Strat's Safe Space

Whether you’re contemplating an abstract art piece, watching a movie, reading a book or staring at a short-form video of young women jumping up and down, you probably spend a lot of your free time engaging with media, talking about it and sharing it.

A list of freak games, in randomized order, released in 2025 that I played and enjoyed.

This is a short essay on the first episode of the Pluto (2023) anime.

In this post, I’ll briefly describe Sleepaway, a TTRPG designed by Jay Dragon, then I’ll cover my story game “credentials” (or lack thereof) and then I’ll conclude with some thoughts on the oneshot I played on August 3rd 2025 with some folks from the Quin…

Most of the tabletop RPG systems that I’m familiar with are gathering together today to party like it’s 2025 and they’ve all brought something to the table (my brain).

Running a tabletop RPG campaign is always a learning experience.

This website has existed in some form or another since Tuesday, October 10th 2017 (that was 7 years, 3 months and 11 days ago at the time of writing this)… It’s been a long time coming, I’ve got an about me page now.

A tier list of the UFO 50 games I played in 2024 (from most fun to least fun).

A list of novels, in randomized order, that I read and enjoyed in 2024.

A list of games, in randomized order, released in 2024 that I played and enjoyed.

A few months ago, I began running an old school rennaissance (mega)dungeon crawling tabletop roleplaying campaign using the Shadowdark RPG rules.

Have you been playing Doom II recently?

This post contains spoilers for Gene Wolfe’s The Knight.

This is a really rough draft, read the following at your own peril.

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A list of games I played and enjoyed most in 2023.

I haven’t written a blog post in around a year and a half.

A list of games I played and enjoyed most in 2022.

I regret to inform you that you’re dying.

Bouldering is a form of free climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls without the use of ropes or harnesses.

If you’re new to roleplaying or just curious, take a look at my tabletop roleplaying 101 post before reading this one.

Nick Riggle’s “On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck” is a philosophy book that discusses awesomeness and suckiness in detail.

So… You, or someone you know, has expressed interest in participating in some form of tabletop roleplaying.

Yesterday I discussed me getting back into intermittent fasting and the individualistic (and very Western) reasons why.

So I’m doing intermittent fasting again.

We like to believe that we are free (as in freedom).

I’m frustrated.

Sniper Elite 5’s multiplayer Axis Invasion mode is really cool and here’s a few reasons why.

I was making some small changes to my website last week, I don’t remember exactly what I was doing.

Now that I’m using GitHub Actions to deploy my website I’m able to write something on my phone, push it to GitHub and Voila!

Vim is a text editor.

The following text contains spoilers for the movie Turbo Kid (2015), reader discretion is advised.

I’ve been working full time and cooking for myself for long enough to be able to tell you that keeping yourself well fed is a lot harder than you think.

Documental is a Japanese reality TV show with a simple premise. 10 comedians (ponying up 1 million Yen each) are locked in a room for 6 hours with cameras filming everything that happens inside.

Skip ahead if you know what you’re doing and just want to learn how to delete all your messages on a Discord server.

I like to play games.

Hi, my name’s [NAME].

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/twilightSoundscapeGenerator.php Twinkling stars blinking in and out of existence.

A dark and dank cave, you see, Murky and mouldy, walls surrounding me.

EDIT 2022-08-22: check out my new /books page to see what the books I’ve been reading and what I think about them.

I learned to code sometime in 2011.

We found ourselves at the abandoned mine shaft, home to the mysterious entity we call the Eye.

I’ve suffered from seasonal allergies and dust mite allergies (and cats make me want to die) most of my life.

Sifting through the filtered photographs Left and right, left and right It was love at first swipe.

Let the beetles beat their drums Waves reflecting off the sun Yet, the war has just begun Previously potted plant, shards everywhere Uprooted but far from death, A survivor, stronger than ever Mint never gave up.

I recently read Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations (translated by Gregory Hays) and I quite enjoyed it.

As discussed in my first entry of my previous series of posts, we are motivated by a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards that encourage us to spend our valuable time on certain activities rather than others.

EDIT 2022-08-22: Check out my new /books page where I talk about books I’ve read and my thoughts on them.

Video game Youtube people like Joseph Anderson and Noah Caldwell-Gervais (and many others) have been encouraged by the algorithm (and the way Youtube is monetized) to create longer and longer videos.

Perfect Landing!