tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87361291859353585782024-03-05T03:34:18.237-08:00JimFear138 Audio ProductionsNarrator, audiobook producer, podcaster, writer, editor/producer for the JimFear138 YouTube Account, editor/co-producer for Laughably Dapper, and Project lead for Dramatically Dapper, co-founder of Dimension Bucket Magazine, and host of the Dimension Bucket Magazine Podcast. This site is meant to be a collection of my work so everything is nice and accessible.
Disclaimer: Opinions here do not represent the opinions of Laughably Dapper or Dimension Bucket Magazine. They are purely my own. JimFear138http://www.blogger.com/profile/15432837450993153064noreply@blogger.comBlogger269125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736129185935358578.post-5109805381606679902019-04-17T03:17:00.000-07:002019-04-17T03:17:06.197-07:00The JimFear138 Podcast Ep. 101 ft. Declan Finn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the podcast! This time I talk to author Delcan Finn! We go over his new series of novels, <i>St. Tommy: NYPD, </i>vampires, writing, philosophy, history, and a whole lot of other topics! Be sure to check out Declan's novels, as well as his website and social media, and if you're in the towns hosting the conventions he's appearing at, get tickets if you can! Hope y'all enjoy the show!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Website: <a href="http://www.declanfinn.com/">http://www.declanfinn.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/DeclanFinnBooks">https://twitter.com/DeclanFinnBooks</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Amazon Author Page: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Declan-Finn/e/B008I8JO2G">https://www.amazon.com/Declan-Finn/e/B008I8JO2G</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ko-Fi: <a href="http://ko-fi.com/jimfear">http://ko-fi.com/jimfear</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Steemit: <a href="https://steemit.com/@jimfear138">https://steemit.com/@jimfear138</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Itunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/jimfear138/id1107844659?mt=2">https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/jimfear138/id1107844659?mt=2</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LichJim">https://twitter.com/LichJim</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/JimFear138">https://www.youtube.com/user/JimFear138</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Honey Bee by Kevin Macleod: <a href="http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755">http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Crunk Knight by Kevin Macleod: <a href="http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400044">http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400044</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Crunk Knight Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</a></span>Jim Fearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00428223329362056174noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736129185935358578.post-28572000574816522362019-03-08T04:05:00.000-08:002019-03-08T04:05:15.812-08:00The JimFear138 Podcast Ep. 100 - Combat Frame X-Seed: Coalition Year 40<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hello and welcome to the 100th episode! This time Brian Niemeier comes back to talk about his new IndieGoGo campaign for his mecha novel <i>Combat Frame X-Seed: Coalition Year 40!</i> Lots of great discussion about the books, the story itself, the tiers for the crowdfunding campaign, and a good diversion into politics and philosophy because we apparently just can't help ourselves! Visit the links below to support the campaign and get your hands on the best new mecha book out there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Combat Frame X-Seed Coalition Year 40: <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/combat-frame-xseed-coalition-year-40-novel#/">https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/combat-frame-xseed-coalition-year-40-novel#/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Todd Everhart on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Rolecasters">https://twitter.com/Rolecasters</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The JimFear138 Podcast Ep.97 - Combat Frame X-Seed: <a href="https://jimfear138.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-jimfear138-podcast-ep97-combat.html">https://jimfear138.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-jimfear138-podcast-ep97-combat.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Brian's website: <a href="https://www.brianniemeier.com/">https://www.brianniemeier.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">DimensionBucket Magazine #1: <a href="https://gumroad.com/l/gjMJq">https://gumroad.com/l/gjMJq</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Planetary Earth Anthology: <a href="https://amzn.to/2EP7tfE">https://amzn.to/2EP7tfE</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Ko-Fi: <a href="http://ko-fi.com/jimfear">http://ko-fi.com/jimfear</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Steemit: <a href="https://steemit.com/@jimfear138">https://steemit.com/@jimfear138</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Itunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/jimfear138/id1107844659?mt=2">https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/jimfear138/id1107844659?mt=2</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LichJim">https://twitter.com/LichJim</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/JimFear138">https://www.youtube.com/user/JimFear138</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Blogspot: <a href="http://jimfear138.blogspot.com/">http://jimfear138.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Wordpress: <a href="https://jimfear138.wordpress.com/">https://jimfear138.wordpress.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Bandcamp: <a href="https://jimfear138.bandcamp.com/">https://jimfear138.bandcamp.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Minds: <a href="https://www.minds.com/JimFear138">https://www.minds.com/JimFear138</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Dailymotion: <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/jimfear138">http://www.dailymotion.com/jimfear138</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Opening Music:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Honey Bee by Kevin Macleod: <a href="http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755">http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755</a></span><br />
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Jim Fearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00428223329362056174noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736129185935358578.post-38455741819624681812019-02-12T05:30:00.000-08:002019-02-12T05:30:13.099-08:00The JimFear138 Podcast Ep.99 - Critical Role & DM Advice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I know I've been gone for a while but I'm back now! This episode I talk about the show Critical Role and D&D as a game and a hobby, and also direct you guys to a few good places where you can get some decent advice on how to be a good referee/game master. I'm not dead yet so this train will keep a'rolling!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The Sandbox vs The Railroad by Matt Colville: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkXMxiAGUWg&t=915s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkXMxiAGUWg&t=915s</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Dungeons & Dragons is NOT for Making Stories: The Historical Debate by RPGPundit: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owtZ2TThmWI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owtZ2TThmWI</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Honey Bee by Kevin Macleod: <a href="http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755">http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Honey Bee Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</span><br />
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Jim Fearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00428223329362056174noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736129185935358578.post-12766771610892602982018-10-06T18:49:00.002-07:002018-10-06T23:23:24.122-07:00The JimFear138 Podcast Ep.98 - Health Issues, #LinuxGate, & Kavanaugh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of the podcast! This week I let you guys in on why I'm changing my approach to the podcast a bit, talk about the current crisis with Linux that could destroy the wider internet as we know it, and talk a whole lot of shit about the Kavanaugh hearings. Now this was recorded on Thursday and released on Saturday, so my Kavanaugh news is a little behind, but I'm going ahead and uploading it anyway because I don't want to record another three hours of me going back on my "trying to get sober" pledge to celebrate JUSTICE Kavanaugh getting confirmed. But it's cool, this is gonna be like a two week celebration, so we can do that next week. Hope y'all enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Netflix Chronicles of Narnia: <a href="https://deadline.com/2018/10/netflix-the-chronicles-of-narnia-tv-series-and-films-eone-1202475272/">https://deadline.com/2018/10/netflix-the-chronicles-of-narnia-tv-series-and-films-eone-1202475272/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">LinuxGate: <a href="https://animeright.news/tokumei/open-source-leader-linus-torvalds-surrenders-linux-to-social-terrorists/">https://animeright.news/tokumei/open-source-leader-linus-torvalds-surrenders-linux-to-social-terrorists/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Based Orrin Hatch: <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1047966419692994561">https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1047966419692994561</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Based Lindsey Graham: <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1047873530157846528">https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1047873530157846528</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Flake Defends Kavanaugh: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/36651/jeff-flake-defends-kavanaugh-hard-say-what-paul-bois">https://www.dailywire.com/news/36651/jeff-flake-defends-kavanaugh-hard-say-what-paul-bois</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Revising the Gorsuch Hearings: <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/the-revisionist-history-of-the-neil-gorsuch-hearings/">https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/the-revisionist-history-of-the-neil-gorsuch-hearings/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Two Men Confess To Assaulting Ford: <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/09/27/two-men-tell-senate-that-they-not-kavanaugh-assaulted-ford/">https://nypost.com/2018/09/27/two-men-tell-senate-that-they-not-kavanaugh-assaulted-ford/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Ford's Attorneys Refuse To Turn Over Documents: <a href="https://therightscoop.com/breaking-christine-ford-attorneys-refuse-to-turn-over-documents-to-senate-committee/">https://therightscoop.com/breaking-christine-ford-attorneys-refuse-to-turn-over-documents-to-senate-committee/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Ford's Ex-Boyfriend's Statement: <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2018/10/02/christine-blasey-fords-ex-boyfriend-told-senate-judiciary-witnessed-coach-friend-polygraphs/">http://thefederalist.com/2018/10/02/christine-blasey-fords-ex-boyfriend-told-senate-judiciary-witnessed-coach-friend-polygraphs/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Blumenthal Being Insane: <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2018/10/04/blumenthal-fbi-participated-cover/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=blumenthal-fbi-participated-cover&utm_content=0&utm_campaign=PostPromoterPro">https://hotair.com/archives/2018/10/04/blumenthal-fbi-participated-cover/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=blumenthal-fbi-participated-cover&utm_content=0&utm_campaign=PostPromoterPro</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The Hobbit Soundtrack Playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dQ5c5SIYnc&list=PLC00BB6EBF33B103C">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dQ5c5SIYnc&list=PLC00BB6EBF33B103C</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Honey Bee by Kevin Macleod: <a href="http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755">http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755</a></span></div>
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Jim Fearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00428223329362056174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736129185935358578.post-18728119950733436632018-09-27T03:11:00.000-07:002018-09-27T03:11:47.848-07:00The JimFear138 Podcast Ep.97 - Combat Frame X-Seed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of the podcast! This week I talk with Brian Niemeier about his new Combat Frame X-Seed project one on one! Be sure to visit the indiegogo link below and throw your support behind this one, because if we get it up to $5,000 I get to do the audiobook for it! You can find a sample on Brian's blog <a href="http://www.brianniemeier.com/2018/09/xseed-audio-sample-chapter.html" target="_blank">here</a>! This is just a taste, so if you want to hear the rest of the book, be sure to donate, and get your friends and family to as well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">As for the lack of a sponsor roll in this episode, I've had a medical emergency over the past weekend. During the course, I bit my tongue so hard it's swollen to over twice its normal size, which prevents me from recording anything until the swelling goes down. So just this once we'll have to deal with no sponsors. I'm hoping to be back to normal next week, but we'll see. These pain meds are fairly strong, but I'm making progress, just not as fast as I'd like to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Anyway, hope y'all enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Combat Frame X-Seed Indiegogo:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/combat-frame-xseed-novel#/">https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/combat-frame-xseed-novel#/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Brian Niemeier: Audiobook Stretch Goal Unlocked: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a href="http://www.brianniemeier.com/2018/09/audiobook-stretch-goal-unlocked.html">http://www.brianniemeier.com/2018/09/audiobook-stretch-goal-unlocked.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Brian's Blog: <a href="http://www.brianniemeier.com/">http://www.brianniemeier.