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Yeah. Big changes to come. But not quite yet, since this is the piece I have in mind for the closing of, not book three — — but rather, of book four. So the galaxy won’t be having a paradigm shift to suffer through quite yet. I’m just issuing early
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On the evergreen question of what about us, Earth-now, the Imperials might find worthy of a little respect, a recent rewatching of Apollo 13 reminds me to mention that our space program, especially of the Apollo era, definitely qualifies. Bear in mind, for one thing, that for various reasons involving
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(The answer to a question asked on the Eldraeverse Discord, copied here since not everyone follows the Eldraeverse Discord.) Fanfiction policy: Well, first, I’m rather gratified to discover that I need a fanfiction policy… 1. I don’t have any objection to fanfiction per se . Content-wise, however, I would
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Okay. I regret having to do this, because by and large I enjoy engaging with my readers and satisfying their curiosity, but — I am, as of now, declaring a complete, conclusive, and perpetual moratorium on all “gotcha” questions. (I am not providing a definition, because definitions can be gamed; if
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Many congratulations go out from us here at The Eldraeverse to SpaceX on yesterday’s successful and awesome launch of the Falcon Heavy: (A few raised fingers go out, too, to all the Obstructive Naysayers on Twitter – although fortunately for everyone, at least they were in the distinct minority.)
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This, of course, no longer applies. So, I’m told people would rather have a Discord than a Slack, and some comments I have seen since suggest that it is better for this sort of community. Okay, then. I can work with that.
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So why is that a Trope-a-No-Longer-Day, I hear you cry? Well, because I’ve run out of pre-written ones, and the demands on my time these days are such that – especially if I want to keep prioritizing writing at all – I can’t take enough time out to go through
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Well, the start-of-month postings were delayed somewhat by our delightful Internet outage. (Turns out the cable was unplugged at the pole, which has a variety of explanations, all of them either bizarre or reflecting terrifying incompetence. This shit should not fly in the cloud-dependent 21st century, people!) But things are
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Among the things I am kicking around today are future possibilities for the Word-of-the-Day feature. I’ve got some interesting ones in the form of words which have distinct values implied – say, “greed” – which necessarily require multiple translations – “ambition”, for example, or “compromise” – or whose closest equivalent have very different
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In today’s news, it turns out MSNBC’s legal correspondent, Ari Melber, has proposed treating “fake news”, or more technically “disprovable media claims” as a species of fraud along the same lines as fraudulent advertising – and therefore something the FTC can protect the public from. Long-time readers may notice
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So, today I was randomly reminded of In The Grim Darkness Of The Contact Form, and the hypothetical fictional possibilities of a face-off between the Empire and Warhammer 40K’s Imperium of Man, which details I cover there with a note that I can’t really deal with metaphysical mismatches
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Tired, but somewhat refreshed for the New Year; apologetic, for the unannounced and mostly unplanned December quasi-hiatus; busy, due to a new contract at the day-job, or day-business rather, which may affect volume somewhat, but it should still certainly be better than said December quasi-hiatus. I think that about sums