Can Deathwatch Make Fun In Grim Darkness?
The tag-line for Games Workshop’s fictional universe known as Warhammer 40,000 is, “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” It’s like an odd mash-up of The …
How Gina Rinehart and Kim Williams are Giving Us an Opportunity to Grow Some @#$%ing Balls
If you’re Australian, you’ve likely heard about the recent actions of two major media organisations, Fairfax and News Australia, to streamline their businesses. Fairfax has already announced that almost two …
Fighting the Blues With Progress in Small Chunks
Sometimes, it’s easy to get distracted by troubles when they come up, especially when you’re already trying to sort yourself out after prior ones. The extra pressure makes you want …
How to Shrink Mount Molehill Back Down
Sometimes it seems easy for other people people to talk about changing life (yours, theirs, somebody else’s) for the better. They don’t see how things go every day for you, …
Prometheus
It’s kind of hard to imagine any expectations that Prometheus met. I think the trailers were trying to lead us to believe that we were going to get something more …
Can Prometheus Build On Mystery Without Killing It?
I’m off to see this years Big Sci-Fi Film, Prometheus, tonight. Naturally, I want to write about what I make of it, but I also want to write about my …
A Return to Old Playing and Getting Paid to Podcast
It’s been a good seven days here at the Realm. It’s been an upswing in both progress toward getting paid to play and, well, just playing. On the play front, …
What Is It About a Blank White Page?
I’ve been writing for a good while now. I’ve got all kinds of notebooks, binders, sheafs of paper. Yet lately, I’ve started noticing that something… different happens when I sit …
Can You Help Us Carry A Little Weight?
I’m sorry that this post isn’t in line with where I’m trying to take Step One: Make Fun!, but I wanted to share something and I couldn’t think of a …
Five Free Ways To Start Making Fun Now
We live in a cluttered, noisy society. We’re constantly being told that to have fun, we need to invest in an extensive library of gadgets and paraphernalia. Surround sound speakers, …