tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-228467232024-03-07T15:43:20.530-08:00Cigan's Random ThoughtsA place for all things geek. Table Top Gaming, Card Gaming, Vidgeo Gaming, Movies, Anime, whatever tickles my fancy. You'll see a lot of random stuff in the archives and very inconsistent posting. That is likely to continue.Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-49005774518295858122016-03-10T19:32:00.001-08:002016-03-15T08:13:53.620-07:00The Pasiphae to End All Pasiphae (Or a Look into my Storytelling Design Process)
#amWriting #Nhudri #GetHammered
— Danksy (@RDansky) March 6, 2016
So a few days ago I ran across the above tweet while quietly stalking our beloved Wraith DeadGuy on Twitter. It got me thinking about my last Wraith campaign, so I figured it would be an engaging exercise to do a writeup on the setting, primary antagonist, and where my inspiration for this story came from. I was Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-17907335664381304472014-12-23T13:36:00.001-08:002014-12-23T13:36:42.745-08:00Alternate Interpretations of Entropy 4 and 5Ok, so I am currently playing an orphan who leans heavily towards the Syndicate paradigm, but really REALLY dislikes their goals. He's designed around the idea of "what would a mage who's running the rolling jubilee or coordinating a lot of Occupy activity look like?" His main spheres are entropy and mind. As I just started playing him he only has 3 arete, so hasn't gotten to Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-17709763788248942302014-12-15T16:07:00.001-08:002014-12-15T16:07:45.080-08:00Taking My Crazy Entropy Rote a Bit FartherSo I recently posted some rote Ideas for my mage character and I've been using them in the chronicle recently joined. They're working out so far, but the way I wanted to use one of them went well beyond the intention of the initial rote, so I haven't been getting the benefit of "magickal muscle memory". So I'm writing up a description of the new rote my Mage is trying to developVictor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-46200289919699565972014-12-08T07:42:00.000-08:002014-12-08T08:35:40.558-08:00Rote Ideas
I'm wanting to compile some rotes for my character in the Mage game I'm going to be playing a character who was initially scouted by the syndicate, however while he works well in their paradigm he's completely against their goals. He is also a student of kabbalah. Do I am going to try to combined those paradigms in some of theses rotes.
Gematria (entropy 2 mind 1): This rote makes Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-372536735250842082014-11-24T12:09:00.001-08:002014-11-24T13:11:16.935-08:00A Game of Intrigue and InvestigationSo I recently started a new Mage campaign as a player (short interlude for storyteller who gets to actually play in an ongoing chronicle doing ridiculous happy dance). Our last session was a doozy for a couple reasons so I wanted to give it a writeup while it was still fresh in my mind . . . and there may have been some extra XP in it as we had some players out who needed a good debriefing.Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-32110712855692387152014-10-17T11:28:00.000-07:002014-10-17T12:33:33.971-07:00Ghost in the Shell the Movie!!! or How my Head Exploded Friday MorningSo this all started when I woke up this morning and shortly after beginning my day I saw my name tagged in what I assumed to be a silly innocent facebook post by my boyfriend. The post was a link to this article. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=124115
Soooooo. Scarlett Johansson has been offered the lead role in Ghost in the Shell slated to be written by WilliamVictor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-24911446298828019492014-08-12T13:27:00.000-07:002014-08-12T13:27:24.807-07:00Ain Soph, Unity or HOW DO I BUILD THIS PARADIGM?!?!?!?So this is going to be a somewhat meandering post on paradigm in the new Mage20 rules, the meaning of belief and why being a student of occult in the real world can make playing Mage kind of complicated actually. My situation is as follows:
A friend of mine who has a lot of background in Mage is going to be running a Mage campaign and I'm going to be one of his players. I am doing Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-14152838738367322662012-09-10T15:02:00.001-07:002012-09-10T15:02:30.955-07:00A Dark Balkan BeginningThe first game of the Vampire campaign went very well. Because the beginning was an intro to the world and the initial embrace it flowed a bit like a video game opening cinematic, but I warned my players that would happen and that it wouldn't be the norm.
