🗯️Simon Brake / Psibreaker

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Creative artworker. Gamer. Sometimes writer. Ex-goth. Husband. Dad. Perpetual Fool.
Fan of: table top gaming (RPGs and board games), comedy, horror, sci-fi, super heroes, weird fiction, surrealism, pop psychology, zen philosophy, tarot, all sorts of music.
Part of Stygian Fox (subjects: fiction, Kingsport, the Dreamlands, Carcosa)
🎲 London, UK. He/him.
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Show thread🗯️Simon Brake / PsibreakerApr 30, 2022

Most listening to my Orpheus playlist ATM, of dark film scores, and tunes (downbeat and/or catchy as hell) about darker subject matter ATM. Admittedly, partly in hope to scrub clean my recent last.fm lists of Easter related songs/albums from earlier this month.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4O9wryYm2WvskHmcTlnbNi?si=iMgqXG5KQCuXLItq6RiGHg&utm_source=copy-link

Gaming - Orpheus

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🗯️Simon Brake / PsibreakerApr 30, 2022
#Introductions Working in graphic design 'by day', roleplaying, board gaming or writing 'by night'. Most of my experience has been playing Call of Cthulhu, various World of Darkness games, Paranoia, Fiasco and a slew of Powered by the Apocalypse games. Most writing has been Call of Cthulhu related, or solo projects that have not been published, only playtested (Curtain Call and Number Unknown). Currently running Orpheus and Pendragon, writing Orpheus and Call of Cthulhu related material.
🗯️Simon Brake / PsibreakerApr 28, 2022
Wow! That was certainly the nuttiest #EastEnders I've seen in a while. I didn't know how that was going to end!
Show thread🗯️Simon Brake / PsibreakerApr 28, 2022
There are only a few 'feel bad' episodes I really find difficult to watch, in part because I know the ending will be not just dark, but dark towards children. Season Ones' the Harrowing always reminds me of The Flypaper episode of Tales of the Unexpected in that respect. Recommended viewing, but just once (to be fair, there were a lot of early Tales where things go badly for innocent characters being tricked into dangerous situations).
Show thread🗯️Simon Brake / PsibreakerApr 28, 2022
Continuing my long-overdue (but temporarily paused) binge watch of Inside Number 9. Some classic episodes that are just as fun second (or third) time around, even knowing what the twists will be. The Halloween special is like a fun bite-sized version of Ghostwatch.
🗯️Simon Brake / PsibreakerApr 28, 2022

Annoyingly I can't easily recommend last night's #InsideNo9 to the people who I think would *really* like it, because it's what happens in the final act that would bring in the elements they'd most enjoy, and give away the dark conclusion to this story, concerning the new teacher of Class 9 after the previous departure of Mr King.

I loved it. Except, perhaps, the photography.

#horror

🗯️Simon Brake / PsibreakerApr 28, 2022

Not game related. Just, you know, society related.

This is a bit of a disturbing article. It feels to me that people-watching (from a café or park bench) is very different from sitting across a carriage from someone and staring at them (for seconds, maybe, but minutes?).

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-defence-of-staring

In defence of staring

Like many people, I enjoy watching people. There’s a great pleasure in sitting in a café or on a park bench on a sunny afternoon and just watching people pass by. But increasingly, people-watching is becoming suspect, and even criminalised. The latest and most worrying example is Transport for Londo...

🗯️Simon Brake / PsibreakerApr 27, 2022
Today's episode of Moon Knight has probably been my favourite so far but (SPOILERS!) if personality A creates personality B to avoid having having to deal with stress, why is personality B the one that doesn't remember it? The way it appeared on-screen was that personality B was about to be punished, so unless personality A took over first (and personality B is, instead, a place to shunt all the happy memories and to jump into after duress, in order to stabilise) it doesn't make much sense.
Show thread🗯️Simon Brake / PsibreakerApr 27, 2022
It strikes me that the whole Orpheus campaign could work really well as a Gehenna/Apocalypse/Ascension end of campaign scenario for any of the main WoD game lines, so it could be that writing up such a book would allow crossovers in both directions.
Show thread🗯️Simon Brake / PsibreakerApr 27, 2022
And maybe add an appendix for updating the timeline from the 2000s to the 2020s, as well as some bits and pieces about the cities I've used.