This was an attempt at episodic short fiction based on PlanetSide 2 developed and published by Day Break Games Company (Sony Online Entertainment at time of writing). Originally posted to PlanetSide Universe. It was never completed, and the very next chapter is still in draft where it will likely remain. The copypasta from Word is […]
This is a short story fan fiction based on Elite: Dangerous, developed and published by Frontier Developments PLC. Museums still exist, Sheldon silently observes staring up at the imposing stone structure predating modern space flight, The Federal Museum of Anthropology, formerly Musée de l’Homme with its old companion the Eiffel Tower standing unphased in the […]
London was easy; Bucharest is the beginning our challenge. Little to no knowledge of language, culture, bureaucracy, or geography puts us at a disadvantage in every respect. Americans are terribly insulated, and we discover that we are no different. When our flight arrived later than we had anticipated we had assumed ourselves too late to […]
For our fleeting stay in London, to describe it in one word: Youthful. For a city with an official history going all the way back to 50 CE, a vibrant youthful optimism and exuberance permeates the streets. We American millennials call it “the hustle,” but to the twenty and thirty something Londoners who seem to […]
Note: This game is still in open beta. From the beginning Dreadnought wants you to feel small, after all the game is about huge capital ships trading salvos with really big guns. The idea, as entertaining as it is, will also be this game’s biggest liability in the future if not managed properly. The gameplay […]
As the title says, Facebook comments are now online! That was actually very easy. I thought it’d involve some coding. Newp. Anywho, comment away!
***WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN WONDER WOMAN AND WISH TO AVOID SPOILERS THEN PLEASE READ NO FURTHER.*** For it’s overt simplicity Wonder Woman is a ridiculously complex movie, full of big ideas stashed away in the dialog and cinematography that leap out at you like angry bears. Yes, bears, because if […]
One of this week’s top headlines at Salon.com: “America hits peak anti-intellectualism: Majority of Republicans now think college is bad” First, let me say outright I am not a qualified expert in anything. With that out of the way anyone reading further may dismiss everything I have to say as the unqualified opinions and observations […]
I wrote this a few years ago in response to happenings in the game I was playing at the time, EVE Online. After having re-written it several times being unable to settle on an ending I like, I chose to consolidate it all into two short scenes. The image is a signature I put together […]
In 1980, a year before I was born, Ronald Reagan rode a wave of economic neoliberalism to a sweeping electoral victory. To his supporters he promised economic prosperity through deregulation, a return to American exceptionalism and traditional values, and to restore America’s moral majority. It was a time of great pride–if you were an Evangelical, […]