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Brian's Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianNiemeier">https://twitter.com/BrianNiemeier</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Brian's Gab: <a href="https://gab.ai/BrianNiemeier">https://gab.ai/BrianNiemeier</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Honey Bee by Kevin Macleod: <a href="http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755">http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of the podcast! This time I talk about the Kavanaugh and Twitter Congressional hearings, some furshit degenerate webcomics, and Paizo's new playtest of Pathfinder 2.0! Only the boldest may enter here, so be forewarned, ye of lax constitution!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Combat Frame X-Seed: <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/combat-frame-xseed-novel#/">https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/combat-frame-xseed-novel#/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A Gundam For Us Podcast: <a href="http://jimfear138.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-jimfear138-podcast-ep94-gundam-for.html">http://jimfear138.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-jimfear138-podcast-ep94-gundam-for.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Styxhexenhammer666 - The War On Honesty: Twitter Bans Alex Jones & Infowars For Conducting Actual Journalism: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apNVeihHf6Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apNVeihHf6Q</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Yahoo News/Associated Press - Senate Concludes Kavanaugh Hearing; Confirmation Likely: <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/kavanaugh-avoids-major-missteps-closing-2-days-testimony-053912445--politics.html">https://www.yahoo.com/news/kavanaugh-avoids-major-missteps-closing-2-days-testimony-053912445--politics.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Alex Jones And Marco Rubio Clash On Capitol Hill: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekMrEujNa4w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekMrEujNa4w</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">COLLUSION? Mainstream Media Informed Of Twitter's Infowars Ban Before Alex Jones Was Notified: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/collusion-mainstream-media-was-informed-of-twitters-infowars-ban-before-alex-jones-was/">https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/collusion-mainstream-media-was-informed-of-twitters-infowars-ban-before-alex-jones-was/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Tim Pool - CNN Credits Media For The Banning of Alex Jones / Infowars: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbM1kTKmaGA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbM1kTKmaGA</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Jack by Driprat: <a href="https://pholph.com/index.php">https://pholph.com/index.php</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Bar1 on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/bar1scorpio">https://twitter.com/bar1scorpio</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Bar1 on DeviantArt: <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/bar1scorpio">https://www.deviantart.com/bar1scorpio</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The RPGPundit - Pathfinder Going Extra Woke But Already Doomed To Brokeness: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UDEQCJEWKo&t=933s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UDEQCJEWKo&t=933s</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwLoj3sQDSyaxi9tMERtO4A">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwLoj3sQDSyaxi9tMERtO4A</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span>Jim Fearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00428223329362056174noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736129185935358578.post-53544338954908250702018-08-21T14:27:00.000-07:002018-08-21T14:27:25.445-07:00The JimFear138 Podcast Ep.95 - Heroes Unleashed w/Silver Empire Publishing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of the podcast! This week I talk to Russell and Morgon Newquist from Silver Empire Publishing about their new project on kickstarter, Heroes Unleashed! If you enjoy superheroes, and are particularly disatisfied with how Marvel & DC have been acting lately, you won't want to miss this one! Be sure to check the links in the description and support the kickstarter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br />Russell on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/rnewquist">https://twitter.com/rnewquist</a><br />Morgon on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kevasidhe">https://twitter.com/kevasidhe</a><br />Silver Empire on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/silverempire">https://twitter.com/silverempire</a><br />Silver Empire Facebook: <a href="https://facebook.com/SilverEmpirePub">https://facebook.com/SilverEmpirePub</a><br />Silver Empire Website: <a href="https://silverempire.org/">https://silverempire.org/</a><br />Silver Empire Newsletter<a href="https://silverempire.org/newsletter">https://silverempire.org/newsletter</a><br />Heroes Unleashed Website: <a href="https://heroes-unleashed.com/">https://heroes-unleashed.com/</a><br /><br />Artist's Kickstarter project:<br /><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1677703185/black-fin-barbarian-shark?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=black%20fin">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1677703185/black-fin-barbarian-shark?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=black%20fin</a><br /><br />His Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/andy_duggan_art/">https://www.instagram.com/andy_duggan_art/</a><br /><br />Kickstarter link:<br /><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/silverempire/1308136901?ref=551470&token=6247a667">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/silverempire/1308136901?ref=551470&token=6247a667</a><br /><br />Paragons: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076XZ9QW2">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076XZ9QW2</a></span><br />
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Honey Bee by Kevin Macleod: <a href="http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755">http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755</a></div>
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Kings of Tara by Kevin Macleod: <a href="http://www.incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500071&Search=Search">http://www.incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500071&Search=Search</a></div>
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Kings of Tara Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of the podcast! This time I talk to Brian Niemeier, Bradford C. Walker, and Rawle Nyanzi about the A Gundam For Us project, which is about creating a mecha intellectual property that Americans can identify with and get behind. So I hope that y'all enjoy the discussion, and that you'll also go check out the links in the description. Hope y'all enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Brian</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Website: <a href="http://www.brianniemeier.com/">http://www.brianniemeier.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianNiemeier">https://twitter.com/BrianNiemeier</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Gab: <a href="https://gab.ai/BrianNiemeier">https://gab.ai/BrianNiemeier</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Indiegogo: <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/18944827">https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/18944827</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Website: <a href="https://bradfordcwalker.blogspot.com/">https://bradfordcwalker.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MrBCWalker">https://twitter.com/MrBCWalker</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Gab: <a href="https://gab.ai/MrBCWalker">https://gab.ai/MrBCWalker</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Website: <a href="http://rawlenyanzi.com/">http://rawlenyanzi.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/RawleNyanziFTL">https://twitter.com/RawleNyanziFTL</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Blogspot: <a href="http://jimfear138.blogspot.com/">http://jimfear138.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Opening Music:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Honey Bee by Kevin Macleod: <a href="http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755">http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Honey Bee Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> Closing Music:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Kings of Tara by Kevin Macleod: <a href="http://www.incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500071&Search=Search">http://www.incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500071&Search=Search</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Kings of Tara Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the podcast! This week I talk to J.D. Cowan about several articles he posted to his website, his book, writing, anime, music, and a host of other topics! Be sure to check out his website and his book, <i>Grey Cat Blues, </i>linked below! Hope y'all enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Website: <a href="http://wastelandandsky.blogspot.com/">http://wastelandandsky.blogspot.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Novel: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077X5G9DN/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=jimfear138-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B077X5G9DN&linkId=d592d6214ff7c1a72b2ad09e22cab3c0">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077X5G9DN/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=jimfear138-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B077X5G9DN&linkId=d592d6214ff7c1a72b2ad09e22cab3c0</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/wastelandJD">https://twitter.com/wastelandJD</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Itunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/jimfear138/id1107844659?mt=2">https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/jimfear138/id1107844659?mt=2</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LichJim">https://twitter.com/LichJim</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/JimFear138">https://www.youtube.com/user/JimFear138</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Blogspot: <a href="http://jimfear138.blogspot.com/">http://jimfear138.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Minds: <a href="https://www.minds.com/JimFear138">https://www.minds.com/JimFear138</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Dailymotion: <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/jimfear138">http://www.dailymotion.com/jimfear138</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Opening Music:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Honey Bee by Kevin Macleod: <a href="http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755">http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100755</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Honey Bee Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Closing Music:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Crunk Knight by Kevin Macleod: <a href="http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400044">http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400044</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Crunk Knight Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So because some people still just don't get it, this post is something I see as necessary. I'm going to try to explain what's currently happening, and why it's necessary, if not good. Because at the end of the day this isn't about James Gunn, or pedophilia, it's about winning a war, and the concept of "total war" isn't just for armed military conflict.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">For those unfamiliar, although I doubt any of you are, James Gunn is the director of Guardians of the Galaxy who was recently fired from his job because of some pretty outrageous "joke" tweets making light of pedophilia. This was mostly undertaken by Mike Cernovich and his fans, and because of this Gunn scrubbed his twitter account and lost his job. New targets include Patton Oswalt, Michael Ian Black, and Dan Harmon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I should state up front that I really don't care what they joked about. Those who follow me for any length of time come to a quick understanding that I consider no topic "off limits". There is no cow so sacred that I won't tip it if I feel like it. Comedy is comedy, jokes are jokes, and neither are evidence of a crime. I don't think that Gunn and Oswalt and Black and Harmon have <i>actually </i>done anything wrong, not until I see actual evidence of it. It certainly seems suspicious to me, but there's no law against that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But like I said, this isn't about them individually, or what they said or did. This is about winning a war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Because whether or not you like it, or want to admit it, there is a culture war happening. The left and the right have been going at it since the 60's, and given the absolute state of things at the moment you can see who's been winning. Spoilers: It's the left. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Any idiot can see that. The marriage rate, divorce rate, fatherlessness rate, devaluation of currency, invasive laws being passed every day, the creep on gun rights, privacy being violated, and free speech being socially abrogated are all evidences of the disastrous policies of the left becoming more prevalent with each passing year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This is also on top of the left thinking they own the public space, that any person who has wrongthink or badfun should not only be excised from that public space, but should be unable to feed, clothe, and house themselves and their families. They burn people alive and give no thought to cleaning up the ashes before they're on to the next target. We see it in people like James Damore, Roseanne Barr, and hundreds of people you've never heard of whose lives are completely destroyed by the leftist outrage mob. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Another thing it's crucial to understand is that the tactics of the left <i style="font-weight: bold;">work. </i>They are effective. They get results. They shift the culture. Anyone who denies this is lying to themselves and to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">You should also keep in mind that pride and principles do not, and I repeat <b><i>DO NOT WIN WARS. