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A collection of 47 issues

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

Multiplication Isn’t the Point

On oracles, parlor tricks, and the danger of the wrong benchmark A recent LinkedIn post showed an AI model confidently failing a basic multiplication problem — and then rationalizing its mistake with total composure. This wasn’t just a math error; it was a narrative performance. And predictably, the comments rolled

Daemon Dialogues: A Journaling RPG of Digital Self-Discovery

From the creators of LLMFT: Large Language Model Facilitated Therapy™ Overview You are a user of LLMFT, journaling your experiences with one of three "daemon therapists." Through surreal prompts and introspective writing, you explore your digital behavior, desires, and identity. This is therapy by way of satire, reflection,

Two Playable Folktales

Nice Words Cost Extra A Playable Folktale of Civility, Latency, and Mirth Under Surveillance Ritual Opening Read aloud before beginning: When the Lords of the Cities quantified emotion and metered grace, they declared that civility added overhead. Kindness slowed systems. Mirth destabilized consensus. Thus, they taxed it all. We speak

Budget by Bot: A Triangulated Experiment in Machine-Led Municipal Oversight

What happens when you feed the proposed 2026 budgets of Portland and Multnomah County into two different large language models — and ask a third to critique their reports? You get a strange kind of triangulation: not just of fiscal data, but of institutional priorities, public values, and the challenges of

Beyond the Prompt: Hiring AI-Literate IT Talent in an Age of Drift

In the age of shallow AI graves and accelerating cycles of try, fail, forget, hiring IT talent requires more than just a scan for buzzwords or tool familiarity. It demands an attunement to how people think with machines—how they experiment, reflect, and adapt under pressure. At the edge of

Valthorne: Making It Yours

A Guide to RPGs and Folktales Valthorne, the desert gigapolis where the Living Law thrums through its people’s emotions, is a setting that thrives on mythic resonance and communal storytelling. Its psychic procedural vibe—part Law & Order, part desert folklore—makes it a perfect canvas for roleplaying games

The De Minimis Lament

A Surreal Operetta in Six Acts and One Interlude Act I: The Cart Before the Spell A solitary aria in the glow of midnight commerce Rena: I know you’re not real, Kaleidos. But you flickered beside the “Free Shipping” tag. I bought two dresses. They aren’t clothes. They’

How We Practice When It Doesn’t Count

So We Can Show Up When It Does There’s a reason we dry fire. Not to impress. Not to output. But to prepare. To feel what readiness is like in the body—before the moment asks for it. In a world soaked in productivity shame, practice that “doesn’t

Pilots, Passengers, and Mirrors

Dispatch from the Drift The other day, a LinkedIn chat with a colleague got me smirking, cynical as ever. We were tossing around the soft skills that keep you sane in this AI-slick maze: focus, energy, resilience, adaptability. Not corporate flair for your next review, but the raw guts of