Month: September 2017

Hoy recordé por qué dejé de escribir sobre El Procés

On By emperorpondersIn Catalunya, Español1 Comment

En los últimos años me he metido en muchas controversias y “fregaos”. Yo no soy precisamente un paladín del centrismo y de la normalidad, y buena parte de mis ideas son prácticamente extraterrestres, pero he tratado con gente que me ha hecho llevarme las manos a la cabeza… y darme ganes de abrirme los sesos y arrojar lo que por allí encontrara. He conocido toda clase de locos, fanáticos, monomaníacos e ideológos, y he visto como la sociedad les recompensa justamente por que esas son las características que se seleccionan y premiam. Mi natural misantropía se ha elevado peligrosamente como resultado. No obstante, hay un grupo que es especialmente atroz por lo agotador y lo surrealista que es intentar hablar con ellos: el Procesista convencido.

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You are not doing it wrong, but change it anyway: injuries and healing spells in D&D

On By emperorpondersIn English, RPG7 Comments

I wrote this post yesterday, but for some reason, the auto-save function isn’t working, which means I had to write it – again.

Long story short, this is the second part of a well-received post I wrote a long time ago about how to interpret Hit Points in D&D (or similar games) in light of the literature that inspired it. The basic idea was that Hit Points shouldn’t be understood as an absolute value, at least if you want to “visualize” or describe what is happening when character lose hit points. By the way, this is not an esoteric interpretation because even the gamey 3.5 edition acknowledges that:

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Noticia: Contrario a la independencia se da cuenta de sus errores tras ser llamado ‘fascista hijo de puta’.

On By emperorpondersIn Catalunya, Español, Nationalism, SpanishLeave a comment

 

EFE|Barcelona|11 sept. 2017

Jaume Marqués i Pujal, un barcelonés de 50 años, ha abarazado el independentismo y admitido las falsedades de sus anteriores creencias políticas tras ser llamado, entre otras cosas, ‘fascista hijo de puta’ y ‘basura española.’

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“Lit Bait” and preferences/discrimination in genre literature.

On By emperorpondersIn Art, Books, English, sci-fi, writing13 Comments

Reading this piece by Jon Del Arroz about alleged anti-male bias in SF&F made me think about two events of my life which bear on this issue. Jon’s point –and the numbers he presents seem to support his claim– is that there is an anti-male bias in some parts of the short story market (and probably also in others.) I think that’s plausible, and there are some obvious examples like Tor.com or Uncanny. However, the problem goes deeper than that, and the alleged anti-maleness may be just an unfortunate consequence of an even more indelible bias than merely avoiding stories by testosterone-poisoned individuals. Let me tell you about two things that happened when I was young, so you get an idea of what I’m talking about.

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