Knock, Knock, Knock, Neil

A former fan shares his thoughts about Neil Gaiman, who has maintained his very uncharacteristically public silence for three months now:

Gaiman was careful to cultivate a very different public image. His deceptions go back a long way. His story about how he skipped university to carve out a career as a freelance journalist and author in London tends to miss out the bit where he was working as an auditor for the Church of Scientology. There’s no doubting his talent, but he turns out to have been a monumental self-promoting bullshitter all along. Only worse.

Neil Gaiman never had the talent he pretended to have. I think it’s quite likely that he never had the success that he is assumed to have had either. (See: L. Ron Hubbard). And he observably never had the human decency that he pretended to have. The only thing that was genuine, in the end, was his Imposter Syndrome, because he always was an imposter from the start.

The knock on the door… it finally arrived.

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A New Tome of Treasure

Our friends at Autarch have launched an already-successful campaign for their latest addition to the ACKS II role-playing game: a 256-page Treasure Tome.

The Adventurer Conqueror King System™ Imperial Imprint (ACKS II) is the recently-released new edition of the acclaimed bestselling fantasy role-playing game. The pages of ACKS II offer you everything you need to enjoy epic fantasy campaigns with a sweeping scope. Whether you want to crawl through dungeons, experiment with alchemy, crossbreed monsters, run a merchant emporium, raise an undead legion, or conquer an empire, ACKS II supports your playstyle. Crowdfunded here on Kickstarter in November 2023, ACKS II raised over $330,000 from almost 2,000 backers.

Today, we are crowdfunding the ACKS II Treasure Tome. The first sourcebook for ACKS II system, the ACKS II Treasure Tome is a 256-page compendium of over 1,000 brand-new magic items for old-school fantasy campaigns. Designed with all the rigorous detail and careful study expected of the Adventurer Conqueror King System Imperial Imprint, the ACKS II Treasure Tome is easily adapted for use with other D20-based fantasy RPGs such as North Wind Adventure’s Hyberborea, OSR Publishing’s Dragonslayer, and the Arcane Library’s Shadowdark.

And in other crowdfunding news, HYPERGAMOUSE has successfully crushed its third stretch goal, which means that two new variant cover editions have been added, one paperback and one hardcover, featuring the original art of Ademir Leal and an artist to be announced soon!

You can find both variant cover editions as campaign add-ons.

Not a HYPERGAMOUSE cover, but an example of the artist.

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A Reason to Vote

I’m not unsympathetic to those who argue that it is pointless to vote in the fraudulent exercises known as the U.S. presidential elections. I’ve logically proven that any one vote literally cannot make a difference in any circumstances myself, even without taking the Uniparty into account. But sometimes, exigencies supply imperatives.

By the bowels of Cthulhu, I beseech thee, vote and vote again. As many times as they will permit thee, vote, dammit, by all means, vote for Donald Trump!

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Unprecedented Gaslighting

Simplicius notes that the media has descended from propping up the Official Narrative to full-bore, nonstop lying about every single front of WWIII:

It’s actually incredible when you step back a moment and consider how the West lives increasingly in a total fantasy construct. On every global issue or flashpoint, Western media no longer exercises even the barest scruples, instead blanketly reporting the most fantastical tales with zero corroboration. In Iran we’re expected to believe Israel “decimated” the entire Iranian air defense network, countless major labs and buildings, despite zero proof apart from a single grainy satellite photo that shows a slight discoloration somewhere—far less proof than we got from Iran’s much more massive strike on Israeli bases during True Promise 2.0.

In Georgia, Western press reports with shameless authority that the election was ‘stolen’ despite no credible evidence. The entire Western order has at this point in its lurid, terminal panic given up on not only truth, but any and all foundational values that have made Western civilization what it was. Threats, lies, and propaganda are flung with no accountability or attempt at justification; it seems we’ve entered the rapid parabolic singularity point of the ‘post-truth’ era in the West. Just like how the Federal Reserve must now exponentiate its printing cycles just to stave off collapse, Western intelligentsia and its corrupt crony political class must now likewise balloon their brazen lies to infinity just to keep from drowning in them as if the buoyancy of volume will keep them up.

Granted, the above is just a general observation on the state of things—particularly in the pre-election news-cycle the sheer unrepentant nature of the gaslighting now witnessed daily is unprecedented.

Clown World is getting increasingly desperate. Why 10,000 or 30,000 North Korean “special forces” would ever justify giving nuclear-capable missiles to Ukraine makes zero sense when one considers how many NATO “mercenaries” have been fighting in Ukraine for the last two years. It’s beyond obvious who is running Clown World PR when its military alliance is both a) surprised and b) offended at the unfairness when its enemy makes effective use of its own allies.

