Category: Posts
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The Big One 2
I like Warhammer 40k and context be damned. I will go over my thoughts on one of the main developments in the universe’s story in recent history. From the late 90s when the more modern version of the story began being created, the 18 primarchs, who are the leaders of the space marines, (the superhuman…
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Creating an RPG Story
When creating a world for a Tabletop Roleplaying Game, like Dungeons and Dragons there are a couple of major pitfalls that can greatly affect the quality of the world you created. Habit that can be detrimental in the writing of any story but especially in an RPG is only focusing on the beginning and ending…
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Pacific Rim
Pacific Rim is a movie about big dumb robots punching big dumb monsters, for the sake of reliving childhood memories playing with action figures on the big screen. However, despite what might seem like it is a childish concept, in the best way, it is also the best American kaiju movie ever made, due to…
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The Big One part 1
“In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” (Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, 1987) Without a doubt, one of the densest fictional universes ever created is that of Warhammer 40k, a world whose influence in media is only overshadowed by its own constant recycling of other media. It is a universe that…
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Creating Habits
Every year, millions of people buy memberships to their local gyms, right after the new year. These new year’s resolutions seem fruitful for a few weeks, maybe even months. Some people probably fulfill their new year’s resolutions for the entire year, but I’ve never met anyone who has. People say that starting is half the…
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Pain
I cut my finger. Badly. I was diligently working under the bright light of a large fluorescent lamp that filled the gap when sunlight diminished. I had only been there for a couple of minutes, but my error had been long in the making. I had a history of shaving the edges of plastic models…
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World of Darkness part 1
It has recently become my honor and responsibility to learn all that I can about “Vampire: The Masquerade” and “The World of Darkness” in general, in order to run a campaign for a group of people. This provides a good opportunity to explore how a 30+ year old, ever expanding world has been developed and…
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A Hidden World
Fiction as a concept has a keen reliance on people’s ability to suspend their disbelief, and on some level, believe that the events of a story are real and work under a particular set of rules, as established by said work of fiction. To suspend disbelief is not always easy for an audience and potentially…
Goblong Shapes 