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YouTube at the Year End

I can guarantee that specific topics will enter my consciousness when the year ends. Always. One topic is YouTube. It’s not about YouTube; it’s a manifestation of being...
Ian O'Rourke
5 min read

YouTube at the Year End

I can guarantee that specific topics will enter my consciousness when the year ends. Always. One topic is YouTube. It’s not about YouTube; it’s...
Ian O'Rourke
5 min read

Small Talk Advice Doesn’t Work for Introverts

I’ve been researching some videos I’m deluding myself into publishing on my YouTube channel in January. They are about solo introvert travel, specifically how...
Ian O'Rourke
3 min read

Tipping Is About Power

When Europeans go to colonial shores, one of the things we find perplexing at best or bloody annoying is tipping culture. I find it...
Ian O'Rourke
3 min read

A ‘Weight Loss’ Journey

I decided I needed to lose weight after a bit of a ‘weight shock’. The challenge everyone faces, assuming no personal health issues, is...
Ian O'Rourke
4 min read

TV Shows July to September (2023)

I watch too much TV, sometimes binge-watching a show through the night. Thanks to the blessing and curse of many streaming options, there is...
Ian O'Rourke
6 min read

All Stories

Exalted: Grammar of Creation

Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting has percolated within my brain...
Ian O'Rourke
6 min read

Exalted: Are they Exalted?

Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting has percolated within my...
Ian O'Rourke
4 min read

Exalted: Sharn and Flying Cities

We discuss some world building, specifically the level a world built at and how the setting maybe structued like the Star Wars galaxy.
Ian O'Rourke
4 min read

Exalted: Some World Building

We discuss some world building, specifically the level of world building and how the setting may be structured like the Star Wars galaxy.
Ian O'Rourke
3 min read

Exalted: Inspired By Exalted

I discuss some of the early setting and history elements that might be inspired by Exalted, at least at this early stage.
Ian O'Rourke
3 min read

Exalted: A Fantasy Avengers

The journey to putting together a Fantasy Avengers campaign begins here. I outline how these blogs are to proceed. The starting gun has gone...
Ian O'Rourke
3 min read

S8 – To Boldly Go pt2

A series of stories and decisions are told across time as the crew face heading through a experimental wormhol to Dominion space...
Ian O'Rourke
8 min read

The Rise of the Tin Foil Hat

I went down another YouTube rabbit hole in the latter half of August (2023). They’re always interesting, if slightly sinister, scary and destined to...
Ian O'Rourke
6 min read

S7 – To Boldly Go Pt1

A series of stories and decisions are told across time as the crew face heading through a experimental wormhol to Dominion space...
Ian O'Rourke
6 min read

A New YouTube Channel?

Do you know what’s one of the strangest, but glorious, facets of today’s society? Everyone has something to say and an urge to broadcast...
Ian O'Rourke
6 min read