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YouTube video by KMFDM - Topic Megalomaniac (Excessive Force Remix)

Sometimes, a person needs an old source of musical motivation.

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Moonstone - Marvel Comics - Karla Sofen - Masters of Evil-Profile 3 Our third, full character profile for Marvel Comics' Moonstone. Pictures, personality, career, powers, quotes, biography, TTRPG stats, etc.

Here's the second half of our character profile for Marvel #Comics' pre-Thunderbolts Moonstone (Karla Sofen).

During this era, she wasn't as intriguing as Kurt Busiek would make her. But she already was a fairly interesting, useful villain with story arcs.

Pics, #TTRPG stats (DCH and M&M), bio...

Moonstone - Marvel Comics - Karla Sofen - Masters of Evil-Profile 2 Our second, full character profile for Marvel Comics' Moonstone. Pictures, personality, career, powers, quotes, biography, TTRPG stats, etc.

The character profile that covered the pre- #Thunderbolts Marvel #Comics Moonstone (Karla Sofen) has been refurbished

It's also now presented in two chapters. Since it was unwieldy to read on a smartphone

Pictures, #TTRPG stats (DCH and M&M), powers, biography, personality, quotes, etc. -our usual

Karla Sofen - Marvel Comics - Before Moonstone -Character profile Full character profile for Marvel Comics' Karla Sofen, covering her time before becoming Moonstone. Pictures, biography, personality, quotes

Refurbished our first character profile for Marvel #Comics' Karla Sofen. Who, during this era, isn't Moonstone yet

I don't expect a pre-Moonstone Karla in her early 20s to pop up a lot, except maybe in niche flashbacks. But it makes it simpler to present her life

Pics, #TTRPG stats, bio, skills...

I've just realised that there are now 6,666 articles on the site.

From this, I conclude nothing whatsoever because the current work is a pain in the keister and I'm too busy.

Only Edsel left, I think. Since she was published first, and I'm doing mostly-reverse-chron order.

Sean Knight - Ghost - Mage: the Hero Discovered-Character profile Full character profile for Sean Knight, the ghost attorney in Matt Wagner's Mage: the Hero Discovered comics. Pictures, biography, quotes...

Refurbished the character profile for Sean Knight, from the #Mage #indie #comics of yore by Matt Wagner.

Like the rest of our contributor Bryan's arc, it only covers The Hero Discovered.

Sean is a good guy ghost, though he didn't know that.

Pictures, #TTRPG stats, powers, quotes, characterisation

Manster - 1959 horror movie - Character profile Full character profile for the titular character in the 1959 schlock horror movie Manster. Pictures, TTRPG stats, biography, etc..

Added a character profile for the protag of 1959 #horror #film the Manster. And odd American/Japanese venture that's fairly terrible, but we don't care about that.

What if Hyde was growing out of Jekyll's right side ?

Pictures, #TTRPG stats, biography, capabilities, quotes, etc. - our usual.

Human Ants of the Sixth Continent - Luc Orient BD comics - Profile A profile about the human ants from the Sixth Continent, appearing in a 1970s Franco-Belgian Luc Orient graphic novel. It's kinda strange.

Refurbished our profile for the Human Ants of the Sixth Continent, from a 1970s Luc Orient #BD francophone graphic novel.

High-tech hidden civilisation, interesting to use in stories.

Pictures, #TTRPG stats, military, history, organisation, etc.

Less than lethal guns - DC Heroes RPG - Mutants Masterminds Profiles for less-than-lethal weapons and how they behave in stories, with TTRPG stats. Tasers, screamers, tanglers, flashballs...

Added to our #TTRPG article about less lethal guns, the sort of sonic blasters in the Minority Report movie by Spielberg.

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Shot in the dark -- does anybody knows whether the new #Cloudflare application security dashboard (and therefore the AI blocking) is available to domains on the free plan ?

(Looks like Cloudflare only has a Twitter account (no Bsky ! no Masto !) and I ain't going there).

Oh.

I had reasonably assumed that the appearance of a thread about the DC Heroes RPG had resulted in a massive spike of frenzied traffic, overwhelming the servers.

Special-purpose small melee weapons for RPGs / TTRPGs A big pile of special purpose, small weapons for storytelling purposes - mostly for role-playing games. Statted and illustrated.

Added to our #TTRPG article about special-purpose small melee weapons the "barfstick" seen in the Minority Report movie of yore.

Telescopic batons that induce vomiting.

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Grenades - Heavy weapons - DC Heroes - Mutants Masterminds Extensive article about grenades in stories. Amply illustrated, dual-statted for the DC Heroes RPG and Mutants & Masterminds 3rd edition.

Added a new type of grenades to our #TTRPG article about grenades. Which describes grenades, for stories where grenades play a role. Such as being used for grenading.

This time it's the low-tech, pitch-based Byzantine incendiary grenades. With an eye toward fantasy equivalents.

Grenades.

