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Decline As a Business Model

A Prospectus for the American Patch Economy EXECUTIVE SUMMARY For over three decades, American governance has perfected a revolutionary business model: converting systemic failure into sustainable revenue streams. Rather than the costly and disruptive work of replacing failing infrastructure, we have created entire industries dedicated to managing, monitoring, and monetizing

From Cyberpunk Hack to Container Revelation

How a simple Lasers & Feelings hack accidentally became the DevOps approach to RPG design It Started With a Simple Question Like most RPG design stories, this one began with someone asking "what if?" What if we made a cyberpunk version of Lasers & Feelings? Simple enough. The

From Costco Pizza to Cultural Inheritance in the Post-Late-Stage

On the impossibility of bartering for touring bands, the comfort of perpetual collapse, and how we learned to stop worrying and love the industrial cheese blend The Condiment Station as Cultural Theory We are living in the aftermath of late-stage capitalism, but the aftermath never ends. Like cartoon characters who&

Thank You, Sam

I remember stumbling across a CD by Black Tape For A Blue Girl at our college radio station back in the day — one jewel case among hundreds, but somehow the room seemed quieter when I held it. Time flows differently for independent musicians and label owners, and my mind still

The Cadre of the Fading Light

Four heroes of the Kingdom of Myth who serve the crown. This cadre, named for their struggle against an Inevitable darkness, brings together varied approaches to defying their world's demise. Each member, despite their personal flaws and beliefs regarding the Doom, is committed to fighting for Myth'

In Finland? A Theoretical Tourist's Guide to Debt Enforcement

"Purpose of visit?" the border officer asked. "We're on holiday," we replied. "In Finland?" came the response, with that particular Nordic mix of genuine puzzlement and polite concern that maybe we'd made some kind of navigation error. That exchange, it

The Constellation Method

Finnish debt traps, the Paisley Underground, and the invisible bonds that connect us all Sunday morning, scrolling through Bluesky, and there's this thread about Finland's debt enforcement system that stops me cold. Half a million Finns - that's 10% of adults - trapped in

A Business Transformation Plan

From Fear Generation to Infrastructure Decay Management MEMO TO: Venture Capital Partners FROM: James P. "Sulley" Sullivan, CEO & Michael "Mike" Wazowski, CRO RE: Pivot Strategy - "We're Not Scary, We're Solutions!" Dear Potential Investors, The fear-generation business model is

The Revolution Will Be Hand-Knitted: Meet the Trolley Magi

Tabletop RPGs often cast resistance fighters as young heroes—chosen ones with swords and spells. We don't imagine Maureen from Flat 3B, who remembers when the miners had power, The Clash fought the law (and the law won), and uses her shopping trolley to disrupt surveillance grids. But

Little Spectacles: A Night of Resistance in a Crater Theater

The other night at the Clinton Street Theater, I watched my old college radio buddy Doug Dillaman achieve something genuinely subversive: he got people to drive 800+ miles to eat fake raw chicken in the dark while contemplating alien gut parasites. This is what victory looks like when you refuse