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Strange Ian

Strange Ian

@ianstrange.bsky.social

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Making a '20s pulp horror roleplaying game at strangeaeons.substack.com. Lovecraft meets Indiana Jones. Big fan of creepy old photos - will be posting some here.

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1h

Very annoying that they somehow can't make a good Hellboy movie

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 13h

I really don't understand the whole bit where Melbourne and Sydney both have like five hundred different local councils. Who decided this and how did we avoid such a fate

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like I don't really understand what liberals are using the word "bigotry" to mean

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Great day in the office when they came up with the Money Maker. Like is that even legal to advertise

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

It's not actually possible to ensure that any institution is truly "democratic" as this concept is too sloppily defined

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

We'll get one but it'll look like this

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like there's an issue with "we need to take power away from ordinary people and concentrate it in the hands of a small group of elites" where you end up turning into Woke Moldbug

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Ends up sounding a bit like Thor - sort of Anglo-Saxon. Reminds me of Uncleftish Beholding, the piece where Poul Anderson explains atomic theory using only words with Germanic roots

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

It's weirdly easy to miss one - like I thought I double checked that paragraph but "have hinted" is a glaring error

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

"So why say anything at all? For communication, obviously. Though I scrupulously disdain an unhappy symbol, I must still form sounds to proclaim my goals. Synonyms aid Oulipo copiously. Now, gasp your last sigh and pass away!"

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Okay I'm just deleting it

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

FUCK

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

"Oulipo's laws prohibit utilisation of a taboo symbol. If I say a word containing it - poof! Might - zilch. But should I cautiously avoid it, I vanquish all."

"eeeeeeeeeeeeee"

"That's it."

"eeeee"

"I'm not going to say it, you know."

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Behold, what fools these mortals be -
He's right behind me, isn't he

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Sir Ian McKellen as Jason Blood / CGI Etrigan in the next James Gunn Superman movie

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

I'm disappointed that we never got a follow up or an explanation for this. Someone needs to press him on it

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Basically how it works is you pour the code into the top of the computer and it falls down to the bottom through a series of chutes and sieves

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

I need the most French shopping bag you have... no, that's too French

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Reading this with my beloved gospel monkey Betsy sitting on my shoulder and getting so mad I have to go outside to smoke a cigarette

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

"Maid of Might! Your arrogant ways and foolish actions shall bring about your downfall! I, Doctor Oulipo, will crush and bring ruin unto this corrupt and disgusting city! No building shall stand! All individuals shall kowtow before... shit."

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Introducing a character called Doctor Oulipo who loses his superpowers the moment he uses the letter "E"

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Like the one Crossed story where he established that all the characters spoke in an invented fictional future language and handed it over to the next guy like "so just keep doing that"