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How I 6-0’d Nick Bostrom With Aurumoth

How I 6-0’d Nick Bostrom With Aurumoth

"It was just a matter of time before we got burned by the power creep of Topic Leaders." - DougJustDoug
Aidan Lawson 02 Oct 2026
Rotation Battle: Habermas, Foucault, Luhmann

Rotation Battle: Habermas, Foucault, Luhmann

Welcome to Unova.
Aidan Lawson 28 Sep 2026
Applied Case: The Temporary Topic Leader

Applied Case: The Temporary Topic Leader

Create-A-Pokémon and the Succession Problem.
Aidan Lawson 22 Aug 2026
Applied Case: The Endless Battle

Applied Case: The Endless Battle

Turn 846. The opposing Slowbro used Recycle! The opposing Slowbro found one Leppa Berry!
Aidan Lawson 11 Aug 2026
Applied Case: The Werster Crisis

Applied Case: The Werster Crisis

Pokémon speedrunning built extraordinary instruments for verifying runs. It built much weaker instruments for verifying the authority surrounding them.
Aidan Lawson 04 Aug 2026
Applied Case: The Mysteries of Pokémon VGC

Applied Case: The Mysteries of Pokémon VGC

Companion to RBY UU. Another extraction of ludic insights from historical Pokémon fields.
Aidan Lawson 08 Jun 2026
Applied Case: The RBY UU Upheaval of the Early 2020s

Applied Case: The RBY UU Upheaval of the Early 2020s

Structural reasoning does not require grand subject matter to be structural reasoning.
Aidan Lawson 20 Apr 2026
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