D&D Tablet Computer

As D20 D&D went more and more into tactical simulation again, the advantage of having a computer handle the maps became more and more obvious. Things like Neverwinter Nights gathered pretty big fanbases based on just that idea.

As much as I don't run games like that anymore (but would still play if a group had fun dynamics) I must admit I'd play a tactical D&D game if any GM I knew offered me this to play on.

[photos] - Chapel Shoot (end)

Well, end as in they are all up. I still might subject people to voting on subsets here since it seems you *can't* comment on the flickr photos without an account.

I'm thinking I will stick with the colour tone that I've mostly labeled "c" in these. (Although sol3's suggestion of getting rid of the chroma noise by converting to B&W is tempting, especially for these later shots.)

As always, click through the whole gallery and feel free to offer opinions on which of the many similar shots are absolute keepers and which can be scrapped. I am likely taking photogeek_mtl's advice and whittling it down to a flirty story within shoot, and so overly-similar poses will be pruned.



( A couple more behind the cut )

Oysters and Eric Idle

I am glad I am not the kind of person who assumes a woman feeding me oysters is some sort of aphrodisiac subtext come on, since I don't need drama with the person who might employ me.

Apropos of nothing, Eric Idle Responds to Your Fatuous Comments

[review] - Paranormal Activity

As is often the case, I was oblivious to the huge cult following of this film through social media and the like that has resulted in it being released. When Pixie invited me to see it, I shrugged and said sure. Of course, last time I was brought to a film that was a internet-based cult hit, it was the deeply banal Repo: The Genetic Opera.

I liked this far better.

Spoilers will go under the cut, but here's the non-spoiler version. It's a Haunted House tale, done as a terror film, not a horror film. It's kind of a cross between The Blair Witch Project and The Haunting (the good 1960s version).

( Spoilers here like rotten cabbages )

Is it brilliant and groundbreaking? No. It's a well-crafted haunted house movie done with a simple and solid understanding of how to do suspense. I enjoyed it immensely as exactly that sort of old school terror film.