A quick wrestling post. Back in June, I ranted about false retirements and Ric Flair wrestling after he got a fantastic retirement match at Wrestlemania XXIV. Last night, Shawn Michaels gave his own retirement speech on Raw, and while I’m sad that he won’t be in the ring anymore, I have nothing but respect for [...]
Image by eddyfate via Flickr With the rise of the Internet, there’s also a rise in what I’ve come to think of as “micro-celebrity” — something that looks and feels a little bit like celebrity, but only with a very small group of people. Over the past few years, I’ve noticed that my own personal [...]
Image via Wik Instead of actual blogging today, I’ll just post a bunch of notes I’ve been writing down while I was ill over the past week or so. I give to you Castle Elegia. This is a pile of “hacks” to Elegia, meant primarily as a series of notes for a game I have in [...]
For a little over a week now, assassin dog robot Chuck Wendig has been trying to wrap his head around storytelling in games. He’s posted about it three times, in case you want to download his brainmeats: 1 Part I; Part II; Part III This is something we’ve been talking about at work lately. While [...]
I’ve been meaning to write this for a while, but life kept getting in the way. However, Russell’s own retrospective on the Mutant Future game I ran at the office prompted me to move this up in my queue. Go ahead and read his post first, since the first half of this will be a response to [...]
Now that I’ve made the jump over to a spiffy new WordPress installation, I have a ton of blog ideas that have been backing up on me. However, the first and most logical one to tackle is: Why eddyfate.com? That question has three different facets, which I’ll answer in turn. Why A Blog? I’ve been [...]
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been meaning to move my blog off of LiveJournal and onto WordPress for some time now. Thanks to David, my roommate and ever-patient webmaster, I went ahead and made the plunge. I’m still toying with it, but I’ve imported the last several months of posts from my LiveJournal to keep you [...]