One of my favorite, ever,podcasts used to be the – at the time well deserved for its nomination – formerly excellent Writing Excuses. I absolutely loved it. I recommended it to teachers who taught writing, I recommended it to friends who loved analyzing books and movies. I talked it up far and wide for in breaking down the art of telling a science fiction or fantasy story, most of the material applied to the art of telling stories in general. The founders were Dan Wells, a good if then tyro wr…
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Vox Day notes [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/12/of-irony-and-libel.html] that he’s the subject of an article at the Black Gate [https://www.blackgate.com/2016/12/07/unempathic-bipeds-of-failure-the-relationship-between-stories-and-politics/] that calls him a neo-nazi. He’s more than adequately capable of defending himself, and certainly has a horde of minions that are capable of assisting him. No, I actually want to address two other things she wrote, two underlying assumptions that show bo…
Over at AlphaGamePlan Vox posts on a recent National Review article [https://alphagameplan.blogspot.com/2016/12/feature-not-bug.html] on how the current trends in politics are causing familial rifts, and how it’s almost entirely one-sided: Clinton supporters cutting out Trump supporters. The usual observations are made about leftists being, all in all, far more solopsistic and narcissistic than Trump supporters, generally. Of course, the left has been priming this for years, with their contemp…
Ken Burnside of Ad Astra [http://www.adastragames.com/]games is a nice enough guy who has put together a few space combat sim boardgames like *Attack Vector: Tactical, *the Saganami Island Simulator (the same basic system set in David Weber’s Honorverse), and Squadron Strike which, despite some seriously innovative game mechanics to translate 3D movement into something approaching a playable system, still is more the province of those who, growing up, thought Harpoon,Advanced Squad Leader and S…
SJW’s and borderlines always project, and how often do they accuse other people of violence or abuse? In case you’re wondering, a throwaway comment by Stefan Molyneaux made me pause. Think about the bakery lawsuits for a question. He asked if you would be willing to eat a cake, or any other meal, from somewhere that you had to sue them into serving you? I fully agree that I would not unless I thought the people there were the model of forbearance. It boils down to this – and this is not a us…