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July Progress Report

Well, Purgatory still isn't to the damn distributors. A hold up with the Licensing Department and the bank means that I'm still waiting for my business account to be set up. When you're used to the speed of the Internet, waiting for the real world to do things sucks ass. It'll all be cleared up soon, but in the meantime, I sit here and twiddle my thumbs.

So we're finally getting the pictures back from Norwescon, and you can see them by checking the main page. Nothing too embarrassing, just a whole bunch of gamers playing Purgatory.

In other news, Purgatory World Gaming continues to spread outward from Seattle like a bad fungus. The Puget Sound area is full of games now, and we're expanding into Canada and Oregon. Now if I could get the damn game to the distributors, maybe we could expand in other parts of the country! *&%$...

Free Stuff and a New Game

You might notice the button to the left of this, the one that says "free stuff". We've got a whole bunch of stuff for you to download, including the company logo, desktop wallpaper, and a whole new type of character card that's printable straight from your computer!

Invincible Hong Kong Delayed

We were going to release IHK next year in April, but Purgatory: Year Two is looking like a bigger job than just rewriting a paragraph or two. We'll be working on P:YT to give the second volume of the Purgatory saga a whole new feel, making it worth your money to buy both books. We'll then do IHK, with a tentative release date in time for the holiday season of 2000.

T Shirts in the Works

The first two shirts are in the works right now. The first one to come out will be black (of course) with a big-ass Purgatory symbol on the front. The second shirt will be like those black "FBI" and "SWAT" shirts you see on cops, with big white letters on the front that say "UNIPEC". Now you can bust down the door of your local Penitent hangout and scare the $%!# out of those little bastards.

The Whole School Shooting Thing

Thank God that they blamed the trenchcoat manufacturers instead of role playing games. Seriously though, what the hell is up with this country? What ever happened to the concept of personal responsibility? If I drink a case of vodka and go ram a school bus full of nuns and puppies, why am I allowed to sue the vodka company? Why is it that America is so gung ho about this whole victim mentality, in which it's the fault of the media, or role playing, or rock music, or your parents who beat you, or the liberals, or God? Heaven forbid that we all take responsibility for our own &*%$ing actions! "Well officer, I know that I was the one who shot him 37 times from two feet away, but I was suffering pre-traumatic stress disorder from the extra box of Skittles I ate this morning, and it combined in my head with the Marilyn Manson music and that Purgatory game, and after cooking in my mind for 45 minutes at 350 degrees, out popped a psychopath."

"What caused these troubled youths to lash out at the popular kids?" Here's the list of reasons they didn't want to talk about on the news:

  1. Bad parents. If your kid is in the garage making pipe bombs, shouldn't you stop huffing unleaded gas long enough to stop him?
  2. Popular kids. We all had someone who picked on us in high school. From what I've heard of Columbine, it was ten times as bad as a normal high school. Let's all face facts about the education system in this country: It sucks ass. High schools are prisons to keep those little weasels off the streets until their hormones even out. In the meantime, the popular kids will get away with bullying, racism, violence, and date rape, all because they are blonde, white, and bigger than you are. The fact that more geeks aren't blasting away is probably more a testament to our level-headedness than to any great love for our fellow students (yes, I'm an adult, but I still remember high school, and it wasn't a happy shiny place).
  3. The kids were evil. Yes, I know that the word is so cliched, but it has a certain finality to it. Not so long ago, if someone gunned down a crowd of kittens and babies, they were called evil, sent to prison, and that was that. In modern times, we blame everyone but the person who pulled the trigger. It's like an Oliver Stone movie. "Who really pulled the trigger?" Umm, folks it was those TWO LITTLE PSYCHOPATHS! THEY WERE EVIL! Ultimately, when it is all a matter for the history books, IT WAS THEIR FAULT!

Yes, I know that perhaps I'm ranting, but I can't believe how dumb the attitude in our country has become. No wonder we're pandered to by the government. We want our individual liberties to be taken away, because that much freedom is scary. People can't imagine how someone could be one of those leather-clad submissives, like the Gimp from Pulp Fiction. What's funny is that most of America wants to be like the Gimp. "If you'll give me a box that is safe from all the scary things, I'll give up my personal freedom." We've chosen comfort over liberty.

Well, *&%$ that. Wherever you're sitting, repeat the oath below with me:

The Atomic Hyrax Oath of Personal Responsibility

"I, [state your name], will take personal responsibility for my own actions. If I do something stupid or wrong, it is my fault, not someone else's. The media, rock and roll, drugs, alcohol, childhood abuse, or even country western music are not excuses to murder kitties and puppies and then blame others. Do not blame others for my actions, because I am an adult. I am not the Gimp, I am a responsible citizen of [your country here], and I choose liberty over comfort."

There, don't you feel better? Print out the Oath, sign it, and carry it proudly in your billfold or purse. That way if you go berserk and kill some baby seals, they can't blame me...