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">For example, the picture I used above. World War One was one of the most horrific wars in the history of mankind, if not the outright worst ever. Specifically let's look at gas warfare. Germany was the first to use gas of any kind, but specifically bromine and chlorine, in the effort to demoralize and kill their opponents. If Germany had kept using gas, and the Allies hadn't, Germany would've won that war. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So much like in the current culture war, the Germans (the left) are using gas warfare (calling for people to be fired for mean tweets) in an effort to demoralize and at the end of the day kill the people they perceive as their enemies. Caught up on that comparison? Okay good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So what happened in WWI? The Germans started using gas, then the Allies started using it back, and eventually both sides stopped using gas and nowadays whenever you hear about someone using chemical weapons, even on troops in a declared war, it's considered a war crime that the international community spits on and holds in utmost contempt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Are you starting to see where I'm going with this?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This is how war works. One side will escalate in an attempt to win, and the other side will either be bowled over or escalate in turn. Deescalation only happens when both sides have been harmed enough to agree to it. Now, I know that lunatics on the left like Cenk Uyger like to say that the left just lies back and thinks of England while the right rails them six ways from Sunday, but I can assure you that just isn't the case. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I watch the news quite a bit, and I can recall about seventeen incidents off the top of my head wherein the leftist outrage mob has gone after some poor undeserving soul just within the past four years. The left does this almost weekly, and its plain to see. The right, on the other hand, has what's been happening the past couple days on twitter and Gamergate, which wasn't even a proper right wing movement. It was just a bunch of nerds from all over who wanted their goddamned video games left the hell alone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So no, the right does not engage in these tactics. Up till now they have been almost solely the purview of the left. That's why people are getting so upset at the people going after Gunn, and Oswalt, and whoever else. This is Simply Not Doneâ„¢. Not by the right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">No, see, we have <i>principles. </i>We have <i>honor. </i>We do not <i>stoop to their level.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Well, okay. Let me ask you some questions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">How many people whose lives have been destroyed by the left has your principles and honor saved?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">How many actual victories have your principles and honor won?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">How many leftists (you know the type) have looked at your principles and honor and said, "You know, maybe we shouldn't try to kill these people after all"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And most importantly, will your principles and honor be able to keep you warm on those homeless nights after you offend the leftist outrage mob and are rendered unemployable?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Having principles and honor is all well and good, but it is not how you win wars. You win wars through decisive action to smash your opponents as swiftly as possible. The left already views this as a war and have been acting accordingly. So, I have to ask, why in the flaming fuck haven't the right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Another thing people need to understand is that the person being attacked doesn't get to decide when a fight starts. The country minding its own business that gets invaded doesn't get a say in whether or not they're actually in a war. The side of the culture minding its own fucking business doesn't get to decide when the culture war starts when the other side of the culture walks up to them and starts trying to strangle them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A war is upon you, whether you like it or not. You can either fight it, or pretend that you're better than everyone else while doing literally nothing about it other than condemning both sides for trying to win. In a life or death fight, honor means nothing. Keep your principles and honor, but understand that <i>the people attacking you have none and don't want any. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">They will use any method period to utterly destroy their opponents, or the people they have decided are subhuman. To defeat such a widespread and honorless enemy as this, you are going to have to lay down your honor and principles and smash the absolute shit out of them. You can pick them up later when the fight's over. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So when Antifa shows up to a peaceful protest or march or whatever and start getting violent, you kick the everloving shit out of them. Send them home to their parents' basements with broken noses, cracked skulls, shattered ribs, and a note attached to their backs to never do it again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When the SJW's on twitter pull this outrage mob bullshit to get people fired, like Damore or Roseanne or anyone else, you dig into their twitter history, or their entire online history if you can find it, find the fucked up shit they've said, and contact their employer about it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now you may ask, "If this war is basically being fought online, with no face to face contact with the rest of the combatants, how will I be able to see the enemy's appeasement signals when they're ready to talk truce?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">To which I would respond, "Don't worry. They won't be able to see yours either, or they'd have come to the table by now."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So as distasteful as some people may find these tactics, they are necessary to end this bullshit. You have to speak a language these people understand. With Antifa, it's violence. With the outrage mob, it's outrage. One man with principles can't fight off all of Antifa (unless it's Rufio, that mother was handing out dirt naps like candy on Halloween), and one man with principles can't stop the outrage mob. You need friends, allies, tactics, goals, weapons, and heads on motherfucking pikes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It's good for morale, trust me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Because the left has been on track to win this culture war for decades at this point. They're organized, evil, ready, and coming whether you like it or not. So for the milquetoast "conservatives" and the anti-SJW's who think they can win this war by killing them with kindness, you need to stop being a denthead about this. War isn't won by honor, principles, pleading, and happy feelings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And you are in a war, whether you like it or not.</span>Jim Fearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00428223329362056174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736129185935358578.post-55978083163899568652018-07-22T22:49:00.000-07:002018-07-23T17:32:28.557-07:00The JimFear138 Podcast Ep.92 ft. Rucka Rucka Ali<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the podcast! This time I get parody artist and student of philosophy Rucka Rucka Ali on to discuss Ayn Rand, her books, Objectivism, moral and ethical philosophy, human rights, his music, The German Questionâ„¢, and plenty of other topics. The podcast went on for about 5 hours or so, and there was an issue with the audio from his side, again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I swear it sounded fine in my earphones, but then when I got it into playback his audio was clipping pretty bad. I've done what I can to clean it up, and he's at least understandable, if not coming through with perfect sound quality like we'd all want. I blame skype, because we fiddled with the audio beforehand to make it sound good. Next time I'll be sure to do a test recording beforehand to make sure the audio is all good. So apologies for not thinking of that this time. Personally I don't think it's too bad after processing, but I'll let you guys be the judge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hope y'all enjoy, and thanks again to Rucka for coming on the show!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the podcast! This time I talk about some of the crazy developments in politics for a while, then get into a discussion of Atlas Shrugged as a book (from what I've read so far), then move from that into a discussion of Objectivism (Ayn Rand's philosophy). Hope y'all enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Continuing in the vein of bitching about D&D because it's been on my mind a lot lately, recently I found out about the <a href="http://feralrpg.com/" target="_blank">FERAL rpg</a>. This one's in development, but it looks really cool for what's there in the playtest. From what I've been told it's basically a mashup of the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ttrpg from the 80s (now known as After The Bomb because licensing is a beyotch) and D&D 5e.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So in an effort to understand FERAL I had to, out of necessity, get ahold of the 5e Player's Guide, which I did. The things I put up with, I tell ya. I figure the best way to understand character creation so I can explain it to other people is to go ahead and make a bunch of characters. This I did, and I found out some incredibly head-scratchy and disturbing things about the design of 5e that, coming as I am off of about a year of OSR and B/X high, made me very confused. And given that this blog is my place to bitch about things that annoy me, that's what I'm gonna do!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The first of these things that viscerally repelled me on a spiritual level, like a Catholic watching a streetwalker do unspeakable things with a Eucharist wafer, was this little thing called Inspiration. What is Inspiration, you ask? Well, I'm glad you did because now I get to show you this abomination from the 5e guide so you can feel my pain right along with me because misery loves company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Now I shouldn't have to explain why this is bad and wrong but I'm gonna anyway. This must be something they took from 4e or created specifically for 5e or dredged up from the pits of girl D&D hell specifically to torment people like me who are used to rolling with the punches in our tabletop games. As I explained in my last post the dice in a tabletop game that uses them (diceless systems exist, they're just not all that common in my experience), the dice are meant to represent and embody the "luck" component of any encounter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For example, B/X D&D has three major mechanics governing encounters which are The Alignment System, The Monster Reaction Table, and the Retainer Reaction Table. If you wish to truly give yourself up to the whim of the Gods of Random Chance as Gygax intended, you let the dice do the talking at the tabletop. You choose your Alignment in character creation or roll a d3 (there's only Lawful, Neutral, and Chaotic, and none of those are inherently evil or good), and that's supposed to govern how your character reacts to stimuli in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So a Chaotic character might stick with the party for a while, but if an encounter goes badly they might just run off out the back with as much loot as they can carry while the rest of the group dies horribly to unknowingly facilitate them saving their own skin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The monster reaction table is meant to decide how monsters in the dungeon react to the players showing up and wrecking face. It ranges from "Instant Attack" to "Enthusiastic Friendship", and is rolled on a 2d6. There's more chance the monsters will actually talk to the characters to find out what they're doing down here, because almost everything except for dumb animals in the dungeons are chaotic and they'll betray their masters in a heartbeat for a shiny new dime and a glass of soda.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If the dice are on your side, that is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The retainer reaction table is much like the monster reaction table, only it's meant to govern how well or badly hirelings take to your offer of shinies and dangerous adventure. It's also a 2d6, and ranges from "Offer refused and every other potential retainer is adjusted by -1" to "Offer accepted and they get +1 to morale". Once again, letting the dice decide things like this is a big part of the fun of the game, because thanks to the luck and chance components you never <i>really </i>know what's gonna happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So the reason I explained all that crap to you is this: You're supposed to rely on the dice. They are your guides through the valley of the shadow of death, your saviors in time of trouble. They're also the sadistic little bastards that just let you get eaten by a wolf even though you're wearing full plate armor. Even when my misguided self was playing 3.5 back in high school (don't be too harsh, it was the only ttrpg I knew existed and quite literally the only game in town), half the fun of the game was rolling those knucklebones and seeing what came up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This applies even more when we're talking about the things that this 5e mechanic of Inspiration governs: Attacks, Saving Throws, and Ability Checks. These are the meat and potatoes of a D&D campaign, it's what you'll probably spend the most time rolling over, and as I said half the fun is seeing what happens when you roll those dice and dealing with the consequences, good or bad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For those unfamiliar, attacks are pretty self explanatory, but saving throws are when something really bad happens to you and you need to see if it affected you or not. This can be getting hit by poison, a spell, a magic wand, or even dragon's breath. You have a chance to roll to escape it, and getting to re-roll that is just playing like a sissy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There's no other way to put it. This is straight bitch-made, right here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In the older versions of the game you dealt with what the dice gave you. Like I said in my last post, character death is supposed to be a thing, and while you have a chance to survive this stuff, you have a chance to not survive it as well. The tension and suspense of rolling the dice and seeing what happens is a fundamental part of the game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ability checks are less deadly (usually) but still pretty important. Less so in B/X unless you're a thief, but any character can try to do a thing and roll to see if they're successful. Trying to climb a wall, jump a cavern, do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight, all of them can be tied to an ability the character has and can be checked against a roll on a d20 (or various other dice, depending). