Vampires and Cold Fusion

I know this may not be a popular attitude with some people; however, I'm just sick of heroic sparkling vampires. It's a good literary device to have the hero overcoming his natural tendencies to prey on the the on the leading lady. However, I fell that it takes away from the essential creepiness of the Vampires.

In my opinion Vampires should be nasty Villains to be overcome by cunning and guile. Or possibly by simple brute force magical or otherwise. The only good Vampire is one that has been Staked and Baked.

On a different note it has been pointed out to me, by a source I trust, it will be difficult for me to sell my book to publishers if the ultimate source of evil are Arabs. It smacks of Racism. I was concerned about my book being perceived as racist during the first stages of writing. I asked an Arabic friend about it and he assured me that my fears were baseless; however, I think he may be wrong.

Now to combine the two ideas, in my book Cold fusion, I will be changing the source of evil from the Cult of The Assassins to a cooperation headed by a vampire. Religating the Cult of Assassins to the status of hirelings should remove the rasist arguments.

I find this Idea appealing on a couple of different levels. First, anyone who knows me knows that I am not fond of big business. Second, well I have already discussed my dislike of vampires. Making a vampire CEO the ultimate source of evil in my book put big business and vampires in their proper places as villains.

I really would like to GM

This is just a simple rant. I really want to DM. I really enjoy playing role playing games it is one of my favorite things to do. I really enjoy devising stories for my friends to enjoy. I like to mess with my player's minds. It's a lot of fun. Lately I haven't been able to GM a serious game for more than one session in several months. I am going into withdrawals.

Vindication :) This is not intended to be a flame post

Hurray and Huzzah I have been vindicated by Clint. Sorry Utsquishy but I did post the Savage worlds question about the number of figures per square on the official Savage worlds forum. I got an answer back from Clint. Assuming standard scale and medium Characters One figure per square. You can have an ally pass though a square but you can't have more than on figure per square and have them act normally.

http://www.peginc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25948 for clint's answer.


For the question see http://vizionstudios.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-deeptwo-hundred-feet-thats-like-20.html

The case of the missing I

We got a new wii game for Christmas this year, it is "Wii Sports Resort". Let me tell you it is addictive.

The game is set on a virtual Island Resort. One of the mini games is Island fly over. The object of the game is to find as many point of interest (I's) as possible. There are 80 possible I's to find. I have found 79 and have no idea where the last one could be. Confounded game.

Something has got to be done. (parental discretion is advised no really I am not sure young readers should read this one)

I am not sure what but something has to be done. I have found something disturbing, I guess you could call it Utah's dirty secret. Every year since 2000 Utah has had a rape rate higher than the national average. Supposedly in 2003 Utah's rape rate was second only to Alaska. (reported in the salt lake Tribune)

Last year, the rate was not the second highest in the nation but is was still above average. In my opinion that is simply not acceptable. Of course I am not sure what to do about it. I am already an advocate for responsible gun ownership and concealed carry. A weapon is a great explanation point to NO!

Rape is an infuriating topic for me, I have known victims and have seen the emotional trauma and pain that is the result of the assault. Many of the victims feel that the attack was somehow their fault. I can't emphasize this enough, it is not the fault of the victim. The victim didn't have a choice in the matter. It is the sole fault of the attacker. I am not just talking about the attackers that come from the bushes. I'm also talking about date rapists as well. In the case of date rape it is still the fault of the rapist and not the fault of his victim.

There are predators among us. I believe they used the feeling of guilt and shame their victims feel as s cloak to hide their despicable actions so they can prey on other victims. I think that somehow we need to pierce the cloak of secrecy take away the predator's camouflage and bring them to justice.

One of my cousins had an idea of what to do with rapist. He suggested locking them in a room with 5 of her biggest friends for 10 min. The friends should be given baseball bats. If the rapist can walk out his punishment is over. If not well that is just too damn bad.

I am not sure I disagree with him.

Allstate insurance good for something after all.

I just talked to my insurance agent. He said that with my policy as long as the damage is less than 1000 dollars my insurance rate will not go up. He further stated with my insurance I can have one accident in three years over 1000 dollars and my rates will not go up.

That make me feel a bit better. Yesterday still should have been drown at birth.

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