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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 19/04/2026

HOW? • Match each character's image + real name + kayfabe/gimmick name • ... based on faux archival records: VHS boxes, dirtsheet excerpts, match card posters, promo transcripts, pay slips, fan memorabilia, etc. • Every 3 successful matches unlocks additional research materials

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 19/04/2026

Is there enough crossover between pro wrestling and @thinkygames.com-style deductive mystery? Like Roottrees, but with headlocks + armbars WHO? WHAT? WHY? • Identify the roster of a "forgotten" indie wrestling promotion • ...in order to trace the missing funds from their final show, Bloodbath 2000

mock-up of a wrestling roster with the names blacked out, derived from the ratings page of a 1980s Apter pro wrestling magazine

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 23/03/2026

By any chance, is anyone else using pi.fyi like a de facto Tumblr legacy platform? I just use it as a dumping ground, mostly. Not really socializing, per se. But if you're at least semi-active there, it would be nice to have some moots there. www.pi.fyi/u/paolojcruz

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 23/03/2026

Part of me is somewhat envious of the grid, if only because of the unregulated sprawl that developed here haphazardly if organically post-WW2. (Air raids levelled huge parts of Old Manila.) I get that it ended up very car-centric (as it did here) but at least it *seems* greenish with all the parks.

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 23/03/2026

But also I'm fascinated by how an ostensibly progressive social reform movement—and the architecture that represents it—can become a vehicle for more sinister activities. For example, the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition displayed Filipinos in a "human zoo" type exhibit, because "ethnography".

map of the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis

flyer advertising "40 different tribes, 6 Philippine villages, 70,000 exhibits, 725 native soldiers" at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 27/05/2025

It's not *just* an age/generation thing To be fair, the creators seem fairly transparent about their methodology. It's quite rigorous, as far as pop psych fluff goes It looks like the inclusion of characters/franchises is based on having a large enough pool of peers to provide calibrated metrics

screenshot of rating methodology - source: https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/characters/documentation/

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 27/05/2025

I also realized there were no Pacific Rim characters in the results pool. Because the scatter graph for my results (compared with Gaius Balthar's) is probably even closer to that *other* science officer who ended up getting corrupted by the malign influence of his extradimensional waifu.

graph showing Pearson correlation between my responses and the hypothetical responses for Gaius Baltar from BSG ('04 reboot)

Dr. Newt Geisler from Pacific Rim: Uprising

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 27/05/2025

Sample results from the Fictional Characters Quiz: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac... A bit surprised to get Baltar as # 1 match via Pearson correlation. The very 1st Q was "Skeptical vs. Spiritual"; I self-assessed at 66% Skeptical compared to Gaius' 59%, but his probably should be even lower.

#1 match (86%) - Gaius Baltar - Battlestar Galactica (2004)

# 6 match (83%) - Tom Haverford - Parks And Recreation

#8 match (83%) - Michael - The Good Place

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 27/04/2025

Curious about who might possibly want to own custom Knights of Ren Funko Pops.

custom Funko Pop figures of the band Sleep Token shared by Redditor u/dreamingofpetrichor on r/sleeptoken

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 27/04/2025

Hmmmm... Now that you mention it, I've probably seen Encino Man more than 6 times too, across several formats. Just not as deeply formative to my teenage self as Airheads. Incidentally, I was in one of those markets where it was called California Man.

poster for the 1992 comedy movie California Man (released as Encino Man in the US and North America)

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 21/02/2025

Vol. 2 will be edited by Angeli Lacson: "Paper Trail Projects is opening a call for submissions for creative and critical work focused on imagining and creating the accessible future: can we reimagine care beyond capitalist notions of profit and productivity?" www.instagram.com/papertrailpr...

hand-drawn banner that reads THE FUTURE IS ACCESSIBLE in uppercase block letters

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 21/02/2025

Just realized that I haven't posted about Brave New Words here. It's a new anthology imagining possible futures in EN + FIL Vol. 1 is edited by Adam David, including my flash story "Hyperreality Hunger (Wittgenstein's Waifu)" Order it direct from Paper Trail Projects: tinyurl.com/papertrail2024

A photograph of a hand carrying multiple copies of the anthology Brave New Words Vol. 1. The cover features an illustration of a diverse multi-sectoral group carrying a banner with various slogans: "No To Jeepney Phaseout", "Trans Rights Are Human Rights", "Disability Justice Now".

