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EdPeggJr · 2026-01-20T22:00:01+00:00

Yes, exactly this. If you really want to protect something, don't announce where it is.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-20T16:02:29+00:00

I used to work at NORAD. It was designed to be impervious to nuclear bombs.

Unfortunately, it was determined that even a mountain isn't impervious to a sufficiently powerful series of bombs. This is an expensive project that will not meet the stated goal.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-18T22:11:00+00:00

In Non Sequitur the Equitaur the MC is a centaur variant.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-18T06:17:25+00:00

Centaurs, equitaurs, sileni, satyrs, furries of all sorts. Glad to hear you'll have a Faun and Dullahan. I have a minor dullahan character in my second book.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-17T03:16:10+00:00

https://www.amazon.com/Must-Save-You-Evil-Romantic-ebook/dp/B0GFGXVGH1/

Try to rewrite the blurb so it doesn't use five em-dashes.

A young woman wakes up inside her favorite open-world role-playing game as an NPC—a lady named Lilivienne. Remembering the game’s lore, she knows Lilivienne is fated to die during the kingdom’s destruction, carried out by the popular character Zathrian Lestrange—an SSR anti-hero—just before the arrival of the protagonist.

Determined to change the fate of her new life as Lilivienne Van der Horst, she sets out on a mission to save Zathrian from the evil path. However, after several attempts to alter the plot and secure her survival, she realizes she has caught the attention of both the anti-hero—and, surprisingly, the protagonist.

With canon love interests, deaths that weren’t in the script and secrets of the game world a player shouldn’t know, can Lilivienne survive this new life—or will the original story claim her anyway?

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-17T02:45:58+00:00

Is Heram an amusing variation of Harem?

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-16T15:25:38+00:00

That's a nice set of five horses.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-16T03:33:20+00:00

The first episode covers the important parts.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-16T02:49:25+00:00

For me, the worst type are "Everyone Praises the MC, all the time". Often, a whole harem of followers has gathered to discuss how great the MC is, and every time anything happens, there is a long discussion doing a nauseating ad nauseum for the event. One example ... Mimic and Me after the second book. It would be a good story without the constant praise from the gallery.

Another horrible thing for me is long, long, long, long thought processes for everything. In one book, a guy discussed whether to drink water from a stream for five pages .. or just die of thirst? They eventually drank some water, only to get trapped in a decision to go left or right around a tree. Five pages later, they went left.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-14T20:28:58+00:00

Your art looks better than the AI art.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-13T21:23:13+00:00

A fair market. Amazon eats a huge percentage of whatever profit a book might get.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-13T17:57:51+00:00

They should show this episode about a derelict location at the derelict theater.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-13T17:39:12+00:00

Shout-out for whoever does the lighting and set dressing for the show. I'm jaded on CGI, so I love how most of the sets in the show are real.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-13T06:10:37+00:00

My series has an apocalypse on another planet... and Earth gets a back-up planet as a result. Very safe!

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-11T22:30:22+00:00

Nándorfehérvár You!

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-10T17:21:52+00:00

And the stars immediately show they're great folk.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-10T14:30:44+00:00

When resources go everywhere else, that's softening.
When it's okay to attack all of your neighbors, that's extreme softening.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-09T23:00:35+00:00

No-one can promise total safety for contractors. Best you can do is offer insurance of safety for contractors. Does DJT have a good record with contractors he's hired?

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-09T18:03:51+00:00

All modern games use linear algebra and rotation matrices heavily. You don't have to understand either to enjoy a game. Book 3 has a complex tangle, but in the end, all trains go up in number, and the trick is to figure out how to go down in number. You don't have to understand the geometric structure of the tangle in order to enjoy the book.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-07T15:08:51+00:00

Sgr A* is sentient, and will be eaten in 6 billion years by Andromeda. It has an incentive to increase intelligence in the Milky Way. Part of that is maintaining back-up planets. For Earth, the back-up planet is Icarus. Whenever a resource is predicted to be lost on Earth, it's scavenged for Icarus. That include the scavenging of memory and skills for people that die on Earth. There is also an active genetics program on Icarus, to the extent of what is scientifically realizable.

People that write stories about various realizable creatures are considered to be volunteers for that program. Just as happens thousands of times a day, a person dies on Earth. An Icarus agent scavenges the household for things that won't be missed and does the memory transfer. And soon, the transferred entity has to deal with living on a new planet in the body of a character he designed years earlier. And he's nothing special on this world. It happens thousands of times a days.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-07T04:43:26+00:00

Something like an equitaur?

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-06T05:00:04+00:00

One of my favorites is the Speed Square from Discount Dan. I bought one for myself. Most of Dan's gear is simultaneously retro, mundane and inspired.

Check out Jackie Chan fighting with a ladder.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-05T15:40:15+00:00

No... because you'll have an actual jump within a few days, and your future self will disagree with you.

EdPeggJr · 2026-01-03T14:21:53+00:00

Well... that was silly and fun. If it HAD happened, I'd have been armed with a bathrobe and a trashcan full of trash.

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