On God’s Love for the Damned

I have started a site on Academia.Edu where my papers that are of a more theological bent (and thus don’t always fit with the alien / RPG content we have here) can have a place to live on the interwebs. In recent years, it has become fashionable in theological circles to “reasonably hope” that every […]

A Forward Leap in Movie Ratings

Above is my early analysis of the @michaeljknowles – ProfDavis movie scale. I love it.

Western Mythological Cinematic Universe

A lesson for Christian artists from King Arthur In American culture, for the longest time action / super heroic entertainment consisted of characters that were neither religious or nor not religious, but just safety secular. Meanwhile religious entertainment has God-believing characters but had to always have a moral, not be too violent or too ridiculous, […]

Cryptids and Kaiju

Lead Article – Godzilla vs Kong Review GvK—New Empire: It’s a fun enough ride, great to see a full monster world in Hollow Earth & to have entire sequences where the monsters are main characters, like the father-son relationship of Kong / MiniKong. It doesn’t have the depth or artistry of “Godzilla-1”, nor does it […]

Beautiful 3.30.2024

Lead Article – Watching Kong on Holy Saturday I think the 2005 King Kong has just become one of my top-10 movies. The cinematography is gorgeous – which is a must for a movie about beauty in a savage world. The movie’s power is in three savage worlds clashing into each other – one a […]

Muckraker Digest – 3.23.24

Howdy all – I am going to try and get more regular and have a weekly/biweekly Muckraker Digest. The Digest will focus Storytelling and Entertainment, and how stories shape our values Segments can / will include: RPG News: DaggerHeart is in Open Beta The RPG Daggerheart is in open beta. At first read it seems […]

Defend the Sacred

(Certain deliberate misspellings are to prevent the page from being flagged in search results. They don’t reflect an unwillingness to use language openly, I am just aware that the diety Algo Rhy Thm can be quite capricious) Recently I’ve spoken to people I care about the widespread s-xual-ization in society. So am sharing this video. […]

Under a Hostile Sun Vs The NASA RPG

Well folks. NASA now officially has an RPG (paid with your taxpayers dollars). On the one hand, I am very happy to see RPGs used for an educational purposes. On the other there is a subtext to the RPG that reflects our culture’s disordered view of science. It also offers an opportunity to compare and […]

Aliens RESPOND to the Arecibo Message!

It may be a surprise, but I am only now reading 1st book on UFOs ( I have been mostly interested in aliens as fiction or in ttRPGs). I just learned about the Arecibo Message. Frank Drake sent a message of 1679 bits to his fellow UFO friends and said that this was a mathematical […]

Galactic Master’s Guide Now Updated

Both the Core Rulebook and the Galactic Master’s Guide have been updated to resemble a Hazard Manual. I believe the new style helps keep the theme, whilst being easy to read. As Under a Hostile Sun is not a combat-driven RPG, new GMs may be unsure how to plan a good session. The Galactic Master’s […]