Paul M. Cray

These two "New Worlds" cover just about sum up my overall Weltanschauung

Used to watch it just for the intros. I was always odd

I’d eat that so fast

This, perhaps understandably, misses out Marianne Faithfull's quote about it (according to Wikipedia) "In her autobiography she described Braziers Park as a "mixture of high utopian thoughts and randy sex"."

🎶 Roses are red You bite with your teeth You’ve died you fat bastard So I bought you a

“Smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back for breakfast.”

Traveler. But which version?

Very similar to mine. I often think of Paranoia. Such a fun universe to play around in.

My first five RPGs played (I think): D&D (Definitely first, then some of…) FASA Doctor Who Judge Dredd Call of Cthulhu (You might think you can see a pattern, but that’s just…) Paranoia

Maybe we should play over Zoom

More or less the same for me. Did I actually play anything other than bastardised D&D (from various TSR rules + Arduin and stuff from fanzines), Traveller and Space 1889. Maybe MA &/or GW? Certainly a small percentage of the things that I owned

First five RPGS played: Fighting fantasy Advanced fighting fantasy Basic d&d Warhammer fantasy roleplay Call of Cthulhu

1. basic D&D 2. advanced D&D 3. Traveller 4. Paranoia 5. CoC I’ll not claim to have played a lot of CoC. Never grabbed me.

1. AD&D 2. Traveller 3. RuneQuest 4. CoC 5. Not sure, but I remember playing Judge Dread I had lots more games I don't think I ever played beyond rolling up characters like James Bond 007, Chivalry & Sorcery and Golden Heroes

1. Basic D&D, supplemented by White Box supplementary kipple 2. AD&D (original, as it came out) 3. Metamorphosis Alpha 4. Traveller (original) 5. There is no 5.

This gives way to a thrilling action-filled middle, in which WIlliam Hartnell is having an absolute shocker of a night with his lines. Jacqueline Hill saves the show with Barbara sassily drawing on her school history to bamboozle the Daleks. She is 100% Bernice Summerfield, three decades early.

number go up.

Bit of an odd job here. Anthropic looking for a person to design and run tabletop exercises and wargames.

Surely of interest to some in this bailiwick: 99p for >1200 pages of mega/macrohistoric goodness on Amazon UK Kindle right no: www.amazon.co.uk/Sea-Civiliza...

I think we've established Starfleet has SQL. The big question is whether it has PL/SQL or T-SQL (or maybe PL/pgSQL in that glorious open source future)

I suppose anything that has intergalactic travel has extremely powerful computers in the background just doing useful jobs

A pretty big emulation milestone - The NEC V20/V30 CPU has now been emulated at the microcode level. #retrocomputing #emulation

Might be of interest to some in this bailiwick: ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-...

what education can actually be under these conditions. (Which is only slightly more realistic than cold fusion, I admit.)

As an adjunct, I must admit I'm also just at my limit with "oh you can do blue books, or vivas" etc. Because the work contracts were all written under very different assumptions. I too don't have solutions. Rather than cold fusion I feel we might have to force realism about...

For myself, I feel some of the surveillance stuff is so bad, I haven't been able to go with it so far.

This is the killer, in my experience. All the vaunted ways of running in class exams that do more than scratch the surface are very vulnerable to this. As you say later, I don't think you can fix this inside the frame where grades are linked into so many economic rewards.

Mr Stole and ate a potato chip RIGHT OUT OF MY HAND!!!!

Never heard of them before in my life officer

That is a handle I never wanted to be reminded of.

Way to stop a career in its tracks

I saw her on a panel at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival once with Ben Aaronovitch. I have no memory of what the panel/talk that featured both Ben Aaronovitch and LP was about, and worry that I may have imagined it. I do remember that she was late.

RS Archer. No scam fundraiser. No cryptocurrency. Just someone compulsively lying for the love of the game

Being Weird about Labour on the internet became so common during the Corbyn years that we forget you had to be a special kind of oddball to do it under Ed.