Ramblings of General Geekery

The Wailing makes rural South Korea look both beautiful and horrifying. It expertly goes through, like, 5 different film genres, comments on East-Asian folklore versus Catholic faith, all while being scary. I’m not a fan of the end twists but it’s still a great movie.


TTRPG about me (it’s hard to pick…)

  • First: The Dark Eye
  • Last: Pendragon
  • Longest: Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, or RuneQuest (not sure)
  • Favourite game: Delta Green
  • Favourite mechanics: GURPS, YZE, TOON, Amber
  • Favourite setting: Glorantha, Harn
  • Favourite art: MERP, Maskwitches, Petersen’s Field Guide to Creatures of the Dreamlands

My hot take on the current RuneQuest/Glorantha discourse is, of course, that RuneQuest is the worst system you can use to play in Glorantha, and that I don’t know why Chaosium sunk so much money into it when they have much better ones on hand.


The Ugly Stepsister is a brilliant retelling of the Cinderella story, refocused on the titular stepsister and changed into a beautifully shot body-horror black comedy about living up to beauty standards in a patriarchal society. Loved it.


I finally saw Black Hawk Down and, apart from the obvious few problems everyone knows about, it’s still an amazing war movie, and a technical tour-de-force. Impressive.


Last year I watched all the James Bond movies in order and my summary is that they’re rather mediocre movies, but with some fun intro, catchy credits sequence, and occasionally there’s a good set piece or character or moment.


Well that aged well 😒 From Mission: Impossible S01E10, the crew are undercover in a Russian (I think?) training program for sleeper agents in the US. They are “tested” by being fake-arrested by the police, and reprimanded for not resisting arrest, which is “the American Way”!


I haven’t posted about the good fluffy boy in some time, so here he is, still doing his thing!