Never Playing it Cool

Lately I've been spending a lot of my free time reading Wil Wheaton's blog at wilwheaton.net , as a big fan of Wil Wheaton from watching Star Trek The Next Generation and more recently his gaming shenanigans with the Geek and Sundry shows TableTop and Titansgrave and everything in between, I can highly recommend his blog. Reading it has inspired me to really get into what I set out to do several years ago and start writing a regular blog of my own. When I realised it had been nearly two years since I'd actually written anything for Never Playing it Cool, I decided last week now was the time to pick it back up and commit to regular posts and entries. I also realised it was among a lot of things I wanted to do or change in my life and again this was really inspired by something Ser Wheaton has been posting on his own blog. He had started a "Life Reboot" where he looked at his life and addressed what needed changing or what he wanted to do more/less of or what he d...

From previous posts, or maybe even because you know me, you may have gathered I like my games. Some time ago my friend Phill Vincent and I set out to start a YouTube thing, inspired by TableTop and Spellslingers etc around gaming, but not limiting it board games but video games as well. Not just playing but talking, reviewing and generally discussing games and gaming. We named it "The Player of Games" after the title of one of my favourite books by one of my favourite authors - Iain M. banks. It never really got going for one reason or another, we filmed a quick test playing the X-Wing Miniatures game but never completed anything to actually upload. Not wanting to give up we still intend to get something off the ground but maybe a bit more planning and work is required. In the meantime I thought why not start off with a blog where I/we can write about gaming the same way we were wanting to make videos, so I've done just that. There's only one post on there so far, b...

It's been a busy year or so which has meant I haven't really had the time or drive to keep up with the whole blogging thing, hence why I've not posted for quite some time. Now that the projects I've been working on are complete I find myself with the free time again and thought now was the perfect time to start it up again, try and commit to regular posts as well as other things I want to get in order with life in general but that's a topic for another day. For now I thought the best thing to start with on the eve of the EU Referendum that's happening here in the UK, was to post my thoughts on that. So here goes. I've never been fond of confrontation, in fact I actively avoid it, which is why I've held back on commenting on the whole subject in a manner more public that discussing it with close friends who are like minded on the subject. When colleagues, friends or family go on at length with views that are contradictory to mine, rather than...