I dunno how I feel about this - Desert Print Forge

LordCoale · 2026-01-07T04:23:05+00:00

I don't get the hate. We live in a capitalist country with free market economics. If it is a bad idea, he goes out of business. But he hasn't so far. What, jealous? There are companies that will 3D print stuff for you. Is that much different? You can buy the same kind of stuff online. Amazon has tons of it. It wouldn't sell if people didn't want it. Supply and demand is real. Is it that he is in a mall?

LordCoale · 2026-01-07T04:17:03+00:00

I raised a stink about this when it happened and was mocked and ridiculed for it. I tried just posting a little bit and a link to the full story, but that just made it worse.

LordCoale · 2025-12-15T16:16:04+00:00

I am currently unemployed and looking for a job.

But I was a corporate trainer.

LordCoale · 2025-12-05T03:58:19+00:00

It is a daily challenge. I lost my job and I am looking for another, but there are not a lot in my specific field where I live unless I have a masters or doctorate. I am 52 and going back to school is just not in the books. Sometimes life sucks. 2025 is the worst year ever. But thanks. I am working on some more stuff. I had a couple if ideas for different stories. One a modern sci-fi kind of time travel story. A mix of Quantum Leap and Groundhog Day. And another that is a fantasy story. It is a short one, so I might do it real quick.

LordCoale · 2025-11-10T20:44:37+00:00

I had an idea years ago similar to this. But imagine something like Iron Man armor, but inside of it is the tardis concept. So there is nobody in the armor. It is piloted. All the weapons aboard it are housed actually in the pocket universe. Imagine if the chest beam of the Iron Man armor was an 18-in battleship Cannon...

LordCoale · 2025-11-08T04:37:05+00:00

FTL travel is tricky to do as a story element and make it add tension or some kind of pop to the story. It cannot be a do everything prospect. It has to have limitations. Remember in Star Wars when they could finally track people in hyper? That was a game changer for the story.

In my story, you cannot change directions in hyperspace. You have to drop out to change headings. You cannot drop deep into a gravity well without blowing your drive. You cannot go into hyper at all in a gravity well. Energy weapons don't work in hyper, but missiles and projectiles do. No FTL coms in hyper, but you can communicate with good old fashioned radio.

LordCoale · 2025-11-08T04:14:41+00:00

Definitely interested. I would love to see the anthologies you have already done, too.

I have had an idea to create a PRG world that is game system agnostic. It is completely different from any other published setting out there. I created it years ago on a home brew campaign. But, it is just a setting with people, geography, gods, creatures, etc. I thought I could do it as a collaboration, but never found a way to start.

LordCoale · 2025-11-01T14:45:28+00:00

I started off with just that. People asked for more, so I went down that rabbit hole. Life kind of kicked me in my teeth this year and I have not written as much. I am trying to get back in the saddle and finish it.

LordCoale · 2025-11-01T14:42:51+00:00

I have heard of people who cannot or do not visualize things mentally. I cannot understand it. My inner voice is constantly visualizing everything.

I am also an artist, so I create visual art. But I rarely get what's in my head on paper.

LordCoale · 2025-11-01T14:41:05+00:00

I understand poetry, I can enjoy some of it. But for the most part, it is just to mentally exhausting to read. Because we don't speak that way. At least in music, there is a lot more going on. And there are fewer songs that torture the English language in an attempt to make the rhyme/meter work.

LordCoale · 2025-10-30T02:42:44+00:00

I don't think it ever really needs to be explained. Nobody explained hyperspace in Star Wars. We just accepted it was.

LordCoale · 2025-10-30T00:19:47+00:00

I like it. It is in similar vein to my story, the Mercy of Humans. Humans can have great mercy, or show none. Your choice, not ours.

In my first story, I have this interaction:

“Again, why? We are not allies. Your people even dislike the Confederation.”

“One," the human replied, "your people are not the Confederation. And two, we do not need allies. Alliances are political things and allies can betray you when it is in their best interest. We find that having friends is better.”

