Sunday, 31 December 2017
Friday, 29 December 2017
Brocon starts this afternoon, at the Novotel at The Vines. All welcome!
Brocon starts this afternoon, at the Novotel at The Vines. All welcome!
So no gaming at Glendalough.
So no gaming at Glendalough.
Saturday, 23 December 2017
This is the article I was talking about last night.
This is the article I was talking about last night.
http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/kelly-marie-tran-on-the-last-jedi-and-shirtless-kylo-ren.html
http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/kelly-marie-tran-on-the-last-jedi-and-shirtless-kylo-ren.html
Friday, 22 December 2017
Gaming is on tonight.
Gaming is on tonight. Matthew sends both his apologies for his non-attendance and his wishes for a Merry Christmas to us.
Thursday, 14 December 2017
Star Wars tomorrow for some of us, so no gaming.
Star Wars tomorrow for some of us, so no gaming. Murder on the Orient express was pretty good at Gold Class last night, as we were leaving all the midnight session Star Wars folks were lining up, more in costume than nnot.
Monday, 11 December 2017
Excellent post by Alex Isle.
Excellent post by Alex Isle.
Originally shared by Alex Isle
Australia Gets Equal Marriage
8 December 2017 is a special date for Australians now; the date when equal marriage legislation became law. We're a bit late to the party; following Ireland, Germany, England, New Zealand and North America, among others. This is a bit disappointing because we were certainly ahead of the pack in giving women the vote. When I looked that up, I saw it was complicated, all the states having done this at different times! Still, I was proud of Western Australia for being the second, in 1899, after South Australia in 1894. It was a while longer before women could stand for Parliament, in the 1920s I think, but I haven't checked that.
Some folks are muttering and complaining because our Liberal (read Conservative) Federal government is claiming the credit, with beaming smiles and dancing, when all they really did was hold things up by insisting on a postal vote first and then bowing to the inevitable. Still, think again of women's suffrage. I'm sure there was much bitching about how long it took and dire "The world is ending!" from detractors.
Actually, I do have some idea of how it might have been, because I have Swiss German relatives and know some of the oddities about that country, i.e. that women did not have the vote until 1973. There was no point, the men said, because they would simply follow the voting pattern of their husbands. The comparison ends here, of course, except that this was something once believed unthinkable.
Now, if I want to get a feel for how the detractors are reacting now, I could talk to my mother, but I don't want to. She says patronisingly that I have to accept the views of other people. This treating me as a child or an idiot is another reason why I don't like her, but I was actually quite shaken up by the argument we had on our last encounter. I was primarily annoyed then because I was tired of enduring her views, the sniping at "the other side" of politics as though they were actually demonic instead of just opposing. She knew I didn't agree with her views but seems I was meant to put up with them nonetheless and not discuss mine unless I really wanted to set her off. I knew she'd voted no before she said it, but the reasons, beyond selfishness, confuse me. It's primarily a thing of the traditionally religious, and my mother is not religious, only hidebound.
This is a game changer. All of society will change with the updating of our words and our laws. I said in an earlier post that nothing was going to change for those who still cling to the "traditional" view of marriage, meaning they will lose none of their rights. But I wasn't entirely correct, because of course society is going to change around those people. Is changing. Their views, to me, are as selfish and mean-spirited as those who once enslaved black people, or declared that women were naturally subservient to men, according to the will of some ancient deity whose rules, of course, were set out by men.
Whether it happened this way or another way, whatever obstacles people put in the path of the happening, these things in the end won't matter. A good thing, long delayed, has finally happened and the atmosphere feels, to me, more optimistic and free as a result.
[This is my Wordpress post. Linking Wordpress with Google Plus is too much for my brain right now; it is a hot Sunday in Perth. I wrote it last night when my brain was working a little better].