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The way Inspiration seems to work from that small explanation (the only one in the rulebook, by the by, but maybe the DMG has other info on it, I haven't cracked that tome of horrors yet), is basically if the player is a good role-player, or comes up with a clever solution to a problem, or does a good in a fight, they gain a point of inspiration to be used to re-roll a dice throw that came up in the negative for them. This is, primarily it seems, meant to encourage the narrative play that people like Pundy, Bradford, and myself have been shouting into the desert about lately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And I took a bit of heat from Misha Burnett over that last post because I am contending that there is a right and wrong way to play D&D, so I should say this right here: Having a narrative in your D&D game is not an inherently bad thing. There's a narrative in The Temple of Elemental Evil, for god's sake (the module I'm currently running). Granted, it's mostly about getting into the Temple and cracking The Skulls of Elemental Evil, but there are extensive parts of that module dealing with Hommlet and Nulb and the various people in them. Every named NPC has a backstory, and can be called upon to influence the game in various ways to the aid or detriment of the players. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So I'm not saying having narrative is bad, and I'm not saying role-playing is bad. Could've fooled you, right? What I'm saying is that letting those take over the game to the exclusion of all else is bad and Not Funâ„¢. Trust me, I've been there. I actually prefer a little role-playing in my games. It leads to interesting and fun moments that get laughs and groans from everybody at the table and adds to the overall fun of the game. What's bad is letting the role-play and the Way The DM Thinks The Story Is Supposed To Goâ„¢ take over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I should also mention there are plenty of narrative games out there I have no issue with. They're purely meant to facilitate role-playing, and good for them. No, serious as a heart attack, good for them. Different strokes for different folks, I'm a libertarian at heart, and I'm not going to show up at your table and tell you to your face that you're playing the game wrong. If I'm a player I'll probably just quietly see myself out, if I'm not involved well then I'm just glad you're having a good time because it doesn't effect me at all how you play your D&D sessions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">However I am entitled to my opinion, and my opinion is that there is a right and wrong way to play the game, and inspiration is most definitely wrong. If you missed your roll trying to attack the Big Bad Evil Guy, sack up and deal with it and pray to the Dice Gods for a more favorable roll next time. Likewise for saving throws and ability checks. Failure is part of the game, and indeed without it the fun, in my opinion, doesn't exist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Don't get me wrong, I like to get absolutely fucking shitfaced hammered and play a first-person shooter on easy mode and just godhand every single measly motherfucker with the bad luck to be in my crosshairs just like any red blooded American. But unless I'm so drunk I literally can't see straight, there's no challenge in that, and the challenge is where the fun of games like FPS's and ttrpg's lies. That knowledge that the next encounter could be the last is what makes the game exciting and memorable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The narrative-above-all-else style of gaming that mechanics like Inspiration encourage is just an inferior style of game. If that's your thing, then go for it and good luck, but you're essentially cheating the dice just like if you loaded them. You're stacking the odds in your favor so that fewer bad things <i>have the chance to happen to you.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That last part is in italics for a reason. It's not that those bad things will absolutely happen if you don't use an Inspiration-style mechanic in your game, it's that they have a chance of happening, just like you have a chance to fudge that second roll. But what a mechanic like Inspiration does is effectively put the player characters one or two steps closer to being invincible, and as One Punch Man has shown us, winning every encounter with little to no challenge is just plain boring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What a mechanic like Inspiration says to me is that the players are too sissified to be able to deal with the consequences of their own dice rolls without getting to shout, "Do over!" like a child on the playground who missed the pitch in a stickball game. It's a fundamental disrespect to the people who are playing the game, along with the DM. Kids in the 80's loved and reveled in games like B/X where you dealt with your dice rolls like a man and came back swinging next round. Kids in the 2000's dealt with it too, although 3.5 was already sliding down the winding slope that led to this game basically spitting in your face like this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A friend of mine on twitter (I believe it was <a href="https://twitter.com/roughcoat13" target="_blank">J.D. Alden</a>, but I apologize if I'm misremembering) also foresaw that this could start actual no-shit fights at the tabletop and ruin gaming sessions. Now I don't know how true that is, I've never heard stories about that happening, but I could see it happening. Some player who's really up in themselves about the role-playing thinks they're entitled to a point of inspiration because they're playing a chaotic evil tiefling and they just act like an absolute cock to everyone. But, like I said, I've never heard of this happening, I just admit that it's a possibility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But anyway, I think I've come to why this is bothering me enough to write this long-ass screed about it. This is insulting to everyone who picks this book up expecting a good game. They're effectively saying that you can't handle what children four+ decades ago could. I, for one, don't put up with that kind of crap from anybody, let alone a WOTC drone who insults potential customers on social media. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So really the choice comes down to this: Are you going to play a game that spits in your face and treats you like an infant, while at the same time playing the game wrong considering what type of game it actually is?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">So <a href="https://twitter.com/KasimirUrbanski" target="_blank">Pundy</a> (or The RPGPundit, as he's commonly known) has a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sglQ94v6Es" target="_blank">new video about player backstories</a>, and I gotta say I agree with him wholeheartedly. Hat tip to <a href="https://twitter.com/MrBCWalker" target="_blank">Bradford C. Walker</a> for <a href="https://bradfordcwalker.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-rpg-pundit-talks-backstories-other.html" target="_blank">posting it on his blog</a> and then further posting that to twitter so I could see it while I was making my coffee today. Go subscribe to both of these gentlemen and pop their blogs into your rss feed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Now I'm not going to belabor the points made by Bradford & Pundy, but I am going to add onto them here. There's something that's implicit in all this talk of player backstories and why they're bullshit that's being left unsaid, I think. And I dunno if those two just overlooked it or if they were purposefully leaving it unsaid, but as we all know I'm a little thick and sometimes I need to spell things out for myself. Maybe someone else will get the benefit of my anti-wisdom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Anyway. The real reason your players don't need backstories are because they should be allowed to die. None of the other stuff really matters as long as the players and the DM understand that:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">A: This is a game and<br />B: Player character death is apart of it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">So far as I'm concerned after that understanding has been reached the players can do whatever the blue fuck they want with their characters, because they're their characters not mine. Give that guy a backstory if you want, I'll even make minor concessions in the game world over it. Like in my current game (Temple of Elemental Evil run through B/X rules) one of my players is a cleric, and he went and did a ton of research about the Temple of Saint Cuthbert, made up a whole other branch, and decided that his character was a part of it and their job was to kick evil square in the dick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">And I don't mind that. It's actually been kind of funny. But the main thing is that he has the understanding that, unless he plays smart (which he does), every single time they go into the Temple could be the last time his character does anything. This is an understanding that every DM should have with all of their players.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Players like to do dumb shit occasionally. Sometimes that dumb shit comes with serious fucking consequences. The DM shouldn't be afraid to let the players suffer those consequences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Because Bradford's right when he says:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That's what D&D is. It's a wargame on a very small scale, meant to represent and put the players into a fictional world that reacts to their decisions via the avatars of the characters they play. D&D has its roots in wargaming, quite literally, & it's a lot more fun when that is kept in mind by the players and the DM. I can promise you that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I've brought this up before but my last Pathfinder game before I started DM'ing myself was narrative bs. I put very little effort into my character's backstory. He was evil, a cleric, probably an orphan, and a tiefling because I was being an edgelord. I wanted to be able to just fuck with people as hard as I could and there's few better ways to do that than by actually playing a fucking monster. However, there was no risk to that game, and I got bored quick and stopped taking it seriously after about six or eight sessions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Every character had a backstory, we had entire sessions that were literally nothing but roleplay when I was looking to get into the dungeon, kick people in the balls, take they stuff, and get back out alive. The only "real" fight we had was all a dream so the DM could test how we would do (at level 8 or so) against the enemies he'd homebrewed, and we got <i style="font-weight: bold;">fucking wiped. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I think my guy might've survived because I banished one of the engines of death back to its native plane. That was the most fun session that entire game, and once I realized that I just couldn't go back to narrative bullshit anymore. I got a taste of a real fight, I watched my friends' characters die, and I almost ate it myself, and after feeling that tiny, diluted hit of what D&D was <i>supposed to be, </i>I just couldn't do "girl D&D" anymore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">D&D is based in wargaming, and it shows in the language we use in the hobby itself. The reason a string of adventures is called a "campaign" is because it's based on the military campaigns that tabletop wargaming recreates. Much like the influence of Appendix N and the pulps, that's something they'll never scrub out of the hobby no matter how hard they try. Like H.P. Lovecraft's writing, its power is beyond their ability to deface. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But what happens in a military campaign?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">People fucking die. It's a necessary consequence of the very act of campaigning. When you have supposedly slightly extraordinary people (you're not peasants, but you're not great heroes of legend either) going into an incredibly dangerous situation almost literally every single day of their lives, the likelihood that something will kill them is increased exponentially. This is why dungeons are full of monsters, traps, evil humans, portals to other dimensions, and all kinds of other shit. The point of the dungeon is to kill the players, and the point of the players is to navigate it without dying. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So what does Final Fantasy have to do with this?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In a video game like Final Fantasy, you have the One True Partyâ„¢. These are a group of people whose stories the dev team has chosen to tell, like Cloud, Barrett, and Tifa in 7 or Zidane & Co. in 9. They have their ups and downs, and apart from a scripted loss here and there they literally beat the dogshit out of everybody they encounter. Oh, you can run into shit that's too heavy for you, but if your party gets wiped in the process it's game over and you have to go back to your last save point and click through all that dialogue again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In D&D <i style="font-weight: bold;">there is no One True Partyâ„¢. </i>The characters are expendable and can easily (or should be able to be easily) replaced. For example, another personal anecdote because I'm sure y'all aren't tired of those yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In the Temple of Elemental Evil our Dwarf who'd somehow survived like 16 sessions and had been there since the beginning (he was about lvl 5 or so) had acquired a lightning spear. This thing was basically a magical weapon of mass destruction. It did 1d6+20 damage in a 150 foot radius. Barring incredibly high HD creatures (like over 4 or 5 or so) it'll kill just about anything it hits, if it hits them. Well they come up on some Elementals in the Temple, as you do, and he throws the spear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He misses. The elementals start stomping towards them, right over where the spear had landed. So I figure I'll have him roll to see if one of these giant mounds of dirt and boulders steps on it and breaks it, unleashing the magical energy within. Because I'm a <b><i>dick like that. