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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Read theory (Seriously, there's so much in here, it's almost 500 pages - not just about how to play the game, but economics, urban planning, architecture, game development, binary versus hexadecimal, Will Wright being deranged in an interview. An insane book for a 10 year old to buy and soak up.)

The cover of "SimCity 2000 - Power, Politics, And Planning, Revised Edition" - Strategy Guide
Published by Prima, 1995
by Nick Dargahi & Michael Bremer

Available on the Internet Archive here
https://archive.org/details/sim-city-2000-power-politics-and-planning-revised-edition-strategy-guide

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's hard to say what "games that shaped who I am" even means as I don't know how much I've been influenced by games (except Sim City) so much as learned from them. But these were all really important to me in their times, in what I think is a chronological order.

My 9 Games

The 9 Games That Shaped Who I Am

3x3 grid of video games covers
Top row
Sim City 2000
Sim City 3000
Castles II Siege & Conquest

Middle Row
Starcraft
Gran Turismo 2
Halo Combat Evolved

Bottom Row
Fallout New Vegas
Skyrim
Europa Universalis IV

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The results compare well to the New York Times dialect map I got from 8 or 9 years ago. If we ever get around to moving to the Twin Cities I'm gonna stick out like a sore thumb, though the Chicago "a" in "bag" has been slowly creeping in to my pronunciation. Word choice ain't changed much, though.

A dialect map of the United States ranging from least (blue) to most (red) strongly centered on Missouri and Arkansas with Little Rock AR, Springfield MO, and Lexington KY highlighted. New England and Minnesota are very blue.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yup, Southeast Missouri my first 32 years, with marginally closer family/cultural/religious ties to St. Louis than further into the Bootheel. My only objection to the questions is that I tend to say crawdad when fishing/doing outdoor stuff, but say crawfish for the food, as in a crawfish boil.

A dialect map of the United States from blue (least) to red (most) with a strong red area centered around Missouri, Kansas, and large parts of Northwest Arkansas, Oklahoma, eastern Colorado, northeast New Mexico, and the Texas Panhandle, with St Louis, Kansas City, and Oklahoma City selected out. Everything northeast of a line from Niagara Falls to Philadelphia is blue.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This feels the most right of any of these.

Your top resonances
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
100
Jürgen Moltmann
92
Stanley Hauerwas
89
Karl Barth
89
Jacques Ellul
86
C.S. Lewis
84
Hans Frei
76
Lesslie Newbigin
76
Alexander Schmemann
76
Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI
76
George Lindbeck
73
Simone Weil
76
Martin Luther King Jr.
70
Ahn Byung-Mu
70
J.I. Packer
70
Alvin Plantinga
68
Hans Urs von Balthasar
68
Henri de Lubac
65
Vladimir Lossky
65
Thomas J.J. Altizer
62
John Zizioulas
62
Sergius Bulgakov
62
Dorothee Sölle
62
Francis Schaeffer
62
Carl F.H. Henry
62
James H. Cone
59
Cornelius Van Til
59
Reinhold Niebuhr
57
Jon Sobrino
59
Wayne Grudem
59
Paul Tillich
54
Emil Brunner
54
Ada María Isasi-Díaz
54
Wolfhart Pannenberg
51
Herbert McCabe
51
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
51
Rudolf Bultmann
49
John B. Cobb Jr.
49
Yves Congar
49
Howard Thurman
49
Karl Rahner
46
Delores S. Williams
46
Rosemary Radford Ruether
46
Gustavo Gutiérrez
46
Katie Cannon
41
Hans Küng
38
Mary Daly
38
Edward Schillebeeckx
35
Vine Deloria Jr.
30
Bernard Lonergan
27

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This feels right, though it's odd as a lifelong Lutheran I'd never even heard of Osiander or Grumbach before this.

Quiz results with bars

Philip Melanchthon
85%
Andreas Osiander
74%
Argula von Grumbach
68%
Martin Luther
65%

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Good Lord, I just checked it and it's worse than I remembered. The pound of ground beef was just (first) lunch.

Screen shot of the sample diet section of Jim Wendler's Building the Monolith

Meal 1

8 whole eggs
4 pieces bacon
4 pieces toast
2 bananas

Meal 2

1 pound ground beef mixed with marinara sauce and some kind of pasta

Meal 3

2 Double Cheeseburgers
French Fries

Meal 4

6 whole eggs
.5 pound of taco seasoned ground beef
Cheese/lettuce/tomatoes/taco sauce
Combine all of this and make egg/meat burrito

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I have a later, slightly different and more stylized version that was my grandmother's. Notably in this one he's not being careless with his glasses.

