Recent content by fusangite

If you've ever wondered what would have happened if Greg Stafford got his Religious Studies PhD a generation later, consider signing up for my game.

He's in my prayers. I got to hang out with him at Gen Con 2005 and 2007; he's such a damned nice guy this is a real tragedy.

Glad to hear I misinterpreted you. Here's my deal: an organization with a public image has to strike a delicate balance when it faces groundless, false accusations. Too much response and it appears to validate and encourage tinfoil hat-wearers, who know that they will be rewarded with attention...

I have to ask the same of you: have you heard of any other awards judging panel that publishes every syllable of its internal discourse? Name one awards organization in the entire world that has decided your idea of how deliberation should be run is a good idea. You know what builds trust in an...

Here's a cross-posting of what I had to say in response to Houghton's statement on TheRPGSite: You say "unprecedented" like it's a bad thing. You proposed an unprecedented new policy. Rather than rejecting it out of hand, other members of the ENnies community decided to build an additional...

Sounds good. Can you read/post to the CM thread where I'm tracking the game?

Bump.

My dance card's pretty full right now but after talking to you about Junk Dreams, I figured that this would be just your sort of game. Sunday 11am to 3pm looks like my only available time, though.

Yes. But courier/mail service is not one of the things that is handled through Paypal. How does Paypal apply to the specific currency conversions you advocate in your proposal. I know that. Why don't you ask QD and Piratecat, who were judges this year whether last year's model worked better or...

Oh yeah -- throw in some math, currency conversions, data entry, calculating an average cost based on the country in which each individual judge lives... piece of cake. After all, it's only several hundred items they're tracking and it's not like they're already tracking entry forms, errors in...

So, now you're asking the ENnies to track everyone's shipping costs and to charge varying entry fees depending not only on category but on product size, weight and point of origin. As I said above, people seem to be being very generous with the time of ENnies volunteers. "Status quo"? As I said...

If an entry fee is levied in only certain categories, a perception of asymmetry is created. Much as, in principle, I agree that it would be better for the cost of submission to be directed to the awards than to be wasted, the fact is that it is not a good idea to force an entry fee on entrants...

Bump2daWiza, have you considered joining www.circvsmaximvs.com? You seem like our kind of guy.

Let's be clear. There are some decent podcasts out there but there were not, as of June last year, five worthy of competing for fans' votes. How is mailing a single CD to someone too much of a hardship? I'm just not getting it. What benefit would come from allowing people to enter who believe...

Yeah. I saw that. "Mask" is a strong word. There is no element of deception in the fact that hanging out with different groups of friends accentuates different aspects of one's personality. It must really suck that you can only enjoy one way of interacting socially and everything else feels like...