Systems and Stories
Jordan completed her PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University of New Hampshire in 2012. Since then, she's used AI to solve problems in many domains including security, medicine, & logistics.
Ok, so, I’m not exactly in the habit of promoting individual products here. Sometimes I’ll do a review of a TTRPG system or a solo game, but that’s about the limit of it. This article, or the article that’s coming as you read the paragraph in this moment, is a…
A few days ago was International Coming Out Day. I know that because a bunch of people were posting supportive things on bsky and because there was a whole discourse about Rainbow Capitalism and McDonald’s. I think there’s an interesting conversation to be had here, but I’m not educated enough…
I got into a weird argument with my wife a few weeks ago. Or years, you know, depending on when you happen across these words. Writing is strange like that. Anyway, we got into, well maybe a debate is more accurate? We got into a discourse about the nature of…
Hey guys! I wrote a book! It’s called The Little Black Notebook. It’s a story about a trans lady who finds herself falling in love with a woman she thought she had invented as a character for her tabletop role-playing game. It turns out the character is real, her world…
I had an idle thought the other day. It’s the same idle thought I have… well maybe a dozen times a day. “What the fuck am I actually doing here.” I am, it may surprise you to learn, not a particularly happy person by default. Quelle surprise, I know. I’m…
It is truly a strange thing to wonder if you will live to see tomorrow. Like, shockingly clarifying in a way, to know what you would do in the hours that you believe might be your last. How you’ll feel. Let me start again. It’s about a quarter past eight…
In which we’ll catch the conscience of the king, I guess. Look, wordplay is hard, and I want to talk about ways of solo roleplaying. Not systems or methodologies per se, but like, the how it’s done. Maybe we’ll even touch on the why here a second. If you, like…
I know this is going to sound ridiculous, given the amount of angst in our lives about how much sex we aren’t having, but I promise this is orthogonal. I need you to know that I’m really uncomfortable with how much you like my dick. Look, it’s not like I…
I’ve thrown away about thirty thousand words of this book. Well… thrown away isn’t true. They’re still there, on the drive, in a folder titled “abortive drafts”. Let’s put on ‘Brick’, shed a single tear, and talk about why draft isn’t really the right word, and what those words were…
Guess this has become a yearly tradition. What’s the line? Once is chance, twice is happenstance, three times is enemy action? I’m not a consultant anymore, and I refuse to look up the quote. Anyway, it’s Pride again, and I’m still alive. Woooooo. Recently that has felt like a motherfucking…
