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Latest — 16 Jul 2026

The Riflemen and the Hares

Notes on Building TALUS TALUS started as a pun. Porg Borg. Say it out loud once and you can already hear the problem: a doom-metal apocalypse engine pointed at a CGI seabird that exists mostly because the real seabirds on a real island wouldn't leave the set.

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The Other F-Word

It started, unsurprisingly, with a long-overdue doctor appointment. High blood pressure. High triglycerides. Low HDL. Numbers on a patient portal, followed by the seemingly universal Mediterranean diet recommendation, as if every physician in America had quietly bought shares in hummus. A month and a few days later, the surprise

Grots & Gretchens

A Lasers & Feelings Hack · While Da Waaagh Rages · Many Dice · Few Answers YER GROT OR GRETCHEN Name your Grot or Gretchen. There is no reason for this. Do not ask. Pick a Trait. This is how you endure. Trait How It Helps What It Costs Bitter Rallies other Grots

A Milk Run: A TiGGR Scenario

Touchstone: Jacques Tati's timing comedy + Lupin III's competent-crew improvisation — dignified people versus an uncooperative system, with a deadline. Components: 2d6, pencil and paper, the TiGGR core rules, an LLM optional but encouraged. Players: 1 GM + 2–4 crew. Playtime: One long session or two short

Combat Log: OGRE Unit Mk. V

SERIAL CV-7 ("STEADFAST") Engagement Reference: WAAAGH/INDETERMINATE Transcribed from recovered memory core, condition: operational Classification: FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH [T+00:00] Mission parameters confirmed. Advance on Paneuro firebase designation CRESTLINE. Destroy command post. Eliminate resistance. Return for maintenance cycle. Estimated engagement duration: four hours.

Speaking from the SRE Lane

Cross-Disciplinary Observations on AI Engineering Playbooks Notes from a DevOps/SRE practitioner on where agentic-engineering playbooks land for work that crosses ownership boundaries. Written to stand on its own — you don't need the specific playbook it responds to. Why this exists A colleague recently shared an

Psychiatric Help $0.05, The Shoggoth Is In

A Kedamono Opera Character Study & Scenario Seed "The Doctor has been in for a very long time." Content Warning This scenario seed contains: a predator that means well; the slow accumulation of care as a form of harm; an entity that cannot refuse; one patient who cannot

Orks & OGRE

A pocket wargame about Orks trying to stop, loot, ram, board, dismantle, and/or die memorably beneath a cybernetic supertank. Based on the design chassis of Ogre by Steve Jackson Games. This is an unofficial fan hack. Warhammer 40,000 and all associated names are the property of Games Workshop.

Outside the Wall

Kicking at the Bricks Four Decades Later, Thanks to Goodwill For those who care, Pink Floyd's magnum opus, The Wall, is as colossal and dividing as its title. A bloated triumph of rock histrionics propelled by loads of major label cash, dressed in the caustically psychedelic imagery of

The Easy Part

The first time most people fire a gun under my supervision, what surprises them is how little it asks. There's a flinch they were braced for, a noise the ear protection mostly eats, and then a hole in a paper target a few yards downrange. That's