Category: blog
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How To Write A Book Satisfactorily
I’ve been playing a lot of Satisfactory. If you’re not familiar, Satisfactory is a base-building game. An active Idle Game, you are effectively one of the grunt workers in an RTS. You build, you acquire resources, you build more. Repeat. It starts out small, with Miners feeding Smelters feeding Constructors. Then you make Assemblers, to…
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Prompted
I’m incredibly lucky to have had the opportunity to make a career out of two things I love, Video Games and Writing. It is generally a fulfilling pursuit, although at times it has caused me oodles of stress. The only problem is that doing it recontextualised both video games and writing for me as a…
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Explorers and Tourists
I don’t know if I invented the concept or simply co-opted it wholesale from someone else, but I’ve often held that Souls players* exist on a spectrum. On one end lie the Tourists. On the other, Explorers. Neither style is more valid than the other, and, being a spectrum, most people exist somewhere between the…
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And his name is 🎺🎺🎺
Look, straight up, Joab as a name is a blessing and a curse. I don’t know where it falls on the “Freakanomics” scale of hireability. It’s paired with Gilroy, which is about as white as it gets, so it’s probably not freaking too many racists out, and being a Hebrew name, the racists it is…
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Blackbirded Post-mortem
I’ve been haphazardly writing up a post mortem for Blackbirded after each chapter was published. Here it is, barely cobbled together into a coherent post. I don’t know if this will be of any use. What I do think is of use is The GAP Bonus Episode podcast on the story, a post-post-mortem featuring myself,…
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Sounds Like…
There’s a new old X-Men show out! X-Men ’97 is a revival of the old X-Men cartoon from… 1997. And it seems pretty good. A lot of nostalgia.
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The Twin Paradox
I am a twin. I have a twin brother, he’s my identical twin. We look the same, except, depending on diet and exercise, at first glance one of us will look like the fat version of the other. That’s just how it goes being a twin. One of you always looks like the before picture,…
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Welcome to 2024
I went to Japan at the end of last year and my main takeaway is that I would very much like to live in Japan. I know everyone gets that way when they come back from holidays, they’ve got the holiday high of wistfully thinking back to how much fun they had and how good…
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The Chinese Room, Plagiarism and Me
Youtube essayist Hbomberguy put out a ludicrously long video essay earlier this month titled Plagiarism and You(Tube). It was entertaining and informative and it has sparked a bit of a firestorm online as people debate what is and isn’t plagiarism. Watch it below. It got me thinking about the nature of creativity. I have a…
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Welcome one and all
I should have set this up long ago. I did have a website, a while ago, where I would share my musings and my freelance work, but the return on investment for it never really made sense to me. I’m not a website designer. I’m not really visually artistic at all. I understand the need…