https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2026/03/
False Machine: March 2026
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2024/?m=1
False Machine: 2024
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-review-of-from-dawn-to-decadence-by.html?m=0
False Machine: A Review of 'From Dawn to Decadence' by Jacques Barzun
The War for Humanities Five Hundred years of Europeans doing cultural stuff! Jacques Barzun was here for nearly a hundred of them and spent ...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2014/11/
False Machine: November 2014
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machinenovember
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2022/03/
False Machine: March 2022
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machinemarch
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2019/08/we-played-inquisitor-game-two-rise-of.html?m=1
False Machine: We Played Inquisitor - Game Two: Rise of the Meta-Coral!
My initial review of Inquisitor from several months ago here . And the previous game in this sequence 'Hunt the Fat Priest' here . .....
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2013/10/
False Machine: October 2013
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machineoctober
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2020/10/village-shops.html
False Machine: Village Shops
Brainstorm for 'Goose-Gold and Goblins'. Trying to think of interesting things for a village without getting too clever with it, just stayi...
false machinevillageshops
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2019/07/why-ask-me-book-of-chuang-tzu.html
False Machine: Why Ask Me? - The Book of Chuang Tzu
What do I think about Taoism (from this one book?) I find it calming, there is much I like. It seems to have a very clear dark side, or at...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-more-forge-monsters.html
False Machine: More More Forge Monsters
When i started the blog I printed out a list. I still can't work out what a 'Thresher Monster' is. Bleak Zombies Living dead who grin ecsta...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2013/02/guano-made-bombs-in-ww1.html
False Machine: Guano made bombs in WW1
ICE FALL TRAVERSE A barrier become a bridge. Will highlight as you cross and soon decay. Converging winds knit a temporary froz...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2021/05/?m=0
False Machine: May 2021
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2012/
False Machine: 2012
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2015/06/dumb-or-impossible.html
False Machine: dumb or impossible
Apparently I have lost the ability to do anything creative today so instead lets try this: An episodic in-store 'event' project that unite...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2019/04/spire-of-quetzel-is-available.html
False Machine: Spire of Quetzel is Available
A while ago I did an adventure for Fria Ligans 'Forbidden Lands' Kickstarter. That ended up in a book with a bunch of other OSR and OSR-a...
false machinespirequetzelavailable
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2015/01/2014-i-ate-your-heart.html?m=1
False Machine: 2014 I ATE YOUR HEART
AND I WILL EAT THE HEART OF YOUR CHILD. You tried to finish me Year, but I have mastered you and now, with your death, know this: I will eat...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2014/05/hardcopy-false-machine-book.html
False Machine: Hardcopy False Machine Book
Ok so I put a hardcopy False Machine book on Lulu for anyone who wants it. Link is to the right. Just click on the murderous trilobite. It...
false machinehardcopybook
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2011/12/bard-in-combat.html?m=0
False Machine: BARD IN COMBAT
There has been some discussion on various blogs of the usefulness of a man playing on a lyre while you try to explore monster-haunted underg...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2021/11/?m=1
False Machine: November 2021
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2011/11/?m=0
False Machine: November 2011
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machinenovember
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2021/10/
False Machine: October 2021
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machineoctober
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2017/07/held-kinetic-energy-in-old-school.html?ref=explorersdesign.com
False Machine: Held Kinetic Energy in Old School Combat Arenas
So you're running an old-school game and you want a set-piece fight. The rule-set doesn't like that. The complexity is dumped into set des...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-is-nature-wild.html
False Machine: Why is Nature Wild?
Because its full of EXPLOSIVES . In the modern world humanity is everpresent. Nature only rules fully in the margins left by our mi...
false machinenaturewild
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2019/08/we-played-inquisitor-game-one-hunt-fat.html?m=1
False Machine: We Played Inquisitor - Game One: Hunt the Fat Priest
WHEN AND WHERE? Beyond or within the Great Rift the forgotten Riweal Nebulae, fifth planet of the Spen system, its star a young main-...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2019/06/gackling-moon.html?m=0
False Machine: Gackling Moon
At the ends of the understood earth, trapped between contending seas, crazed with fractured realities and bathed in the glow of a ma...
false machinemoon
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2017/11/?m=0
False Machine: November 2017
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machinenovember
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2025/12/
False Machine: December 2025
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2016/05/projective-geometries.html?m=0
False Machine: Projective Geometries
From " The Ice " by Stephen Pyne (You might remember that I looked at his book "Fire on the Rim" earlier. "The shelf not only simplifies...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2012/02/storygame-fight-mechanic.html?m=0
False Machine: Storygame fight mechanic
Choose to win or lose the fight. If you choose to win, I describe what you sacrife to do it. If you choose to lose, you describe what you ...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-eight-worghast-laws.html?m=0
False Machine: The Eight Worghast Laws
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2015/07/everybodys-lady-is-fair-ook-guys.html?m=1
False Machine: Everybody's Lady is Fair O.K. guys?
