Disco Stu
@epiphanyengine.bsky.social
Formerly @epiphanyengine at Twitter, disco_stu on Discord. Mostly lurking, occasionally talking about analogue games. Melbourne, he/him. No dickheads no fascists no terfs.
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Finished 31 books this year, which I am very happy about. Already passed last year’s efforts by a couple of books, although page count remains similar as 2025’s efforts included rereads of both Lord of the Rings and Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle.
September 11, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Finished 31 books this year, which I am very happy about. Already passed last year’s efforts by a couple of books, although page count remains similar as 2025’s efforts included rereads of both Lord of the Rings and Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle.
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Best summary of Saruman
Indeed he was online so bad that grass came to touch him
August 31, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Best summary of Saruman
Played some DAYS OF IRE today, an excellent solo / cooperative / competitive game of Budapest, 1956. My revolutionaries tried to get through Corvin Passage to take out the tanks but were repelled by snipers; we regrouped but morale was low and we failed less than a week in.
August 30, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Played some DAYS OF IRE today, an excellent solo / cooperative / competitive game of Budapest, 1956. My revolutionaries tried to get through Corvin Passage to take out the tanks but were repelled by snipers; we regrouped but morale was low and we failed less than a week in.
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early Nick Cave song:
ah took a SPIKE aht a muh VEIN
en stabbed the RACIAL SLUR raht in his BRANE
late Nick Cave song:
ohhhhh oh ohh ohhh mah lord on high
horses are so beautiful
and nobody will tell me why oh why
ah took a SPIKE aht a muh VEIN
en stabbed the RACIAL SLUR raht in his BRANE
late Nick Cave song:
ohhhhh oh ohh ohhh mah lord on high
horses are so beautiful
and nobody will tell me why oh why
Early Beach Boys song:
Little girl that I met on the shore
She’s a friend but a little bit more
Pet Sounds song:
THE KING RISES FROM THE DEEP
THE KING RISES FROM THE DEEP
THE KING RISES FROM THE DEEP
(Cows mooing in an airplane hangar layered over Beethoven’s Ninth)
Little girl that I met on the shore
She’s a friend but a little bit more
Pet Sounds song:
THE KING RISES FROM THE DEEP
THE KING RISES FROM THE DEEP
THE KING RISES FROM THE DEEP
(Cows mooing in an airplane hangar layered over Beethoven’s Ninth)
August 6, 2026 at 10:49 PM
early Nick Cave song:
ah took a SPIKE aht a muh VEIN
en stabbed the RACIAL SLUR raht in his BRANE
late Nick Cave song:
ohhhhh oh ohh ohhh mah lord on high
horses are so beautiful
and nobody will tell me why oh why
ah took a SPIKE aht a muh VEIN
en stabbed the RACIAL SLUR raht in his BRANE
late Nick Cave song:
ohhhhh oh ohh ohhh mah lord on high
horses are so beautiful
and nobody will tell me why oh why
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New on Stuckness: THAT Nine Inch Noize Coachella set, the import of reworking your old material, what happened when Front 242 did something similar, and how weird it is that a 60 year old is singing about heresy in an evangelical age.
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Nine Inch Noize and Reinventing Your Old Stuff
The talk of the town this past week has been the blistering Coachella set which Nine Inch Noize put on. A hybrid project of Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize, birthed from their tour together last year, ...
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April 17, 2026 at 12:09 AM
New on Stuckness: THAT Nine Inch Noize Coachella set, the import of reworking your old material, what happened when Front 242 did something similar, and how weird it is that a 60 year old is singing about heresy in an evangelical age.
stuckness.ghost.io/nine-inch-no...
stuckness.ghost.io/nine-inch-no...
Went to my local comic shop the other day with the kids. My son (10) has never been a big reader, but he spotted a bunch of early ‘90s 2000AD and thought they looked funny. I told him that they were inappropriate but exactly the right level of inappropriate for him.
April 17, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Went to my local comic shop the other day with the kids. My son (10) has never been a big reader, but he spotted a bunch of early ‘90s 2000AD and thought they looked funny. I told him that they were inappropriate but exactly the right level of inappropriate for him.
Logan is officially Good People Doing Interesting Things. Please check it out it and support!
WE'RE LIVE!! 🔥🎉💃🏼
Learn more about #LyricalLudology, check out the pledge levels, and let's get Season 2 in the road!
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Learn more about #LyricalLudology, check out the pledge levels, and let's get Season 2 in the road!
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Lyrical Ludology Season 2!
Lyrical Ludology is a shortform interview podcast in which your host Logan interviews folks from all over the indie TTRPG scene to try and answer the question, "What is a lyric game?" Tune in for insi...
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April 12, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Logan is officially Good People Doing Interesting Things. Please check it out it and support!
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This is an enormous step forward for women of people.
March 16, 2026 at 5:10 AM
This is an enormous step forward for women of people.
Watching Scarpetta (2026, based on Patricia Cornwall novels) and my uncanny valley radar is going off hard. There are a bunch of shots that are so obviously touched up by cgi I couldn’t concentrate.
March 15, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Watching Scarpetta (2026, based on Patricia Cornwall novels) and my uncanny valley radar is going off hard. There are a bunch of shots that are so obviously touched up by cgi I couldn’t concentrate.
Kind of want to watch The Pitt but I am very squeamish at medical stuff. Perfect show to enjoy while browsing on my phone, can look down whenever there’s anything too gory.
