#Spooktober 27 – The Darkest Dungeon

October 27, 2023

I’m talking about the first one. The second one is… well, I don’t know what the second one is. Released in 2016, this game mixed medieval elements with a Lovecraftian atmosphere of epic proportions where you have to lead a party of four adventurers through a set of creepy explorations in order to gain resources, hire more adventurers and eventually break the curse looming over the estate. But adventurers will go insane, facing the horrors looming below (and above, honestly), so you’ll have to tread carefully.

Memorable characters from history and legend, such as the leper crusader and the plague doctor, will face their nightly dose of horrible foes only to return to the hamlet and seek solace in… a good flagellation? A night at the asylum? A sip of laudanum at the inn? Pick your poison. Literally.

books and literature

Osamu Dazai’s The Student and Other Stories

The collection I have, features three stories: The Student (Joseito), Applause (Kassai), and The Tale of Urashima (Urashimasan). They’re very different, not so much in mood (it’s Dazai Osamu after all) but in scope and purpose, and that makes this book a little weird. The

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books and literature

Carson McCuller’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafè

Carson McCullers (1917 – 1967) was an influential American novelist, playwright, and short-story writer renowned for her depictions of the spiritual isolation, identity struggles, and inner lives of outcasts in the American South. Her acclaimed debut novel is The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940),

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technology

Strategy, Strategic Imagination and Ethics in LEGO® Serious Play®

Last week, I wrote a little thing on doing strategy with LEGO® Serious Play®, and I mentioned in passing the theoretical foundations of the method. This week, I’d like to dive deeper into that. To understand why LEGO Serious Play works the way it does,

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