor walk-crawled his way from the oceans to check out that ‘cool new thing they call land, you gotta try it dude, it’s really awesome and not full of proto-sharks and shit trying to eat you every goddamn second; I’m thinking about taking the whole family there, you know?’

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What I Think About Stuff- Molecule Man VS Dr. Manhattan

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What I Think About Stuff-Why Haven't You Read This?

Every Book Ever, given form by Ryowazza.

Why Haven’t You Read This? Or You’re running out of excuses, fast.

There isn’t really much I can brag about

Except for my extensive knowledge of useless pop culture trivia

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What I Think About Stuff-The One by Rick Veitch

The One By Rick Veitch or Comic Books that Must Survive the Apocalypse, Part 3.

Back in my Alan Moore’s MiracleMan review, I mentioned my Frankesteinian approach to bringing a perfect comic book writing homunculus to life. I would use parts from a number of esteemed comic book writers, however I failed to mention Rick Veitch. 

This was intentional.

Oh don’t look at me like that, Rick. You’re breaking my heart…

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Good news, everyone!

You know what's great?

Besides convincing youself that eating a huge-ass burger is a consequence-free endeavour?

Finding new talent on the internet, that present their work for free! One such example is a mister Rhamy payne (of Cross-Up blogspot fame). You might know Mr. Payne from our Columna Cerului dream rpg collaboration article.

Mr. Payne has been presenting his magnum opus of romance, goofy humor and video game references on his website and I wrote a short Elseworlds piece for it, that you can find here!

But even if you aren't in the mood for love, then how about checking his video-game and pop culture related articles? Who knows? You might learn something!

Click here for more pixelated goodness!

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What I think About Stuff-Superman Vs Son Goku

Superman VS Son Goku Or Bullshit Science VS Magic 

I recently bumped into a thread from the 4chan archive, where one of those great big important debates take place and are stored in the safest internet vaults, in order to baffle future anthropologists that try to make sense out of the mess that is the 21^st century.

“21^st century’s man seemed to be obsessed with a number of styles of pornography, mostly animated, leading us to believe that contact with a two-dimensional plane of existence had somehow been established.”

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What I Think About Stuff-Hotel by Boichi

Hotel by Boicihi or Stepping Across a lake of awesome, on stones made out of Crazy.

I don’t like manga and I absolutely abhor anime. This isn’t a trolling statement. It’s just that they don’t work for me. I could list a hundred different reasons why I don’t like this medium of art, but that would take the entire article and then some.

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What I Think About Stuff-Flex Mentallo

Flex Mentallo Or SuperQuantumPessimisticHeroallidocious!

DISCLAIMER: This comic book is trippy as fuck. Please handle with care. Should you experience bouts of dizziness and a strong sensation that reality is bordered by comic book frames, please contact your nearest imaginary friend.

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What I think About Stuff-Prometheus

Prometheus Or My Answer toward the movie's questions

DISCLAIMER: This is a spoiler-heavy article of the movie Prometheus. Please refrain from reading it if you don't want to have the entire movie ruined for you. Also, the opinions presented here are those of the author. They have not been confirmed officially in any way, but I hope they do.

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What I think About Stuff-Transmetropolitan

 

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Transmetropolitan or Comic Books that Must survive the Apocalypse, Part 2

Once upon a time, a man who was wise in the ways of science fiction (but little else) told me:

“Science fiction is, essentially, sociopolitical satire”.

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The Place He Can Call Home

Long ago, I met a traveler. I first saw him in his garden, kneeling over an exotic-looking flower, its blossom the color of lemon, like a babe wrapped in a blanket, sleeping peacefully. I’d seen him leaning over that flower, as he picked the weeds that grew around it, pinching them between his thumb and forefinger and pulling them off, his lips moving all the while.

Intrigued, I walked close to his fence and pretended I was trying to peek around the curb, as if I was waiting for the bus. I heard the old man say:

“…swam in the oceans of Ganymede and spoke to its people, who think of the outside world as an impossibility.”

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