March 8, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Kind of want to watch The Pitt but I am very squeamish at medical stuff. Perfect show to enjoy while browsing on my phone, can look down whenever there’s anything too gory.
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grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
![A Bluesky user based in Venezuela posted 'I live near a military air base and five earth-shaking explosions were just heart.'
User @thenordic.bsky.social (a random asshole) replied 'was it too hard for you to to [sic] add a link?' along with a link to an AP piece. Quick, don't look, what do you think the odds are that this user responded gracefully to being told that OP was on the ground and reporting firsthand?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ycbmujtxprrwbkiw3x5qsyz4/bafkreieh2ddespqvcqdhpfy4g2higsw4lfiguzpaxs3rdessztcokmww6i)
January 3, 2026 at 8:21 AM
grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
Argh, finished my last book I took on my trip! Need to find an English-language bookshop here soon or looks like it’ll be an airport novel on the way home…
December 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Argh, finished my last book I took on my trip! Need to find an English-language bookshop here soon or looks like it’ll be an airport novel on the way home…
Psst. On Instagram a lot more now. If you want a follow then drop me a message here. I promise to bombard you with holiday snaps, occasional reheated memes, and thoughts about books.
December 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Psst. On Instagram a lot more now. If you want a follow then drop me a message here. I promise to bombard you with holiday snaps, occasional reheated memes, and thoughts about books.
Moon peeking through the clouds here in Firenze. Finished my next book for the year, which was The Great When by Alan Moore. Had its moments but felt constrained, like he was trying to write something more acceptable than a sprawling epic like Jerusalem. Diet Moore is still better than most though.
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Moon peeking through the clouds here in Firenze. Finished my next book for the year, which was The Great When by Alan Moore. Had its moments but felt constrained, like he was trying to write something more acceptable than a sprawling epic like Jerusalem. Diet Moore is still better than most though.
Third time in Rome. Wouldn’t want to be anywhere else right now.
November 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Third time in Rome. Wouldn’t want to be anywhere else right now.
Book 26 for the year is done! The excellent ‘A Memory Called Empire’ got on my list via a passing reference on a @nopunincluded.com video essay. I started to bounce off some of the sci-fi naming conventions (same thing happens with Banks’ Culture books) but after a chapter that became invisible.
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Book 26 for the year is done! The excellent ‘A Memory Called Empire’ got on my list via a passing reference on a @nopunincluded.com video essay. I started to bounce off some of the sci-fi naming conventions (same thing happens with Banks’ Culture books) but after a chapter that became invisible.
Been a bit more quiet here, but weirdly been on Instagram more. The algorithm there doesn’t yet know me so I’m being given all sorts of random things. The novelty will wear off soon, I’m sure.
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Been a bit more quiet here, but weirdly been on Instagram more. The algorithm there doesn’t yet know me so I’m being given all sorts of random things. The novelty will wear off soon, I’m sure.
It was my birthday the other week and got a stack of novels, subsequently finished two books in as many days. Wolfe’s ’Fifth Head of Cerberus’ took me longer than anticipated - I loved the first two stories but the third didn’t grab me and I felt like I needed to drag myself across the finish line.
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It was my birthday the other week and got a stack of novels, subsequently finished two books in as many days. Wolfe’s ’Fifth Head of Cerberus’ took me longer than anticipated - I loved the first two stories but the third didn’t grab me and I felt like I needed to drag myself across the finish line.
Hello Canberra, we really do need to talk about your lack of skyline.
October 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Hello Canberra, we really do need to talk about your lack of skyline.
Another day, another solo game of John Company. The Sykes Family had an impressive run of military victories only to be undone by rebellions. Walsh dominated the Board of Directors and kept the company out of debt, but it was Larkins - who married well, and retired better - who got the victory.
October 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Another day, another solo game of John Company. The Sykes Family had an impressive run of military victories only to be undone by rebellions. Walsh dominated the Board of Directors and kept the company out of debt, but it was Larkins - who married well, and retired better - who got the victory.
Reading update! Finished Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion the other day. It’s a slow start but built tempo as it went on. As I reread the series I do wonder how the pitch to the publisher went. Have started The System of the World (final volume in the series) which I remember quite enjoying.
October 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Reading update! Finished Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion the other day. It’s a slow start but built tempo as it went on. As I reread the series I do wonder how the pitch to the publisher went. Have started The System of the World (final volume in the series) which I remember quite enjoying.
Been in bed with the ‘flu for the last couple of days. Good news is that I smashed through Spook Country and my twentieth book of the year, Zero History. I think my issue with SC is that it feels a little unmoored, the overarching story only coming into focus fairly late in the piece.
August 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Been in bed with the ‘flu for the last couple of days. Good news is that I smashed through Spook Country and my twentieth book of the year, Zero History. I think my issue with SC is that it feels a little unmoored, the overarching story only coming into focus fairly late in the piece.
So I’m on book 19(?) for the year. Output slowed a bit for a while there, but work trips and shorter books for those numbers up. After reading Virtual Light I couldn’t help but plough through the rest of Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy, along with both volumes of Le Morte D’Arthur and Pattern Recognition.
August 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
So I’m on book 19(?) for the year. Output slowed a bit for a while there, but work trips and shorter books for those numbers up. After reading Virtual Light I couldn’t help but plough through the rest of Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy, along with both volumes of Le Morte D’Arthur and Pattern Recognition.