A collection of essays by me that might have been inspired by blog posts I wanted to elaborate on, inspired by posts I never wrote, and just random inspirations, is now out in ebook and soon in paperback form.
It’s short and is kind of an unconventional stream of conciousness writing exercise, fair warning. But it does explain (partially) why I had fewer blog posts lately. Anyway, it was fun to write and I hope it’s fun to read.
Keep an eye out for goblins [submarines] and vampires [missiles] this Halloween!
As you may have guessed from my seemingly declining post time, I’m just losing steam on this blog. I’ve thought it’s things like games/writing/etc… and there’s some truth to that. But I feel there’s more to it than that. Like it’s harder to get the urge to blog even if I have the time.
If this blog fades away, so be it. Six years, one thousand posts, and totally changing my perspective on fiction for the better is completely worth it.
And if this can reinvent itself as something other than a review blog, than so be it as well. Either way, starting Fuldapocalypse has been one of the best decisions of my life. I just don’t want to force anything.
Happy Independence Day, Americans! To celebrate have this low-effort bad AI picture.
Today my old cat, Trina, finally passed away. She was 19 and had an excellent life. I already miss you. Trina was one of the most gentle, friendly, and calm cats out of the many I’ve had. RIP.
As a fun side project, I made my first (intentionally abstracted) wargaming tool. The goal is to see the culmination point of an offensive.
Assumptions: The attacker is consistently advancing, however, the defender is fighting back hard throughout. The units of the attacker participating in the campaign are not going to be rotated out, hence they will only receive small and piecemeal reinforcements/replacements throughout.
This simple tool works as follows:
Example:
Etc….
Figures of course can be changed depending on context.
Welp, it’s finally happened. I’ve gotten a hex board.
Game board+ some cheap model spaceships as placeholders if nothing else + stands if I do get miniatures + time and effort = Physical games that I fully intend to show and share on Fuldapocalypse when played. Starting with Starmada.
The ebook version of the second All Union book, A Period of Cheating, is now out!
The paperback will be up soon.
I indirectly experienced the eclipse today. Didn’t look in its direction but did notice how dark (in this case somewhat) it made the surrounding area.
Actor Louis Gossett Jr has passed away. I knew him best as Chappy in Iron Eagle. RIP.
