Richard Kulisz

In Getting Beyond Spellcasting the idea is mooted of getting away from spell-slinging wizards with some ritual magic. This isn't going ...

I just read this stupid rant about how wizards in modern RPGs aren't special enough because they aren't enough like literary mages....

I just read this great post introducing the concept of offline roleplaying in MMORPGs . Following is my response which extends and explores ...

I read a game designer's rather interesting rant about how ' Roleplaying = Fighting '. But then I realized how easy it is to fix...

With the invention of publishing, ancient engineers became modern engineers. That's because with publishing, engineers learned to specia...

None of you have the slightest clue what it's like to be an intellectual highly empathic person. To be a genuinely great person. But I...

I was thinking of space, and that led me to thinking of how much I hate the moronic hype around space travel. There's no good reason to ...

A friend of mine asked me what I thought of the idea that people do everything out of selfish reasons. That supposedly even if you do altrui...

This world has more than enough natural resources and intelligent minds to figure out how to use them. Yet it has disease, poverty, starvati...

Let's first agree that by 2050 China will be entirely dependent on nuclear power and probably still have an engineering-heavy political ...

Today I explained to someone that the reason I hate Americans being fat is because it's directly connected to their encouraging universa...

Alan Cooper writes that there are three kinds of interfaces created by UI programmers. These are technological interfaces, metaphoric (or ic...

The places where sticking a lever and pushing will lift up all of civilization. Arranged by effort to reward ratio. anarchistic catalog anar...

One of the fulcrum points of society is Contour Crafting technology. What's the guy done in the past 5 years to develop this technology...

I think I could fix the USA if I were POTUS and were allowed to order just 10,000 to 20,000 assassinations. Following is a fairly comprehens...

Some pretty smart people have gotten the notion that life opposes entropy, that it creates order and retards the heat death of the universe....

In the USA, millions of oppressed people are starving or dying from lack of access to food, drugs or medical treatment. In the USA, public h...

Have I lowered myself to watch this amazingly stupid, inane, over-hyped piece of crap pandering to eco-zealots? Of course not. Yet I still f...

Most people think talking about a subject is about teaching and learning or (for the relativists) pushing one's point of view. Some peop...

This is an extension of the Four Fundamental Cognitive Traits . Synthesis systems designer (+both)  graphics designer (+analysis)           ...