The game opened with a little back story on how they were being prepared for the embrace ritual. I explained that they had been Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-54732412764071630392012-08-09T13:54:00.002-07:002012-08-09T16:04:34.968-07:00From the Dark Ages to Modern Times an Experiment with Elysium and Inexperienced PlayersSo I'm going to be making some role playing blog posts here on occasion. No promises about how often. There are some other blogs that I post to and I only have so much writing in me from day to day, but I do want to post the larger events in my chronicle to this blog. So first my concept and how I came up with it.
It all started with the current season of True Blood. The Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-77373033664956405742011-10-14T08:50:00.001-07:002011-10-14T12:51:54.502-07:00I am the 53%<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-46774688197612024432011-03-30T12:19:00.000-07:002011-03-30T12:20:26.047-07:00Best Comment I've ever seen!!! I wish I could take credit for this, but I can't. It was posted by "Jim" at http://www.courierpress.com/polls/2011/mar/gayamdmnt032911/results/ Enjoy.Dear Indiana legislators who are trying to pass this, Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can.Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-16032358196564500072009-11-25T08:07:00.000-08:002009-11-25T08:37:03.249-08:00Why Chrome OS Won't Fail from Someone who Won't Use ItHello All. I have not posted in a while, but all the talk about Google Chrome OS has gotten my brain churning. Everywhere I look I seem to run into one of two types of people. Type 1 is the Chrome OS nay sayers who claim that if it doesn't run games, or doesn't run native office apps, or doesn't do this that or the other thing that it will fail completely why would I ever give up anything my Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-33832757245431434812009-08-12T11:40:00.001-07:002009-08-12T12:44:03.483-07:00Why Windows isn't Ready for the Desktop (Well Some of them Anyway) and Linux is (Well Again Some of Them)I have read a lot of posts about why Linux is ready for the desktop, and why Windows isn't. I think they tend to miss the fact that Windows WILL always be better for some people. Yes I said it, Windows is the right choice for some people, I would go so far as to say lots of people. It is however, the wrong choice for a lot of people, and then there are people like me where it is the right Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-10466187345534617272007-12-12T06:54:00.001-08:002007-12-12T07:53:05.676-08:00Applying a Proprietary Paradigm to an Open SystemI would like to start off by saying I am a big fan of the open development model for almost all software. Over the past several months however I have seen a lot of users, many of them long term FOSS users, try to apply the proprietary paradigm to open projects. This is most obvious with KDE 4.0, but I have seen it in a less dramatic way with other projects. The specific paradigm I speak of is Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-5415385176408087652007-10-12T05:29:00.000-07:002007-10-12T05:53:44.389-07:00Why Linux is Ready, Not Ready for the Desktop and Why we Care in the Wrong Way.Ok, for starters, I'm not going to enumerate on linux's weaknesses and strengths and talk about why it is or is not ready for the desktop. I know, I know my title would make it seem like that was going to be my focus, but it is not. Instead I'm going to talk about the community's idiotic (yeah you heard me bring the flames, go ahead my e-mail is ciggychan@gmail.com) treatment of this subject. Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-26554514790162061142006-12-06T05:28:00.000-08:002006-12-06T05:54:38.557-08:00Novell "Fork" and Strange opinions in the OSS Community.I have read a great deal over the past few days about a "Fork" in OpenOffice.org. First I would like to say I am appalled at Groklaw's reaction to Novell's announcement.http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061204130954610Everything they are doing is being released back to the OpenOffice project, and they have maintained a separate version of OpenOffice for some time that they make widely Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-1163000241739668802006-11-08T06:54:00.000-08:002006-11-13T09:21:27.119-08:00Internet Multimedia and Mozilla Flash AgreementThere has been a lot of madness going on recently in the open source community. Oracle grabbing up Red Hat's distribution and re-branding it as unbreakable. Which in my opinion is kind of funny, anyone who's ever tried to administer