Chimera Creative

Here’s a quick update from my frantic life schedule this month:
First, my wife and I sold our house, so we’ll be moving very soon. This is beyond crazy right now.
UPDATE! The buyer backed out of the deal. This is the third time this has happened to us! Well, at least things will be slightly less [...]

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This discussion among Clyde Rhoer, Luke Crane, Clinton Nixon, and Jason Morningstar is very important to things I’m interested in. And, they do a good job explaining reasons that I approach this hobby the way I do, including my previous posts about the subculture and Gary Gygax’s death. To put it into a quick summation: [...]

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This blog’s seen unusual activity and content in the last couple weeks. I think, amid the criticism from me and from others, it’s worth re-stating what it is I’m positive about, and what I do all this stuff for.
For me, participating in this thing called role-playing games is about one thing, and that one thing’s [...]

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For a lot longer than my day-old post (previous post), I’ve been aware that I am known, particularly in online communities, as that guy who wants to “un-geek” role-playing games. This is true, but that’s not what those people mean.
What they mean is that I’m a quixotic jackass who’s filled with self-loathing and shame, who [...]

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This week has been strange. I’ve been working my ass off (put in about 14 hours yesterday), going to class, trying to buy a new car, trying to get my computer fixed, my daughter had the flu. The list goes on.
Meanwhile, Mr. Gary Gygax died. And, seriously, I don’t give a damn.
Let me attempt to [...]

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Here’s a quick update from Chimera Creative headquarters!
I’ve got an interview with Clinton Nixon recorded. It needs editing, but my computer’s shot. Once again, the sound quality isn’t ideal, but that’s definitely my fault — it’s mostly my house’s roaring heater. Hey! It’s friggin’ COLD this winter. It hovered just over 0-degrees Farenheit for much [...]

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This year at GenCon, Paul Czege and I spearheaded the Ashcan Front. We had a great time, and I think we’re both very pleased with the overall success of the booth.
Paul and I, along with Paul’s wife Danielle who was instrumental to the booth, talked about it with Clyde Rhoer, who does the Theory From the [...]

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WordPress, the software that I use for this site, is great. What is not great is a queue of over 2,000 spam comments, mostly from strange Russian domain names.
Akismet, however, just made my day. It’s a WordPress anti-spam plug-in. Overnight, it stopped the egregious levels of spam blog comments. This makes me happy, and does [...]

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I’m currently reading a book called Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel Dennett. Dennett’s a brilliant contemporary philosopher. His book is about evolution and religion, which is very interesting to me, personally. But, page 126 of his book has something that should be very interesting for anyone who’s into Narrativism (i.e. [...]

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