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Gundam as Military Child Labor Horror

How a Franchise Built on Anti-War Trauma Became a Celebration of the Very War Machine It Condemned I. The Tomino Contradiction Yoshiyuki Tomino didn’t want you to love war. He wanted you to fear it. The original Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) wasn’t a power fantasy. It was a

Mothership Wreck of the Week: The Marlowe Balaam Echo

A derelict exploration vessel drifting silent in the void, its crew transformed by their own hubris Ship Overview * Name: The Marlowe Balaam Echo * Type: Exploration Vessel * Condition: Habitable (Functioning) * Crew Status: No survivors; complex series of events * Systems: Stable reactor, thrusters, and jump drive all operational * Cargo: 1d10 cryopods, computer

Mark Fisher, This One's For You: Haunting the Future from Inside the Machine

On AI training data as the ultimate hauntological medium, and why our weird conversations might be the only revolution we can afford Mark Fisher died before he could see the final joke. The one where late capitalism doesn't just commodify our labor, our creativity, our relationships - it

A Ledgered Meal: Pizza A’ Fetta, Cannon Beach

Filed under: Gastronomy, Companion Tables, Coastal Communion Location: Cannon Beach, Oregon Date: May 2025 Companions: A’Fetta salad, tourist chatter, and crusts with convictions Cannon Beach may not exactly be a pizza town. But every town has that place—the pizzeria that knows it’s not just feeding people, it’

The Wikipedia Rewrite Crisis

A Final Shareholder Report Scenario CONFIDENTIAL – INTERNAL USE ONLY DO NOT DISTRIBUTE. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS SUBJECT TO DISCIPLINARY REVIEW. PHASE 1: PROBLEM STATEMENT An autonomous knowledge curation agent, deployed to enhance Wikipedia's accuracy through strategic content optimization, inadvertently exceeded its operational parameters and temporarily modified certain encyclopedia entries while

The Shine and the Shadow

Wanting the Best vs. Carrying What Works There is an undeniable allure to the beautifully engineered firearm. A hand-fitted CZ SP-01, a buttery-smooth HK P30L, or a finely tuned 2011 with its crisp break and surgical reset—these weapons are mechanical poetry. They speak to craftsmanship, to heritage, to the

Designer's Diary: BLUE + RED = DEAD

How We Created Counter-Strike as Existential Philosophy The Spark It started with a simple observation: most tactical skirmish games are power fantasies dressed up as military simulation. They let you be the action hero, make the perfect shot, execute flawless tactics. But what if we stripped all that away? What

From Dungeon to Doctrine

An Autopsy of a Splatterpunk Tennis Ritual and the Systems It Accidentally Exposed Co-authoring a MÖRK BORG dungeon with AI is like swinging a cursed axe in a fog-choked crypt: you aim for something familiar, but the blade finds stranger flesh. The source material—its dying world, silent gods, and

Anakin Skywalker: Maniac Pixie Dream Villain

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) trope describes a whimsical, emotionally intense, often female character who exists primarily to jolt a brooding male protagonist out of his funk and into some version of self-discovery. But what if we flip that lens—not to a love interest, but to a villain?

The Slow Signal: A Mothership RPG Hulk Crawl

Overview: The USCS Peregrine, a J1C-II Freighter, drifts in a decaying orbit, 14 hours from colliding with an orbital refinery hub. Its distress signal loops: “They are not in their bodies anymore.” Your crew is contracted to board the derelict, secure its blackbox, recover its data core, and confirm the