First #TabletopThursday post for 2025 - Tabletop Goals, ISC Content, etc.
Our first new post for the year, and our first #TabletopThursdays segment at that! In today’s edition, Elodie and myself explore out game-master goals for 2025. Additionally, we provide a bit of scoop on several acclaimed wishlist to-play titles in Knave, Mothership, Old School Essentials, Starforged, Five Leagues From The Borderlands and more!
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[ISC Update] A Warm Welcome to Our Newest Team Member, Elodie!
Originally posted on our old and unfortunately now-suddenly-dead-as-of-NYE-2024 website (RIP), this here’s an introduction for our 3rd addition to the Inner-Strength Check team in Elodie! See the link for background, artist details, some of her visual art and tabletop RPG portfolio, links to projects and more!
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[Archive Review] - Kurushimi, Return 3:Death EP (12.11.2022).
Archival Review - originally posted on the now-defunct InsertReviewHere.com music journalism blog, then later reposted on the (sadly also now-defunct!) previous InnerStrengthCheck website. Review of Australian avant-garde metallers Kurushimi’s 2022 chaotic EP release in Return 3: Death.
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[Archive Review] - Hidden Intent: Dead End Destiny. (03/11/2022).
Archival Review - originally posted on the now-defunct InsertReviewHere.com music journalism blog, then later reposted on the (sadly also now-defunct!) previous InnerStrengthCheck website. Review of Australian thrashers Hidden Intent’s opus Dead End Destiny.
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Archive Review: LIFE/LIMB - Emergent LP (07.12.2022).
Archive review of LIFE/LIMB’s blistering-Australian-sun full-length Teratoma. This was originally posted to now-defunct music journalism online outlet Insert Review Here, then my own sadly-also-goner ISC.com. Support the Aussie Scene, RIP LIFE/LIMB.
![[Interview]: Aaron Osborne of AGLO (Melbourne Death-Doom) - 23.04.23.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1735710610595-YSOBGU03VR3BKBPONGLK/aglo-.jpg)
[Interview]: Aaron Osborne of AGLO (Melbourne Death-Doom) - 23.04.23.
Archival interview with Melbourne-based purveyor of one-man sludge/death-doom act AGLO, originally posted on the now-defunct innerstrengthcheck.com in 2023.
![[Archive Review] - Cannibal Corpse: Unimagined Violence.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1735708844523-L6T576UR28XHRIIGMJJ8/cannibal-corpse-500x333-1.jpg)
[Archive Review] - Cannibal Corpse: Unimagined Violence.
Archive review of Cannibal Corpse’s blazing full-length Unimaged Violence. This was originally posted to now-defunct music journalism online outlet Insert Review Here, then my own sadly-also-goner ISC.com. Check out this extreme metal bruiser of a review once more right here on the new site!
Review - Cannibal Corpse: ‘Violence unimagined’ (03.11.22).
Archival review from our sadly now-defunct isc.com prior website, and in turn reproduced from my time as a writer for the also sadly-defunct Insert Review Here. This is a review of the Cannibal Corpse LP 'Violence Unimagined.
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[Archive]: INTRODUCING: #TabletopThursdays!
This article was originally posted to the sadly-now-defunct Inner-Strength Check website on November 28th, 2024. Rounding out our trio of regular columns in Music Mondays and Tech Tuesdays, Tabletop Thursdays seeks to provide both the latest news, deals and happenings in the TTRPG, board gaming and general hobby spaces, as well as personal updates from ourselves as DM’s and players, designers etc in our hobby journeys. Check it out and roll those dice!
Live Review - Nicolas Cage Fighter, Stay Gold Brunswick 12/08/22.
Archival repost of my first local gig review for Inner-Strength Check, for Nicolas Cage Fighter @ Stay Gold in Brunswick, 12.08.22.
Rest in Peace InnerStrengthCheck.com, 31/12/2024. Welcome to innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com!
Gig Review: The New Dead Metalfest XI, 23/04/22.
Archival review of 2022’s brilliant New Dead Festival in Adelaide, South Australia at the Lion Arts Factory.
Plenty more from the sadly now-defunct InnerStrengthCheck.com website - you can’t keep us down!
![Interview - with Brisbane Thrashers IDLE RUIN [18.04.22]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/8ba9e470-57ee-4a01-8041-96277ace1dbc/image-1.png)
Interview - with Brisbane Thrashers IDLE RUIN [18.04.22]
Archive post from innerstrengthcheck.com.
Interview with Brisbane-based (now Berlin-based) thrash metal unit Idle Ruin.
Original date of posting = 18th April, 2022.
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[Podcast] Ep. 1: Inside The Computer.
Inner-Strength Check is a multi-modal podcast/vlog/blog project focused on exploring the intersection between societal discourse, mental health, neurodiversity, recovery, and leisure.
It’s part-blog, part-podcast and part-vlog/streaming. It's also partly serious discussions and fun stuff - video/board/tabletop gaming, roleplaying, music, reviews, banter and other fun ways of practicing what is preached here.
Introduction to the ISC Blog/Youtube Channel.
Our introductory post for ISC, originally posted on Oct 4th, 2021 on the now-defunct innerstrengthcheck.com website.
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[Podcast] Ep: 0.5 - Neurological Gumbo Soup.
Episode 0.5 of ISC Podcast, ‘Neurological Gumbo-Soup’ is a bit of a step-back where I run through a number of the disparate themes and topics to be covered in future episodes over time.
(This post originally featured on innerstrengthcheck.com, which is sadly now defunct. Please refer to the current site for future episodes and other ISC content!)
ISC Podcast Episode 2: Inside The Ear Canal.
For Episode 2, we dive into a retrospective overview of the powerfully formative impact music has had for me - in terms of my mental health, coping strategies, values and identity.
As well, a bit of discussion around sensitivity and the arts, perfectionism and the broader millenial generational backdrop to how my musical journey has formed over time.