What Bill and Mark are not saying is that they were both very helpful to me in getting this thing together.

I imagine that the people who are usually happy about my stuff will be happy about GW, and that the people who are usually mad about my stuff will be mad at GW.

Glad you liked it Cory, and that it measures up.

I don't really get to choose the citation format for these books - the "running endnotes" style is supposed to cause the least disruption for readers who just want to be in the narrative without being distracted by a bunch of numbered endnote tags in the body text on every page (like, do I have to skip to the back of the book and read that now, or what?). As a style, it's kind of a hassle to do, though. If it were up to me, I'd just use footnotes - and like in PatW, sometimes most of the page would be a footnote. I guess people find that really old fashioned. I will say that doing running endnotes did lead me to only very rarely put commentary in the endnotes, they are mostly just source citations.

aia wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:
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Funny thing: first time i see it called "sharkadillo"....  :D

probably fetch more for it if it’s names correctly

sauromatian wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:...And while there have been efforts to be more inclusive, some say the industry is still tough for women, LGBTQ folks, and people of color to thrive in.

The whole inclusive drive has gone way overboard to the point of hypocrisy.  If you are good at something and possess the will to work harder than other people you will thrive.  The fact that someone should be given something because they associate with a particular group is nonsense.  If you have a Tolkienesque imagination and can visualize fantasy with the written word, You can walk into my office with seafoam hair, a nose ring that could fit on a bull and associate with unicorns all day long.  i'll hire you.  Where is the inclusiveness in the NBA and NFL? Right... there isn't one.  Why? It's all based on ability.  

At the end of the day, it all boils down to profits.  You can't create products that no one wants to buy and stay in business very long.  Reading the WIRED story. Paizo is based in one of the most progressive areas on the planet and still can't make people happy.  One individual worked there 9 years and had a terrible salary.  Trying to reconcile who is at bigger fault here.  Paizo paying $hit or workers not flipping them the bird and moving on.  

-SKA

Oh, my heart bleeds for them. All these poor whiny people who feel so bad that they don’t get paid enough or aren’t understood by their employers. Bottom line is talent is appreciated and rewarded, and so it hard work. The rest of the mediocre alsorans in every walk of life will always whine and whinge because they find the struggle to success too damn hard for their fragile little souls.

This isn’t an RPG thing. This is every single job everywhere in the world. Sadly the woe-is-me brigade are also in every single job everywhere in the world. The one thing they all have in common is their absolute ignorance as to the source of their lack of success - Their own work ethic, diligence, integrity, and intelligent application of talent.

There will always be hundreds of wannabe ‘victims’ who fail to step up to the mark for every success, and there will always be copywriters who want to decry the woes of these ignored back room staff who haven’t found success in life. That is the nature of the modern day victimhood mentality and their champions.

It is refreshing to know that our major publishing houses are full of the same sorts of people, and that management of these companies is no easy task when you have such a pool of wet and weak willed individuals to have to try to extract your products from. At least at management level they understand the realities or work and economics, even if a chunk of their staff do not. I come away from the article with a greater appreciation of the dedication our publishing house have to bringing products to market, and the work individual successes in the small press community put in to making themselves stand out and shine among such detritus.

You can only blame the parents for raising such weak ass children. They have bread a generation of spineless men/boyz or whatever you call what purports to be the male of the species, and blind fascist whatever the others are called these days, all of whole seem to idolise their own narcissism and victim identities.

If we go to war, you can say goodbye to an entire flaccid generation. Is this how empires fall? Did the Roman Empire fall because their men started wearing makeup at court and swooning when voices were raised? It’s gonna be a fun decade full of popcorn and nachos watching the western world unravel.

There is a certain humour in the incredulity people pretend to have when they say they can’t believe this is happening and they didn’t see it coming. Like they have lived their entire lives with their heads up eachother’s arseholes. Like they’ve never watch or read the news ever in their life before.

mbassoc2003 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:I just don’t get how an anti-gun guy blows away a member of his own staff on a set where there’s no apparent need for bullets, and he hadn’t even had the basics of firearms training, rule #1 of which is always assume a weapon is loaded.

Damn shame for everyone involved.

Sadly I think it was only a matter of time... Below is the person in charge of firearms for the movie.   I'm not judging (well yes i am I guess) but she looks too young to have people's lives depending on her in this capacity.

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I think it is starting to come out the $hit show this particular production really was.  And Mr Baldwin as its producer is the top of the food chain.   People getting injured is one thing (swept under the rug or paid off). People getting killed is quite another.  This story is not over by any means and if i were them i'd start lawyering up because I see lawsuits and possible jail in some of their futures. The woman was too young to have her life cut short like this. It should have never happened.  I will never understand the need for live guns on a set.  Todays tech is more than enough to handle the acoustic and visual artifacts of a fake gun firing.  

-SKA

Agent Cooper wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:The beginning of the end.  Sad.  Was wondering when they would finally put paper and pencil RPGs on their to-do list.  The war on digital ones is well under way.  Table tops have been more or less flying under the radar, thankfully.  But no more I guess.  They've destroyed or are in the process of destroying everything else.  Comics, video games, books, sports, movies.  It was only a matter of time.

Take a respected institution.
Kill it.
Gut it.
Wear its carcass as a skin suit and demand respect.

The equality and fair pay horse****t is only a trojan horse.

I read an interview with Sarah Sarandon over the weekend, staying her son had been blown off from his script writing because they couldn’t take anymore white men on. WTF? If you’re good enough, it doesn’t matter. I’m 100% for equality, but all equality means on skill level, not tick boxes to say you’ve sufficient women, gay, non gender or numbers based on race. If the best for the job means 85% gay black women fine. If it’s 85% straight white men, fine. Just pick the best for the job based on ability, skill and effort, not ethnicity or sex

Her comments are on this

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“ On a podcast posted last month, Ms. Gutierrez, who also goes by Hannah Reed and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, said she had just finished filming her first movie as head armorer in a western called “The Old Way,” starring Clint Howard and Nicolas Cage, that is set for release next year.
“I was really nervous about it at first, and I almost didn’t take the job because I wasn’t sure if I was ready, but doing it, it went really smoothly,” Ms. Gutierrez said in the podcast, “Voices of the West,” on which the hosts discuss old western films and television shows. “