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He rolls his d6 and it comes up on 1. Well slap my ass and call me Sally, B/X is a roll-under system and low rolls means the thing happens. The elemental stepped on the spear, broke it, lightning went everywhere, and it fried that dwarf like bacon. Dead character, no more dwarf. The other characters proceeded to slit his throat and use his blood to banish the other elementals that were still coming towards them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hey, he didn't need the blood anymore. Far as I'm concerned that's efficient use of resources at hand. Player's fine, he rolled up a thief and he's back in the game next session. It sucks, but that's the way the dice rolled. Never trust a computerized random number generator. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The party characters are just people, they're not special, they don't have any great destiny ahead of them, and their backstory doesn't matter. What matters is the emergent story that comes from them interacting with the virtual world they're placed in and how it reacts to them. These characters have to forge their destiny, not have it spelled out for them in a nice, safe garden path they can traipse down at leisure with no worries about big mean monsters coming to ruin their dainty little fingernails they just had manicured. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The characters are supposed to be people like Northwest Smith, Conan, Adam Reith, Cugel the Clever, and Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser. Slightly extraordinary men in extraordinary situations that built their own destinies from square one. There were multiple times in all their stories that they almost died, and would have were it not for their luck, fighting prowess, and brains. So it is with player characters in D&D.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If they live, it was because the player fought smart, played it safe, used every advantage they had, and had luck on their side represented by the dice. If they died, it was because they didn't. Plain and simple. This isn't Final Fantasy, it's tabletop rpg's. They're two completely different mediums, and one is about storytelling while the other is about kicking monsters in the dick and taking they stuff. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Failed novelists have no place at the table in D&D. Go write your book if you're so enthusiastic about it you'll try to railroad the players (or the rest of the players and DM) into going along with your supposed destiny. It's really easy to do. Pop open an OpenOffice text document and start typing. But when you come to the tabletop, you're supposed to be there to game, not tell a story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Unless you're playing something like Hillfolk, I suppose, but we're talking about D&D and games like it. Which, once again, is fundamentally what these ttrpg's are. They're games. Even in the One True Partyâ„¢ Land of Final Fantasy, failure is part of the game. You can run into that one thing that's too strong for you, or just fuck up planning for a fight, or screw up on your strategy for a certain boss and just get your ass completely wiped the fuck out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The difference is in D&D character death is supposed to be permanent. So my advice, to build off what Bradford and Pundy are talking about, is firstly to DM's: Don't be afraid to kill off your players' characters when they do something stupid and the dice don't come up in their favor. And then to Players: Don't sweat a character dying, because it's really not that big of a deal anyway. If you had a destiny planned out for them, that wasn't really their destiny. Their destiny was actually to get squished by an Elemental. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If you inject some actual stakes back into your game, such as players getting pasted by big mean monsters, it'll be a much more fun experience for everyone involved. Even the guys whose characters die. If that wasn't the case then our thief player who died in session one wouldn't have rolled up another and come back next week. Our current female fighter would've quit after session 2 when her elf got her throat torn out by a wolf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So Ben Cheah, Castalia House author and Warboss of Steempulp, <a href="https://steemit.com/books/@cheah/between-pulp-wonders-and-light-novel-trash" target="_blank">recently made a post</a> comparing pulp greats like Robert Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs to modern Japanese light novels, and you should absolutely go read it. He brings up a lot of good points, including the difference between showing and telling, and does a good job comparing light novels to some of the pulps we are all familiar with by now, or should be familiar with by now. He also gave my podcast a shoutout, so I'm obligated to return the favor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Not that I wouldn't, given what he said in his post lighting my brain on fire like it did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The post has a multitude of good points, but there's something I'd like to hone in on and elucidate for a bit. This part:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The point I want to focus on is "...you don't need to produce perfect stories from the get-go..." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This might be a bit contentious, but I'd say that you don't need to produce perfect stories <i>at all. </i>Allow me to explain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">No story is perfect. Period, the end. This is something you need to accept if you want to be a writer. Every single story ever written has flaws. Nothing is perfect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Even going back and reading the pulp grandmasters that we so presumptuously sit at the knee of, we can see multiple problems that it turns out aren't really problems at all. Don't misunderstand me, these errors (in a perfect world) shouldn't have made it into these stories. They should've been caught and either edited around or written out. However, these stories are still <i>good.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This is what I mean by the title. It's an old saying that, "The perfect is the enemy of the good," but here I want to make it clear what that actually means.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Are the Conan stories perfect? No, they are not. And this is coming from someone who idolizes Howard and strives to learn everything I can possibly glean from every single story of his I read. There are echoes (words repeated too often), he has a tendency to gloss over descriptions, and he sometimes builds up a conflict only to have it end with no great resolution that pays off on the build up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Robert E. Howard was not a perfect writer. If he was he wouldn't have gotten so many rejection slips from magazines he sent his stories to. I think I'm bleeding as I type this, but I shall soldier on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Any craft that you can name requires practice. You can go to grandmasters of literally anything, and if they don't tell you that there's still more they can learn, they're bullshitting you. Blacksmithing, poetry, food preparation, writing, all of it. There is always more to learn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And this is where "the perfect" being the enemy of "the good" comes into play. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I used to work in a pizza shop. If we'd spent every moment agonizing over whether every single pizza was "perfect" we'd never have gotten any other work done, let alone actually made any pizza. Sometimes this led to fucked up pizzas, but more often than not they were "good enough."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This is something I think the PulpRev needs to grasp hold of as we've moved beyond just talking about how great the old pulps are and onto actually creating our own material. Nothing, and I need to stress this, <i>nothing that you create will ever be perfect.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">For a recent example from my own catalog, the story appearing in Cirsova #8, Slavers of Venus. When I sent that off I was absolutely certain it was the best story it could possibly be. When Alexander wrote me back to accept the story he said it was just what he was looking for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But, when I go back and re-read it...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I don't precisely weep bitter tears, but by god there are a lot of things in that story that I'd change from a technical standpoint if I could. Turns of phrase, repeated words, lines of dialogue, all kinds of changes I'd make to that story if I had the power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But the great thing is I don't need to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">That story was "good enough."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Ride with me before you assume I'm so far up my own asshole I can't see daylight anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When I sent that in, I'd gone over it with what I thought was a fine-toothed comb. I was certain I'd corrected everything that could possibly be corrected barring a total rewrite. It was as good as it would get, so far as I was concerned. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And when Alexander got it (I don't presume to speak for the man, I have too much respect for him, but I'm going to intuit his thought process if I may), he read it and thought something along the lines of, "This isn't another loincloth-clad barbarian sword and sorcery story! This is honest-to-god sword & planet fiction! He went over it before he sent it in, I'll just touch up the obvious typos and print that shit!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And you know what? If Alexander liked it enough to print it, it's damn sure good enough for me. Would I change stuff in it? Abso-fucking-lutely. No question. Am I disappointed that it ran that way in Cirsova Magazine? Abso-fucking-lutely not. In no wise. My story got featured in my favorite magazine, and I couldn't be prouder of that fact if you paid me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This is what I mean by the perfect being the enemy of the good. You think I get someone to proof those stories I post on Steemit? No way in hell, beta readers are expensive. I write the stories and I post them. If they're not good enough, someone'll let me know. This happened with Fire On The Bayou, and hasn't happened since. But the overall point is, as unvetted as those stories are, I still post them. I still put them out there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Because I think they're "good enough."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If you attempt to make your stories perfect, they will never, and I mean <i>never </i>be good enough to print in your eyes. You will forever be focusing on some bit of minutia that isn't quite up to your standards. Rewrites and editing will be a process that goes on forever, and then when (if) you finally get the story up to snuff, you'll go back and read it six months on and think, "God dammit. I did it again. I flubbed that little thing. I could've done that differently. I could've phrased that better. God damn me to hell for being a shit writer."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Because of thoughts like this, so many stories never get published. Uncountable reams of fiction moldering in someone's basement or attic have never seen the light of day because it wasn't "perfect" when it never needed to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Your story doesn't have to be perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And focusing on making your story perfect is not focusing on making it good enough to print. If I'd been focused on making Slavers of Venus perfect I'd have never sent it off to Alexander and never gotten it in Cirsova. Trying to make your story perfect traps your writing in editing hell from which it may never recover. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Yes, your story may have spelling or grammar errors. Yes, it may have echoed words. Yes, it may have clumsy phrasing. But at a certain point it's as good as it's going to get, and you have to <i>do something with it. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we should never seek to improve. We should always be looking to the great ones who came before and paved this road to learn better paving techniques. We should constantly be evaluating what we read and integrating the effective and evocative language they use into our own writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I am in no way saying that we, as writers, should rest on our laurels and be okay with turning out crap fiction like the shit that wins the Hugos nowadays. If you've done that you're well and truly stagnant and you deserve to be destroyed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But accepting that nothing will ever be perfect is an important step on the road to becoming a professional writer. You can edit, and edit, and edit, but at a certain point the work is "good enough" and you can send it in for publication or publish it yourself. Coming to grips with the moment where you've gotten a work as good as you can possibly get it is vital, because otherwise nobody would ever publish anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Robert Howard sent in manuscripts to all kinds of publications that rejected him and sent his stories back. He thought they were "good enough" and got shot down. He had work to do. In this we can take a lesson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">We all have work to do. Some of us more than others. But if you don't fuck up and bloody your nose, you'll never learn. Without rejection notices, authors who are serious about publishing their fiction cannot grow. We need to each develop our own technique for writing and make ourselves the best writers we can possibly be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But there comes a point where good enough is good enough, and trying to make your story perfect will just ruin it as well as your chances of acceptance. Either through missing deadlines or sheer indecision itself. And I'll leave you with this last little bit of encouragement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If I can get published, so can you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">You just need to realize when a story is good enough, and let go of trying to make it perfect. Because the perfect is the enemy of the good, and if you strive for perfection you will never be good enough. And if you're never good enough you'll never go anywhere. