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<p>I watched the first episode of <em>Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone
Complex, 2nd Gig</em> last night and enjoyed it.</p>
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<p>Ok, so you deprecate <span class="app">qpkg</span>, and remove it from the user bin
directories without providing a replacement that has all its
functionality, but continue to use it and hide it in
<span class="file">/usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg</span>? That's idiotic.</p>
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<section id="what-is-wfrp-about-really"><h2>What is WFRP ABout, Really?</h2>
<p>Nobody says it better than <a class="reference external" href="http://www.criticalmiss.com/issue8/jameswallisreplies1.html">James Wallis</a>:</p>
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<p><em>D&D</em> is about quests for glory and riches; WFRP pretends to be the
same, but in fact is about the PCs' day-to-day fight for survival in a
universe that hates them. If you don't finish each adventure worse off
than when you started it, your GM is doing something wrong.</p>
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<p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.thuntek.net/~walter/">WJW</a> says it <a class="reference external" href="http://www.thuntek.net/~walter/inter.htm">well</a>:</p>
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<p>I devoured a whole lot of Wodehouse in my teens, in those formative
years when I was devouring a lot of Delany and Zelazny and Robert
Heinlein. I eventually gave up on Wodehouse because I realized that
all the Jeeves stories had the same plot. I've come back to them since
becoming a full-time writer because I've realized exactly how hard it
is to write 90 books with exactly the same plot, and it is not a skill
to be sneezed at.</p>
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<p>J H Kim comparies <a class="reference external" href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/jhkimrpg/11277.html">Player Finder Utilities</a>.</p>
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<p>Well, it looks like <a class="reference external" href="http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/">Mongoose</a>
is serious about their new version of <a class="reference external" href="http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/runequest.php">Runequest</a>. It's also
apparently going to be an “Open” system, so that publishers and
individuals will be able to able to produce new derived works using
the <em>Runequest</em> rule. Moreover, it's going to get its own treatment of
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.glorantha.com/">Glorantha</a>, too. I sure hope this turns
out well, but I also hope it doesn't prove a problem for <a class="reference external" href="http://www.heroquest-rpg.com">HeroQuest</a>.</p>
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<p>For some reason, clisp version 2.35 installed from the FreeBSD ports
doesn't have <code class="docutils literal">:PC386</code> in <code class="docutils literal">*FEATURES*</code>; without this, Slime from CVS
stops with a continuable error:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">** - Continuable Error
INTERN("*DOCUMENTATION*"): #<PACKAGE SYSTEM> is locked
If you continue (by typing 'continue'): Ignore the lock and proceed
The following restarts are also available:
SKIP :R1 skip (COMPILE-FILES-IF-NEEDED-SERIALLY #)
STOP :R2 stop loading file
/extra/sw/src/slime/swank-loader.lisp
ABORT :R3 ABORT</pre>
<p>And after that, even if you continue slime is never able to connect to
swank.</p>
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<section id="monday-3-october-2005"><h2>Monday, 3 October 2005</h2>
<section id="recent-reading"><h3>Recent Reading</h3>
<p>This is a couple of weeks of reading.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><em>The Game of Kings</em>, by Dorothy Dunnett, copyright 1961, copyright
renewed 1989; Vintage Books/Random House, May 1997. First in the Lymond
Chronicles.</p></li>
<li><p><em>Queens' Play</em>, by Dorothy Dunnett, copyright 1964, copyright
renewed 192; Vintage Books/Random House, May 1997. Second in the Lymond
Chronicles.</p></li>
<li><p><em>Eight of Swords</em>, by David Skibbins; Thomas Dunne Books/St.
Martin's Minotaur/St. Martin's Press, April 2005. An interesting
mystery.</p></li>
<li><p><em>A Gladiator Dies Ony Once: The Further Investigations of Grodians
the Finder</em>, by Steven Saylor; St. Martin's Minotaur/St. Martin's
Press, June 2005. The second collecton of Roma Sub Rosa short stories,
after The House of Vestals. I think I like this series of Roman
mysteries the best of the ones I've read.</p></li>
<li><p><em>SPQR VII: The Tribune's Curse, by John Maddox Roberts</em>; Thomas
Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur/St. Martin's Press, April 2003.
While Saylor's Gordianus and Davies' Falco are to some degree
outsiders amongst the inner realms of Rome's political machinations
through which they often wander, but Roberts' DeciusCaecilius Metellus
the Youger is definitely an insider. I think it was one of John Maddox
Roberts' "Roman Empire in Space" SF books that introduced me to the
Roman Empire (at one remove) when I was a youngster.</p></li>
<li><p><em>SPQR IX: The Princess and the Pirates</em>, by John Maddox Roberts;
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur/St. Martin's Press, June
2005. I've apparently missed SPQR VIII: The River God's Vengance.</p></li>
</ul></section><section id="sales-of-midlist-authors"><h3>Sales of Midlist Authors</h3>
<p>Back in January of 2004, Walter Jon Williams <a class="reference external" href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/msg/4778a2e82173f391">said</a>:</p>
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<p>In 1990 the average midlist science fiction novel, by a non-name
writer, would ship 75,000 copies and sell 60,000. Now the average
midlist novel ships less than 20,000 and sells less than 10,000.</p>
<p>It was possible to make a living selling 60,000 paperbacks a year, but
if you sell less than 10,000, you'd better have a McJob.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>In February 2005 Tobias Buckell <a class="reference external" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050211040808/https://tobiasbuckell.com/archives/001423.html">summarized</a> his survey of
genre advances.</p>
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<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325596/">The I Inside</a>, 2003;
directed by Roland Suso Richter, based on the play <em>Point of Death</em> by
Michael Cooney with a screenplay by Michael Cooney and Timothy Scott
Bogart. Unsatisfying.</p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/">Serenity</a>, 2005;
directed and written by Joss Whedon. It was good.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a>, 2005; directed by Garth
Jennings, based on the book by Douglas Adams with a screenplay by
Douglas Adams and Karey Kirkpatrick. Disappointing: it's like they made
a movie out of the some of the same pieces as the book, but left out
all the humour. Now I have to reread the books to make sure they're
still funny.</p></li>
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<p>Neel Krishnaswami explains how <em>Heroquest</em>
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.20by20room.com/2005/09/heroquest_and_b.html#more">turns setting into rules effortlessly</a>.</p>
<p>In one of the comments on that article, <a class="reference external" href="http://www.randomencounters.blogspot.com/">Brand Robins</a> said:</p>
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<p>I just remembered something I said to my Grave of Honor (A Game of
Thrones with HeroQuest rules) group when we got started: "HeroQuest is
really, really good at supporting your vision. If you know what you
are doing, have a feeling for what you want, and push your narration
then HeroQuest will support you better than just about anything else.
If you don't have a good vision or feel, however, or if you're looking
to have the system tell you what happens or suggest courses of action
seperate from naration (as most games do) then you're going to be
SOL."</p>
<p>All of my actual play with the system has backed that up in my
experience. When you go into HQ with a vision, a good flow of
narration, and an understanding of what you are after it supports you
brilliantly. It does not, however, particularly help you in developing
those things if you don't already have them. Thus the frequent
complaints (on RPG.net and similar) that it breaks down into a "bean
counting game."</p>
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<p>In an entry on his blog, Brand Robins talks about <a class="reference external" href="http://randomencounters.blogspot.com/2005/09/random-game-crap.html">medium
length/detail contests</a> in <em>HeroQuest</em>.</p>
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