4th Edition Feels Like an MMO

Being a full-time DM, I’ve been very curious what changes the 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons brought to the proverbial role-playing table. Well, I finally got my hands on a copy of the rulebooks last night, and so far, my biggest impression of the new edition is that it feels like an MMO.
Now, I’m [...]

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Wander Later, Study Now

Since I was young, I’ve always imagined myself traveling around later in life, kind of like the romanticized vagrant. My parents would laugh if I told them this seeing as how I hated family vacations and have skipped out on the last few. But I’ve always thought that writing about something is easier to do [...]

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Multicultural Shopping Malls, huh?

I was at The Factory Stores (or whatever it’s called now) a couple days ago and was walking around when the mall greeting came over the loudspeakers. In Japanese. I was amused by that for a good while.
I mean, since the place attracts a lot of tourists, I understand that having the greeting in different [...]

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Beauties x Geeks: Reality or not?

Apparently, there’s a show called “Beauty and the Geek” where beautiful girls get paired with nerdy guys. My question is, how realistic is this kind of situation? Does it happen and how does it turn out?
The best example I can think of for this kind of situation was in the J-Drama “Densha Otoko,” where an [...]

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My Internet Rant

I believe it’s called “chatspeak”?
Abbreviating common words for Internet use, that is. Like “thx” and “plz.” I’m o.k. with common abbreviations like that. What bugs me is when people use it either as an excuse to not spell when they should be, or when people who don’t know how to spell use it, and make [...]

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