Originally shared by Alex Isle
Australia Gets Equal Marriage
8 December 2017 is a special date for Australians now; the date when equal marriage legislation became law. We're a bit late to the party; following Ireland, Germany, England, New Zealand and North America, among others. This is a bit disappointing because we were certainly ahead of the pack in giving women the vote. When I looked that up, I saw it was complicated, all the states having done this at different times! Still, I was proud of Western Australia for being the second, in 1899, after South Australia in 1894. It was a while longer before women could stand for Parliament, in the 1920s I think, but I haven't checked that.
Some folks are muttering and complaining because our Liberal (read Conservative) Federal government is claiming the credit, with beaming smiles and dancing, when all they really did was hold things up by insisting on a postal vote first and then bowing to the inevitable. Still, think again of women's suffrage. I'm sure there was much bitching about how long it took and dire "The world is ending!" from detractors.
Actually, I do have some idea of how it might have been, because I have Swiss German relatives and know some of the oddities about that country, i.e. that women did not have the vote until 1973. There was no point, the men said, because they would simply follow the voting pattern of their husbands. The comparison ends here, of course, except that this was something once believed unthinkable.
Now, if I want to get a feel for how the detractors are reacting now, I could talk to my mother, but I don't want to. She says patronisingly that I have to accept the views of other people. This treating me as a child or an idiot is another reason why I don't like her, but I was actually quite shaken up by the argument we had on our last encounter. I was primarily annoyed then because I was tired of enduring her views, the sniping at "the other side" of politics as though they were actually demonic instead of just opposing. She knew I didn't agree with her views but seems I was meant to put up with them nonetheless and not discuss mine unless I really wanted to set her off. I knew she'd voted no before she said it, but the reasons, beyond selfishness, confuse me. It's primarily a thing of the traditionally religious, and my mother is not religious, only hidebound.
This is a game changer. All of society will change with the updating of our words and our laws. I said in an earlier post that nothing was going to change for those who still cling to the "traditional" view of marriage, meaning they will lose none of their rights. But I wasn't entirely correct, because of course society is going to change around those people. Is changing. Their views, to me, are as selfish and mean-spirited as those who once enslaved black people, or declared that women were naturally subservient to men, according to the will of some ancient deity whose rules, of course, were set out by men.
Whether it happened this way or another way, whatever obstacles people put in the path of the happening, these things in the end won't matter. A good thing, long delayed, has finally happened and the atmosphere feels, to me, more optimistic and free as a result.
[This is my Wordpress post. Linking Wordpress with Google Plus is too much for my brain right now; it is a hot Sunday in Perth. I wrote it last night when my brain was working a little better].
Friday, 8 December 2017
Thank goodness this debacle is over, thank you to the Governor-General for expediting what should have been a lot...
Thank goodness this debacle is over, thank you to the Governor-General for expediting what should have been a lot quicker process all over, and without skulking toadweaselspleensuckers Abbott and Katter trying to spread their oily miasma over everyone.
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Firstly the advent calendar in Kingdom of Loathing is turning up some intriguing items.
Firstly the advent calendar in Kingdom of Loathing is turning up some intriguing items. Dust off your campsite and have a look. And check out the construction of the monorail on the right side of the town while you're at it. If you obtain a chisel during the few adventures you're allowed to work on the monorail, you can re enter Lyle industries and chisel some graffiti.
Secondly, we're going to be attending the Star Wars screening on the 15th, so there won't be any gaming.
This Friday though, all is as per usual.
Secondly, we're going to be attending the Star Wars screening on the 15th, so there won't be any gaming.
This Friday though, all is as per usual.
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
I don't know if you often check the WABA forums on bgg, but you might like to check the D-Con competitions and the...
I don't know if you often check the WABA forums on bgg, but you might like to check the D-Con competitions and the dinner ordering situation (Subway this year).
I quite like the look of Crazy Catan.
I quite like the look of Crazy Catan.
Friday, 1 December 2017
I think we're going to see more of this until people realise that they are just burning themselves out.
I think we're going to see more of this until people realise that they are just burning themselves out.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-01/the-art-of-missing-out-a-fomo-tale/9211204
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-01/the-art-of-missing-out-a-fomo-tale/9211204
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