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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 · 02/04/2026

Feeling a weird survivor's guilt after a recent purge at the day job Why? Clinical enough: headcount in excess of workload What + Who? Seems tranparent. Based on metrics and stacked ranking How + When? Just brutal: Announced last-minute. Rolled out quickly. Amid a national economic crisis. Fuck.

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a man with glasses and a beard is saying it 's not your fault

Alt: Zach Cherry as Dylan from 'Severance' saying "It's not your fault" with a resigned expression

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 30/03/2026

I'm weirdly reassured by the fact that at least one (1) other random Redditor noticed the similarities between The Saja Boys' "Soda Pop" from KPDH and "All 4 Love" by Color Me Badd. Doesn't seem to get mentioned often. Surely I'm not the only Xennial who's picked up on the common vibes?

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Color Me Badd - All 4 Love (1991)

YouTube video by ClassicVideos80s

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

you’re a good van, charlie brown

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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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Jorkin B Peanitson @bonerman-inc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

wife calls me rowan atkinson the way i Mist Her Bean. for the purpose of this skeet please pretend i have a wife

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

That's interesting—"kalokohan" is used so casually to mean "nonsense" that I never thought to translate it as "madness". But yeah, the trad meaning really is closer to "folly". Which makes sense in context of the lyrics, and has heretical connotations of its own. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foolish...

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Foolishness for Christ - Wikipedia

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

I missed this because of a BIEN (union) meeting but I swear I'll join one of the next ones. It's so ideal: multiple indie TRPGs (Pinoy-made and otherwise) + venue that's walking distance from my house So encouraging to see full tables, even on the same day as a huge D&D event one jeep ride away

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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

Another Burnham project—the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, "The White City"—was notorious for its link to proto-serial killer H. H. Holmes Seems like a worthy setting for a deductive mystery game. Fill in blanks to identify the fair-goers' names + fates deadline.com/gallery/devi...

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The Real Story Behind ‘The Devil in The White City,’ From An Architect’s Dream To A Serial Killer’s Murder Castle — Historical Images

Historical Images tell the story of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and a serial killed, the subject of a film from Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.

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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 · 23/03/2026

This game got me interested in the history of Miami-Dade County (in general) and Coral Gables (specifically). Partly because the City Beautiful movement was influenced by urban designer Daniel Burnham—and therefore the initial city plans for Manila and Baguio, by way of American era colonial policy.

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Moon Blight 🫀 @cuntmoney.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

get the word Eldritch out of your mouth. This isn’t a lovecraftian horror from before the beginning of recorded time, it’s a free-association program made with stolen data that tells you that you’re right about things.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

There is within me an unslaked hunger for preposterous adventure movies. I resist the bad ones, but when a "Congo" or an
"Anaconda" comes along, my heart leaps up and I cave in. "The Mummy" is a movie like that. There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased. There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most judicious of us, and we should treasure it.

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

if they succeed in shutting down the shadow libraries AFTER allowing the AI companies to plunder them it will be such a tragedy. burning the library of alexandria after letting the robber barons copy it all down and lock it in a vault

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Richard @ R. Rook 🔜 Sleep @rrookstudio.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Friend: Tell me about your Gumshoe character. Me: I’m an angry gay socialist with no idea how fight the ancient evil entities threatening my world. Friend: Sure, but what about your Gumshoe character.

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No John @nojohn.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

it's been a rough day for all of us - me, two mins into the workday

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 16/08/2025

Sometimes it's not apparent because they're one of multiple creators in a studio. But just as often, they have a new individual name (perhaps alongside their transition). It *does* seem like there's something akin to survivor bias in that POV. Some designers really do stop. Sad, but not a fault.

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 16/08/2025

I don't recall any examples off the top of my head, but there have definitely been instances when a TRPG designer goes radio silent, then later on, I'll retroactively realize I've encountered their newer work on a video game (indie or otherwise), or they're more active as a comic writer/artist now.

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Jason Carl @vampiresnvino.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

KPop Demon Hunters is a World of Darkness movie I said what I said

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Hey, Paul @psdeguzman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I'm done being the Potato Corner, time to be the Potato Center

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 01/08/2025

"I need ChatGPT to brainstorm" dear human person the whole point of brainstorming is to find new ways or angles when approaching a problem, the "let's regurgitate the complete stolen corpus of human achievement"-machine doesn't help you brainstorm - it stops you from brainstorming.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

"edit: never mind, i figured it out"

A weary knight slouched on a rock next to a skeleton. The caption reads: me and the one guy on Reddit that had the same problem as me 10 years ago.

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Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Wikipedia can give me a Buffy trivia quiz or record me doing karaoke to Pulp if it wants to check my age

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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

ANOTHER EXCELLENT and excellently named RESOURCE for calling payment processors bsky.app/profile/dcel...

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

As far as I'm aware, there's exactly one engineer at itch and that is leaf, the founder.

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 27/07/2025

So I lost my phone at #PGDX day 3. I managed to get home with help from friends, then traced the phone to a mall near the Expo venue. So I blocked the number and formatted the device remotely. They can have my phone, but damned if they will take my data. I can't access FB-related apps, for now.

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a man in a hat and bow tie is saying where is my phone .

Alt: animated GIF of Jack Black from Jumanji 2 saying "Where is my phone?"

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

When I die from global warming, let my headstone say, "the billionaires did this"

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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 · 27/05/2025

Achievement unlocked: kept going on a customer support call during an earthquake (magnitude 4.6 in Quezon City). For context, we're on the 26th floor. On one hand, it feels lowkey badass to tank like that But it would be kinda sad to die on the job, for the sake of maintaining shareholder value

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a man in an office holding a burning piece of wood with the words everything is fine behind him

ALT: a man in an office holding a burning piece of wood with the words everything is fine behind him

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 12/05/2025

Haven't watched IBO, but I've always regarded the shifts between the conclusion of Ender's Game and the events of Speaker For The Dead in that way I've shied away from exploring it more, because I'm reluctant to give OSC's work any further support or attention Maybe IBO is the alternative I need?

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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Open for freelance work. Have done album covers and book covers

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PJC @paolojcruz.neocities.org · 03/05/2025

I was quite amused by the pipeline of seeing it go from multi-skeet thread to cohesive newsletter piece, within the span of the same 8-hour time-block I've spent in the office. (I work during Sydney business hours, more or less.) So I didn't even notice that it was sent a day earlier than expected.

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