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Latest — 06 May 2026

The Dark Matter Surrounding Grimdark

In cosmology, dark matter is what physicists posited when the math stopped closing. Galaxies were rotating faster than their visible mass could account for; stars at the rim should have flown off into the void, and didn’t. Something else had to be there — distributed, gravitationally active, optically invisible — holding

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The Zombies: Never Fully Offline

The best way to tell your story is to tell it yourself. The four surviving members of the Zombies clearly understand this, which is why they're listed as executive producers on Hung Up on a Dream, the documentary about their improbable arc from forgotten 60s also-rans to Rock

Konnichiwaaagh! High School

A Brutal & Kunnin' RPG · One Page · One Die · Many Teef YER ORK Name: Pick something like Gorzilla-chan, Dakka-senpai, Sneeki-kun, or Choppa-chan. Uniform: Skirt or trousers. There is no reason for this. Do not ask. Number: Choose from 2 to 5. This is your place on the BRUTAL ↔ KUNNIN&

Your Caulk Gun Is Not an SBR

Notes on Misclassification, Water Ingress, and Why You Shouldn't Be the Red Shirt There is a moment, familiar to anyone who has taken a defensive handgun course and then returned to ordinary domestic life, when you realize you are indexing your trigger finger along the frame of a

Lancer: The Tithe of the Moonless Night

An Introductory Mission for the One-Eyed Foxes For the GM. This mission is designed for five LL0 pilots in GMS Everests. It uses Lancer's Extraction sitrep (CB p.270) as its core structure, preceded by a narrative play infiltration phase. The GM should have the NPC section of

Scaffolding and Letting Go

On seeing Köln 75, overanalyzing it, and being gently corrected Last Sunday an ad popped up on my Facebook feed: Köln 75, playing at the Hollywood Theater. I own a copy of Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert. Couldn't tell you the last time I listened to

Linjalla: On the Line

A transit RPG for 2–5 players. One session. One city. One line. A sibling game to Les Arrondissements, set in the same quiet uncanny. Different city, different system, same questions: How much do you want to notice? And what does it cost you? THE PREMISE The city runs. Trams

From Wolverines to Myanmar

Questioning the Narrative Models in Irregular Warfare We are not military historians (okay, I took one class in college as an elective). We have no lived experience in insurgency (thankfully). What we have, instead, is a habit of asking questions. What begins as a simple provocation—what does a film

Les Arrondissements: Internal Memorandum

BUREAU DE LA QUIÉTUDE MUNICIPALE Internal Memorandum Classification: Routine (Annotated) Distribution: Clerical / Field / Unassigned Review Reference: QO-17.3 — “Pattern Persistence and Resident Drift” To: All personnel assigned to nonstandard civic phenomena From: Office of Procedural Continuity (Window 4) Re: Clarifications regarding recurring anomalies, resident interpretation, and appropriate administrative posture 1.

Resuming from Dormancy

Confluence — RFC / Runbook Service: Boards of Canada Release: Inferno (May 29, 2026) Owner: Warp Records Region: boc-west-1 (long-lived) Status: RESUMED (from dormancy) 0) TL;DR A long-dormant, stateful service has resumed execution without formal restart logs. Deployment uses artifact seeding (VHS + posters) instead of conventional announcement channels. New workload (Inferno,