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Latest — 29 Jun 2026

When Anger Has Nowhere to Go

A Quiet Reassessment of Grief's Edges I'm no psychiatrist, nor do I play one on TikTok, but I'd like to take a crowbar to the Kübler-Ross stages anyway, because I think most of us are still using them wrong, and that misuse has

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Third Eye Borg: Sublevel 9

A facility that exceeded its quota. A director who will not be buried. A chair that cannot be empty.A scenario scaffold for THIRD EYE BORG. Drop it into any Borg. Supply your own dying world. THE FRAME The world is not ending by prophecy. It is ending because too

Frogs in a Pot

How Some of Us Got Protective Gear, and How That Proves the Point “The kids these days aren’t getting the intellectual HEV Suits that we got in school,” says Gordon Freeman, who famously never said anything at all. As jokes go, it has legs. Amphibian legs, perhaps. We picture

Reading the Surfaces

Tokyo Melody and the Politics of Legibility Tokyo Melody: A Film about Ryuichi Sakamoto (1985) is both a portrait of a musician and a document of 1980s Tokyo, but its deeper subject is legibility itself — the conditions under which a person, a city, a nation, and finally a film become

Mille Teefs: Rally Report

Team WAAAGH (Grimtusk & Skarfang) vs Team DAKKA (Burna & Zogwort) Venue: somewhere with pistachio shells on the table Round 1. All four engines turn over on the first kick. Four WAAAGH! cards hit the table almost simultaneously, which either means the deck was stacked or Orks have better instincts

The Hive Is Its People

Architecture, Bondage, and Harvest in Dan Abnett’s HIVE [WARNING: SPOILERS APLENTY] On first reading, HIVE feels like sprawl. This is by design. On second reading, the sprawl becomes visible as architecture. That may be the most useful way to approach Dan Abnett's latest Warhammer 40,000 behemoth.

Mille Teefs

A Poorhammer Hack Pack for Mille Bornes You found a copy of Mille Bornes at a thrift store for two dollars. Good. You're going to need a Sharpie. This is not a new game. This is a conversion kit — a few pages of instructions for turning a copy

An After Action Report

EARTH FEDERATION FORCES AUTONOMOUS TACTICAL COMMAND — SIDE 7 SECTOR DOCUMENT CLASS: RESTRICTED — INTERNAL REVIEW ONLY REPORT NUMBER: EFF-AAR-0079-09-18-7743 ORIGINATING UNIT: Side 7 Sector Defence Detachment, Mobile Suit Element PERIOD COVERED: UC 0079.09.18, approximately 0340–0612 local PREPARED BY: [UNIT DESIGNATE: GM-ACE-LEADER-

Decibels As Terms and Conditions

A concert is usually where one goes to witness a musician or band perform within a set of familiar contexts: the venue, the genre, the audience, the history of the room, the price of the ticket, the acoustics, the lighting, the ritual of standing or sitting among strangers. Even when

'BAGS: You Are Not the Weapon

A one-shot engine for MÖRK BORG Somewhere out there, an organization has a weapon. The Asset. It might be humanoid. It might even nod your way. Definitely not human. It's what the organization deployed. GM-controlled. Not a PC, not quite an ally, not a stat block.