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So get good enough. Attempt to perfect your style and writing, but realize where the line is between pedantic editing and simply being good enough to print. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I should mention this screed doesn't mean "Turn in garbage to magazines you want to be printed in." Refine your craft. Practice. Get better. Git gud. Eventually writing you thought to be utter trash will be looked at by people who sign paychecks with a discerning eye as more than good enough to grace the pages of their publications.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Try to be good enough.</span>Jim Fearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00428223329362056174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736129185935358578.post-51060839113942083222018-06-08T13:22:00.000-07:002018-06-08T13:22:39.436-07:00Commies, Commies, Everywhere, And How To Fix The Problem!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">One of the blackest pills I've had to swallow the past couple of years is that the United States well and truly lost the Cold War. The Cold War was a war, not of traditional arms and armies, but of ideologies, and infecting other countries with those ideologies. The U.S.S.R. might be gone, but their influence remains and by god is it being felt in the U.S. right now. You may think I'm being hyperbolic, or bullshitting you outright, but I can assure you that I'm not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">All you have to do is look around you and barely scratch the surface. By this time we all know that "social justice" ideology is built on a marxist/communistic framework. That's the entire root of the ideology, and that's not a mistake, it's by design. So isn't it very interesting that when we look into the people who have been ruining science fiction and fantasy literature since the 40's, we find that they all nowadays follow the social justice ideology? And that back in the 40's they were open and avowed communists? Don't believe me? Regular readers of this blog should be familiar with this video by Dan Wolfgang and QuQu, but it's worth bringing up again. Just give this a watch. I know, it's long, but it's incredibly well researched, and all the research is linked in the description if you don't believe what the fuzzy shapeshifter is telling you. Go ahead, I'll be here when you get done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So, now that you've watched that, and are probably sufficiently angry like I was my first time seeing it, let me explain how total the destruction has been. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">You've probably heard about what's been going on with Larry Correia the past few years, how his reputation has been unfairly tarnished because he noticed that the Hugo Awards were more a social club jerking each other off than an actual awards show giving prizes away for good writing (my words not his), as well as his recent banning from Origins, a convention. You've probably also heard about John Ringo being banned from ConCarolinas, and their subsequent retraction and apology. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Apart from outlets like Baen Books, Castalia House, and various small house publishers or independent authors, you can very easily be blacklisted for stepping outside of the ideological narrative. Just a little will do the trick. This has led to a steady decrease in the amount of decent fiction being published in the US. As we in the Pulp Revolution are wont to say, don't read anything after 1980. I qualify that with an, "Up until about 2015, then you have to dig to find the good stuff." There are a few exceptions to this rule, but being exceptions they are just that, few.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Science fiction has been pushed into the ever-harder, with stories that have to be "about" something instead of just being a fun story. The story has to "mean" something beyond simple entertainment. You can hardly pick up a scifi book that was written from about 1960 onwards without the author trying to preach some damn message at you, whereas you go back a scant few decades before and read A Princess of Mars and it's just a rip-roaring good time cover to cover. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Fantasy, on the other hand, has become almost nothing but bad Tolkien pastiches. The books get longer and longer, and the series go on for interminable amounts of books, and there's so much filler you could choke a horse with what could be edited out of these books. Instead of bright, fun, original stories about heroes and villains and love and magic and sword fights, we get dreary narratives that seem obsessed with how much rape they can put on the page, or with having every single character being an irredeemable asshole who never does anything worthy of the title "hero." In a land where short, punchy, fun stories once ruled, now sits a bloated, misanthropic, cloned king, laying waste to the genre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And now we turn to Hollywood, and I have another video for you. This one by the foul-mouthed firebrand (I'm one to talk, right?) Razorfist. In it he demonstrates that Hollywood always had a problem with communism. Just watch, and learn how everything that you were told about McCarthy and his supposed "witch hunt" was a lie. Blogger won't let me embed the video for <i>some reason, </i>so I'll link it here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And then you look at comics, where if you don't toe the social justice (ie communist) line you'll have a very difficult time getting published by the big two, DC and Marvel. Their comics have gotten worse and worse as the years go on. The art is intentionally ugly, the dialogue is horribly written screeds on identity politics, and there are barely any fun stories to be had. Great characters we all loved have been debased and thrown down, dashed before our eyes by the people they were entrusted to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So why has this happened?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Well, it's a bit involved, but stick with me here. There's another video you should watch, but I can sum up the relevant parts here. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5It1zarINv0" target="_blank">It's an interview with ex-KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov</a>. I know it's long, but it's worth a watch, and it's terrifying stuff. Basically what the Soviets at the time did was, via the Communist Party, infect all areas of American culture with small pockets of people designed to train others in the techniques that Yuri talks about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This, in essence, allowed the ideals these operatives spread to become self-perpetuating, independent of instruction from the home base. They're completely self-sufficient, and require no leader as there will always be some poor, brainwashed fool ready to take up the fight should they get in a position to be able to do so. No union required, just a position of power in an important company or industry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This happened in scifi/fantasy publishing with people like Campbell and Damon Knight, it happened in academia, it happened in Hollywood as Razorfist described, and now it's become apparent that it's happening in comic books, and it's been going on in games journalism for a decade or so now, and they're trying to get it happening in video game development companies themselves with some success it must be said. It also happened in government, but I'm talking about the undermining of American culture, here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So, what this has led to is the demoralization campaign that Yuri talks about. And once again, I need to stress that there is no conspiracy, not anymore, at least. Not that I've been able to find. These people are all independent actors marching in lockstep because they've all been trained to believe the same things, and thus perpetuate their ideology independent of any string-pulling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But the demoralization campaign has been in full swing since at least the 40's. And these people believe they're doing a good thing! That's the most insane part. The destruction of culture, of values, of everything and everyone that does not toe the line, is a fundamental good, even if that means that people will have to die. This is something I've seen communists joke about quite frequently. It's funny to them, and they hope for the days when they'll be put in charge of the gulags, not knowing that useful idiots like themselves will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes, if it ever does.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But back to demoralization. The goal here is to beat the average person down until they conform to these people's ideology. They lord their supposed power over you, "knowing" that they're nigh untouchable and able to destroy at their leisure and replace what they've destroyed with that which preaches what they agree with and serves their religion. That's the overall goal, and what's incredibly sad is that they've almost succeeded. You see, the people that fight back against this kind of thing aren't the forces of the homeland standing up against invaders, despite how things looked in Gamergate. They're the resistance. Let me make this abundantly clear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">They are able to destroy the lives of people who aren't already set up, simply for political disagreements, and they try to destroy the lives of those who are set up. Look at what's happening to Correia, a wildly popular SFF author with millions of readers around the world. Or, for another example, Pewdiepie. How many hit pieces have the mainstream meteor put out about him in the past few years? Quite a few, with people being paid to dig through hundreds of hours of videos on his youtube channel just to find five seconds of him making an off-color joke, or speaking without thinking, so that they can try to destroy his reputation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">People like you or I are even more at risk, because we simply don't have the reach to defend ourselves properly, or ignore such attacks. It would be nice if some of the set up people like Pewdiepie or Correia would take these people to task in defamation, slander, and libel lawsuits and make them pay for their lies, but I understand that not everyone is ready to go to legal war over something that will barely effect them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But the power they have to do this to less powerful individuals cannot be ignored, and what's more we cannot ignore the power they have to destroy beloved franchises and industries. Look at Marvel. Comics shops are closing down because nobody wants to buy the schlock they're trying to push. The comics industry, so far as cape comics and lots of brick and mortar stores, is dying because of these people. Video games are much the same, with devs being able to avoid it with breakout hits like Kingdom Come: Deliverance gaining massive support because, apart from being a damn fine game (I'm told by almost literally everyone I know who's played it), the dev told these people to go fuck themselves and that he wouldn't play their games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I'll return to this in a bit, because I wouldn't leave you to swallow this black pill without a chaser of hope to wash it down, but for now I want to turn to a piece by Bradford Walker, entitled <a href="https://bradfordcwalker.blogspot.com/2018/06/narrative-warfare-replacing-culture-is.html" target="_blank">Narrative Warfare: Replacing Culture Is An Act Of Conquest</a>. Read the whole thing, including the twitter thread he links. Once again, I'll be here when you get back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now I think Bradford is right, here, and this ties back once again into the people fighting against this incredibly virulent strain of communism being the resistance. What they're doing now, tearing down characters like Captain America and replacing characters like Iron Man, trying to force video game developers to bend the knee like with Warhorse Studios, destroying franchises like Star Wars with inferior films that couldn't understand the underlying mentality of the original films if they tried, and attempting to unperson authors like Larry Correia and John Ringo, is meant as cultural replacement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">They are trying to replace our culture with theirs, and it's as simple as that. They are in positions of power, and believe themselves unassailable, therefore they can do what they like and force everyone to go along with it. These are the actions of people who believe they have conquered and are now in the subjugation process. However, unfortunately for them and fortunately for us, they've tipped their hand far too soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">They're not quite as unassailable as they like to believe, and here we come to the hope chaser for the bitter pills I've been shoving down your throat this entire post. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Not for lack of trying, America is still at heart a capitalist society. Our economy functions on the dollars of the people, and businesses and indeed entire industries live or die by what the consumer chooses to pay for. Now these people believe they should be able to force you to pay for what they're peddling, but they're not at that level of control yet, and thanks to the cultural awakening to the war that's been going on since the late 30's (we're pretty slow on the uptake, apparently) they'll likely never get that control. