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Torm
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I think and talk about IR, history (actual and counterfactual), languages, religion, fantasy, scifi, horror, food, elaborate schemes, and ttrpgs (mostly DG, UA, or damnfool storygames). One half of the 33.3 FM pirate radio for the unknown armies podcast.
Discovering I can play Civ VI on my phone through Netflix seems to have cured my lamentable YouTube shorts habit.
December 11, 2024 at 6:49 AM
My personal Berenstein Bears is the Romanization of 떡볶이 as tteokbokki instead of the less glamorous but nobler ddeokbokki. I thought the rebranding was a government misadventure but they're saying ㄸ has always been tt. Madness.

Don't come at me with derk/dukboggi because we don't acknowledge those.
November 8, 2023 at 11:40 PM
On an aimless Wiki dive, came across this show from 1959-60 called The Man and the Challenge with some truly wild episode descriptions. My favorite is when he gives the firefighter LSD while he's firefighting.
November 2, 2023 at 12:10 PM
Not the UFO you expected, but perhaps the UFO you need.
Unidentified Foreign Ontology
Armchair philosopher hacks Frank and Tormsen discuss the Unidentified Foreign Ontology group, detailed in the Unknown Armies splatbook Postmodern Magick, and come to grips with what is and what what i
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November 2, 2023 at 6:24 AM
If the idea was to suppress public exposure of criticism of the mayor, this seems to have backfired. www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/5029...
October 30, 2023 at 2:29 AM
Punitive cosmism is a fun dystopic concept. www.vice.com/en/article/a...
The thing I love about this is the implication that the woke crowd is waiting for the technology to be developed that will allow them to bring dead people back to life in order to kill them again
October 29, 2023 at 11:54 PM
Errant RPG one shot idea: Using Call of Cthulhu to run a one shot based on a midnight goblin raid on a medieval village, really leaning into how the Stephen King progression of dread, terror, and horror.
October 29, 2023 at 6:34 AM
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The Kickstarter for I DREAM OF INSOMNIA has been repaired so that you can actually ask for the cool physical patches and prints and whatnot.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gregstolze/i-dream-of-insomnia

Though of course, the meat is the fiction.
October 28, 2023 at 6:49 PM
I made this quick and dirty Identities generator for Unknown Armies a few years back that stopped working, I managed to revive it. I'll likely tinker with it on and off. perchance.org/unknown-armi...
October 26, 2023 at 11:56 PM