more) Running a tabletop RPG campaign is always a learning experience. In this post, I’ll share insights from my recent campaign, the Labyrinth of the Blue Gorgon, and the lessons I learned as a GM. This website has existed in some form or another since Tuesday, October 10th 2017 (that was 7 years, 3 months and 11 days ago at the time of writing this)… It’s been a long time coming, I’ve got an about me page now. Check it out! A tier list of the UFO 50 games I played in 2024 (from most fun to least fun).
A hyper compressed satire poking fun at everyone and everything but especially toxic optimism and the religious belief that “everything happens for a reason”.
What we encounter in the case of correlationism surprise mode is the specter of paranormal action. Distilled into its most basic form, what is haunting communism is the specter of spectrality itself. Why? Because spectrality is the flavor of the symbiotic real, where everything is what it is, yet nothing coincides exactly with itself.
p. 54
heavy sigh
Why are philosophers like this?
In The Seven Basic Plots, Christopher Booker presents a well thought-out framework for thinking about stories, it took him 35 years to write and it shows. If you’re interested in myths, fairy tales and stories more broadly, this is a must-read text, as long as you’re willing to put up with a healthy serving of misogyny and bad politics throughout.