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by Bifford [White Hare Games] (Sam)

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On the excitement of the first
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I finished my supplement for Tales of the Village. I have ordered the usual proof off of DTRPG, which while exiting isn't as exciting as ordering my first copies from Mixam! So many more options, an economy of "buy more, pay less" - 1 copy as proof of printing costs the same as 6, so I ordered 6. I wasn't about to order 50 when I don't know if the printing will be 100% perfect! I find it bizarre that they don't allow a at-cost single proof to be ordered. hey ho. Review copies these will be then!

So anyway, it's exciting! My first proper batch purchase of an item that I can hold "in stock" to sell whenever. Fighting Fantasy Fest 6 has finally had its date released (5th Sept) so I can take them along to sell - yeah, they are not Fighting Fantasy releated, but I might sell one or two, who knows? Exciting though, isn't it!

Many other things in life are exciting the first time they are done/experienced; but then, on repetition, they become mundane. That's a shame - it would be lovely if we could keep that excitement of the first way past the actual first. Do you have a way to do this in what you do? Tell me!



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Goblins, Egg-stealing, and an enraged owlbear! Wonderful!
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The Catch-22 of getting into someone's head, by saying you can get into their head from anywhere, or rather not specifying and leaving their head to run wild with imaginings of how far away you can get into their head....
Solo Traveller - The Raven's Call - Session 1: Mora, 002-1105


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by Rachel

Print & Play files for Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice and Eight Elephants are ready for The Game Crafter, yes both games will get print and print & play editions there. Work continues on the cards for 10 Minutes to Midnight and I'm still troubleshooting Charge the Circle...

Pretty but problematic.

Also, page master duties for JVMF are keeping me busy. It's a good busy, but I need to take some time and catch up elsewhere on the Geek tomorrow too :geek_grin:.

Game Over On borrowed time...

Happy Wednesday and happy playing!
-Rachel

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by Lowell Kempf

I recently finished reading Your Movie Sucks by Roger Ebert, one of his collections of reviews of movies he didn’t like.

I read it over the better part of a year because I would only read a review or two at a time. It was brain fog or coffee break reading, not something that I would read big chunks of at a time.

And it was entertaining and even educational but it wasn’t something I felt like writing about. Yeah, until it got me thinking about Roger Ebert in general.

I don’t think (and I’m beyond willing to be proven wrong) that someone could hold a position like Roger Ebert in today’s media. It feels like the media environment is too diffuse for one person to have such central position. (But, hey, what do I know?)

(And I also don’t think that’s a bad thing or a good thing. I think it’s just a thing.)

At the same time, I don’t think that if Roger Ebert hadn’t existed, someone else would have taken his place. I don’t think an elder statesman of movie reviewing was inevitable. I think that’s something that required a Roger Ebert.

I don’t agree with everything that Ebert has said or written. I think he was quite wrong about some things. (A strong example of that is his opinion that video games can’t be art, which he eventually relented enough to say that it was his opinion and not definitive fact)

With that said, I feel Ebert did two things that really made him worth listening to. First of all, he explained his positions. Second, he focused on not if a movie was art but if it was worth watching.

And that’s really what it comes down to. Ebert could (and did) teach college courses on movies but he didn’t treat his reviews like college courses. He focused on telling folks were any darn good.

I suspect that Ebert helped us understand movies better. He asked for movies to be good but he made good a wide open term.

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