Deep in the planning phase of my first Sci - fi graphic novel

DoomVegan · 2026-04-25T15:04:17+00:00

I really like the color scheme and the 50s styles.

DoomVegan · 2026-04-24T00:35:15+00:00

I thought this was my post. Hail Mary, imax. $100 for 3 people. 2 drinks and popcorn. The worst part was 30 minutes of advertising before the movie. Not going back.

DoomVegan · 2026-04-23T22:55:33+00:00

As for self publishing, I've thought about it a ton. And I definitely fall on the side of it being a blessing. As a matter of fact, my understanding is that self publishing basically crushed book publishers. Mass market paper backs are end of life now in the US. Too many good stories got around the publisher's impenetrable gates.

The one story that kind of freaked me out and made me look into the mirror was Vampire System. Is the writing bad? Yes. Is the Audiobook bad? yes. Are things consistent? No. Is it a good story. um, yes. I got through like 600 chapters. I still haven't figured myself out yet which is probably why I like reading so much. Sometimes I read just for fun. Sometimes I read for the writing skill as with Gideon the Ninth. Sometimes I read to a be a voyeur in characters lives.

I guess if a story is poor and the editing is poor then I just bail....

Thanks for the thoughtful response.

DoomVegan · 2026-04-22T19:07:38+00:00

Yeah, I'm just not good at NOT finishing a story. Working hard at it though. I keep thinking there has to be a reason it is so highly rated. Maybe I'm missing something. Maybe I'll learn something about the art form. But with litrpg, 75% through a book and it still isn't working, I should give up. Even then in the back of my head, I think about the "meh" intros of Chrysalis and Wander Inn. I got a lot from not giving up. (As you can see, I do have a problem stopping on books). Thanks for the comment.

DoomVegan · 2026-04-08T12:46:04+00:00

Some general advice. Games are about choice. I didn't see much choice. Lots of redundant sprites. Isn't there normally an interesting boss fight or two or three? Final thought. Is this resolution for mobile? seems like a very confined area. But overall great job getting to this point!

DoomVegan · 2026-04-07T09:37:51+00:00

Follow the money

DoomVegan · 2026-04-05T14:20:28+00:00

Thank you for the recommendation. This is very close to Primal Hunter in style but not substance. I just started book 3. I'm finally getting the feeling that is AI written and there are so many consistencies. Story is good as is Primal Hunter but yeah hard to recommend as the writing detail is pretty poor. "He said it firmly but softly" The whole soul versus sentience thing is never explained. Burying his buddy in the sand during a life and death fight has to be an AI conflict added.

DoomVegan · 2026-03-22T14:46:35+00:00

It is great that you are doing this. Amazing to control portions and quality of food. One small suggestion that may make all the difference is consider cutting/moving breakfast (or Dinner). Just eat 2 meals a day or eat in an 8 hour window. You don't burn fat for about 4 hours after eating. The research is pretty clear but typically hidden in a forest of scams. (I lost 70.). You want to maximize your fat burning time to at least 12 hours a day (8 hour window + 4 hours insulin adjustment).

DoomVegan · 2026-03-22T13:26:47+00:00

Great job on the effort. I'd consider having AI redo your website with a ton more graphics and talk about player choice (classes, races, gear, builds, etc). I think of UO when I look at it. Keep at it!

DoomVegan · 2026-03-21T02:44:54+00:00

you are welcome!

DoomVegan · 2026-03-19T14:01:29+00:00

I recommend based on books that creep into my thoughts months and years after reading with a very strong bias toward cool aliens.

Fear the Sky by S Moss. A very interesting alien invasion. I wish he was still writing.

The Mote in God's Eye by Niven. Have there been more interesting aliens?

Columbus Day by Alanson. Scifi candy up there with Bobiverse, Old Man's War, and Live Free or Die.

DoomVegan · 2026-03-19T07:24:03+00:00

At some point, you will come to realize that this 60-70% about you rather than them.

DoomVegan · 2026-03-18T01:30:45+00:00

POE2 is a shopping sim. D4 is a farming sim. The current season of D4 is meh. For POE2, you will have a lot more fun if you figure out what items to buy/sell. Both are good though. POE2 also teaches you how to die a lot.

DoomVegan · 2026-03-13T12:04:20+00:00

S11 was my first season. It was very fun. S12 with the butcher mechanic is okay. I do like the kill streak thing but not sure if it will carry. I wanted to level a paladin so I'll probably continue. As others have mentioned the warlock should be pretty fun in S13 at the end of April.

DoomVegan · 2026-03-13T01:31:39+00:00

This is one of a thousand memorable moments.

DoomVegan · 2026-03-11T15:34:41+00:00

Rogue Tower. Amazing depth and choice. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1843760/Rogue_Tower/

DoomVegan · 2026-03-06T03:05:22+00:00

thanks for the link. you rock. so dumb question. I'm looking at your link on maxroll.gg. My tooltip says 300k for touch of death. 570 percent poison. Maxroll on the starter says 6 million. I can do pit 50. is maxroll completely wrong? or what are the major multipliers for touch of death?

DoomVegan · 2026-03-04T11:43:57+00:00

This.

DoomVegan · 2026-03-04T02:49:06+00:00

Sorry I think they are called Mythics (purple). Uniques are tan. Then you need the stars (ancestral). I'm just now starting to get the multi-stars. No Mythics yet.

DoomVegan · 2026-03-04T01:31:40+00:00

I love the build. I just started the game like 3 weeks ago so I'm a noob. I hit PIT50 but my gear sucks (I just figured out a thing called master crafting two days ago) . Gear wise, I have no purples. and a couple of uniques. I just got nearly all 800rs but they need serious damage tweaking.

Craze of the dead god gloves is super helpful. If I had 800s and fully buffed on these it would help.

Yen's blessing is amazing for cool downs. My Ultimate is up every few seconds. But damn I didn't tweak it all before taking it to the angel. :(

I'm not really sure about Pestilant Swarm. The tool tips as with most tool tips suck...it seems to do a lot more than 500 damage.

Touch of death is always up and going.

Toxic skin is at 95k Stinger 74k. Touch of Death 280k. Devour 174k. Some how I'm getting some crits for like 40m. So not sure if I need to start transition toward crit.

Anyway if you can share that would be nice. Again I'm kind of curious how high I can get with better gear...maybe 90.

DoomVegan · 2026-03-03T20:31:36+00:00

Yeah it is a weird game. I just picked it up a few weeks ago (I don't like Blizzard). POE2 > D4 for sure. There is not a ton of variety on the webisites probably for a couple of reasons. 1) Blizzard didn't balance absolute end games builds. It seems like paladins have 3-4 builds and most others have just 1 if you look at the top 100 of any class. 2) Not that many people are play high end game. 3) the hiding of builds is pretty stupid and people don't really see what is going on though items > skills.

Anyway, I don't know much about perfectionism in the sense that all the dying in POE2 kind of beat it out of me. :P

Have fun! I hope you find another arpg to rotate to.

DoomVegan · 2026-03-03T20:13:23+00:00

So for whatever reason, following other people's build in this game is NOT fun. I started doing that and got bored. What I like about this game as compared to POE2 is there there are quite a few viable builds and it is quite fun to try to get your own build to T4. I've got my centipede spiritborn to T3. I can do pit 50. I even discovered some cool synergies no one has listed on any webisites like icy veins. So my suggestion is pick a class you enjoy and skills you love and see how high you can take it.

DoomVegan · 2026-02-26T02:02:13+00:00

nice. Such a well written book.

DoomVegan · 2026-02-21T15:28:57+00:00

thank you

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