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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

A Surreal Meta Moment: Ken Whitman on EN World on Ken Whitman on 4 Pillar Games

A Surreal Meta Moment: Ken Whitman on EN World on Ken Whitman on 4 Pillar Games
In a way-too-meta moment, we have Kenny's Website (as a major contributor if not owner) 4 Pillar Games referencing EN World referencing Kenny's AI-driven articles on 4 Four Pillar Games, with a side shout-out to this blog.

It's a tad bit trippy, but at least EN World has actual posts, whereas Kenny's "post" is just a top level skim of the 1st two sentences and the lead-in graphic from EN World.

Personally I love the EN World's article byline: Unauthorized, weird, and unintentionally laughable bios with AI-created 'photos'.

Circular Reference

The EN World article mentions a now-missing storefront and the site hasn't been cached at https://web.archive.org/ but we did poke around the html a bit and found traces of the storefront. It's been at least a decade since I'm done any coding/html work, so there is likely plenty still there I'm not finding on a cursory look.

Javascript for the 4 Pillar Games Website Sales Cart

Now we could see that maybe this snippet of code was an inactive bit ported over from another site used as a template, but not likely. The fact there is an actual webpage for store checkout leads me to believe that isn't the case.

Look, a Checkout Page for the Store that was Removed

Hmmm.......so evidently Kenny was using Easy Digital Downloads to serve as his storefront:

Evidence of the Storefront

Storefront graphics

So it looks like the 4 Pillar Games is feeding in RSS "news", adding Kenny's AI "content" as a funnel to bring people in for the now-removed PDF/Digital gamestore. The building blocks are all here and it isn't a big leap of logic to come to this conclusion.

2026.05.12 Edit:

Another article in the vein of the EN World post (www.tabletopsentinel.com)



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