(I had to add some line breaks because it was just too fucking insane without. I tried to keep all the spellings and highl...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2023/02/
False Machine: February 2023
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machinefebruary
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2017/04/?m=0
False Machine: April 2017
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2023/01/imagining-roteopia.html?m=1
False Machine: Imagining Roteopia
As a consequence of reading ' Cats Paws' and Catapults ' I became mildly obsessed with the idea of rotational limbs in living things. WHY ca...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2015/03/?m=0
False Machine: March 2015
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machinemarch
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2022/07/speak-false-machine.html
False Machine: Speak, False Machine
Good news! Demon-Bone Sarcophagus is finally stumbling to a close. Files are away to the printers (though there will likely be feedback on ...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2014/08/geyser-lord.html?m=1
False Machine: Geyser Lord
There are caves where Kings have crawled and Emperors have knelt to hear a fortune that is never wrong. Deep beneath the earth, in spaces ch...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2024/
False Machine: 2024
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2013/04/?m=0
False Machine: April 2013
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2011/12/worlds-smallest-players-handbook.html?m=0
False Machine: Worlds Smallest Players Handbook
There was a competition on the Internet to produce one-page dungeons. You can find the winners here. Many are excellent. A man who blogs h...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2021/11/warhammer-is-satire-now.html
False Machine: Warhammer is a Satire Now
If you are a dorky, low status white man, at some point in your life you look around to see that you are surrounded by other, dorky, low st...
false machinewarhammersatire
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2019/08/we-played-inquisitor-game-two-rise-of.html
False Machine: We Played Inquisitor - Game Two: Rise of the Meta-Coral!
My initial review of Inquisitor from several months ago here . And the previous game in this sequence 'Hunt the Fat Priest' here . .....
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2012/12/radiolarian-and-trogloraptor.html?m=1
False Machine: Radiolarian (and Trogloraptor)
Radiolarian These were old when life was young and bear no sign of age. Each seems quite new and freshly made. You imagine p...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2017/08/memory-fragments-of-gen-con.html
False Machine: Memory Fragments of Gen Con
Here it is as I remember it - a lot of this will be turgid or pointless to anyone who has gone to America, or who is American - so most of y...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-fall-of-ir.html
False Machine: The Fall of Ir
Ir! A world I made up with a bunch of other people, the details of which are described in this initial post. What happened to it? You may as...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2022/05/?m=0
False Machine: May 2022
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2025/01/
False Machine: January 2025
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machinejanuary
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-review-of-colour-revolution-by-regina.html?m=0
False Machine: A Review of 'The Colour Revolution' by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
(I wrote this largely from memory so sorry about the likely-inaccuracies) I found this to be a wonderful and enjoyable book, a rare, lucid a...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2012/03/?m=0
False Machine: March 2012
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2020/09/eight-houses.html
False Machine: Eight Houses
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-plain-of-sociable-holes.html?m=1
False Machine: The Plain of Sociable Holes
Between the homomorphic Chat Hills and the Needlelands lies the Plain of Sociable Holes. THE CHAT HILLS The warm mumbling wind emanat...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2013/04/contrarian-knobend-dungeons-dragons.html
False Machine: Contrarian Knobend Dungeons & Dragons
Reading my friend talk about random character generation andoptimisation got me thinking about what happens in our minds when we creat...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2013/02/vognado-is-stupid-name.html?m=0
False Machine: 'Vognado' is a stupid name.
GHOST MEADOW Pale translucent grass growing even as it dies. A forced meander slows the river in a curl. The water drops organi...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2023/11/
False Machine: November 2023
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machinenovember
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2022/02/those-they-murder-are-forgotten.html?m=0
False Machine: Those They Murder are Forgotten
"There is a gap in our pattern, rooms and duties to which no names attain, yet prepared for some unknown, or as if a ghost had left them. I...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2020/11/my-owlbear-laboratory.html
False Machine: My Owlbear Laboratory
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2016/10/
False Machine: October 2016
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2017/06/arnold-asked-me-to-post-this.html
False Machine: Arnold asked me to post this
and I didn't really wanna, but I gotta post bro, its almost my job. So here is a Sunday post that no-one will read so I can post but avoid ...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2013/04/caves-of-arisa-mons.html
False Machine: Caves of Arisa Mons
My friend is doing a campaign of Pendragon set on a distant future mars with Mechs . I am doing a lot of thinking about caves . As if by ...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-you-hooked-up.html
False Machine: How you hooked up
A D10 table to connect characters to each other. Roll at the beginning of the session to work out how you know each other. Roll for the per...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2021/08/
False Machine: August 2021
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2016/
False Machine: 2016
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2015/06/jurassic-world-is-jurassic-world.html?m=1
False Machine: Jurassic World is Jurassic World
The qualities and weaknesses of the film Jurassic World are almost exactly the same as the qualities and weaknesses of the park shown insid...
false machinejurassic world
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2021/04/
False Machine: April 2021
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machineapril
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2020/11/mind-flayer-laboratory.html
False Machine: Mind-Flayer Laboratory
There is someone in the bathroom, running the water, leaving the tap dripping overnight, tracking trickles through the house, wet towels str...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2024/12/
False Machine: December 2024
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2016/05/an-interview-with-bryce-lynch.html?m=0
False Machine: An Interview with Bryce Lynch
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2011/11/cyberpunk-2013_14.html?m=1
False Machine: How are you friends with this dude?
