Hello hello hello, my name is Matthew. Welcome to my OMNIPOTENT SPHERE! My girlfriend, Megan, recently got into Neocities and has finally convinced me to make my own site. I have some web development knowledge, but now I just do it as a hobby. This is my little pigsty where I plan to vomit out all my thoughts on the floor and see if anyone comes around to sniff it. I plan to talk about indie tabletop roleplaying games, films, politics, and anything else that I want to spit up.
My experience with TTRPGs is mostly theoretical. I played D&D 5th edition pretty consistently for two years before becoming very burnt out on the game. I might make a post eventually about my thoughts on the game, and why I quit playing it, but it essentially boils down to this: the combat is boring and the game is all about combat. So after realizing my own discontent with the game, I went seeking out other RPGs. I have amassed a hoard consisting of Call of Cthulhu, a plethora of systems in the OSR genre (Knave and Troika! being my favorites), a handful of Forged in the Dark games, and a splatter of random bullshit.
I say my experience with TTRPGs is mostly theoretical, because, like the Learned Society of York Magicians, I primarily read about TTRPGs! I gobble up blog posts, YouTube reviews, and rulesets like a mad man trying to discover the fundamental truth of the universe. Tragically I have little use for all this knowledge crammed in my brain. With all my wisdom ranging from the dogmas of ye Olde School Renaissance to the philosophies of "Fiction First" nonsense, my only outlet for tabletop gaming is playing in a weekly (and now on hiatus) campaign of Pathfinder 2nd Edition. I think that's a big reason why I'm starting this blog. I need to shoot these demons out of my forehead, get them on the page, and slam the book shut. This blog is an outlet!
Politically, I identify as a socialist. Billionaires bad, workers good. Trans rights! And so on. I'm not the most well-spoken person when it comes to politics, so I wouldn't expect to see too many political posts. Thank god for that!
To give you a sense of my taste in film, I'm basically a diet film-bro. I love me my boring black and white
french films, my Scorseses, my Tarantinos, and I hate Marvel films, but I try really hard not to be pretentious,
and I don't really know anything about film. My four favorites on Letterboxd are Howl's Moving Castle,
Fargo, Alien, and After Hours. My favorite directors are Martin Scorsese, the Coen brothers, and Hayao
Miyazaki.
What about the miscellaneous stuff?? Well, I might occasionally talk about video games, TV, religion, or whatever I'm thinking about a lot. I'm not as into video games as I used to be, and I don't really have strong opinions on them anymore, but I still enjoy talking about them every now and then. My favorite games of all time are Breath of the Wild, Hollow Knight, Elden Ring, and Disco Elysium. I'm currently watching a lot of Droupout TV, and I was watching season 2 of the Last of Us, but it's been a bit of a let down so far. I hate the actress for Abby, and the writing in general feels very unnatural. Religiously I am agnostic (the boring opinion), but I like reminiscing on my LDS upbringing. I've been getting back into reading recently. I feel like I'm playing catch up for all the years that I put the hobby to the side. Right now my favorite author is Kurt Vonnegut. Diving into the pulp fantasy roots of D&D has been interesting, I'd love to make a blog about my (iffy) feelings about the likes of Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, and Jack Vance (yes the name of this site is a Jack Vance reference).
There you go! Look at you, you weirdo. It's like you're reading a man's diary! I can't believe you read this whole post. Thanks for showing interest in my twisted evil mind. I don't expect anyone to follow this blog. Making this post is like yelling into a dark hole and feeling uneasy by the thought that someone might yell back. I don't know how to end this. Bye bye!
