Yeah, ‘Rationalization’ works as a title on several levels. You gotta feel at least a little bad for that entity, though. The situation is obviously not optimal, only nobody involved and making dumb decisions particularly wants it fixed. They just want somebody to blame. We’ve all been there.
Tag: patreon
Patreon Microfiction: A Stellar Aesthetic.
One of the things about makes me sad about not being physically immortal is that I’m going to miss out on what happens to interstellar spaceships once they get cheap enough for the hobbyists to play around with them. The universe of “A Stellar Aesthetic” is full of them. It’s always these incredibly old dudes with a blowtorch, a cigar, and no protective gear, too. You encounter a guy like that working on your ship, you’d be bizarrely comforted by the sight…
Patreon Microfiction: Death Is Cheap.
…Look, it’s not like he’s sacrificing people, right? Death is a part of life, so it’s a part of magic, and there’s gonna be market forces at play encouraging the cost of resurrections to go down. You don’t make your pile raising one person for a thousand gold: you make it by raising fifty people for a hundred each. There’s simply more of them who can afford that fee, as long as you make sure that Death is Cheap…
Patreon Microfiction: Rest Cure.
Seriously, ‘Rest Cure’ points out what I think is an under-examined wrinkle in the entire ‘personal apotheosis’ thing: why are we assuming higher-dimensional beings are just going to be blandly welcoming? We’d be popping in out of nowhere, with no relevant life skills from their point of view. I mean, sure, well done and everything with transcending your lower-dimensional prison. …What did you expect to do now?
My new Patreon video! (Join my Patreon!)
Let me also note that I’ve made private most of my pre-2016 content. I will be going in there later to put back up the absolute best of the political content, but I don’t do that anymore for a living and virtually nobody was watching the old stuff anyway. If anybody knows of a way to migrate them to a politics-only subchannel (or easily to a new one), I’ll do that instead.
Patreon Microfiction: Scorpio Five.
I dunno if ‘Scorpio Five’ is best suited for a novel, or a TTRPG setting. The reason I wonder about the latter is that if you run a game in it the players are immediately gonna want to leave, simply because they’ve been told it’s impossible and that’s just catnip to gamers. Search your heart; you know this to be true.
The August Patreon stuff is up!
Huzzah. It has been a month, let me tell you. Actually, let me not. You all have your own stuff to get through.
Anyway, onto the stuff!
- Fiction: Audition. …Yeah, you have to grade these people on a bit of a morality curve. I’m not all that fond of them, either, but: horror story.
- RPG Material: Resurgence, Part Four (B): The Empowered and Society. This is considerably lighter. Only a few more sections for this work, though.
Patreon Microfiction: It’s the Apocalypse When We Say It Is.
Patreon Microfiction: Crazy Money.
“Crazy Money” is about as close as you’re ever going to see me come up with an indictment of capitalism. Which is to say, not very close at all. It’s not that it’s perfect, but all the other systems are worse.
I need some information about Substack.
Specifically, does it allow you to attach files, and/or have an archive of saved files? How do people using paid subscriptions handle PDFs attachments? Can it be done via Dropbox, or is there something inside Substack itself?
Hopefully these are just academic questions. Alas, hope is not a plan.