The Sock-Monkey As Alone

While I intend on compiling all of this eventually to itch.io file of grim metal bedlam. I gonna try to post on my blog as I write it. To kind of have back ups and share what I am doing. Code name/handle generator Simple: roll a d4 and a d20 the d4 says which chart the d20 was rolled for 1 2 3 or 4 and the d20 says says which of the names is used. And choose whichever order the words sound better. Tried to make the list diverse but ultimately I wanted the metal gear solid meets wu tang clan kind of a vibe. If you don't like a name don’t use it. For the captain of your crew.  Use your first name or, a first name and roll once for the second part of the handle making kind of a punk name generator. If you roll something to much just use the one below it. This is more suggestions and attempt to make an anime science fantasy vibe flavor text for the world building. Also I stole this idea from kill sample process my current favorite skirmish game even though I have just played for a day…...

  I reread the rules and I think the core mechanisms of the design work for the setting I been developing. Though A lot of the design was an excuse to make a setting. My main complaint coming from other games is the book keeping aspects (or lack of really). Solo adventure bases skirmish games are at there core book keeping push your luck games.  The book keeping while a bit tedious can also be framed as our investment. It makes the pieces more than models. The mechanism is so simple with the advantage and disadvantage of flipping percentile rolls (in my game) that without money as central bookkeeping element that the game has no weight. Every one feels different on such a wide spectrim that becomes hard to make something objectively or at least universally well made. So what I have decided to do is use is use smaller squads in the solo campaign I am thinking three man squads for the player and five to seven for the ai controlled opponent. This  will the game to ...

  I am listening to daftpunk and there album discovery right now. I obsess over the track digital love. It is my favorite music video and I am quite the fan of music videos. It reminds me of the era I heard it in. Which was defined by space battleship Yamato and orguss and 2nd edition warhammer 40k books. This was a time right after the big bang of toonami to my spirit a kind of blossoming of my imagination after the first decade of my life was spent kind breaking me down.  One of the things I’ve learned from writing this blog is that my past doesn’t add up and I am on some level obsessed with that incongruence.  There is quality every episode in my life a year or two of consistent experience and then an apposing life in my memory appears. Where completely different version of myself occurs a life Alien to the one I had lived the life preceding up till that point. It is likely a combination of how my brain processes reality and objective incongruence from the realit...

  I have seen the Netflix show Cyberpunk runners three or four times to completion. The star crossed lovers fate is felt even harder in a dystopia. That thing about hope is know tells you how much it hurts. You just kind of have to figure it out before it’s too late. Why am I rewatching it a fourth or fifth time in a couple of years? Mostly because I am about to start a game of Kill. Sample. Process. I am trying to get in the headspace of noir medieval futurism and the thesis I am coming to is Grim Dark is essentially Cyberpunk from the perspective of the establishment. I mean in a lot of ways out there neon soaked lights is a crude wisdom and street weary aphorism and slogans galore. Desperate looks ugly and chrome the fuck up. Are a nice noir combo. But then again maybe the Grim Dark is what happens after the twilight of cyber punk. The hope is the difference. The efficiency with which fascism strips us of our hope is the grim we experience in the dark of the future. ...

  There is value in subverting expectations. Of playing with understanding and lack of understanding. The basterds and their game is defacing the third reich, Of scalping the nazi fasciest pin head sons of bitches and showing them as the delusional and arrogant caricatures of humanity they are.   There is need to understand that defacing and maiming in this way is a commentary on what nazis attempted to do to world history. It is an erasure of the power of propaganda. It is a very complex existential crisis and commentary on that crisis. In that used terror and an insane idea of racial purity… of purging a meme and not a gene. Because the failure of humanity is in a meme and not a gene. The movie is about a Jewish woman and her black boyfriend burning down a theater and sending a message to Germany. The movie is about a handful of New York Jews and a Tennessean named Aldo. Scalping and mutilating the corpse of a delusion of racial purity. And even when the compromises ...