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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

A more detailed version of this is at: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/422596/jharris_bio.txt

@Play, my column on roguelike games, is back. Its main home is here, but it's also on Gamasutra Blogs, here.

Every week we have a showing of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode. It's Metafilter MST3K Club! These are usually some time Thursday evening, at: http://sync-video.com/tv/rodneylives

My role on Metafilter seems to have settled into obsessively posting notable Mystery Science Theater 3000 stuff, even-more-obsessively posting about video game things, remarking on pop cultural ephemera (comics, comedy movies, web sites), and sometimes political matters if I think I won't make too much of a fool of myself in the process.

I sometimes take to putting little bits of "alternative reality" into my comments, like having a time-traveling neighbor, or about the various behaviors of the North American Woodland Fairy and related species. If you see me say something in a comment that seems nonsensical, it could be me just goofing. Or maybe I'm serious? ??? HOW CAN YOU KNOW ??? No, really, I'm goofing.

My Peanuts comic strip blog is kind of sleeping right now while I try to get some things settled in my life. It's still up, though, here.
It's inspired by evilcolonel's Peanuts post.

Here is my current list of obsessions:
Mystery Science Theater 3000, Tales of the Beanworld, Call of Cthulhu RPG, Lovecraft in general, Conan, old-school RPGs, Atari Games, roguelikes, Dwarf Fortress, Steven Universe, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

I am very conscious of narratives, in terms of how people come to understand things and make these pictures in their heads of how they work related to other things. They can be useful tools, but they can also be very damaging. Please try to remember that the world is a lot more complicated than any of us can see, and at least make an effort not to be reductive in your perceptions, okay? By the same token, it's okay to say I don't know. In fact, if you never say or think that, there's probably something wrong?