You’re feeling punk and tired and discouraged and thoroughly miserable, and you want to crawl right back into bed, but you don’t — you get out your INFLUENCE DECK and find the nearest table.
Okay, now you’ve laid out a ten-card reading of your INFLUENCE DECK, and the HOTKEY comes out “Lesbos” — so what do you want to do now?
At least crawling back under the covers is not the foremost thing on your mind at the moment — you’re staring at the LESBOS card.
So, LESBOS is your “Hot Card”, and there you are — you’re sitting there at your Daily Reading, and wondering what’s going on, what kind of influence is this, coming from your own past life in Lesbos?
Is this why you have a strange pain in your right side? Maybe it’s the root cause of your depression? It might be that feeling of guilt and inadequacy you’ve been binging on for the past few weeks. Continue reading →
Trans-Dimensional PLS Deck is now available in full living color!
Wow, has this been a productive week, what with all the rain and snow and wind and fog and such blowing all around us, it’s been great, great, great, and terrific new transcending gear has evolved out of nowhere, and I’m gonna introduce you to it right now …
First of all, there’s the Power Base and Candle. This can be charged up or can work as a charger, depending on what kind of Power Pendant you load up in there.
The candle is hand-painted with YOUR OWN Guardian Angels — I get the expression and figure more or less right, and the Law of Similarity takes over from there.
You can WEAR the coin or other contact item in the Power Pendant, and power it up in the Power Base, or if it’s a CQR Power Pendant, it can be used to charge the Wishing Candle for extra power.
WEAR the Power Pendant with a Roman coin in it, and get into powerful contact with at least one of your past lives as a Roman citizen, Freeman or Slave — you could easily have been one as the other. Continue reading →
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For the past several weeks, I’ve been playing Diablo 2 for an average of 8-10 hours a day, broken up into two and sometimes three sessions, with breaks about every half hour to an hour, plenty of water to keep hydrated, lots of walking in between missions, listening to my favorite Press Keys, Herbie Hancock, Dave Brubeck or Charles Lloyd album as I whip the Diablo levels into a total frenzy with my combination punch — traps plus fire bombs from my trapper assassin and ravens, wolves and blasts of arctic air from my elemental druid.
The point is, when in combat, don’t dawdle. Pour it on as fast and as heavy as you can, with great efficiency and fervor, then dodge the return fire and do it again until nothing moves and all is quiet on the Western Front. In short, rain down death and destruction like some Hindu Gods I could mention, then have a sip of tea and do it again.
Yes, death and destruction. If you’re going to get into the God Business, you can’t be squeamish about what happens when a universe runs down from Big Bang to Very Very Dark and Quiet. There’s a lot of death and destruction in the normal course of events. Hundreds of micro-organisms die every year, and you wouldn’t believe the statistics in the vegetable kingdom.
So I’m knocking about in various modes, a wide variety of character classes, an even wider spread of character levels from level 1 to level 61, my highest ranking char in hardcore in this most recent run of ladder characters, although I have dozens more in non-ladder, going all the way back to the very first year of Diablo 2, about fifteen years ago, by my admittedly shaky reckoning — maybe 20 years, could be, during the course of which I’ve put in several thousands of hours of experimental game play, with the idea in mind of developing a course of self-study and self-mastery that used gaming as a basis, and that’s what I’m presenting now. Continue reading →
Once you have a working projectile with real physics operating to produce apogee/perigee ballistics, Faith is certain. Beliefs may come, and beliefs may go, but Faith is always with us. Let’s talk weppins. First of all, in real combat, there’s not a lot of blossoming fireballs going on out of muzzles — you want to suppress the sound and the sight to prevent sniper spotters from getting a mark on your position.
