Contrariwise
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Game designer. Thousands of RPG books I swear I'll get to. I invent problems so I can solve them and then build systems to create new ones. I've been wrong about everything at least once. Especially this. Big cryptid energy.
Every game and sport occupies a position in two-dimensional silly–serious space: one axis encodes how serious the game is, the other how seriously its adherents take it. Golf? Silly. Archery? Serious. The least serious sport with the most serious adherents is, trivially, tennis. In this essay…
The following is lifted directly from Zvi Mowshowitz with only light formatting changes because I think it’s Important, Valuable, and Good. It is also buried deep in a blog post that many people would have neither the time nor ... https://thewizardly.com/2026/08/23/the-following-is-lifted-directly/
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Strive to be either fully invested or fully checked out. Never be the only person who cares.
I thought I was sad, but actually my music tanks were just low.
Am I deep-frying cubes of spam in a wok? Technically? Yes. Literally? Also yes.
Welcome to “how hot is it outside right now?” The only game show where everyone loses and nobody’s happy.
I could (and probably should,) write a whole dissertation on the mahjong scene in Crazy Rich Asians.
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare." Hi. Hello. How are you? Good? Fantastic. Look. This is weird. Can I get weird? I’m going to get weird. Welcome to my Want Ad For Friends. You: A person on this bitch of an Eart... https://thewizardly.com/2026/05/22/he-who-has-a-thousand/
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Presented with the following choice: My dream home and working for “the man” forever. A trailer park and working for myself at my dream job. I pick option #2.
Contrariwise is Human and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.
"“Stick your chest out and go like — fuck it. Let’s try.” — Bruce Straley, Co-Founder, Wildflower Interactive @ GDC 2026"
Tired: Harry Potter houses. Wired: Winnie the Pooh characters. I’m Owl.
Lyft died halfway between LAX and Anaheim. The driver only speaks Mandarin, I only speak English. His phone is translating to English for me, my phone is translating to Mandarin for him. He says it’s doing a pretty good job. So anyway, we live in the future.
Did I go to a book store in the gayborhood? Yes. Did they have a Dune tarot deck? Yes. Am I now in possession of a Dune tarot deck? A lady never kwizatz and tells.
I’ve never been particularly interested in conforming to society’s expectations. I learned to fake it, for the benefit of fitting in. Now, with the benefit of some duly earned confidence, society is welcome to fit in Deez Nuts.
The thinnest naturally occurring material is Free Hotel Breakfast Bacon. Much could be learned by studying the processes that lead to such delicate structures.
It’s an interesting conundrum. The person I actually am trying to build the person I’d like to be, using the constraints of my known behaviors to try to push on the rudder of the behaviors I’d like to change.
For reasons that defy explanation I’ve been watching a lot of Disney channel this weekz They happen to be running a Zombies marathon. The cartoon is weirdly compelling. I may become the world’s foremost adult expert on the Zom... https://thewizardly.com/2026/02/12/for-reasons-that-defy-explanation/
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A Brief History of my Readwise Enrichment Pipeline: https://thewizardly.com/2026/02/01/a-brief-history-of-my/
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If the singularity comes, may it find us doing well. If the apocalypse comes, may it find us doing well. If the end times are nigh, may they find us doing well. Come what may, may we do well.
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