Another Great Stargate Rewatch

I started today a Great Stargate Rewatch (despite being short the last three seasons--I hope to correct that by the time I get to them) in part on account of this series of short-short stories. I think most people reading this have already seen them, but I'm sure it doesn't hurt to promote them.

But I'm also doing so on account of my primary gaming outlet right now being a Play-By-E-Mail game called Stargate: Skywatch, which I've been having a ton of fun with.

Charitably speaking, the "gaming" aspect of the game is minimal, and it's more like a rolling role-play than a traditional RPG, with a handful of folks acting as GMs, playing key NPCs and providing external action. I gather that there's quite a bit of that going on elsewhere, though I haven't encountered it yet. Or, rather, I did once before, waaaaaaay back in 1995 or so where I want to say I first met one of the folks on my access list. Then it was mostly (wholly?) original role-playing in a universe we made up as we went along, and everyone sort of threw in their own complications (though as I recall we did actually have some folks playing villains). But that was effectively the last time I did anything like that in... 13 years or so.

I found Skywatch through my friend Sarah, who I used to game with on Saturday nights. When she moved to Arizona, and our attempt at playing dice-based games live online fell apart, we started casting about for decent PbEM games. And this one has been pretty darn good so far, but it also re-awakened in me a love for this kind of collaborative storytelling that's somewhat at odds with the traditional vision of the writer as the isolated loner.

(There's a whole 'nuther post there about my social nature being really at odds with that vision, but... that's a whole 'nuther post.)

Anyway, it's been a nice experience, and fulfilling in a way that writing can be fulfilling for me personally, and also contributed to a lot of my re-thinking over the past several months.

Offered Without Comma, er, Comment

commodorified: astonishingly cheerful for someone who appears to be reading FM 34-52 Cover to cover. Metaphorically it's a pdf.
davidklecha: (It's a metaphorical pdf, or cover to metaphorical cover?) ;)
commodorified: the latter.
commodorified: Sorry. Metaphorically; it's a pdf.
commodorified: pecunium has all my semicolons this week, or something
davidklecha: *chuckles* You poor dear
commodorified: he's hell to edit, I tell ya :-)
davidklecha: I've heard that there's such a thing as Klecha Comma Overuse... so, I believe I know some people who can sympathize ;)
commodorified: Lord the COMMAS
commodorified: JUST SEND THE PUNCTUATION IN A SEPARATE DOCUMENT AND I WILL HANDLE IT PEOPLE
commodorified: :-)
davidklecha: bwahaha
commodorified: :-P
davidklecha: I abuse the serial comma for fun
commodorified: ... I liked you better when I thought you were just a cold blooded killer. :-)
davidklecha: bwahahaha some more
commodorified: (right, which one of us is blogging that?)
davidklecha: I'll take it ;)
commodorified: Better comments that way, yes. :-)
davidklecha: indeed
commodorified: *goes to look up Commas, rights of* in Geneva Conventions*