As a bonafide grownup for more than a decade after finishing law school, I’ve had the good fortune of a weekly gaming group that entire time. That is, until the Coronavirus.
How to Create Your Own Country for Tax Reasons
An arcology is a portmanteau of “architecture” and “ecology.” The original architectural vision for an arcology was an ecologically neutral, self-powering, self-feeding, and self-sufficient enclosed system.
How to Start a Sand War
What are microprocessors made from? Transistors. What are transistors made from? Sand.
The Fully Immersive Internet: Experience Influencers in the VR Future
The Rig was a highly classified military appliance used in training Special Forces. The Rig provided a perfect facsimile of the experience without having to send a trainee into danger.
Deepfakes, Fraud, and Digital Personal Copyright
This story opens in media res, in the middle of heart-pounding action as the US Congress passes a modification to the Communications Decency Act of 1996.
A Day in the Life in the Danube Arcology
Adrian and Jeremy Osborne live in the Danube Arcology. Both are current employees of the Danube Corporation. They’re entitled to a The Smartment™: a product of the Danube Corporate Family.
World Building: Roots
Generation of the world or universe, the setting, is important to numerous aspects of creating media, from novels to games. Careful design can’t be undervalued.
The Game Behind My Serial Novel
Taken on its face, football is a bad game. It takes roughly 3 hours to complete only 11 minutes of actual football. If you were forced to play games with such unfavorable numbers, the equivalent would be an eight player game of Talisman.
Shadowrunners and the Theft of Crypto-Corporate Data
It’s impossible to put a dollar value on the worth of a refrigerated semi carrying the data of an entire corporation. One file is valuable, sure. Maybe a few files are valuable. But an entire truck worth of files…
A Plot, So Meta
Canon serves as a framework for a setting, but after that, strict adherence to and advancement of canon along an official timeline is harmful to the setting and its audience.
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