Long ago, I ran a Bulletin Board System, and developed a number of second-rate online games (called doorgames in BBS lingo) such as WarWorld/HighGuard, Farkle, Ant Wars, WarpWar and various cheezy card-games, in Microsoft VisualBASIC 1.0 for DOS. As the "state coordinator" of CAR-PGa, I scanned for biased, misleading, or flat out erroneous coverage of role-playing games in mainstream media, and then made fun of the journalists for being sloppy, lazy and/or stupid, as the spirit moved me. Being "state coordinator" meant that I was also supposed to be doing some sort of "coordinating", or something, but that wasn't nearly as much fun. My rebuttal to "D&D is evil" nonsense is a part of the soc.christian.region FAQ, but the June 1995 article titled "The Truth: On Sale Now" for the North Texas Skeptics is probably better. If you really like that sort of thing, I wrote a lot of stuff like that at the time. For about a year, I was the author of Ack! on rpg.net, which was a regular column at the time, and now isn't. As Dundee, I posted tons of nonsense to rec.games.computer.ultima.online for a couple of years. Some of the funnier stuff posted to that forum is here. Then I decided to do it myself: And became the developer, co-Founder and Lead Administrator of The World of Dreams, an Ultima Online "emulated" server. After WoD, I moved on to create Ackadia, a player-policed, low-admin sort of emu, which is a great deal of fun. Currently I work for Sony Online Entertainment as a World Designer for Star Wars Galaxies. Page Layout snarfed from http://www.webpagedesign.com.au, but I did the java buttons myself. With MS-Paint! |
