Observations of the Fox

I wish I'd seen this at the beginning of the month when it was first released. I know so many people who'd want to buy a copy. Have a look at the official page ...(Yes, I do know the significance of the day when it was released).

This blog started out with me commenting on various things I saw around me. Some of those things were related to roleplaying, others were related to theology, philosophy, or just my general perceptions on how the world at large works. It's tended back to the roleplaying as a staple, but finally I've seen something that I just have to make an observation about. While doing some research on immortality I found a blog entry from someone else . A few paragraphs in to it I read something that just shocked me. "I suppose life would get boring if it went on forever," she added. Now we were getting somewhere: In 25 years of talking to people about these issues, I had never heard that response before. Eternal life would be boring. Is this guy serious? He claims to be a game designer and he's never heard this response!! That's one of the key themes of many pieces of vampire fiction. The need to continually find something meaning to do with your eternity, the desire to s...

I'm calling this Part 1, because I know that I'm going to observe a lot more things that prove this point. It was 2am, I've slept since then so I'm not sure whether to say it was this morning or last night...anyway, that's not the point of the post. I'd had some alcohol a few hours early, but it had been a while before I got in the car...I was pretty sure that I was safe to drive, but Iwas taking things carefully just to make sure. I was heading toward a set of traffic lights where I know there is an automatic red-light camera. A car is ahead of me by a hundred metres or so. I see the light turn red and it is solidly red for a good second or so as the car ahead rushes through the intersection. As I start slowing down, red and blue flashing lights start up behind me and a police car shoots around me to catch the traffic offender. There aren't many cars on the road at 2am, but as I'm stopped at the lights for half a minute or so another vehicle comes throu...