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SPACE ACADEMY REJECTS is on sale this week (Oct 27 to 31st) for 99c! Enjoy Vance Turbo and his crew of misfits versus an evil wizard galactic Emperor squirrel. A great cure for mourners of Mass Effect who want laughs. www.amazon.com/Space-Academ... #books #indiebooks #booksale #spaceopera #scifi

Rhaegar Targaryen could never win the war. Even if he killed Robert and Ned, he would face Stannis and Benjen. Renly and Robb would be figureheads if they fell. The Rebellion would have continued for a century because people were done with the Targaryens. #GameOfThrones #ASOIF

In my tabletop W40K game, I described it to my players as such: "Orks are all inborn with a lot of knowledge of how to make Mad Max technology from Imperium scrap. They can influence how things work but, no, they don't have starships that run on imagination like Sesame Street." #Warhammer40K

Mandy Karkofsky AKA Catgirl from #SupervillainySaga :D

#Bladerunner2099 has the premise the Replicants, a metaphor for slaves and dehumanization of a minority, replace humans as the oppressor. Phillip K. Dick and Ridley Scott may have had their differences but I think both of them would agree Amazon doesn't *get* it. #Bladerunner #scifi #television

#Cyberpunk2077: The game makes a big push that cyberpsychosis is actually a wide variety of conditions lumped under one single description by anti-tech bigots. You might argue that a rogue AI of a rockerboy in his brain is a form of cyberpsychosis. Not everyone goes on killing sprees.

Walter Koenig (RIP)'s Bester was one of the great villains of #scifi. In #BabylonFive, he brought nuance and depth to a character that could have been a one-note fascist. Bester can explain in both his goals and reasoning. It makes a logical sense what he does his actions even if they're abhorrent.

I just found out about Walter Koenig, weird that Star Trek TOS was already on my mind. I know he was brought on to ST to 'appeal to kids,' and for me, it worked, he was my favorite character on the show for a long time. Very sad news.

If you haven’t read Wilson before, you need to. His prose is amazing and his imaginative storytelling is second to none.

What horrors has this cat scene its dark master doing? What has shocked even the soul of a feline predator? I assume making snacks.

Star Trek: Into Darkness has a lot of failures but the tacked on Khan is the worst. There's a perfectly satisfactory Star Trek movie about a rogue Section 31 agent trying to kill Admiral Marcus after the latter sets up an unnecessary war with the weakened Klingon Empire. #StarTrek #movies #film

A secret of my Space Academy series: I wrote them because I was so pissed off about Mass Effect 3's endings. #videogames #MassEffect #books #indiebooks

I thought they'd go somewhere interesting with the nephew murder. That Ben actually WAS irredeemable and the Force was warning Luke he was about to massacre the school. Luke was wrong to think there was good in him. They didn't. #StarWars #TheLastJedi #LukeSkywalker

Re-Watching Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation and knowing that Wes was originally Leslie Crusher is eye-opening. It makes you think they wrote her as ditzy and childlike because they thought that would be endearing. #StarTrek #scifi

In the old Dark Empire notes by Tom Veitch, who was way smarter than most writers, he had a essay by Luke Skywalker on Palpatine's notes. Before the Sith really existed, Luke said, "I keep looking for some secret deep mystical insight and it's just crude basic hate and greed." #comics #StarWars

My first 5 TTRPGs, in the order I played them: 1. Dungeons and Dragons 2. Star Wars (WEG) 3. Vampire: The Masquerade (most of the WOD really) 4. Mutants and Masterminds 5. Call of Cthulhu

A list of all of my audiobooks on #Audible+. I'm surprised at some of them and others that are missing. Dark Destiny Agent G Omnibus Vol 1 Bright Falls Mystery Saga box set Supervillainy Volume One Brightblade Tales of the Al-Azif Wraith Knight Straight Outta Fangton #books #indiebooks #indiebooks

A lot of people: AI is evil. It steals from creatives. ALSO A lot of people: Look at this hilarious image...

I sent in an audition tape. I wasn't picked. Yes, I would have been a Vault-Tec victim if I lived in Fallout's world. Hopefully Vault 69.

I'm annoyed it's far more than my relationship to the Cheeto. My mother was friends with Marla Maples. It's how I know the secret of how he bankrupted multiple casinos.

