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'ello folks - I'm Greg from Michigan. Eldritch Millennial IT Consultant, former professional ninja.

Cover of Love Electric by CIRC
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Cover art of Sarah McLauchlan's album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy featuring the artist in a black long sleeve shirt facing the camera.
Title poster for the move Go starring Sarah Polly.
The normal speed animation of Fate:Grand/Order's Oda Nobunaga's Noble Phantasm Three Line Formation. Shows Nounaga floating with fire around her then muskets appearing all over to shoot forward at an implied target.
Stretching cat in sunlight with the top text "Memories!!!" and bottom text "All alone in the moonlight"
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine title card.
Fate mordread in full armor.
When I moved across the country, I ended up in a small town of kind, good-hearted people. At first I was hiding my extreme distrust of nonvegans for my own survival. But again and again people treated me with substantial degrees of kindness that I couldn't trace back to a cynical selfish explanation--despite being people who ate meat. Kind in ways that I never saw in the Bay area, or growing up (that I can remember). This confused me, as it conflicted with my models, and I had to halt and reevaluate and reformulate new models that took the new evidence into account. I was also pondering neoplatonist philosophy at the time, by way of Mage the Ascension, and the mystic-optimism and unity of creation that expresses also influenced me. Early 2022 was a psychological nadir for me, that I barely survived. The other major thing that caused me to update my model was watching my right hemisphere heal over the course of a few years from a place of extreme degradation and self-consumption to a place of joy and compassion exceeding the degrees I remember from even my childhood. Not the journey as an abstract whole, but watching from the inside the decisions, watching myself heal old philosophical knots and errors, including many that I had long since lost awareness of, served as an experimental confirmation of some of those mystic ideas and a refutation of Emma's accelerationist ideas.
Poster for The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Poster for 2004 Russian movie Night Watch
Celebratory final scene from the Simpsons' Rodney Dangerfield episode including Rodney dancing on top of a Channel 6 News van while the rest of Springfield parties in the street while Journey's "Any Way You Want It" plays.
Picture of the Escaflowne robot with a sword.
Cover for Sarah McLaughlan's Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Danger Close Level: Am. Wiz 4 Components: V, S, F Casting Time: 1 round; may not be shortened Range: Long (400' + 40'/level) Effect: One shell/4 caster levels, all within a 40' of a central point Area: 40' or 50' radius per/level; see text Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (helpless only) or Reflex half; see text Spell Resistance: No The caster then furiously speaks a string of arcane figures into the focus while gesturing wildly. This allows the Freedom Shells to manifest on the caster's plane. Freedom Shells are metal cylinders roughly a half foot in diameter and a foot long and come in different types. Each type has a different effect. When you cast this spell, you first determine the range (distance and height) as the focus point of the spell and then determine where within 40' off the centerpoint you would like the individual shells to land specifying the type of shell called forth - either High Explosive or Fragmentation - for each impact point. Upon spell completion, each shell is treated as a splash weapon that has missed the attack roll with the number of squares to 1d20 - Intelligence Modifier; see PHB pg. 158 for details. The shells have an effect as below: High Explosive: The shell detonates in the square where it lands. Everything in a 30' radius of the impact point takes 1d10 per level bludgeoning and fire* damage. Walls, floors, doors, and other large flat objects in the area take double damage and their Hardness is halved. Apply damage to each 10' by 10' section. For details on Smashing an Object see PHB Pg 165 and for terrain HP see DMG Pg 60. Creatures not immune to critical hits must make a Fortitude save or be rendered helpless for 1d4 rounds, unable to act or speak. Fragmentation: The shell detonates 30' above the target square and everything exposed within 50' takes 1d8 per level of piercing and fire* damage. Effected creatures may make a Reflex save for half damage. Arcane Focus: Headset with a microphone.
Ucon shirt blanket with shirts from 90 to 2003
Picture of a Scottish beach. Location Unknown - taken 1999
Chibi Cirino from Touhou on a billiards 9 ball.
Cover of Queen's A Night At The Opera - faux heraldry.
Character selection screen from Honkai: Star Rail set to Archer
Cover of R. Talsorian's Castle Falkenstein
Chart of Character Creation Points from XID Creative's Providence chart. Columns: Level, Characteristics, Skills, Magic Normal, 10, 20, 0 Low, 20, 50, 70 Medium, 25, 70, 100 High, 30, 100, 150
Cover of XID Creative's Providence: Main Rule Book depicting a demonic looking man with 10-pack abs holding a chain that binds a kneeling man's wings in a grim mountain.
Headshot of Piccalo in his white turban with meme text from Dragon Ball Z: Abridged "Shit That's Good"
Cover of GURPS Basic Set Third Edition.
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Photo of a gaming table with a base on a hill. The base has little green trucks.
Photo of Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi as Elwood & Jake Blues standing in front of the Blues Mobile and a Chicagoland rail bridge.
Archer, from Fate: Stay/Night
The cover of Dishonored with the main character depicted wielding a dagger & using the mechanical mask.
Cover of Origin System's Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle. Has the text and the titular brown/gold serpent bearing fangs.
The cover of MIcroprose's Sid Meir's PIRATES! for the PC. Depicts a boarding action in the foreground while sailing ships fight in the background.
Cover of Kin Rise by Stellar Games
Top of a bottle of Ral Partha AD&D branded Elemental Orange paint.
Map on the back cover of The Bard's Tale (I) (Electronic Arts 1985)
Cover of the The Yellow King Roleplaying Game
Cover of the Sentinel Comics Roleplaying Game
Cover of Eclipse Phase first edition.
The Cover of D&D 4th Edition Players Handbook
Cover of Fragged Empire 2nd edition.
Cover of Thief: The Dark Project
Disco Elysium banner w/title & main characters featured in front of locations from the game.
Box art of Sword of the Stars featuring the titular Star Ship
Cover of Heavy Gear 1st edition featuring the title & a Gear (giant robot) on the cover.
Cover of Classic Deadlands, 1st edition
Cover of Castle Falkenstein featuring a castle and a man holding a sword.
Cover of Feng Shui RPG by Robin D. Laws. Features a Shaolin Monk, Totally Not a Chow Yung-Fat character, and a person dressed as a Han Dynasty ghost
Cover of Mind's Eye Theater Laws of the Night Revised
Cover of Conspiracy X original edition. 90's Hacker/MIB holds a pistol while illegible text is on the left, and a alien head is on the right.
Cover of Nightlife 3rd edition - 1992 Stellar Games Vampire holds a woman while standing on subway train tracks while werewolves move in from the left to attack giant cat emerging from the subway tunnel.
Box cover of Bard's Tale II by EA for Commodore 64/128. Man raises a glowing rod over his head while party members attack monsters & dragon attacking from the left.
Image of the cover of Rifts 1st edition, third printing May 1991. Alien monster in hovering dish assisted by three blind warrior women searches a barren landscape.