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31st of July, 2009
11:19 am - Energy drinks now directly marketed to Gamers
For years Gamers and nerdery type people have been high consumers of caffeinated beverages and in more recent years energy drinks like Red Bull, V, etc. Marketing of late with names like "Bad Boy", "Rock Star", and "Mother" (done in a heavy metal band style label) seemed to be aimed more towards the party crowd.
A US company has now decided that the market is big enough that they can market directly to gamers. So what did they call their drink?
Mana Potions
For Warcrack players the world over.
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12th of June, 2008
5th of March, 2008
03:09 pm - Valé Gary Gygax
The man who not only invented Dungeons & Dragons, but by extrapolation the whole roleplaying hobby, passed away today a few months short of his 70th birthday.
I got into roleplaying via my best friend in Highschool. We'd both been avid fantasy and SF readers and after a trip into the city he bough a copy of D&D. This would have been 1981 I think. From there we started a school group, which included getting permission from the Physics teacher to skip the school sports carnival and stay in the physics lab playing D&D for the day. The Phys Ed teacher was not impressed :-)
The following year I attended my first roleplaying convention where I met some amazing people from a club called The Wizards' Council. This club formed the central part of my socialising for the next 15 or so years. While most of the people involved I've lost track of (though some have found me via Facebook) there are a few people who were really influential on me and that I still keep in contact. One of whom is the mother of one of my classmates at Uni. :-)
And while Gygax was unashamed in being "influenced" by various fantasy elements to create his worlds, but also came up with some unique and lasting variants, such as Drow elves.
I'm still peripherally interested in roleplaying, though I haven't done anything actively for many years.
I doff my hat to a man who had an idea and virtually created an industry.
Valé
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23rd of January, 2007
11:19 pm - Speaking of Secondlife
For those who may be interested I've started a separate journal for my steampunk related bits an pieces. Currently my things are looking for reference stuff for Secondlife though it will include steampunk things in general as well.
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I may be doubling up on the odd entry here and there but not by a huge amount.
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22nd of January, 2007
21st of October, 2006
03:23 pm - DM of the Rings
Oh this is beautiful! Brings back so many memories :-)
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612
Current Mood: amused
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24th of July, 2002
09:21 am - Update
Been finding myself rather scatterbrained of late. All things going in different directions. Had a big house clean up over the last few days. We've got a house inspection on Friday so we've been tidying things up. We haven't really unpacked anything new but did find homes for a lot of things that had just been left on the floor.
Glenn came round Saturday with the rapier and main gauche. The rapier is a lot heavier than I had been expecting. I assume as my arm strength increases it will become more manageable but until then it seems rather awkward.
We've been talking about starting some sort of renaissance re-enactment group. The Routiers in Melbourne seem to have dissolved but there are a few people who are still interested in doing rapier work.
My friend Charlie is having her 40th birthday party and is having a 1940's theme. I dug out the old fez from the costume cupboard but it seems in need of being retired. We were going to reline the inside but it may be easier to put together a felt facsimilie. It will look good enough for a costume.
And I'm quite enjoying the PBM Castle Falkenstein game. I miss the real time interaction of a live group but it will suffice.
Anything happening with that Cthulhu game yet ikonoklast?
Current Mood: busy
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