A later more stylized version of "Grace" By Eric Enstrom in a wooden frame on a white wall.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

In area news from back home: Cooter rocked by quake

Red and white image of Missouri super imposed on a seismograph with the text:

BREAKING NEWS

BIGGEST NEW MADRID QUAKE OF THE YEAR JUST ROCKED COOTER, MISSOURI - HUNDREDS FELT IT

MORE DETAILS IN COMMENTS

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A tornado watch for 11 counties lasting 8 hours? That's too many, too long. To me, that's preposterous.

Tornado Watch
Issued: 3:31 PM Apr. 17, 2026 – National Weather Service

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 131 IN
EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

IN ILLINOIS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 11 COUNTIES

IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

LIVINGSTON

IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

FORD IROQUOIS

IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS

COOK DUPAGE GRUNDY
KANE KANKAKEE KENDALL
LAKE IL WILL

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF AURORA, BOLINGBROOK, BOURBONNAIS,
BUFFALO GROVE, CAROL STREAM, CHICAGO, COAL CITY, DOWNERS GROVE,
DWIGHT, ELGIN, EVANSTON, FAIRBURY, GIBSON CITY, GILMAN, GURNEE,
JOLIET, KANKAKEE, LEMONT, LOMBARD, MINOOKA, MORRIS, MUNDELEIN,
NAPERVILLE, OAK LAWN, ORLAND PARK, OSWEGO, PARK FOREST, PAXTON,
PLANO, PONTIAC, SCHAUMBURG, WATSEKA, WAUKEGAN, WHEATON,
WILMINGTON, AND YORKVILLE.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Over Holy Week I listened to Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh. A lot to be said as it relates to our present moment, but I was most struck by a brief passage from Leaflet No. 4 by Sophie Scholl et al. of The White Rose resistance movement. Can't get it out of my head.

A screenshot of White Rose Leaflet No. 4, from https://www.weisse-rose-stiftung.de/

Every word that comes from Hitler’s mouth is a lie. When he says peace, he means war, and when he blasphemously uses the name of the Almighty, he means the power of evil, the fallen angel, Satan. His mouth is the foul-smelling maw of Hell, and his might is accursed at bottom. True, we must conduct a struggle against the National Socialist terrorist state with rational means; but those who still doubt the existence of demonic powers have failed by far to understand the metaphysical background of this war. Behind the concrete, the perceptible events, behind all objective, logical considerations, we find the irrational element, i.e. the struggle against the demon, against the messenger of the Antichrist. Everywhere and at all times demons have been lurking in the dark, waiting for the moment when man is weak; when unauthorized he leaves his place in the order of creation, founded for him on freedom by God; when he yields to the force of evil, separates himself from the powers of a higher order; and after voluntarily taking the first step, he is driven on to the second and third at a furiously accelerating rate. Everywhere and at all times of greatest need, men have stood up, prophets and saints who cherished their freedom, who pointed to the One God and urged the people to a reversal of its downward course. Man is surely free, but without the true God he is defenceless against evil. He is a like rudderless ship, at the mercy of the storm, an infant without its mother, a cloud dissolving into thin air.

I ask you, you as a Christian struggling with the preservation of your greatest treasures, whether you hesitate, whether you incline toward intrigue or procrastination in the hope that someone else will take up arms in your defence? Has God not given you the strength, the courage to fight? We must attack evil where it is strongest, and it is strongest in the power of Hitler.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Getting this book as a ten year old is a major plot point in my origin story.

A copy of

"SimCity 2000 - Power, Politics, and Planning"
By Nick Dargahi, Michael Bremer · 1994

Sitting on a table with a red and white plaid tablecloth

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I grew up in a dialect borderland hearing at least three distinct forms of American English. My normal speech mostly resides in a Central Midland register close to but distinct from "General American." I don't always have control over it, but I quite easily code switch into Inland South.

A screenshot of the best North American English dialect maps in existence, found at
https://aschmann.net/AmEng/#LargeMap

Centered roughly on the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, Southern Illinois and Southeast Missouri, extending into Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana, with lines, colors, and shading distinguishing dialects and where they are spoken.

It's a damn jumbled mess and there are no less than 5 different dialects of American English contained in this small portion of a relatively empty part of the country.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Gen X is the generation most affected by the high atmospheric lead levels caused by leaded gasoline

Generation lead chart showing childhood blood lead levels by age in the United States in 2015

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I made this three years ago out of frustration at the pervasiveness of ELCA bashing by conservative Lutherans and others online (and in person, let's be real here). The existence of the meme invalidates the statement, but the point stands.