A Rift of Wants I’ll admit, it’s been quite a while since I’ve had time and inclination to sit down, pull up the old blogging software, and really set in on breaking down ideas and sharing some insights that I’ve had. After all, my personal experience is built out of a weird space. I’m an ex-software engineer. I’ve spent most of my life studying games, of one sort or another, with a focus on tabletop. I’ve written a couple of books on gaming, have an extensive library of tabletop role-playing games, wargames, and story games. I’ve been a games journalist, actually getting paid to write about what I think regarding games. When you get right to it, you can think of me as an escapee from House Tytalus into the real world – and that parallel alone says entirely too much about me. But that doesn’t preclude me from being a political animal. Whether I want to or not. In particular, over the last two years all of us have become intimately familiar with the efforts of government
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