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">You see, the wonderful thing about culture is that you can <i>make more of it. </i>In traditional warfare, if the enemy takes a beachhead, you must push them out and recapture that beachhead. However, in a cultural war, if the enemy takes a beachhead, you can simply move slightly to the right and make a new beachhead, then jealously guard it against intrusion. And thanks to market innovation like Kindle Direct Publishing and Createspace and a thousand others nobody could've ever seen coming, we can do this quite easily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If, for example, Star Wars is a cultural beachhead, and what was once a fun time for all has been turned into a political messaging platform, you can simply move slightly to the right, fork the idea at its base and create something new. This was done by Galaxy's Edge authors Jason Anspach and Nick Cole, and from what I understand they're jealously guarding their treasure, and that's good, because from what I've read of it it's very precious indeed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">They've taken the cultural beachhead of Marvel superhero comics? No worries, we have imports from Japan like My Hero Academia, and independent comic creators here in America and abroad like Diversity & Comics' Jawbreakers: Lost Souls and Ethan Van Sciver's Cyberfrog: Bloodhoney. They've taken the basic concept of the superhero and done their own thing with it in no way affiliated with Marvel and DC, and as such we don't need Marvel and DC anymore, just like we don't need Star Wars anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Science fiction and fantasy literature is conquered for the most part, however the big five are failing (slowly but surely) along with their lackeys in the chain bookstores, and online venues and ebooks are filling the hole. This allows movements like The Superversives and PulpRev and a thousand others to move in and begin creating stories that people actually want to read, then sell them to those people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Your power to stop these people is in your wallet, and your voice. Now, more than ever, you have a voice with not only small time creators like myself, but with multinational corporations like, oh, ABC for their cancellation of Roseanne. You have a voice with the companies that support these corporations by advertising with them. You have a voice in what you pay for, and it is more than possible to starve the beasts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">There's a reason I don't buy Marvel and DC comics anymore. I buy used comics, or I buy indie comics, or from a smaller company like Alterna that actually gives a shit about the product they put out, or I just go buy manga. I don't buy current Star Wars books, comics, or movies, I read Galaxy's Edge. I don't watch western cartoons anymore, I watch anime. I don't read books from big publishers anymore (unless I get them used), I support indie authors and get better stories from complete unknowns than I would signing up and paying $40 to get a Hugo packet any given year in the past 30. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Oh, don't imagine it's so easy. I've been doing it for three or four years now, and I can tell you with authority that giving up these things that you've loved for so long is difficult. It was hard for me to not care about the new Marvel series on Netflix, because I love characters like The Punisher, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and Daredevil, and it sounded great that they would finally be getting the live action treatment they deserved. But is it really? Is it really what they deserve? Think about it and let me know, because I think we both know the answer to that question.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Giving up Star Wars is hard as well, and I'm happy to say that you don't have to give it up completely. The old movies still exist, as well as the vastly expansive EU, much of which you can still get hold of. The Brian Daley and A.C. Crispin Han Solo books still exist, as do the Dark Forces games and K.O.T.O.R. and all the rest. Retreat into the good ol' days of Star Wars is possible, but you should also look ahead to the replacement in things like Galaxy's Edge, and not get hung up when you hear about how a new movie fucks up the canon or unnecessarily injects present-day politics into what should be an outlandish, larger than life space opera. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The road to giving up on these things is hard, but if you want to make a cultural impact against these people that are actively trying to ruin everything you love and slapping you in the face while doing it, it's something we all have to learn how to do. We also, as Jon Del Arroz says in his recent Federalist piece, <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2018/06/05/time-fight-left-follows-rules-force-right/" target="_blank">It's Time To Fight Until The Left Follows The Rules They Enforce On The Right</a>, have to start taking metaphorical scalps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Roseanne Barr makes a supposedly racist joke on twitter at 3am while on ambien, and her show is almost immediately destroyed completely and she <i>will </i>be blacklisted from Hollywood for the foreseeable future. Samantha Bee, on television at prime time, in front of god and everybody, calls <i>the daughter of the President </i>a "feckless cunt," and not only does she still have a job, lefties are rubbing that fact in our faces. It's time to contact Sam B's network advertisers and let them know that we find this behavior reprehensible, and attempt to get her show pulled. I'm not a fan of these tactics, but this is the world we live in, and these are the rules of engagement. As I said on twitter, you can either win, or you can pretend to cleave to your dignity and "principles" while being ground underfoot and out of memory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">These are our tools. Creation of new culture, not giving money to people that hate you, and fighting back when we are attacked. These people are not in control yet, and it is very possible to take the culture back from them. This is not a complete guide, but it's a good starting place, so go forth and fight back. The internet gives you greater ability to do so than humans have ever had in the entire history of our species. It's an amazing tool. Start using it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Not only this, but we also have plenty of examples, not just in the videos linked above, but in recent years, of the converged propaganda pieces being abject failures in the market. Look at the 65% drop off in the ticket sales of Solo: A Star Wars Story <i>in a week. </i>Look at video games like Sunset, which critics praised and gamers despised so badly that the game failed so hard the studio went bankrupt. There are many more examples, but what this means is that the crap that they make does not sell, it is not popular, and the majority of people are just waiting for something like Galaxy's Edge or Kingdom Come: Deliverance to come out of right field swinging like a madman. You could be the one to make it, and you'll never know if you don't try. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I'll be real with all of you, I don't know if a win is possible. I don't know if we actually can take our culture back from these cackling misanthropic liars and craven cowards pretending to be brave warriors. They might have gotten close enough to a total victory that all we'll do by fighting back is bring about mutually assured destruction, because this fight isn't only on a cultural level, but a political one, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But, what I can tell you is that we can damn sure go down swinging. And, to me, that sounds a hell of a lot better than laying down and taking it like a kicked dog. </span>Jim Fearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00428223329362056174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736129185935358578.post-14016356234004637992018-06-07T15:45:00.000-07:002018-06-07T15:45:08.606-07:00Death Flowers - Part 4 on Steemit!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As Boss Mai's compound burns, rain begins to fall. Kazan, recovered, seeks Zyrkana for a final showdown. Can the warrior slay the demon, or is there something more between them?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Kazan of the Shining Blade waits in the gardens of Boss Mai for the demon ninja Zyrkana. Will he stop her before she kills his employer, or does she have other plans for him?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Fam, when it rains, it pours, I gotta tell ya. I swear I didn't plan it like this, to be publishing stories on my own in <a href="https://jimfear138.blogspot.com/p/original-fiction.html" target="_blank">serials on steemit</a>, and to have <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CVPH35R/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=jimfear138-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B07CVPH35R&linkId=7b40e36540f0a7a97fe771646ebac509" target="_blank">Cirsova #8</a> come out this week, and then further to have the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DH977GT/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=jimfear138-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B07DH977GT&linkId=1bfb6a6c20c3d50f76269b9717eda6e7" target="_blank">Planetary: Earth</a> anthology come out, but here we are and hopefully the avalanche won't be stopping any time soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But yes! The Planetary: Earth anthology from Superversive Press is available today in kindle and paperback! From the Amazon page:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">18 tales of explorers, lost worlds, strange and wondrous creatures, gods & goddesses of old, miraculous inventions, aliens, bots and post humans, brought together in this anthology of discovery and daring.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Come explore the legends and chronicles of planet Earth and the space beyond in the fourth volume in the Planetary series.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">My story for this one is a good ol' lost world style story, with explorers, dinosaurs, guns, high speed chases, danger, alien creatures, and some old fashioned two-fisted action! But if that don't whet your whistle then maybe one of the other 18 stories will!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DH977GT/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=jimfear138-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B07DH977GT&linkId=16fcee9f7306f127b38a48e3907283b5" target="_blank">Here's the link!</a> Go nuts! And be sure to leave a review after you finish and let us know what you think! Or drop me a line on <a href="https://twitter.com/LichJim" target="_blank">twitter</a>, <a href="https://gab.ai/JimFear138" target="_blank">gab</a>, <a href="https://www.minds.com/JimFear138" target="_blank">minds</a>, <a href="https://jimthedefiant.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">tumblr</a>, or here on the blog if you just wanna let me know what you thought of my story!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I'd also like to thank <a href="https://twitter.com/jondelarroz" target="_blank">Jon Del Arroz</a> for giving it a beta-read for me and letting me know what he thought. Y'all should go check out his <a href="http://delarroz.com/" target="_blank">website</a>, and buy one of his books while you're there on Amazon like <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071JNR9HB/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=jimfear138-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B071JNR9HB&linkId=880289c6a2f8ef07fc1b3d7f554b09b0" target="_blank">For Steam & Country</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0763KN3R7/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=jimfear138-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B0763KN3R7&linkId=dcc330df4d805f91f187d80779499768" target="_blank">The Gravity of the Game</a>, or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079VVFJMZ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=jimfear138-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B079VVFJMZ&linkId=5d3e315f6a5ce68fb5c242dda9e48c17" target="_blank">The Stars Entwined</a>! I know it'd make his day and mine!</span>Jim Fearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00428223329362056174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736129185935358578.post-79813672883335130112018-06-05T15:16:00.000-07:002018-06-05T15:16:03.449-07:00Death Flowers - Part 2 on Steemit!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Wounded, Zyrkana retreats to the house of the one who summoned her to recover. But just who was that alluring warrior?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the podcast! This time I talk with Rawle Nyanzi about a blog post our mutual friend JD Cowan made (linked below) about genre, and over the course of the show we get into that, anime, My Hero Academia, storytelling, American history, and all kinds of other topics! There was a bit of a technical issue near the end, where the skype call dropped. Because of this OBS reduced Rawle's volume, but the final few minutes are still audible, just not optimal. I'll keep an eye out for that should it happen again. Hope y'all enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The Death of the Genre Wars by JD Cowan: <a href="https://wastelandandsky.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-death-of-genre-wars.html" target="_blank">https://wastelandandsky.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-death-of-genre-wars.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Correia On The Classics by Larry Correia: <a href="http://monsterhunternation.com/2011/01/12/correia-on-the-classics/" target="_blank">http://monsterhunternation.com/2011/01/12/correia-on-the-classics/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Crunk Knight by Kevin Macleod: <a href="http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400044" target="_blank">http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400044</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Zyrkana, the demon assassin, sneaks into the compound of a crime boss to deal death and destruction. But will she find more than she bargained for?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I consider "realism" in fiction to be quite possibly the single worst plague on the genre in its entire history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Let me back up a step. We should first define what "realism" is. <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/realism" target="_blank">Merriam Webster defines realism</a>, in relevant portion, as:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This means that to be "realistic", a piece of fiction should attempt to cleave as close to what is actually physically possible as can be attained. I should mention at the outset here that there are some instances where realism is not an inherent bad. Certain books and short stories would be irrevocably damaged by the inclusion of the fantastic and unattainable. Crime dramas leap to mind (with few exceptions), as well as fictionalizations of actual events, and various other subgenres that require as much verisimilitude as possible as to not become totally ridiculous in the telling.<br /><br />The genres I'm specifically referring to here are my primary three, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Putting aside that those aren't really three distinct genres for the moment, these are the popular conceptions of these ideas, and these are what I'm primarily concerned with. So we'll leave aside the hard boiled detective novels, the slice of life stories, period dramas, and the like. We are concerned not with life as it is, but life as it never could be.