A few weeks ago, I said we’d know if the IDF was winning its war against Hezbollah or not by the media coverage. I was there in 1982, I remember how every advance was televised, just as every big airstrike in Lebanon is on the front page of the news sites now. The complete absence of information tends to indicate that while the air war against an organization with neither an air force nor air defenses is proceeding without interruption, the ground war has completely failed. The media gaslighting is such that it this point, it would be less of a surprise if it is eventually announced that Hezbollah’s ground forces are entering northern Israel than for the IDF to reach the Litani River.

And the reports about the airstrike on Iran is that the initial wave of fighter-bombers who were supposed to take out the radar installations turned back before they even reached the Iranian border because they were radar-locked despite their stealth technology. This may or may not be true, and certainly there are no images of Israeli F-35s being shot down, but for one reason or another, the bombing for which the neocons have been shrieking for the last 23 years turned out to be more similar to President Clinton lobbing a few cruise missiles at some tents in the desert than the fire-bombing of Dresden.

Things are definitely heating up, so hopefully the media’s wall of silence about what’s actually taking place will start to collapse as quickly, and as comprehensively, as the Ukrainian defenses now are.

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The End of the Banking System

While this Kuwaiti attempt to control all finances is almost certainly going to end in literal flames, there can be no doubt that Clown World would love to install the Kuwaiti system in every country it rules:

Kuwait has forced over one million citizens to hand over their biometric data in one of the most extreme pushes for digital ID. Kuwait introduced a national electronic ID (eID) that they say will assist with identification verification, digital signatures, E-government access, and the secure exchange of data. The deadline to file for this mandatory program was September 30 and the consequences for failing to comply were swift.

On October 1, the Ministry of Interior announced that those who failed to submit their data would be prohibited from all electronic services such as withdrawals, transfers, and account transfers. One cannot even withdraw cash. Around 35,000 people have been blocked out of their bank accounts and are unable to even view the balance. A few weeks later, those in noncompliance has their electronic bank cards deactivated. Visa, MasterCard, and K-Net all abided by the government’s rule.

Beginning on November 1, The Kuwait Banking Association stated it will implement a “complete block” on all accounts, which means one cannot even withdraw funds if they go to the bank in person. Expatriates have until December 31 to submit their biometric registration.

Notice that there isn’t one word of protest out of all the organizations that profess to be dedicated to human liberty, democracy, and the will of the people. This is far more dictatorial and far more dystopian than anything that any previous government has ever done to its own people. At this point, trusting the banking system to simply fulfill what used to be its primary function requires the complete absence of all brain activity.

Out of order will come chaos.

From SG, Happy #HaikuTober from Klaus and the Gang

Give us your thumbprint
Or we take all your money.
You will own nothing
.

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For Future Reference

That’s the real Donald Trump standing in between Joey Bosa of the San Francisco 49ers and Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals. Keep that in mind the next time you’re thinking that a man who looks like Donald Trump but isn’t towering over a 5’5″ dwarf like Joe Rogan might actually be him. Trump is closer to the size of an NFL linebacker than he is to the size of the average man. Some of you may have forgotten that I know this because I actually met him back in 1988. He’s a big man.

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No Foreign Wars

One area where Donald Trump did have an excellent track record was the way he avoided getting the US military involved in any new wars. And he even tried to end some of the various US occupations, although he was undermined by traitors in his administration and the military itself. So his expressed determination to stay out of war for the next four years is highly credible, despite his occasionally bellicose rhetoric.

Former US President Donald Trump promised not to send Americans to fight and die in countries they have never heard of while addressing a crowd in the battleground state of Pennsylvania this weekend.

Speaking at a campaign rally on Saturday, Trump once again claimed he is the only one capable of preventing an all-out global conflict, arguing that his Democratic rival Kamala Harris “would get us into World War III, guaranteed, because she is too grossly incompetent to do the job.”

“To make her president would be to gamble with the lives of millions of people. Sons and daughters will end up getting drafted to fight in a war in a country you’ve never heard of,” he said.

In his nomination acceptance speech earlier this year, Trump vowed to “end every single international crisis that the current administration has created,” particularly the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts. He never offered specific plans to bring about world peace, but repeatedly warned that by supporting and financing “other people’s wars” under the leadership of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the US is increasing the likelihood of sliding into WWIII.

Of course, if he returns to the White House, he’ll need to do something about repatriating the tens of millions of invaders now running amok in the USA. And it would be good if he would clarify that he won’t let Americans fight for any countries their parents have heard of also.

Most importantly, it’s time to put some teeth behind the phrase “America First” and end all foreign aid. There is absolutely no excuse for giving a single dollar to any foreign country while Americans are in need. That’s not “loving your neighbor” but “ignoring your family in order to score virtue points by helping complete strangers.”

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Why We Thought We Had to go to College

Like me, Uncle John went to a Special Boy College. And like me, he was deeply disenchanted by the experience before he finished his junior year there.

The noontide of the boomer had to be experienced to be appreciated. There is no incompatibility between [seeing where it was headed in my late teens] and [not claiming to be boy Nostradamus]. The obviousness is … well … obvious when that’s what mainstream popular socio-cultural discourse for the age 24-42 set looked like.

