July 2006 - Posts

• The Onion Pwns Wikipedia

  Behold the wisdom of crowds! Nobody's ever said it better . Read More... Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:32 PM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments

• Miracles and Wonders

  Not all of Faith is low tech. Some aspects of it, we would regard as extremely high tech. Herein follow (translated!) excepts from Don Armando del Castillo de Nueve Torres y de la Costa de las Espadas' seminal work " Los Milagros y las Maravillas de Nuestra Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:54 PM by Rich Bryant | 2 Comments Filed under: Design, Faith Specific

• Comments for the Swordsman

  (Some notes for fencers in the Faith universe) First, the wit and wisdom of General Sir Claude McBane as discovered in the archives at Cambridge these 150 years ago and still apposite. After you have made a Thrust and are recovering, or as soon as you Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:59 PM by Rich Bryant | 1 Comments

• PGC stuff - still hacking at it

  I've finished work for the MoD now, and i'm taking a week to catch up on some stuff. The first thing, and the one i've been promising myself i'd get out here for the public is on Procedurally Generated Content in Managed DirectX 2.0b. It's coming, but Read More... Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 6:16 PM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments Filed under: Technodrivel

• Art Not Dead

  Psychochild says pixel art isn't dead and that 2D games are cool. That's fine. Read More... Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 5:54 PM by Rich Bryant | 3 Comments

• Mmmmmmm - pizza and organised crime

  There's a new pizza place in Swindon. This is unheard of, and i predict mayhem and murders. And I'm not joking. Back in 1943, a whole bunch of Sicilians were captured by 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Forced to stick to the Geneva Convention, they Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 2:18 PM by Rich Bryant | 4 Comments

• Ow

  Fighting isn't better than sex. Not exactly. But as good as, i'd say. A decent fight, properly outnumbered, everyone well armed and armoured, everyone following the "if you're on your back, you're out" rule. I am bruised, i am battered, i am sore, i hurt Read More... Posted Sunday, July 09, 2006 11:14 PM by Rich Bryant | 1 Comments

• Swashbucklers and Aural Retentives

  That's not a typo. Faith is set in a predominantly lowtech universe. As Chris' excellent recent blog implies , technology is a variable and many things are possible at what we'd call lowtech periods without necessitating other technological changes. One Read More... Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:10 PM by Rich Bryant | 20 Comments

• Follow the Black Gold

  I don't usually do politics on my blog, but this is important. I don't know how much history you guys learn in school. Did you ever learn about the cause of World War 1? Did they tell you it was due to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo? Read More... Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:42 AM by Rich Bryant | 2 Comments

• Raph Koster says "USE SOAP!"

  To quote Raph on Scott "Lum the Mad" Jennings' blog - Once you are washing your body with something liquid as opposed to a bar of soap, you have taken an irretrievable, irredeemable step into the gaping abyss. The other extreme of rectitude is to wash Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 11:58 AM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments