The podcast of James 'Grim' Desborough, RPG designer, author, videographer and long-suffering old school leftie.
Eminent atheist, libertine, analyst. Prize-winning onanist, bitter ludologist. Talented pleonast. Good plenist too!
We learned to code, and then the machines took that too. Machines were never supposed to come for art and writing, but here we are, nonetheless.
9 May 2022
Grim's Tales - Episode 010 - Technology and Art
When art and technology come together, the one changes the other. This can be for better or for worse, but the speed of change and innovation is ever accelerating and the effects can be unpredictable.
4 Apr 2022
Grim's Tales 009 - The Mindfulness Death Cult: MEDITATE NOW, SLAVE!
Telling people to meditate, lift, use essential oils or do yoga doesn't address the underlying problem. It's spiritual complacency that ignores the root causes of what's causing the problems in the first place. Game designer and author James 'Grim' Desborough and professional nonconformist Rachel Haywire discuss the phenomenon of 'McMindfulness'.
14 Mar 2022
Grim's Tales 008: Dead Internet Theory
In which myself and the inestimable Rachel Haywire discuss 'Dead Internet Theory' and wander off into talking about bots, authenticity, algorithms, the 'infranet' and a whole bunch of other related topics.
19 Nov 2021
Grim's Tales 007: NFT Jonestown, a Frangible Internet, Web 3.0
A conversation between game designer and writer, James 'Grim' Desborough, and nonconformist futurist Rachel Haywire about NFTs, Bitcoin, Grimes, Elon Musk and the fragmentation and strange death of the old Internet.
26 Sept 2021
Grim's Tales 006: Optimus Grimes, shipping, infrastructure, automation and Electric Jesus (with Rachel Haywire)
In which we start off talking about the Tesla Semi and international shipping problems, and meander into conversations about pod living, Amazon company towns, communes and Anarcho-Technocracy.
6 Aug 2020
Grim's Tales 005: Ruminations on the Shifting Sands of the Atheist/Skeptic Community
Various things have prickled at me in relation to this lately. So many people being so disappointing, reconversions, grifting. Better out than in.
23 Jun 2020
Grim's Tales: 004 Woko's Basiwisk
We've all heard of Roko's Basilisk by now, I would hope.
Which, hypothetically means we're all doomed.
Woko's Basiwisk is, perhaps, worse because we have evidence for that one from history.
2 Apr 2020
Grim's Tales 003 - The 'Not-Funny' Covid-19 Comedy Set
Some observational stylings on the Coronavirus.
19 Feb 2020
Grim's Tales 002 - Omega Men - The Isolation of Male Victimhood
I wanted to add to, rather than distract from, the debates around intimate partner violence, stalking and sexual abuse. So here's a handful of anecdotes (by no means all) from my own experience and perspective. Anecdotes aren't data, but perhaps this will help other people speak out, or to get their head around their - or their partner's - feelings.
5 Feb 2020
Grim's Tales 001 - A Dirtbag Left Case for and Against 'Social Justice'
Identity politics and intersectionality breeds division, the 'left' has lost sight of the things that made it such a powerful argument. Equality, fairness and opportunity.
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"See... I can get you what you want, I can. I can get you anything, you just have to talk to me, you have to trust me. You can trust me, 'cause I'm your priest, I'm your shrink... I am your main connection to the switchboard of the soul. I'm the magic man... Santa Claus of the subconscious. You say it, you think it, you can have it."
- Lenny Nero, Strange Days
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