This was intended to be a sub-table to roll on if you roll yourself a friend during character generation. On looking back, most of the frie...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2013/04/you-mekless-knave.html
False Machine: You Mekless Knave
I have been inventing a Space Faith for my Space Knight. I like my space knight. He is a little bit stiff and a little bit shallow....
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2017/07/john-amery-from-traitors-by-josh-ireland.html
False Machine: John Amery - from 'Traitors' by Josh Ireland
I picked up this book in the Library and idly flipped to an interesting looking chapter. What I found was rather remarkable. This is a ...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2014/08/ceep-carbon-observatory-print-copy.html?m=1
False Machine: Deep Carbon Observatory Print Copy Available
So, my proof print copy of DCO just turned up and it looks ok so I will go and make it available online now. (The picture link on the r...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2020/07/
False Machine: July 2020
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2014/02/
False Machine: February 2014
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machinefebruary
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2019/05/should-i-do-anything-with-my-patreon.html?m=0
False Machine: Should I do anything with my Patreon?
So I finished my patreon application to get it in before the deadline that would involve a raising of prices, and largely for that reason. ...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2016/07/
False Machine: July 2016
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machinejuly
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2019/10/my-intelligence-problem.html?m=1
False Machine: My Intelligence Problem
Hey, maybe you can do my work for me. I have this potentially challenging problem. The Game is question is a "pretend nations" game. Eac...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-moon-moon-moon.html?m=0
False Machine: THE MOON! THE MOON! THE MOON!
GACKLING MOON IS PRINTED AND AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE IN PHSYICAL AND/OR PDF FORM ! YOU CAN BUY IT HERE
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2011/11/cyberpunk-2013_12.html
False Machine: Cyberpunk 2013
Less drunk now. There is a quasi-random generation system. That is sort-of good. Like all divisions between random-roll and points-buy it f...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2013/12/demonic-incursion-described-through.html?m=0
False Machine: Demonic Incursion Described Through Environmental Change Only
Contrails knot briefly in the air describing disastrous impacts from parallel earths. The knotting intensifies, fresh sky-lines seep ou...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2019/
False Machine: 2019
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2013/07/bacon.html
False Machine: Bacon
We just achieved something in a game and I am surprisingly happy about it By achieved I mean that one imaginary construct fell in...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2023/09/?m=0
False Machine: September 2023
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2020/11/goblins.html?m=0
False Machine: GOBLINS
Time for a brief Goblin Brainstorm Ok, these are the off the top of my head Goblin Types that I came up with; Goblin, Corn Goblin, Egg Gobli...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-zolimko.html
False Machine: RATMASTER
(I couldn't sleep, was literally lying in bed thinking "this should be made of rats" so now I'm re-writing it so it is made of rats.) A Ratm...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2015/11/
False Machine: November 2015
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2014/12/
False Machine: December 2014
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2013/05/796529.html
False Machine: 796.529
Several good things have happend recently, therefore this post is nice. I t has no other pupose really. Firstly two people took it upon th...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2011/11/turns.html
False Machine: Turns
Probably the most interesting definition of combat rounds I've seen. From The Marvel Super-Heroes Basic Set. 'Turns are not a precise m...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2015/09/social-justice-scylla-and-rapey.html
False Machine: Social Justice Scylla and Rapey Charybdis
Steve Wieck, I kind of feel for you. You are falling into the centre of a storm. But I feel for myself more. I'm Patrick Stuart, with Sc...
false machinesocial justicescyllarapeycharybdis
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2021/10/?m=0
False Machine: October 2021
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machineoctober
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2012/06/?m=0
False Machine: June 2012
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
false machinejune
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2020/11/mor-goblins.html?m=0
False Machine: MOR GOBLINS
Ok gang, lets get Goblining! ( again ) GAS GOBLINS Goblins in Gas-Masks and long black coats. They knock you out, steal your things and dra...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2016/12/red-dawn-gawain-1319-1372-bloody-numbles.html
False Machine: Red Dawn & Gawain 1319 - 1372, Bloody numbles
I'm interested to see what Jeff Rients and Kiel Chenier produce with their new adventures. They both have quite a different aesthetic fee...
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2012/02/?m=1
False Machine: February 2012
"Don't put pictures of yourself online. You look like a murderer. An uncomfortable murderer" - My Aunt
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https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/
False Machine
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https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sc/d5sc00844a
Widespread false negatives in DNA-encoded library data: how linker effects impair machine...
DNA-encoded chemical libraries (DECLs) have become integral to early-stage drug discovery, yielding active compounds and extensive labeled datasets for machine...