Low Tech ↔ High Tech

It  Started with Lunch

A strip of bacon fell out of a burger. Instead of throwing it away, someone wrapped it in a napkin, carried it home, and gave it to their dog. The dog's tail wagged. The day continued.

This mundane moment contains no advanced technology, serves no imperial purpose, optimizes no system. Yet it embodies something essential about meaning-making: significance operates at multiple scales simultaneously. Sometimes the smallest gesture carries more weight than the entire apparatus of galactic logistics.

From that simple recognition grew this bundle: a complete framework for both playing in and thinking about science fiction that can hold systematic complexity and human meaning simultaneously.

What You Get

A complete Lasers & Feelings hack for grounded space opera

• Core mechanic that makes cognitive frameworks playable
• Tech Gradient system (TG 1-6) representing ways of thinking, not just equipment
• Paradigm Break rules where competence becomes liability
• Multi-scalar character creation spanning the perfect dramatic range
• Sample scenarios, GM tools, and the famous Delia's Rule

Who Is This For

Tabletop Players & GMs: A complete RPG system that makes cognitive frameworks mechanically interesting rather than just flavor

Science Fiction Readers: Critical tools for recognizing what science fiction consistently fails to see—and why those absences shape the futures we imagine

Critics & Scholars: A new interpretive methodology that treats sci-fi's contradictions as productive tensions rather than problems to solve

Anyone Wrestling With Complex Systems: The bacon strip principle applies far beyond fiction—climate change, AI governance, democratic participation all require navigating between scales of meaning

Fans of Beautiful Game Design: Where mechanical elegance meets philosophical depth

The Philosophy

This bundle argues that science fiction's most persistent blind spots—logistics erasure, competence mythology, boredom avoidance, political backgrounding—aren't bugs to be fixed but productive tensions to explore.

The bacon strip principle offers a way of reading impossible futures that begins with embodied meaning and works outward to systematic complexity, rather than the reverse. It's simultaneously:

• A game mechanic (Delia's Rule)
• A critical framework (multi-scalar literacy)
• A philosophical position (consciousness as inherently multi-scalar)
• A practical tool (navigation aid for paradigm breaks)

The goal isn't to fix science fiction but to read it more richly—developing the cognitive flexibility to hold both systematic sophistication and human meaning simultaneously.

What Makes This Different

Most RPGs treat technology as equipment lists and power levels This hack treats technology as embodied cognition and cultural frameworks

Most sci-fi criticism focuses on representation, politics, or scientific accuracy This framework maps systematic erasures that shape what can be imagined

Most game supplements add content This bundle adds ways of thinking about content

Most zines are either practical or theoretical This collection demonstrates that the most practical thing might be good theory, and the most theoretical thing might be a wagging tail

The Contemporary Stakes

We live in a moment requiring multi-scalar citizenship: the ability to think systemically about large-scale coordination while never losing touch with embodied meaning that makes such coordination worthwhile. To care about climate policy and remember birthdays. To understand global supply chains and notice when the neighbor's dog needs a bacon strip.

This bundle provides tools for that navigation—whether you're designing fictional futures, analyzing existing ones, or simply trying to maintain human agency in technological civilization.

Free Because

The bacon strip principle argues against treating meaning-making as commodity. These ideas deserve maximum distribution, not paywall protection. Take them, use them, adapt them, share them.

The revolution that starts with breakfast should reach every table.

"Sometimes the bacon strip matters more than the entire apparatus of galactic logistics—not because the apparatus doesn't matter, but because without the bacon strip, we forget what the apparatus is for."

Download free. Play immediately. Think differently.