Category Archives: Gaming

Playing To Win – Looking to your future self to make life a win-win situation

May 22, 2007 – 10:15 am

It is helpful to have a guide along the path. One that I enjoy working with is my future self. The me at the end of my path who has been through the trials and tribulations, dealt with our defects, and leads the most effective and realized life we possibly can. This particular [...]

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Second Reality is Twice Weirder than Fiction

April 30, 2007 – 6:59 pm

I have an account on Second Life, but don’t play as much as I used to.  I originally got the account to research an idea for a science fiction novel involving virtual reality.  Second Life is odd, and in many ways not a classic game in the sense that there are no hard-and-fast measures of [...]

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Video Games are Not Always Bad for You

February 23, 2007 – 4:17 pm

John August had a GREAT post on his site that hit home for me on a multitude of levels, Seven Things I Learned from World of Warcraft.
I’ll repeat his bullet points here, but you should go to his post for his detailed expansion of them. Well worth your time if you are into [...]

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Cross post about refueling your Muse

December 13, 2006 – 2:26 pm

Great article over at the DIYPlanner site about Refueling the Muse. The bits about World of Warcraft playing, and surfing Google for Zombie videos are particularly close to my heart.
In the book Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury has a great essay on the care and feeding of your Muse. Too [...]

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