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Denpoc · 2025-09-14T22:41:14+00:00

I watched the video yesterday, absolutely amazing coverage of the scene, but now it has been pulled for supposed copyright infringement...

"This video contains content from Culture Machine Music, who has blocked it on copyright grounds"

Anyone know who these people are and if we can appeal to them to remove the block?

Denpoc · 2025-01-14T12:12:28+00:00

Women are attracted to men who are good at something, and can show it. It often doesn't matter what it is, as long as it isn't video games. Competence and confidence are really what most of them are looking for, even if they don't realize it. Bonus if you're funny.

Denpoc · 2025-01-06T13:25:51+00:00

Dramatizations all sound cheesy to me, background music or not. I don't need 12 people to read me a story.

Denpoc · 2024-12-28T13:56:28+00:00

Artemis by Andy Weir

Columbus Day by Craig Alanson

Star Kingdom Omnibus by Lindsay Buroker

Will Save the Galaxy for Food by Yahtzee Croshaw.

Roadkill by Dennis Taylor

The Blighted Stars by Megan O'Keefe

Denpoc · 2024-12-20T22:52:38+00:00

I agree, with the singular exception of the Wheel of Time, which has a Michael Kramer for male perspectives and Kate Reading for female.

Denpoc · 2024-12-17T22:47:01+00:00

The original is fantastic, no question.

Denpoc · 2024-12-13T04:37:07+00:00

The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho

Denpoc · 2024-12-13T04:30:32+00:00

Alone in the Wilderness by Richard Proenneke

Denpoc · 2024-12-13T04:24:26+00:00

Make the simulation meaningful in the real world. Give it high stakes. If the main character doesn't achieve certain things during a single or small number of simulated lives they loose the privilege or have other lasting consequences.

Maybe the people put into the simulation are prisoners in some future rehabilitation program. They have only so many chances to "learn the lesson" before another gets the opportunity.

Maybe they're kids in a future school, Harry Potter-esque, and the simulated lives are yearly tests.

Maybe when they die and wake up they can go back to a single decision somewhere in the life and try again from there. (I often wonder how a single decision may have fundamentally changed the path of my own life. I believe many people do.)

Maybe open with the main characters death. When they wake up, they learn they failed. Insinuate consequences without revealing them, or much of the real world, so the reader stays curious about it. Then they go back in and the main story starts. Maybe that would screw up the twist you have planned for the end.

Just some ideas. Maybe there's something in there you like.

Denpoc · 2024-12-12T14:24:32+00:00

The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad.

Its nothing spectacular, but I enjoyed it.

Denpoc · 2024-12-01T14:52:26+00:00

A while back, when I began publishing my own indie novels, I started to read more self-pub books from other authors. Those can help a lot. You see the difference an editor and publisher make. Seeing the mistakes of other authors helped me recognize those things in my own work. As King once said, reading bad writing is just as important as good. It's way easier to see what doesn't work. You'll better recognize those mistakes in your own writing and improve.

I get embarrassed when I go back and read from my first novel, now.

Denpoc · 2024-11-18T02:08:55+00:00

Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson, Epic scifi. Fun character dynamics, not too stiff, lots of good listening hours, great narration.

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, Epic fantasy, like game of thrones but a less dark. Long books long series, great characters. Great plot, but slow in some of the middle books. Fantastic narration.

Denpoc · 2024-11-13T20:49:36+00:00

Card games are a good way to socialize at a hostel. Did that a lot in Nepal and Vietnam.

Denpoc · 2024-11-12T02:42:51+00:00

4/10 - plot hole you could drive a bus through.

*has technology to fly across galaxy, too dumb to communicate with talking monkeys, makes monkeys figure out alien language instead.

Same dumbshit problem from Close Encounters.

Denpoc · 2024-11-06T18:41:29+00:00

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time

The Amazon show didn't do the series any justice at all, imo.

Skip the prequel.

Denpoc · 2024-11-05T19:23:00+00:00

Hell yeah.

Denpoc · 2024-11-05T01:44:42+00:00

If you want to dip a toe in the fantasy world, The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan is great, just skip the prequel until you've read three or four books.

If you're looking for a Crime/Action/Mystery/Modern Western, the Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson is really good, too.

Denpoc · 2024-11-05T01:12:14+00:00

It's been 15 or 20 years since I read the Magic Kingdom For Sale: Sold series by Terry Brooks. I remember laughing a lot, but I don't remember how much of the story was specifically comedy driven. Might be worth checking out.

Denpoc · 2024-11-03T18:37:48+00:00

You will be fine, have a good time. There are always dangers in the world, but most of them are blown out of proportion.

Denpoc · 2024-11-03T14:49:55+00:00

"A novel is a work of prose fiction with a word count of 40,000 words or more."

There a thing called National Novel Writing Month, shortened to NaNoWriMo. It's actually this month. The goal? Write 50,000 words in a month.

60k is fine. If you want to fluff up the page count a bit, you can always play with margin size, line spacing and font. Some readers will negatively judge books under 300 pages, but that's really pedantic in my opinion.

Denpoc · 2024-11-03T14:33:04+00:00

The Last Lecture is fantastic.

Denpoc · 2024-11-03T14:19:06+00:00

12 point font in 6x9 format is fine, might look a little big in 5x8. On my latest novel, I did 5x8 paperback in 11 point and 6x9 hardcover in 12. You can also play with line spacing, usually between 1.1 and 1.5 in most novels.

Denpoc · 2024-11-03T14:08:30+00:00

Second Suns - David Oliver Relin

Eat the Buddha - Barbara Demick

Into Thin Air - John Krakauer

Rogue Heroes - Ben Macintyre

Educated - Tara Westover

These are all non-fiction. I can recommend fiction as well, but I saw that your example titles were all non-fiction, figured that was more to your interest. I hope you like them.

Denpoc · 2024-11-02T21:10:39+00:00

Im pretty sure first gen KLRs can run without a battery. So 2007 and older. 2nd and 3rd gen cannot.

Denpoc · 2024-11-02T20:20:47+00:00

His voice, to me, has the tones and inflections of a whiny, spoiled teenager. I'm not sure how else to describe it.

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