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Politics

Idiocracy for Idiots

Fucking hate this movie. Not because it’s badly made, though it isn’t particularly good on that level anyway, but because it’s fans are fucking idiots. One of the most rage inducing things I see on facebook is at least once a month is a meme like this. What if you’re an idiot who can’t see […]

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Fiction Lit

Brave New World sounded pretty cool

I think I took the wrong message from the book. Seemed like the book was trying to paint the world as a bad thing, but well, all that no war, no crime, ect seemed pretty fucking awesome. I know I know hedonism is supposed to be looked down on, but I fucked around with it for […]

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Lit Uncategorized

Confederacy of Dunces

Still recovering from Poland so no time to really think through a good post so this just some ideas about the latest book I’m trying. Confederacy of Dunces was recommended to me by a number of friends, called a modern classic on some sites, and received pretty only praise for it’s wit, writing, and humor […]

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Lit RPG

The styles of H.P. Lovecraft-The Lurking Fear and The Thing on The Doorstep

I just finished two of H.P. Lovecraft’s short stories. They weren’t the top of the heap for what I’ve done by him and definitely not the best horror I’ve read. However they were great in illustrating two very diverse attitudes towards cosmic horror that are key to gaming in that style. Shotguns, dynamite, and research […]

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Fiction fighting RPG

Realism in simulated combat

That’s not real fighting. That would never work in a real situation. Those techniques aren’t real. In real life, they wouldn’t stand a chance. I hear these phrases or other variations of them said all the time whenever some form of simulated combat comes up, whether that be Sport, Movie, Book, or Game. At times […]

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Fiction

Don’t Follow Elvish Noble Men into strange tunnels

This is an off the cuff story with little to no outlining. I came up with the idea, wrote 1500ish words on Wed. Not sure if I’ll get to finish it before it’s scheduled to publish —- It was dark and cold, with dry dusty air, despite wetness on the stone making it’s smooth surface almost […]