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 17/02/2025

The local council in a highly-urbanized mixed-income Metro Manila neighborhood offers 1 Peso as reward per dead mosquito for its ongoing anti-dengue program. [A tier-0 LARP for 1 to 6 adventurers for APL 0.5] Can't imagine how this might possibly go wrong...

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 16/02/2025

Canonically, it's a treecat in-universe, which seem to be patterned after sphynxes, but with fur. Presumably the illustrator thought a pallas would be a more intriguing visual model, I guess? honorverse.fandom.com/wiki/Nimitz

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 16/02/2025

Oh, I just realized that @komiketph.bsky.social is parked on here, but they don't seem to be actively updating. Forgot to credit Nelz Yumul [@nelzyumulart on FB + @nelzy on IG] for the Komiket X poster design.

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 16/02/2025

I'm getting massive retroactive FOMO seeing all the posts from Elbikon. Genuinely happy for the creators and guests. But I really wish I had gone—especially since I took the day off anyway. Gonna prioritize Komiket in April.

poster for Komiket X: 10 Years of Komiket at SM Megamall, Megatrade Hall 2, on April 5-6, 2025

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 16/02/2025

No fair! Why do you folks get a chaotic ancap scam? We're stuck with a boring old-fashioned sovereign wealth fund as our government's main plunder tool: verafiles.org/articles/ver...

infographic explaining the Philippines' Maharlika (sovereign) Wealth Fund, sources from Vera Files

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 15/02/2025

Post your favorite Pokémon, wrong answers only

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 14/02/2025

Found in a Pinoy shitposting group on FB. Yes, I chuckled, but it's so messy: The BPO industry can be low-key progressive. For instance, comphet isn't the presumed default. Yet regardless of SOGIE, there's lip service to monogamy as ideal model, but with normalized kabit culture + office flings.

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 13/02/2025

Speaking of indie TRPG creation happening in parallel: Beyond #ZineMonth / #ZineQuest, Titus Villanueva is prepping a small print run for One Of Us Will Die, a game mixing social deduction w/ prompt-driven RPing + Fiasco-style genre-based story modules FAQ on FB: www.facebook.com/share/p/18Wd...

mock up print edition of One Of Us Will Die, a tabletop RPG by Titus Villanueva; a figure holds up a lit candle to their face, ominously shrouding it in wispy smoke

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 12/02/2025

This seems pricey for a 7" single, but it would be like de facto buying an @artofcoop.bsky.social print too, I guess? The cover design represents my fave illustration style from that period + scene. It's the 1992 I kinda missed out on, cuz 13-year-old me was still focused on xtremely kewl capeshit.

screenshot of a listing for L7's 7" single "Everglade" pressed on green vinyl, featuring a black-and-white illustration by Coop on the sleeve

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 10/02/2025

This made me wonder if tawa tawa (a/k/a asthma plant or Euphorbia hirta) grows in Argentina, and if so, what it's called. Honestly, I can't tell whether drinking tawa tawa leaf tea relieved my dengue symptoms "only", or if actually helped flush out the virus. Either way, I swear by it as treatment.

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 10/02/2025

For context, @goobernuts.itch.io is a tabletop RPG designer from Bulacan, who designed the rules-light pre-colonial RPG, Mangayaw. Needless to say, his playthrough is informed by his experiences relocating from a peri-urban area that eventually became more commercialized over time. [🧵 2 of 3]

a panoramic view of the Candaba 3rd viaduct section along the North Luzon Expressway

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 10/02/2025

Mum Chums keeps the pattern going. Most uniquely, it has a story-interrupting mechanic that lets players establish their truth via monolog, casually recounting the events of an *ongoing* scene with mug in hand. It’s a sly gamification of Foucault’s notion of the real as polemical. [🧵 END - 7/7]

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