game report: My Life With Master, February 7

A couple weeks ago ralphmelton ran a game of "My Life With Master", a role-playing game where the players play minions of an evil master. The minions are trying to accumulate enough "love" (ties to the community) to eventually have enough strength to overthrow the master. None of us had played before.

It was an interesting game, which we did not finish in a single session. (We have to get back together and finish.) Here are my notes from the first session. ( Read more... )

passionate spammers

My journal just received the anonymous spam that's been going around for Mel Gibson's new movie. The spammers are obviously doing some keyword-matching; the version I got was targetted at Jews. (I've seen this in other journals; particularly amusing was the case where the spammer tried to talk about a band he clearly knew nothing about.)

Here, isn't this quote special? "Some people, not really representative of Jewish people, but rather self appointed Jewish spokespeople, such as Abraham Foxman from the Anti-Defamation League, seem to have been attempting to denounce this film for months as being anti-Semitic. The news reported that they even stole the script last year! But here's what some Jews say (Jews who don't make it their job to tear apart other people): Protesting Gibson's Passion Lacks Moral Legitimacy by Rabbi Daniel Lapin." (There was a link here, but I'm not going to do this person's work for him after he barges into my journal and makes accuastions of theft...)

Yes, I know I can disable anonymous commenting, but that would block some legitimate readers of my journal and anyway, it's no real skin off my nose to mock the spammer and delete his comment.

Still, I welcome any insight any of y'all can offer on the traceroute output for our "friends" at 219.94.76.250:( Read more... )

You know what? There was a time when I would have considered going to see this movie (in the theatre), because while I utterly disagree with the message, I can still appreciate well-told stories that I disagree with. (I don't know if this one is well-told, of course.) But with the way its supporters have been behaving for the last year (this sort of campaigning is only the latest step), no way. I'll see the movie someday, probably, if I don't conclude that the apparently-excessive violence wouldn't squick me and if I get past my aversion to "movies I have to read" (I don't do subtitles), but if I do, I will do it in a way that does not contribute to a "blockbuster". It'll show up on TV eventually, after all. Or someone in my circle of friends might lend a DVD.