Michelle Chang - Tekken video games - Character profile Full character profile for Michelle Chang in the older Tekken fighting video games. Pictures, TTRPG stats, biography, capabilities, etc..

Added a character profile for Michelle Chang, a mystically-inclined Chinese/Native American fighter in early Tekken games.

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Pictures, #TTRPG stats, abilities, biography, fighting styles and all that jazz.

Gargantus - Iron Man enemy - Marvel Comics - Character profile Full character profile for Marvel Comics' Gargantus 2. First super-opponent whom Iron Man fought. Hi-res pictures, powers, history, RPG stats

Refurbished the profile for Marvel #Comics' Gargantus II, a very early #IronMan foe.

He's a, err, large hypnotic alien robot disguised as a proto-human. With a Captain Caveman-style club. Look, it was 1963.

Pictures, #TTRPG stats, powers, mission, similar robot models, etc..

Small slowdown since yesterday.
- Taking some gaming breaks due to health and that pre-burnout smell.

- Starting to refurbish Moonstone (Karla Sofen), which is 5-entries series. And I *hate* the style for those entries I wrote back then, so I'm leaving none of my old words unturned.

Phantom Rider / Ghost Rider - Marvel Comics - Character profile Full character profile for Marvel Comics' early Ghost Rider. Old West vigilante pretending to be a ghost. Biography, skills, pictures, gear

Refurbished our character profile for Marvel #Comics' Ghost/Night/Phantom Rider (Carter Slade).

Old West cowboy hero with weird tricks making him ghost-like. But not, like, in the sense of not returning calls.

Pictures, #TTRPG stats, biography, lantern and other gadgets, horsey, successors, etc.

Mister Doll - Marvel Comics - Iron Man enemy - Character profile Full character profile for Mister Doll, an early Iron Man enemy, until that mishap with the dolls. Pictures, bio, powers, quotes, personality

Refurbished the character profile for Marvel #Comics' Mister Doll, an early and forgotten #IronMan enemy.

His magic "voodoo" (scare quotes) doll nearly killed Stark, prompting a landmark armour redesign.

Pictures, #TTRPG stats, biography, powers, characterisation, etc. - our usual.

My ability to get lost in Lunacid is amazing.

But I don't think that there's a way to monetize that.

Foiled again.

The Optimum - Masqué French super-hero graphic novels - Profile Full character profile of The Optimum, a French super-hero in the Masqué graphic novels. Pictures, biography, powers, personality, RPG stats

Refurbished our character profile for the Optimum, a near-future #French #superhero from the Masked graphic novels of the early 2010s.

Pictures, #TTRPG stats (both DC Heroes and #MutantsAndMasterminds), setting, some cultural and historical context, biography, powers, psychogeography, etc..

Social media presence for Writeups.org - Handy links heh? Links to the social networks where writeups.org has some sort of presence. Plus comments where useful. Say, if it's a bot.

Refreshed our article about our social media presence. Which is chiefly, but not solely, Bluesky.

Also includes a short primer to following stuff using RSS. Assuming you're badass enough for RSS. Are you badass enough for RSS ? You don't look like you're badass enough for RSS.

Recettear - Game strategy & tips - You know, advice. Yayness ! All the advice you need for the adorable Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale video game. Reasonably well explained, because that's how we roll.

I'm finishing to gradually refurbish the older video game articles wot are left.

This time it's our strategy guide for indie #videogame #recettear. It's old, it's cheap, it runs on a toaster, it's good fun, you can play for a while.

Colonel A.J. Assan - Masque - Masked - French graphic novels A full character profile, plus contextual explanations, for this major player in the Masked series of French super-hero graphic novels.

Refurbished the character profile for Colonel Alain-Jean Assan, from the near-future #superhero #French graphic novels Masked.

Which is also a way to split the explanations about the setting over two profiles. To avoid the dreaded lore dump.

Pictures, #TTRPG stats, biography, characterisation, etc

Right now I have a 13" iPad in me old hands, which may or may not last.

And I must say, writeups.org looks darn spiffy on it. Except for the Amazon bits that don't resize correctly, because capitalism will always betray you. Or some such.

Beatboxing works even better.

Can't talk now, I'm blurring the horse's mane so the background removal doesn't result in over-sharp edges ! Priorities, folks !

Gonna append this to my own spiel about using RSS. Which'll also be an occasion to bump this article up onto the site's homepage.

Ms. White and I tend to have comparable methods and ethics, so her advice will likely interest our readers.

Ugh. Briefly thought I had lost my browser workspaces.

Then my PC gave me a big fright (sometimes the CPU takes a freakishly long time to come online).

Then I had to call my bank who's failing to process a payment. They don't get it either.

I'm all outta crip spoons. WORG stuff's gonna be late. 😿

Quiet encouragement to our readers in the UK to experiment with VPNs (Proton for familiarisation, then Mullvad if you use it a lot) while this is still safe and easy.

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