It can be heard in silence only

ive been informed that the breaking wheel, gibbet, etc are actually 'solar punk', and possibly even Leftist

Listening to an audiobook of Faust. Specifically the Martin Greenberg translation. Barely 25% into part 1 and it's already goated. I keep expecting Mephistopheles to break out into a jaunty big band jazz number.

Okay I got part 1. Part 2 was a lot harder. Maybe I am stupid.

You’re not stupid. The general literary consensus on Part 2 seems to be that it’s a heap of wacky bullshit interesting only to Goethe scholars. In Part 2 he wanders away from the precepts of effective drama and just writes whatever his fevered little philosophical heart desires—and not even in the fun Joycean way, but in a way that gets very hard to read. My first translation of Faust, the Walter Kaufmann, doesn’t even bother to translate Part 2 in full; Kaufmann just does a general summary of the whole play with interspersed excerpts, then translates the final scene in full because that’s got the most exciting part (Faust actually dying, being redeemed, Mephisto being gay for the angels of the Lord)

I gotta say I was not expecting Faust to get redeemed because Mephisto was distracted looking at cute male angels.

The golden Dawn played magical chess with baroque enochian bullshit suffused within it

It never FUCKING ends

[pushing my glasses up with an air of unwarranted superiority and gesturing toward a painting without a minotaur] the Minotaur is implied.

I've always been interested in playing cards as a Magical Object. The recent boom of digital card games has been a massive source of inspiration, but one by nature divorced from cards as physical objects. It's fun to explore the physical limits of playing cards while trying to avoid that Waffle House Mark System Video.

If your game has too many types of damage counters it becomes something I suffer through, rather than enjoy.