any computer system at all knows that the word "unbreakable" is kind of like a Greek woman fawning all over their new born baby in front of a shrine to Zeus.In the Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-1162064132466155442006-10-28T12:35:00.000-07:002006-11-13T09:21:26.838-08:00Xubuntu's Edge First ImpressionsSo as soon as the Xubuntu page updated, which was sadly after both Ubuntu and Kubuntu, I ran in and grabbed the shiny new 6.10 iso. I have not played with any pre-releases or betas, or production spins for the simple reason that I don't currently have a computer that is working. I was lucky enough that my boyfriend is getting a new laptop and turning over his Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-1161721780549113092006-10-24T12:59:00.000-07:002006-11-13T09:21:26.588-08:00Linux needs to be less like Windows and more like MacOk, so here's for my latest rant about Linux. I'm sort of over my previous period of maddness and fury having to do with my various linux woes. Since then I have thought a lot about some of the flaws with linux. I have been away from linux for a while because my processor in my desktop had an unfortunate run in with fan failure while I was away and overheating as a result. I have not had the Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-1161266087497864902006-10-19T06:31:00.000-07:002006-11-13T09:21:26.283-08:00Flash player, development, and the silly FOSS community.The Flash player beta is live for linux. I am quite pleased that this piece of software is finally available for linux. Though when I saw the blog posting about this going live and I saw the two versions of the player something struck me.There is a moz plugin and there is a standalone GTK player. I decided to do a little digging and see what dependencies this baby had. What did I find out. IVictor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-1160588957855226362006-10-11T10:49:00.000-07:002006-11-13T09:21:25.926-08:00Review of Google DocsSo just like everyone else I saw that Google had released this new Google Docs thing. So I thought I would take a look at the program to see what it was all about, and I have to say it's pretty exciting. It isn't going to replace OpenOffice for doing serious page layout. It is rudimentary in a way that I don't even remember Abiword being back when I first used it in 2000.Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-1155822144832516912006-08-17T06:39:00.000-07:002006-11-13T09:21:25.374-08:00Why do podcasts have a freakin XML extension.Now, I know that podcasts are written in xml. But really, does that actually matter. How hard would it have been in the specification to have the file extension for the xml file to be oh I don't know. . . .pod, or .pdc, or .pd, or anything other than .xml?Why does this matter do you ask? It matters because I'm working for a radio station and no one knows what to do with the podcast link. TheyVictor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-1155570766893750592006-08-14T08:11:00.000-07:002006-11-13T09:21:25.021-08:00Linux and my spleen on a stick.Ok, now I know no one will ever read this because who cares about my little bloc, but I'm going to rant anyway.LINUX SUCKS!!!!!!!!!Ok there I have gotten that out of my system. Now I don't really believe this, it's just the intense intoxication of the past few days talking. Intoxication brought on by nothing working in either of the Linux environments I was working in.So first I download Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-1150730638710382312006-06-19T08:04:00.000-07:002006-11-13T09:21:24.448-08:00Why do people hate Flock???Ok I have to rant about a couple technological things. They are not directly related to Flock specifically, but they have been active in the Flock world recently. At least the world of "users". Why do so many open source people have a problem with Flock? I can't tell you how many times I've seen people complain that "Oh Flock is just Firefox with some plugins". Now if you just look at a Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22846723.post-1150263121912676162006-06-13T22:28:00.000-07:002006-11-13T09:21:24.198-08:00Testing the Flock BetaI don't think I've ever seen the basic interface of a program change so much between 0.2 worth of version increment. Flock has grown up a lot, and lost a little bit of it's early energetic charm I unfortunately have to say, but I think it may well be a more mature and hopefully usable project. We'll see, for now I just want to see how well it updates. Victor J Kinzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454021777819560481noreply@blogger.com0