Traverse Fantasy

It’s not like I don’t have a VPN, but it’s not like I always have that shit on either. If BlueSky is going to comply in advance with the Texas government’s threat of internet censorship, I’m just not going to open it. Like, oh no, less social media for me! One less passive time sink. I’m not going to delete my account because I may log on occasionally but, besides that, you’l...

A specter is haunting elf-games… the specter of WORKER PLACEMENT! (Please, God, don't let people read this as if I was suggesting this was actually a manifesto and am not just playing to the theme.)

Many years ago, I posted about an assumption of the original Dungeons & Dragons which was eventually forgotten: that characters are supposed to cooperate on diffi...

I followed an independent tech journalist for a while because I don’t trust most big news firms to report on technology (or, really, most things) without falling in lockstep with the demands of the spectacular economy—that is, to manufacture demand because someone needs to buy all this shit to keep the lights on. And I liked this particular one since frankly I trust women in ...