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On the ring since 2026-03-21
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I was reading The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, a really funny and clever comic from a while back, and it reminded me of a cute, but also really cool trick, for counting on one...
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The cube is a lie.The square is a lie.Even the line, is a lie.Imagine two lines:━ ━ ━━ ━ ━Or this way:│ ││ ││ │What is their relationship? Which is length? Which is...
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While I did not design the algorithm, I've been playing around with the StereoscoPy open source codebase to create anaglyph 3D images. I've talked about my interest in anaglyph...
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I've been slowly conceiving of a "Weird & Wonderful" Animist setting, percolating over the last couple years or so at least. I've probably posted other versions of this idea...
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It's been a pet interest of mine for years to learn how to write Genetic Algorithms, but it was never quite clicking for me. I ended up stumbling upon this video (embedded...
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A super-solid state of matter like the opposite of plasma, colder than cold. Like a miniature blackhole in homeostasis. Black, opaque, bending spacetime around it. Hard, like...
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EDIT: Not sure why the majority of the images I tried attaching didn't work upon initial posting, will see if I can fix...SettingA Super Robot Wars style crossover! And also...
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THE GAME IS ALIVEThe human apparatus extends beyond its physical body. Technologies like digital computers, communication networks, the written word, and language, all extend,...
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Inspired by Lacrimis Draconis and Grand Commodore I want to start writing more short fiction again. I often struggle with follow through and confidence with this stuff, but...
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I vow to start tagging these as DevLog going forward (will eventually backlog them too), the previous being an overhaul of the gameplay loop for MRD Vol. 2.I also vow to...
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After taking a long break on MRD Vol.2, I've had time to rethink some things. The game isn't radically changing, but I'm trying to hone in on the themes and mechanics, and it's...
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Gematria is a kind of Numerology in Jewish Mysticism. It's basically just an interpretive thing not unlike I Ching or Tarot, but what I find uniquely interesting about it is...
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Halla: Like the elation of dancing to exhaustion and the warmth of close bodies on a crisp night.Dimenoir: Like the fading memory of a dream and bittersweet...Linked by the ring
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I'm on vacation in San Francisco and it's lovely here. I was piggybacking off a trip to the Bay Area to visit my brother who ironically works for a major tech company but is...
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I've always been inspired by the Saint Beasts found in East and South East Asian mythologies. Not the vapid, meaningless, predictable elementals often found in traditional...
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Four more elements from the Elements Generator. Intentionally avoiding redundancies with the elements in the first post, otherwise fully randomized. I wrote these and the...
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Another old unfinished draft from 2019. Tbh these are a little half-baked and I wanted to have more of them, but it's a kernel of something. I'm sure people could run with...
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An old and unfinished draft from 2019. Bad Whiskey Games beat me to the punch and my heart wasn't really in it anyway, but this is technically playable albeit incomplete, not a...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4jtIDaeaWIIt has been a whileWelcome back to this weird showBeware the monstersSomewhere between the blink of an eye and a dissociative...
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Had a writeup for a different character for a Pt.2, and referenced a superhero team called Panic Attack as a part of that character's backstory, and I want to come back to that...
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Despite numerous posts about superpowers, I've yet to properly make a bunch of superheroes. The Recursers and Nazarites and the various other characters in MRD and MRDVol2 and...
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A gaseous moon, a city bathed in a hazy sunset. Skyscrapers gently bobbing on magnets and gyroscopes, a city like a lo-fi beat. A disorienting spherical geography, a recursive...
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A world like Warhammer 40K except where the lore doesn't implicitly justify the Imperium.I realize this is a somewhat contentious topic; I'm not judging anyone for liking...
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In the United Spacetimes of America the White House is adorned with bloated, diseased corpses of the poor, punctured on spiked benches, loudspeakers singing baby shark off key...
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A once towering god king, an embodiment of strength, frail and brought to its knees, torn apart and consumed, salvaged for parts. A living idea in its moment of death, trapped...
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I finally read Tom King's Rorschach and it's really good. I especially like the way he juxtaposed Rorschach's Rorschach with the smiley-face of The Comedian; or Frank Miller's...
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I ran a game jam for Maximum Recursion Depth (Exalted Funeral Print+PDF, Itch, Drivethrurpg) a while back, where I and a small panel selected one participant to have art and...
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A world of designer drugs of viruses, bacteria, gut microflora, hormones and pheromones and neurotransmitters; leveraging the interaction of mind and body, the idea of a static...
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Worlds out of phase, passing through moments like walking between the raindrops. Each step a rotation through spacetime, winding forward and backwards like magnetic tape. A...
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The Earth's core is a mineral intelligence, vibrations of sounds and lights and gravity curves rending warbles in time, oozing through geothermal vents in deep ocean,...