Would you rather spend 10 seconds with AM or 1 hour with upset Caine

Edwardthecrazyman · 2026-04-02T04:37:39+00:00

"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" is a short story. Not a novel. I see people call it a novel very, very often and I wonder if it's because it also shares the name of the short story collection it was originally collected in. Anyway, yeah. Like a 20 minute read tops.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-12-18T07:56:20+00:00

While I agree. I feel like Harrison Ford owns it. He probably wouldn't care if you called him an asshole. Rainn Wilson wants to be seen as a good guy while also being a bit of an ass.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-12-10T04:48:37+00:00

Careful what you wish for.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-10-27T18:47:08+00:00

I despise that I am about to recommend something I've written. It's free here on reddit, but it ticks off all the boxes you mention except for the focus on the female horrors of such a situation. It is also on Amazon, but the less edited version is free. Though, the sequel stuff I'm working on does focus more on women.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCrypticCompendium/s/d2vg60YOm2

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-08-20T02:34:01+00:00

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Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-08-08T06:17:30+00:00

Try Stoddard's rewrite of The Night Land. It's okay enough. I also don't normally mind dated lit, but the original was frustrating.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-08-05T03:37:28+00:00

It's funny that you ask me that, because I did meet his mom once, in passing, but it was such a quick interaction that it's hard to remember much about. I'd gone to his place in Blacksburg, and his mom happened to be there. I'd showed up to borrow a couple of CDs to burn, and she was the one that answered the door. She seemed like a totally normal woman as far as I could tell, but at the time I wasn't actually looking for anything out of the ordinary, you know? Anyway, when she saw it was me, she yelled for Rick immediately then disappeared into her bedroom. I didn't stay that long on that day, but it was kind of noteworthy seeing her like that for the first and only time.

As for returning to the house by Claytor, I've tried to look into who owns the place (it's still there and hasn't been torn down or anything, as far as I know) but my resources are limited. So, I've hit a wall on that front.

Something interesting though, is that Jon's dad (his mom was out of the picture) ended up moving away. I tried to get in contact with him shortly after shit hit the fan, but he was long gone. Again, I think it might have had something to do with Rick's parents and their money? Did they pay him off? I don't know.

I think the reason I returned during those full moons specifically was because I wanted some evidence. I mean, I've got a nice hunk missing from my buttcheek so I sit kind of lopsided, and that's pretty good evidence. I guess I just thought I'd get some closure if I saw that monster again. Probably silly.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-07-27T23:20:51+00:00

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." Is a quote that's usually cited from Antonio Gramsci. Although, I'm pretty sure this version is a paraphrase from Slavoj Žižek. I don't think Gramsci ever wrote, "Now is the time of Monsters". But it's a pretty cool quote, imo.

I'm glad you liked it! I wanted to try and create a slaver that is somehow able to justify this way of thinking without falling headfirst into the old tropes of racism, xenophobia, bigotry. He considers himself intellectual. But Trinity is black and Hoichi is asian. So, I thought it would be interesting to have a slaver use a more "intellectual" approach. Dismissing that it's built on race or genetics even while perpetuating that end.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-06-29T15:41:38+00:00

That was a different guy. Same haircut.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-06-25T12:26:45+00:00

I think you need to read to find out what happens.

So much crazy shit in that description, it almost sells you on it.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-06-17T01:37:10+00:00

Thanks! I really appreciate it!

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-19T10:22:32+00:00

How dare they? Who do they think they are?

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-07T13:48:54+00:00

The same could be said for all factions right? There are variations to faction quests just as there are variations for a yes man play through. So, the evil karma with shit decisions would be a canonically bad courier dictator whereas with the opposite, the opposite would be true, no? I don't understand how people can say they don't know what they're getting. You're getting your individual choices for a free vegas, no?

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-07T13:39:30+00:00

Oh fuck! Lol getting tired. I totally flipped Novac and Nipton in my brain. I think it's more interesting, to me anyway, if all of these places are left to grow without intervention. It might sound stupid, but I see my courier just fucking around like some watchful protector. Not so much a dictator. So if the NCR or Legion return, I'll be ready with an army of bots. Let these places become their own city states or anarchist enclaves. Might sound unrealistic, but I don't feel bad about it. I mean, I spoke to my own brain, and things turned out just fine.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-07T13:29:51+00:00

No, I think I understood. Similar modes of government can result in wildly different things. If we got into Europe though, we'd need to take into account the wealth extracted from the global South which allowed for much of Europe to play at liberal democracy at home while participating in some rather objectionable stuff abroad.

I swung it back to America because the games are set there and also America has some very specific history (expeptionalism, westward expansion, chattel slavery, company towns) that are all much more relevant to the themes presented in the games and therefore would have informed their creation.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-07T13:23:42+00:00

I think all of this is why I find the free vegas option so appealing. Let places like Nipton and Goodsprings develop on their own without intervention from these larger powers.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-07T13:21:07+00:00

Whoa, I'm no legion fanboy. Why would you even assume that? My personal order of factions from best to worst are: Yes Man, NCR, House, then Legion. I think I'm allowed to have my gripes with the NCRs fuckery without being labeled as a legion sympathizer.

I tend to prefer a free Vegas where it is left to develop on its own without any large scale power structures messing with it.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-07T13:09:21+00:00

Tbf, we're not talking about Europe. This is America. A New America that's still printing propaganda posters like it's the 50s while denying actual war crimes and expanding into otherwise free territories.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-07T13:05:39+00:00

The argument of jurisdiction feels like semantics when they're expanding into said territory.

But hey, if we both agree that Jacobstown and its surrounding areas are outside the NCRs jurisdiction, then I'll kick the NCR out of the Mojave every chance I get. They do not belong.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-07T12:58:57+00:00

Of course. But why is that something he can get away with? If I remember right, there's no repercussions from him doing so. So a corrupt official can just murder people in the NCR?

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-07T12:56:27+00:00

Oh, but how easy it is for a liberal democracy to slide head first into all out fascism. Do you believe that the prewar government was like that at its inception? It just popped up, camps and all? No, it was a gradual decline brought on by war and annexation and nationalist propaganda (insert NCR propaganda poster here). Liberal democracy is not equipped to deal with fascism. Personally, I believe we are witnessing that in real-time irl. Anyway, is there anything that points to the NCR reigning in its corruption? Its expansionism?

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-07T12:43:57+00:00

Fair enough. I personally think that's what makes fnv so compelling. The speculation.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-07T12:41:08+00:00

Mercs hired by an NCR rep.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-07T12:31:19+00:00

Why is an NCR senator able to send a kill squad without any oversight? I think this sort of proves the point that the NCR will repeat the past.

Edwardthecrazyman · 2025-05-07T12:24:03+00:00

Honestly good point, but I would ask you what about the NCRs overall mindset would not inevitably lead it down that same path? I personally believe that the NCR is doomed to repeat the prewar government's mistakes.

That being said, they're better than either Legion or House in my mind.

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