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uel aramchek. tarot, writing, high weirdness. minneapolis based. greaterrealityarea.net, formerly compoundeye.substack.com, northofreality.com

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we haven’t even begun with marathon’s mysteries

11.03.2026 14:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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LONG, LEAN, HUNGRY ONES In 1245, Pope Innocent IV composed a letter to Güyük Khan, requesting that the Mongols cease attacking Christian lands in Eastern Europe. This letter was carried all the way from Lyon to Karakorum, wh...

LONG, LEAN, HUNGRY ONES
In 1245, Pope Innocent IV composed a letter to Güyük Khan, requesting that the Mongols cease attacking Christian lands in Eastern Europe. This letter was carried all the way from Lyon to Karakorum, where it was read to the Khagan... www.greaterrealityarea.net/long-lean-hu...

17.01.2026 18:09 👍 34 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 2
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AN ELEPHANT NEVER FORGETS Bestiary writers from Pliny on through DaVinci wrote of the legendary battles between elephants and dragons; two titanic beasts, evenly matched, their corpses found entangled throughout Africa and Asi...

Bestiary writers from Pliny on through DaVinci wrote of the legendary battles between elephants and dragons; two titanic beasts, evenly matched, their corpses found entangled throughout Africa and Asia. We can presume the surviving species of Proboscidea...
www.greaterrealityarea.net/an-elephant-...

10.01.2026 20:07 👍 40 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 1
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AN ENDANGERED SPECIES The bicephalous jackalope leads a complex and short existence due to only one of its heads being materially real. Though it may at first seem cumbersome, this grants it an evolutionary advantage over ...

The bicephalous jackalope leads a complex and short existence due to only one of its heads being materially real. Though it may at first seem cumbersome, this grants it an evolutionary advantage over its better known cousin, the common jackalope, as the...
www.greaterrealityarea.net/an-endangere...

03.01.2026 18:35 👍 65 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 6

Rook runs are honestly my favorite mode to play. I love finding just enough to be scary as a Rook.

10.03.2026 21:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

you should be operating under the assumption that every team on the map is potentially more skilled and better equipped than you. don't draw attention to yourself, don't pick fights yourself unless you feel good about your kit and position.

10.03.2026 21:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

also, if you can manage to talk to your team members, try to encourage them to move slowly and quietly. a lot of solo queue players are trying to play this game like fortnite with a lot of fast sprinting to areas of interest and reckless parkour. this will make all of you easy prey to ambushes.

10.03.2026 21:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you need a good weapon on the cheap, go for the Magnum MC. You can get its schema in the pass, it only costs $400 for the base version, and it hits like a truck. you'll find plenty of mods laying around in tool carts to get it up to at least green or blue capability.

10.03.2026 21:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

good advice here. the free sponsor kits will make you a liability to your team as soon as you inevitably encounter another squad. I will say though, the $4k mystery kits are relatively viable and a good way to get your build back on track if you're missing important parts like shields.

10.03.2026 21:26 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

deeply fucked up to read this on a monday

09.03.2026 15:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I got a package like this once

09.03.2026 15:26 👍 56 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 1

The Aramchek Proposal: instead of the leap year and daylight savings, every two years, we wind the clock back twelve hours, flipping AM and PM while preserving the integrity of the duodecimal clock. The repeat hours of the flip are a global festival where we celebrate man’s shared war against time.

09.03.2026 01:28 👍 56 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0
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The Last Word (from High Violet in Buffalo, NY)

09.03.2026 00:00 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a trash receptacle begging for me to forget what it did to me

a trash receptacle begging for me to forget what it did to me

i forgive you

08.03.2026 23:44 👍 77 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0

you forgot west elm caleb but he hasn’t forgotten you. he holds us all within his mind

08.03.2026 17:29 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a smarter humanity would roll daylight savings into the leap year, and have six nights a year extended by one hour. and an even smarter humanity would not have a twenty-eight day month when there are already some with thirty-one days. and an even smarter one still would order the latin names right.

08.03.2026 15:35 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

it’s an intellectual fudge that allows for so much bullshit. the worst argument to me is that “consciousness is an emergent property of complexity,” which means less and less the longer you stare at it

08.03.2026 13:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

people who know the real mr pussy lore know this isn’t even rare loot

08.03.2026 01:55 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Marathon’s beauty is its absolute rejection of any idea of fairness. You are always up against a grossly imbalanced hell, and the texture of that hell is other players. Solo queue and Rook mode make this as clear as possible. There are no clean getaways. Someone is probably already behind you.

08.03.2026 01:27 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this happened to my comrade eric

07.03.2026 23:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also, it's called the University Beneath Denver because Colorado School of Mines was taken

07.03.2026 23:09 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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LIVING LANDSLIDES According to legends written down in Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, the slide-rock bolter is a species of alpine whale that anchors itself high in the Rocky Mountains by its tail flukes, only ...

LIVING LANDSLIDES
According to legends written down in Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, the slide-rock bolter is a species of alpine whale that anchors itself high in the Rocky Mountains by its tail flukes, only to luge down the slope with an open... www.greaterrealityarea.net/living-lands...

07.03.2026 22:55 👍 28 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1

heard a voice mod of him going “i’m rooking it” as he died and fucking lost it

07.03.2026 00:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Playing Rook runs is my favorite part of Marathon so far, being a filthy scavenger everyone wants dead is survival horror mode

07.03.2026 00:09 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

The America-based “North of Reality” and “Greater Reality Area” have nothing to do with the proposition of a “Greater North America.” At the same, I do think North Americans can be one people and should reject the current execution of it

06.03.2026 14:46 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I dropped loot once. Fell from an old playground slide, and knocked my face on the way down. I spat up a little emerald ring, etched with owls

05.03.2026 14:04 👍 79 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 0

not even kidding

04.03.2026 01:31 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

wait until people find out about how important bill clinton is in marathon lore

04.03.2026 01:27 👍 41 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 1

Marathon seems to be getting hit with a big wave of “it’s great but can you make the game in my head instead” style feedback

02.03.2026 15:40 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

liv please

01.03.2026 03:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0