The book is a sequel to Scoundrel Game Labs’ Grizelda’s Guide to Ghost Hunting, which gives you tools to introduce Victorian ghost-hunting creepiness into your D&D 5E games.
We already live in a world where we’re constantly being funneled content and information that some third-party set of criteria thinks we should want, based on what it’s gleaned about us from the behavior it can see.
In no particular order.
In some ways, the plot felt like little more than an excuse to paint sweeping, evocative pictures with the opening of each door. But the characters’ reactions to each reveal are so intense, and so changeable, that I kind of want to crawl inside them and reconstruct their motivations like a crime scene.
Between this and “weird stuff my Google News algorithm has decided I like (and maybe it’s right),” I’m hoping I can piece together a consistent throughline out of my fractured ADHD nonsense. And possibly develop some ideas worth exploring on the nature of The Algorithm.
A Long Weekend in Nashville
I just hoped to get a healthy dose of good Southern food; beyond that, I was ready to be surprised. And Nashville delivered.
In May and June of 2023, Peter Mattei will be singing the title role in Ivo van Hove’s production of Don Giovanni at the Met.
Firefox has long been the credible third (now fourth) option keeping the internet privacy question relevant and holding Google and Apple to account.
A South African icebreaker sailed from Cape Town yesterday, headed for the Weddell Sea and the wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance.
On the one hand, hostile pursuers are a new element for Outer Wilds; but on the other, cosmic horror has been something of a background radiation to the entire game from the first moment.
When I began walking in Graceland, more than one person told me to keep an eye out for the coyotes.
I found the Suez Canal obstruction ordeal particularly interesting because it touched on two things for which I have an outsize love: large-scale infrastructure, and giant f**king boats.
Much as it does for modern fanworks, opera’s foundation in existing canon influences its structure. Because audiences frequently come to a work already steeped in the narrative and its context, composers (and fic writers) can skip to the good stuff.
For those of us with certain kinds of social privilege - like Hansson, like myself - the thought process will look pretty familiar. It's a textbook example of the fragility we experience when confronted with our role in systemic oppression, and it's why we should take a good hard look at what appears to have happened here and try to learn from it.
Like most kids who grew up in the ‘90s, I had a Bugs Bunny-Elmer Fudd idea of what opera is, and never really pursued the concept further on the assumption that I wouldn’t need to know it.
For better or worse, this nation still exists because a lot of old white men chose to uphold some key democratic ideals when, as the Trump administration has amply demonstrated over the last four years, they absolutely didn’t have to.
Had this question come from someone else, it might have been easy to write it off as disingenuous. Of course there’s a difference between an established politician spending campaign funds and a comparatively inexperienced billionaire buying his way into the conversation. But a position that feels true is the one that most deserves examination before you go spouting it off on someone’s Facebook page, right?
Oh, it’s what you do to me.
I’m going to wax more rhapsodic about it here in a minute - but before I do that, I want to poke at an existential question the game raised for me, which is rooted in one of its core mechanics.