Month: May 2016

ZOMG! They have TORG back on Bundle of Holding!

You have, like, a day left to buy it! Well, them: they broke it up into TORG 1 and TORG 2.  At twenty-ish bucks each for both Bundles it’s still a goram steal.

For those who don’t remember: TORG was a RPG that used the convention of ‘alien realities invade our own’ to justify having elves and cyberpunk and dinosaurs and horror and Rocket Rangers and, well, everything else at once.  Mechanics were meh, the setting was awesome.  Perfect reading material, if you’re me.

Need opinions on writing workshops.

On the one hand, I’ve been writing for twenty-five years. I actually get money for doing it, too. Heck, I’m one of those strange people who actually gets to use the stuff that he learned in his English degree. On the other hand, I’ve spent the last fifteen years writing things that aren’t, say, science fiction short stories like the one that I’m totally procrastinating on writing right now. So, you know, maybe I should get a refresher? And on the gripping hand: even if I need to touch up my skillset, is a writing workshop the way to go there?

Opinions welcome. I still got a few days before this online class that I happened across closes, anyway.

Trump accuses Rafael Cruz of being involved in JFK assassination. #nevertrump

If it hadn’t been the last straw three months ago, this would have been the last straw. I don’t vote for conspiracy theorists. I don’t vote for Birthers, I don’t vote for 9/11 Troofers, I don’t vote for MIHOP/LIHOP enthusiasts, and I absolutely will not vote for a JFK conspiracy nut. OR the political party that nominates one.

Seriously, I helped fight all of those people to a standstill between 2002-2008. I will be damned if I end up going to work for one. I have far too much self-respect for that.

Moe Lane

I’ll believe this about Cyberpunk 2077 when I see it.

This being “CD Projekt Red CEO: Cyberpunk 2077 will be “More Ambitious on Every Single Front”” …I mean, I believe that they want to make it. And goodness knows that Witcher: Wild Hunt will give them a budget. Still, it’s been four freaking years…

Moe Lane

PS: Yeah, I saw that somebody was trying to stir up a controversy over the game. …Annnnnd that’s all the attention that said attempt deserves, in my opinion.

Ted Cruz talks to Trump protesters today in Indiana.

As choices go, it doesn’t get much starker than this, folks.

And I’m going to be honest: I found those protesters embarrassing. They know what they know, and it’s nothing more or nothing less than what they’ve been told, and while I’m sure that the fever will eventually break for them the rest of us may still have to live with the consequences. …If you live in Indiana, go vote for Ted Cruz tomorrow, folks. Pretty please, with sugar on top.

Hey, a #CarWars contest.

I gotta think about this one for a minute. I have the outline of it in my head, or at least the number of syllables. It just has to bubble up from my subconscious… well, I hope.