October 23 Happy Fallout Day

Without getting into the nitty gritty of the Emperor banning religion, the Emperor's logic fails because: 1. Chaos doesn't need religion, it just helps. 2. The Emperor's persecution of religion drove his worshipers to Chaos. 3. "The Last Church" shows Big E did not understand faith. #warhammer40K

Thieves exist for a very specific kind of #DND adventure. Is your party going to be going into trap heavy environments with lots of locked doors? A thief could wipe out a party of DPS when they're sleeping by simply stealthing their way. #dungeonsanddragons #tabletopgames

The storytelling fumbles the rising action and character development. Full review below:

I wrote a novella this year that will come out eventually. I saw today that Anthropic warned that self-replicating AI's could proliferate. Here's the thing. I wrote this last year. They call it "A Swarm" - the alternate title of my novella Non-0 was... SWARM. #heardherefirst.

In my Lucifer's Star book, I had a big heroic ending where the protagonists try to stop a war between two feuding star systems. Then the protagonists just said, "Not my problem" and fled the system. #books #scifi #spaceopera #indiebooks

it's cool that you can send "STOP" to instantly block an automated political fundraising text message so they have to text you from a different number five minutes later

Now listening to "Truth to Power" - a Luke Cage novel by @blacktopkid.bsky.social - happy to hear the same narrator from his other books and thinking... that guy SOUNDS like Luke Cage.

This is the death of Star Trek at the very least.

My opinion on video game adaptations is they keep trying to reinvent the wheel. The #MassEffect show should have been an adaptation of the games because you already have a story everyone loves. Mass Effect 4 should have continued the main storyline. It's best to put it to bed now. #videogames

Finished with my manuscript for SPACE ACADEMY LOSERS (formerly Space Academy Masters). I will probably go on Cthulhu Armageddon next but I also have an idea for another Space Academy for 2027. I appreciate everyone's support on this series and hope people will keep leaving ratings for the books.

Writing tie-ins is *a real fucking skill* and anyone who sneers at the people who do it can go piss up a rope. You think it's easy to write an entire novel to very specific order on an almost impossibly tight deadline? And have it be satisfying to read? Motherfucker, *you* try it. See how you do.

Veilguard wasn't what killed Bioware. Anthem started the ball rolling where EA forced them to do what was done to Eidos and Rocksteady i.e make a massive microtransaction game outside their wheelhouse. Andromeda was remade three times. Mass Effect 4? Announced 7 years ago and still in preproduction.

"I can read your thoughts."

Mass Effect's teaser with Liara and the N7 armor was seven years ago and the game was apparently in preproduction. It was never coming out. #MassEffect #Bioware #EA #videogames

I was actually interested in the new #MassEffect due to the possibility of Shepard returning. However, the scummy AI driven practices of game developers these days means I should have expected something like this.

I strongly recommend picking up these books. They're very fun superhero stories in SPAAACE. They're also surprisingly dark and serious when they're not being gut-bustingly hilarious.

Food for thought. #BabylonFive #scifi #quotes

"How did you get into tabletop roleplaying games?" West End Games Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, which had more information about the Star Wars universe than you'd ever imagine and that became pseudo-canonized by it being given to the authors of the old Legends universe. #tabletopgames #books

Millions have already died for the ending of USAid. Elon Musk is guilty of more deaths than anyone in modern history. This is his legacy, not corporate space travel.

The 11th Supervillainy Saga book, TALES OF SUPERVILLAINY: VILLAINS OUT SHOPPING is now available for purchase. You don't need familiarity with the series to enjoy its hilarious handling of superhero tropes but it helps. On sale for $2.99! www.amazon.com/Tales-Superv... #books #indiebooks #booksale

These are the recent episodes of Star Trek that must join the leaderboard of classic stories. 12 Streaming Era Star Trek Episodes We're Adding To 'The Classics' #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds whatculture.com/tv/x-streami...

For me, I went from Dungeons and Dragons to Vampire: The Masquerade to Mutants and Masterminds back to Dungeons and Dragons as my major tabletop games. I've always loved Call of Cthulhu but never got a consistent campaign going.

COYOTE VERSUS ACME: What's weird is like Roger Rabbit is a genuinely good noir detective story, this is a genuinely good cynical law movie. #film #movies