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Radical Republicanism

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Published: June 11, 2026 15:17

Sorry in advance for shooting from the hip. This is a ramble. My friend Ènziramire shared with me a quote by some liberal economist or philosopher—can’t find it, so bear with me—that Marxist critics and politicians alike have all failed to consider the…

Attack on Titan: An Informal Review

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Published: May 23, 2026 19:45

Alright, my babies. We need to talk about Attack on Titan. I’m not an anime head but, in 2013, the same friends who showed me Sword Art Online also showed me Attack on Titan which was that year’s big anime. I watched it, and so did a lot of others—cultural…

Cinco: May 2026

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Published: May 9, 2026 12:51

I've finally posted an updated version of my homebrew heartbreaker Cinco! having accepted that it is a living document and that there will always be gaps whether because I'm still working on a thing or because I wanted extra space in case it came useful…

The Thing About Eve

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Published: May 7, 2026 23:37

Last night, Instagram showed me a reel by @roseistheart: btw, the b*blical Adam & Eve story was taken from the ancient Sumerian myth, the tale of Enki & Ninhursag around 2000 BCE. the man eats the forbidden fruit and was told NOT to by the goddess. they…

Cinco: New Conversation Rules

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Published: May 5, 2026 14:40

I got new rules, I count 'em.I liked my existing rules for conversations, being basically the same as in D&D Fifth Edition, but I felt like they lacked structure up to the final roll. I kept hearing about how intuitive the rules from Draw Steel were, but…

Resourciv: Economic Models

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Published: May 1, 2026 18:19

Some more Resourciv updates! These are actually implemented in-game, but they have implications for how I design leading forward. Production I was giving myself a headache thinking about how, whether I increased the granularity of populations or kept it as…

Defense Contractors

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Published: April 30, 2026 15:01

There was a viral comedian set where this nepobaby guy does microaggressions at a clocky trans woman who reveals she works at a defense contractor but is also a self-identified leftist who was radicalized by working as a barista (but no, not at Starbucks,…

Cinco: Lackey Missions

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Published: April 28, 2026 16:04

I’ve mentioned in passing my haven rules for my homebrew heartbreaker Cinco! but never took the time to describe it in much detail. Remember that I don’t really fuck with wealth; instead, each item of treasure just has the value of “1 treasure”, and you…

Resourciv: Social Models, Part 2

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Published: April 15, 2026 00:10

Well. How quickly did you expect an update? When I ran my inheritance simulation, I also calculated the Gini coefficient of the population’s wealth distribution. The Gini coefficient expresses relative inequality within a population, where 0% represents…

Resourciv: Social Models

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Published: April 14, 2026 03:04

I’ve been procrastinating on Resourciv because I couldn’t come up with a demographic or economic framework (or perhaps meta-framework, since I really want to support different modes of production and distribution and so on) I was happy with. So I made some…