The big picture is that post-war TV-driven mass consumer culture was centralizing and homogenizing. Switching out reality for screen = same House of Lies for everyone. Things that hadn’t even been on the radar were suddenly presented as aspirational. Meanwhile, mass living standards were soaring. Materialist class consciousness introduced the desire for ”high class” trappings in ordinary life. And the cultural conception of “higher education” changed radically.

Boomers understand reality mainly through TV and Pedowood, with some selective social media. It’s why they’re most ensorcelled by the House of Lies and their men are the most Gamma of cohorts. Obviously oversimplifying a little, but the Boomer conception of college we absorbed by osmosis could be summed up in two movies.

Animal House was a 1978 film set in 1962. The oldest boomers were turning 17, so it wasn’t exactly a nostalgia piece. More retconning early memories to glorify atavism and cultural degeneration. The insightful part was nailing the hollow, morally bankrupt worthlessness of post-War “institutions”. But the problem presenting [hypocritical worthless trash] vs. [atavistic worthless trash as the only options. Making the atavistic one “cool” is boomer-era media 101. The Big Chill is the unofficial bookend. Reassurance that that oh-so-seminal youthful waste of time really would always be meaningful. The film came on my radar first term of college when one large and uncool knot of freshman were consciously trying to pre-create their own “Big Chill moments”. Note how no boomers you know remain tight with their college friends. Neither did that group.

Not dropping out of college halfway through my sophomore year to market and sell my 16-channel CD quality stereo PC sound board, which was not only conceived, but designed and fully-functional in 1987, is one of my greatest regrets in life. To this day, it astonishes me that my father, who had been force-feeding me business books since junior high, didn’t absolutely leap at the opportunity to encourage me to take that step and drop out. So, instead of becoming a multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur before the age of 21, I picked up an Economics degree, got to know the Tokyo nightlife like the back of my hand, and dated a few literal Cinderellas.

Where did you think Cosmic Trigger came from anyhow? Waterskiing on Lake Minnetonka?

Don’t run away, don’t run away
You can fly your freak flag high today
Cinderella’s seeking vengeance
And she’ll be back on Saturday

Pull, pull pull, I’m the C-C-C-Cosmic Trigger!

Ah well. Sometimes all we can do is help the next generation not imitate our mistakes.

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Australia Bans Blacks

Well, just one Black woman so far. But it’s clearly a start, as Candace Owens was banned from entering Australia by the Australian government:

Candace Owens has been banned from entering Australia, following a history of antisemitic, anti-Muslim and transphobic comments, the Sydney Morning Herald posted for the first time on Sunday morning. Tony Burke, the Immigration Minister, announced that Owens has had her visa cancelled, meaning she will be unable to travel to the country for her upcoming tour.

“Australia’s national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else.”

Jewish groups previously called for her visa to be cancelled in August. The Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) called the decision a “victory for truth.”

They’re really setting up some absolutely beautiful precedents for eliminating the once-sacred concept of “the free movement of peoples” now, aren’t they. That’s just straight-up racism by every standard; the USA should probably start bombing Sydney now to defend democracy and all that. And this is clearly a violation of the EU’s founding principle of the absolute right of people to move freely around the world at all times for any reason. Sanctions of Australia, at a minimum, must already be underway.

It’s going to be incredibly amusing to see the Clown Worlders and neocons crying when they’re no longer permitted to travel anywhere outside of Manhattan and Los Angeles once they lose power. John Carpenter was a true visionary and Snake Plissken was his prophet.

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An Intriguing Metric

Some might see this as a black pill. I see it more as an intriguing and potentially informative metric for the near-future.

THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT: In 2018 it was already decided to remove President Trump from the White House. Trump will never be allowed to win the 2024 Election. The Biden Administration is under the control of the Shadow Government. Facebook owned by U.S. Government. Covid-19 planned.

The Shadow Government is the Committee of 300 and Bill Gates is one of the current members of the Committee of 300 which controls all the affairs of the world except for Russia and China. The Committee of 300 also controls the Pedophile systems around the world and all the major human trafficking networks which involve 8 million innocent children a year who are raped, tortured and murdered.

There will never be fair elections in the United States and around the world until the Committee of 300 is removed from our society. They will not let President Trump or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. become President of the United States in 2024.

I don’t disagree with the central assumption that the Committee of 300 is somehow involved in the leadership of Clown World, that it was involved in the election fraud of 2020, or that it will not willingly permit President Trump to become President of the USA again in 2024.

But, as we have seen in Ukraine and the Middle East over the last two years, the Committee of 300 does not appear to be as in control of events as it was in the past. And so, if Donald Trump is elected President in a few weeks and is subsequently sworn into office, this will be a very good sign that the power of the Committee, and of Clown World, has been broken.

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