</span><span style="color: #3b3e41; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 0.64px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br />When it comes to Scifi/Fantasy/Horror, heretofore shortened to SFFH, making the story "realistic" is the single worst thing that you can do to your story, and one of the biggest disservices you can perpetrate upon your readers. I feel like I'm using too much flowery language, here. I'm not John C. Wright, so let's up the vulgarity a bit.<br /><br /> To put it frankly, this shit sucks. Quoting Bradford C. Walker, "The first duty of fiction is to entertain." While realism in, say, a period drama, can be very entertaining and leave plenty of easter eggs for the reader to find, as well as showing the amount of work put into researching the time period being written about, realism in SFFH is nothing short of entertainment killer.<br /><br /> There are exceptions, as there are with every rule, but the majority of the time this is the stone-cold truth. And I hadn't thought of this before I saw that definition while writing this post, but this actually turns out to be very important: In realistic fiction, "idealization" is a sin.<br /><br /> To run with the trend of defining our terms, Merriam Webster defines "idealize" as</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The reason that realism fails in SFFH is that we are inherently dealing with things outside of the bounds of the average experience. Your average person will never have to deal with the wilds of Hyborea in Robert E. Howard's Conan tales, or the dangerous aliens in Jack Vance's Planet of Adventure, or simply a box opened on a subway that causes an entire family to starve themselves to death leaving the father destitute and searching for what he can never find a la Jack Ketchum's The Box. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When you come to something that bills itself as science fiction, or fantasy, or horror, or any combination of the three, you're expecting a tale that will take you out of your normal, everyday experience. Something that will transport you to other worlds, or give you a new outlook on our own world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In short, something <i>wondrous.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And realism, by and large (remember that we're dealing with general terms, here. Your personal example of "wondrous and realistic fiction" does not translate beyond itself), does not allow for the wondrous. It must be firmly grounded in workaday reality, and as this is something that we all are familiar with, we are all able to recognize when something takes us out of that arena. Realism is centered, by nature, in the mundane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This is by no account what SFFH should be. Arguments can be made that horror, in part if not in whole, can make the mundane horrendous, and I'm not discounting that. But monster tales, supernatural horror, cosmic horror, and subgenres like them, all bring that element of wonder to the table. That sense of something being off. Presenting to us something outside the normal human experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Which is, in my incredibly arrogant opinion, what these subgenres are about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">As stated before, fiction should be entertaining. Mundane life is not. Point blank, the end. Put a period on that. The average person's life is not something that you'd want to read about, because it would be interminable accounts of them waking up, performing their ablutions, going to work, working, going home, relaxing, sleeping, and getting up to do it all over again. We already have to deal with that in our everyday lives. Why, in the name of God and all the angels, would we want to experience that in our fiction?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I'll come out and say it, Escapism is a good thing. Anyone that tells you different is <i>lying to you. </i>They are attempting to demoralize you, to kill your love of the fantastical, to beat you down until you agree with them and get back in line like the little drone they think you should be. That your wanting to escape from your mundane, normal life, even for a couple of hours with a piece of fiction, is bad. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It's childish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It should be beneath you, because you should aspire to be a sophisticate who takes no pleasure in anything except the ironic, the droll, the sophisticated pleasures of your betters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This might seem innocuous to you, but it lights a fire under the ass of someone like me. This belies an attitude of unvarnished, feigned superiority. An air of "I'm better than you because I don't enjoy what twelve year old boys enjoy." And in the interest of poking into the very base of these suppositions that people like Lansdale obviously hold so close as to throw around in such a cavalier manner, what in the absolute hell, precisely, is <i>wrong </i>with what twelve year old boys enjoy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I've said it before, and I'll continue pounding this particular drum until the day I die, boys are the lifeblood of any interesting hobby or avenue of culture. If you cannot appeal to boys, you will not appeal to anybody. Except maybe snobs who consider themselves above these "mundane" interests like escapism, heroism, romance, action, adventure, and the like. But, as we've seen with SFFH in the past 40 years, these people are not a viable market. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">As a recent example, Bright. [SHILL ALERT] I did a review of this movie <a href="http://jimfear138.blogspot.com/2018/01/bright-is-absolute-smash.html" target="_blank">here</a>, if anyone's interested [SHILL ALERT]. <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bright" target="_blank">Here's the Rotten Tomatoes page</a>. Notice anything funny about the numbers on that?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">As of this writing, the critic reviews are at 26%, while the audience reviews are at 85%. Doesn't that seem like a huge disparity to you? Like the critics might be out of touch? Like they might be too caught up in pretending to be "intelligent" than having a good time?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Bright is in no wise realistic, but by god if it isn't a fun movie. It appeals to escapism, and strives to be entertaining before all else. In my opinion it accomplishes this goal admirably, but Bright isn't the focus of this screed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Leaving aside horror for the moment; because the goals of a good piece of horror fiction aren't necessarily to idealize, but to terrify; realism is the death of fantasy and science fiction. Cleaving to what's real, by the very nature of the act, pulls you out of what's ideal, or even not possible but entertaining. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This is part of the problem I have with quote-unquote "hard sci-fi". I've expounded on this in the past but it's worth bringing it up again. Presenting only what technology is possible with humanity's present understanding (barring that one, maybe two, bits of magic, the wondrous, the fantastical, like faster-than-light travel), puts your story in a trap. You're trying so hard to be realistic, when in 40 years we'll discover a way around your fiction, or what you assumed to be true and scientifically accurate will be proven false, and then your tale will be in the precise same bin as John Carter of Mars, wherein Carter gets to Mars by getting shot and wishing really hard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Not that being in the same bin as Edgar Rice Burroughs is a bad place to be. I'd kill for my fiction to be counted on that level. But anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Imagine what you could do if you weren't constrained by some false sense of needing to be realistic. Imagine the magnificent, marvelous, manifold vistas you could present to the reader. Imagine the pleasure they would take in discovering your new worlds. Imagine the pleasure they would take in being whisked away, if only for an hour, from their average workaday life to your ridiculous world that is completely out of keeping with the mundane. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">No matter that, as Damon Knight not-so-famously said, the human race could never produce a man like Conan. No matter that he said that Howard's tales lacked "verisimilitude". No matter that your tales are completely impossible in any rational world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The important thing is that people read/watch/listen to/etc them and are <i>entertained by them. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Science fiction and fantasy are meant, in my view, to give us idealized persons and societies to aspire to be, not drag us down in the mundane slog of everyday life. Conan is a man every man should want to be. Tall, powerful, combat proficient, the man women want and men want to be. The futuristic societies of science fiction are what we, as a society, should aspire to. Colonizing planets, exploring the universe, discovering faster-than-light travel, and getting down with some hot green chicks along the way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This is the inherent issue with what most people consider "realistic." To their mind, "realism" means that there are no happy endings, there can be no great heroes (despite the glut of them from actual history), and depressing stories that beat the reader down are the height of literature because they're "realistic."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I posit that escapism is the actual height of literature. That inherently unrealistic stories are, in reality, the best stories ever told. That there is no higher goal in entertainment (meaning writing, cartoons, movies, insert your own medium here) <i>than to be entertaining in and of itself.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now we can quibble over what's entertaining, and that's inherently subjective. But I think that there is a way to get to the root of what is actually entertaining, and that is what the greatest amount of people enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Yes, I understand the flaws with this model. Justin Beiber, after all, was insanely popular for a few years there. But I don't think that means we should throw the baby out with the bath water. Conan, to present a counter example, remains insanely popular as Justin Beiber's flame of fame has withered and died. Indeed, it's remained so for almost a century now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Despite the best efforts of the intelligentsia, being so committed to realism, Conan, Solomon Kane, the tales of H.P. Lovecraft, Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, and countless others have remained popular with the "common folk," the plebs. There is a reason for this, and I think that reason is because they are inherently unrealistic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">They are idealized, in one fashion or another. They give people something to aspire to, something to wish that they were, something to take them out of the crushing, mundane existence of their everyday lives. That's why they've endured, while people like Damon Knight have languished in obscurity, and the current president of SFWA can barely crack the amazon ranks of what relative unknowns nail with nobody propping them up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Escapism, heroism, romance, action, adventure, and most importantly <i>wonder, </i>work, and woe betide the creator who says they don't. If you want my advice, stop trying to be realistic, and start trying to be wondrous. Your fiction will improve drastically, and will appeal to a much wider audience than that stodgy, old, tired realistic fiction that some will tell you that you should be writing. Trust me, their fingers are so far from the pulse of what people actually crave that they might as well be jammed up their own asses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">People are hungering for honest, earnest, escapist fiction. They want to be entertained, first and foremost, and they always have. If you seek primarily to entertain above all else, you will find people who respond to that. There are so many people who have been driven away from SFFH by realism, and they're just waiting for someone to deliver that dollop of wonderment to them so they can remember why they loved this kind of thing in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Give them that, and your mission will be fulfilled. Realism is overrated. Take people to fantastic vistas their minds never dreamed could exist. The gratitude of the readers will be worth far more than any awards, accolades, or praise any critic of the intelligentsia could heap upon you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Gotta say, it feels weird to see my name on a magazine cover, even weirder that it's my favorite SFF magazine. But I'm not complaining! It's very exciting, and I'm looking forward to reading everyone else's stories. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">To whet your appetite, mine is one of the novellas. I didn't think the story was <i>that </i>long but whatever, I'm not putting the magazine together. It's an "Old Venus" style story, with a jungle planet, lizard aliens, giant dinosaurs, swords and rayguns, and maybe a little hint of romance in there for flavor. I can't wait to see it in print, and I hope you guys'll pick up a copy too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And if you wanna tell me what you thought of the story when you read it, drop me a line on <a href="https://twitter.com/LichJim" target="_blank">twitter</a>, <a href="https://jimthedefiant.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">tumblr</a>, <a href="https://gab.ai/JimFear138" target="_blank">gab</a>, or <a href="https://www.minds.com/JimFear138" target="_blank">minds</a> and let me know! I'd love to hear from people and get some feedback. Especially if you want more of it. And if you do like the story, you can find similar work on my <a href="https://steemit.com/@jimfear138" target="_blank">steemit</a>, where I'm publishing short 6k words-or-so stories pretty much whenever I get them written and don't have plans to try submitting them someplace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Thanks for the time, and I hope you guys enjoy the stories!</span></div>
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