tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post8770488433676653455..comments2024-03-28T00:41:13.514-07:00Comments on B/X BLACKRAZOR: ScattershotJBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-46505497861817153392016-02-20T09:58:45.663-08:002016-02-20T09:58:45.663-08:00@ Dervish:
No, nothing like that. My situation (f...@ Dervish:<br /><br />No, nothing like that. My situation (financially and otherwise) is pretty stable. Sometimes I find myself feeling guilty for A) not doing more, and B) um...not doing more.<br /><br />I'll explain more in depth some time...someday...at a later date. Really, I will.JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-60170287500284714702016-02-20T08:48:09.687-08:002016-02-20T08:48:09.687-08:00Coincidentally JB, this guy succinctly expressed i...Coincidentally JB, this guy succinctly expressed in a recent post what I thought you might really have been trying to say. <br /><br />http://berinkinsman.com/2016/02/20/facing-fear-anxiety/<br /><br />I'll admit that I coulod be off base, though.dervishdelverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13803513672258666141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-39729660832863472192016-02-19T05:48:08.632-08:002016-02-19T05:48:08.632-08:00And I cannot recommend JB's B/X Companion book...And I cannot recommend JB's B/X Companion book enough! I own multiple copies and it is exactly what I though Moldvay/Cooks would have been had it actually been written. It is definitely crafted in the spirit of B/X ;-)Randolphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03643391983738506935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-76945317342292003072016-02-19T03:21:58.186-08:002016-02-19T03:21:58.186-08:00@ Fuzzy:
Thanks man...it's always nice to hea...@ Fuzzy:<br /><br />Thanks man...it's always nice to hear.<br /><br />Hopefully I'll be able to get this new B/X book knocked out in the next month or so, and you'll have even more to add to your table.<br />: )JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-34308178367258476302016-02-18T18:52:49.693-08:002016-02-18T18:52:49.693-08:00I have to say, your blog was the deciding factor i...I have to say, your blog was the deciding factor in my use of B/X (and the purchase of the PDFs thereof); I have not been disappointed one bit, and I'll probably use this system for all my future games. Proof that even a blog about roleplaying games can inspire people to make a decision that they are really happy with! Thanks for sharing your own thoughts here.Fuzzy Skinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10606454596061907461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-34161245255027397032016-02-18T18:10:46.718-08:002016-02-18T18:10:46.718-08:00A-frickity-men! Preach it, brother-man!A-frickity-men! Preach it, brother-man!Anthony Simeonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312134763577949405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-65531437763347670752016-02-18T15:58:35.560-08:002016-02-18T15:58:35.560-08:00@ Dervish:
It wasn't (the source, that is). A...@ Dervish:<br /><br />It wasn't (the source, that is). And, yes, it's supposed to be a different tone. I was feeling very negative "in the moment." I decided this morning (around 3am) that I wanted to be a bit more positive.<br /><br />There's lots more I could...and probably will...say. But at the moment, I feel it's best to step away from my self-righteousness. <br /><br />Still...no reason not to issue a few words of encouragement.<br />; )JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-60907991031790050892016-02-18T14:22:22.743-08:002016-02-18T14:22:22.743-08:00I hope my candidness wasn't the source of you ...I hope my candidness wasn't the source of you pulling the original post. <br /><br />I'll echo that you probably should have left it up. This new post has taken on a different tone.<br /><br />Truthfully, I thought there was more you really wanted to say. And you still have not told us the source of your angst (; dervishdelverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13803513672258666141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-38234329641728394072016-02-18T13:18:20.096-08:002016-02-18T13:18:20.096-08:00As a participant in the arts since the early 1980s...As a participant in the arts since the early 1980s, I can say without question that producing art in order to provide an individual with the means to live, to do nothing but create more art for the rest of their lives, has ALWAYS been the norm.<br /><br />Every serious amateur dreams of being a professional - because having to work some other crummy job gets in the way of being either.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-73760485645245531852016-02-18T12:20:44.090-08:002016-02-18T12:20:44.090-08:00I liked the original post just fine but this one d...I liked the original post just fine but this one dovetailed with an old rant of mine about how people seem to be increasingly willing to let 'professionals' do the creating. <br />Like, from what I've read, it seems like not that long ago it was a whole lot more common for people to draw and play music and even put on plays in their homes (toy theater). <br />Then came cameras and recorded music and movies/TV... and it's much easier to just watch other folks doing stuff and doing it well.<br />I think there's been a bit of push-back against this trend lately... but I'm not sure how extensive and long-lived it might be. Timmy Crabcakeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14737954661234574830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-20240352037597824872016-02-18T01:45:17.545-08:002016-02-18T01:45:17.545-08:00Oh, its a pity you took the post down. I actually ...Oh, its a pity you took the post down. I actually liked it quite a bit. I felt a sense of coherence between that one and your "Wino Thoughts" post. I think that once you are confronted the extreme brutality of Latin-American inequality, it is hard to look at middle- and upper-class people just 'looking out for themselves' as something normal. At least it is a feeling I have with respect to my own home country.<br />I grew up in one such family, and I find the indifference with which we all looked at inequality as a profound moral and political failure, one that can only be explained away by remembering that even the most moderate attempts to bring about a less inequality-inducing form of market economy were brutally repressed by powerful elites in all the region.<br />'Capitalism' means something quite different south of the Equator, so to say. It is not a Smithian utopia of self-interested shop-owners, pin-makers and bakers but a Conradian dystopia of foreign plantation masters, served by slaves or indentured servants. The descendants of successful captains of industry and socially protected workers might see the market economy under a different light from those descended from quasi-feudal landed aristocrats and recently freed slaves.<br />I didn't get to read any of the comments to your post, but I can only imagine that some people found it wrong to claim that capitalism has anything to do with extreme inequality, or poverty. People who, I can only imagine, recalled that it was market economies and free enterprise that raised people out of misery all around the world. But that isn't quite true, or rather, it is only true to a certain degree, and only true once qualified by a great number of often unstated premises. Market economies have produced very unequal results around the world, which serves to demonstrate that its benefits are not simply dependent on ‘freeing people’ to produce, and exchange the fruits of their labor, but also on a plethora of socio-political structures that have nothing to do, in the narrow sense, with ‘free markets’.Matthiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09466641291398176421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-73916891789663832612016-02-18T00:47:09.918-08:002016-02-18T00:47:09.918-08:00should have let the original post stay up regardle...should have let the original post stay up regardless.<br /><br />mistakes are good. :)shlominushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10230735173349001611noreply@blogger.com