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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

C is for Commie, but also for Cookie,Comment and Conpulsion 

Something irritating involving cookies and my browser is causing issues with approving comments on this blog, so apologies for any delays.

In (probably) less irritating news, I was at Conpulsion in Edinburgh over the weekend. I actually got to play PARANOIA for once instead of running it, which was interesting.

(And terrifying - the wrong side of the screen is a bad place to be!)

My (third set of) dying thoughts were addressed to my psychic overlords in Psion, informing them that a) the Loyalty Officer was a powerful mutant and should be recruited to the cause and b) the Loyalty Officer should be terminated on sight for his repeated episodes of wilful sabotage and cowardice.

I don't think they listened.
Posted by: Gareth Hanrahan / 9:55 AM (0) comments

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Recursive Blogging Is The New Black 

Mongoose Publishing have launched the Planet Mongoose a blog where the designers and staff will post news and other ramblings. PARANOIA news will remain here, though - I'll put a link on the Mongoose blog whenever an important post goes up here.
Posted by: Gareth Hanrahan / 6:46 PM (1) comments

Make a meal with Hot Fun, Cold Fun, Sort of Warm Fun, Fun With Eggs... 

The Game Chef contest is running again. Contestants have to choose three from a set of four keyworks, and design a playable game based on those three words within a two-week deadline. This year's words are
MEMORY, DRUG, PALACE & CURRENCY or SACRED, ROSE, THREAD & INCONSISTENCY.

There are several PARANOIA fans involved in Game Chef, both behind the scenes and as contestants. Contests like this are wonderful for stimulating design and innovation - certainly, I've had a rather nice idea that may see fruition in some future PARANOIA sourcebook...

The Game Chef forums are The www.game-chef.com/workshop, and there's still time to tap into the contest.
Posted by: Gareth Hanrahan / 11:33 AM (0) comments

Monday, March 19, 2007

Report on Reports of CPU Reporting in BLG Sector 

For the last several yearcycles, High Programmer Varney has been maintaining disinformation source CPU/BLG/4232/ALPHA, also known as the PARANOIA blog, ostensibly for the purposes of 'informing' the lower clearance citizens about Official Publications, but the source was actually a major distribution vector for Approved Mindstate Memetic Viruses.

Since High Programmer Varney's reassignment to CLASSIFIED OMEGA, updates to the disinformation source have been the responsibility of Junior High Programmer Hanrahan.

Due to an upgrade performed allegedly by High Programmer Costikyan Commie sabotage, updates to the disinformation source were blocked for some weeks. This situation has now been rectified (and we salute the efforts of both High Programmer Varney and those late Heroes of Alpha Complex, Troubleshooter Team #543). Updates will now resume on a more regular basis.
Posted by: Gareth Hanrahan / 8:00 AM (1) comments

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