Review: Maid RPG

Once upon a time I told readers of my previous blog that I would find them and kill them if Maid: RPG fell through as a game and failed. Consider all your asses off the hook, because maid rpg does not seem to be going anywhere. Since I took down my original review on accounts of it being embarrassing for me to look back on, I decided to post another review of it. I expect it will go pretty much the same way – I will extol its virtues as a fast RPG that does anime-style gaming correctly, I will point you to the $7 dollar PDF which is an absolutely incredible price for the content, and I will try to dispel some bad rep the game has gotten. Then I will be insulted repeatedly over email and forums for weeks. It will be worth it.

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Races of Eden: The Cuporo

Well in tune with nature, both theirs, the world’s and those of other people, the Cuporo are sociable and curious little beings. Their connection to Adel’s flora is mild, and what they are truly known for is their incredible memory for songs, stories and other lore, which they absorb since childhood and grow to share with others. Lovers of travel and meeting new souls, the Cuporo are welcome members of Eden’s cultural and academic establishments.

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Fellow blogger needs help on thesis.

I’m a friend of anyone who does academic work on blogs. When I was a journalism major I wrote a couple papers on blogging (which were terrible) and tried to bring it to the attention of others as much as I could (rather poor results with that one). Then I realized I was a pretty terrible journalist. After switching to English I still believe that anyone who does honest academic work on blogging and the internet is doing all of us a real service in legitimizing and recording the strange, sometimes ugly, often wonderful culture that we find online. So I encourage you to visit this site, where a blogger is asking for a questionnaire to be filled out on your blog reading and writing habits, for help with a thesis. Doubly so if you are a blogger. There is a random drawing for a $100 dollar gift certificate, but that’s secondary to me.


Is online play relevant to the hobby?

I am in the precarious position that I am criticized for “coming up with imaginary enemies” who only allegedly criticize me, because they don’t really exist. But I am also criticized for other things, by people who ostensibly seem to exist and are human (I have not seen bots who analyze content to this extent). I don’t usually address them mostly because I don’t usually care. If I express confidence in myself then I am an arrogant jerkoff who thinks he’s the David and loves to see walls of his own text, and if I am self-deprecating then I’m a tortured artist emo pissant who should not even bother to write anything if he’s going to be that spineless. I have long since realized that if I’m a Lunatic, then the people who follow me along to criticize me reside in Pluto.

But I just thought this latest criticism was something the community might like to talk about with me.

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The Eden Creation Myth

All Adelians agree upon one outstanding creation story and its underlying metaphysical details. While minor interpretations may disagree, and among the many religions the role of a certain deity or another may be detailed above others, the actors and major events are the same across all versions of the narrative.

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Races of Eden: The Athirua

The Athirua set the standard for physical perfection that all of Adel aspires to, their beauty said to transcend even that of the Spirits. Throughout the history of Eden the scattered Athirua were whispered of as artifacts of some greater, perfect order long since gone, too fine and fragile to have been part of this world or the one before it. In reality the Athirua are numerous and a wondrous accident of some unseen natural evolution, perhaps from elves, perhaps not. Their objectified beauty is both their most readily accessible resource in life, and also their unending curse.

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