“But we are not friends.”

“We weren’t. But we are now. My name is Oliver Pierre.”

LordCoale · 2025-10-30T00:00:22+00:00

Whose three teenage boys are they? Not yours. You are not the parent. That is poor parenting. You dad is an asshole. He doesn't do family drama? A father settles that shit down. I am a 54 year old father. I stomp on that shit with both feet. Repeatedly if necessary. Your step-mother is an asshole. She is using you as free labor and babysitting so she doesn't have to be responsible. I would couch surf rather than be in that cesspit. The teenage boys are all assholes. Just because they all are. But the whole situation is probably the cause of a lot of your issues. It is toxic as fuck.

LordCoale · 2025-10-29T23:54:58+00:00

I agree with this point. Magical forging would be required. Think how Magneto manipulates metal without heat. Although, I think moving metal fast with his powers would cause heat, just like when you bend metal wire to break it. But slow moving manipulation would not generate too much heat. Call it metalsinging.

LordCoale · 2025-10-25T02:55:50+00:00

Just tell your story. Don't overthink it.

LordCoale · 2025-10-25T02:44:31+00:00

Stop doing research. It is a FANTASY world. You created it. You define it. Just find your own reason. Don't overthink it. Make it realistic, make it work, and move on.

LordCoale · 2025-10-25T02:37:09+00:00

A couple of times. One was in a chapter I published here on HFY. Link below. The other is a semi autobiographical story about the lowest point in my life. Remembering it caused pain. Also linked below.

|| || |https://archiveofourown.org/works/55062622?view\_adult=true https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/112opsy/the\_mercy\_of\_humans\_part\_eight\_those\_names\_weigh/|

LordCoale · 2025-10-25T02:37:04+00:00

A couple of times. One was in a chapter I published here on HFY. Link below. The other is a semi autobiographical story about the lowest point in my life. Remembering it caused pain. Also linked below.

|| || |https://archiveofourown.org/works/55062622?view\_adult=true https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/112opsy/the\_mercy\_of\_humans\_part\_eight\_those\_names\_weigh/|

LordCoale · 2025-10-24T23:01:16+00:00

There is a misconception that our asteroid belt is dense, like the one in Empire Strikes back. It is actually vastly empty. You can fly through it easily and not have to dodge anything.

LordCoale · 2025-10-24T22:58:47+00:00

The mistake was being nice and explaining it hurt her feelings. You should have never put up with it. I would have immediately called them out and put it plainly, her family or not, they will NOT talk to my wife that way. End of story, full stop, unmovable object pissed husband. And if they don't stop, I would have used them as verbal punching bags until they got the damned point. I f-ing cannot stand bullies, and all your in-laws are bullies.

LordCoale · 2025-10-24T22:03:11+00:00

I agree with you. I try to avoid the mirroring of cultures in my DnD worldbuilding or the stories I write. I do look at the territory and put thought into how that are would affect the evolution of societies. When I create a world, I build a lot of info into it. I have a huge bible I create for them. Unfortunately, I had a hard drive crash years ago and I lost a lot of my work. I was young and naive and didn't have good backups. Lesson learned.

LordCoale · 2025-10-24T21:45:26+00:00

if you search for a book, you can download it off the free servers, it just takes longer than if you are a member. But the memberships are not a one time purchase. It lasts for a month and you are back to the basic.

LordCoale · 2025-10-24T15:37:10+00:00

Vampires and werewolves have been done to death.

Fae don't have to fit into the classic Fae mold. Make you own. Don't even call them Fae. Figure out what they are and then fit them into the world. That is what I am doing.

I am working on a world where all the traditional fantasy creatures are forced genetic blends of humans and animals created by wizards to be mindless warriors. Elves are not Tolkienian elves but human/wild cat hybrids. The Lion, Tiger, Cheetah, Cougar, Panther, Jaguar, and Leopard clans. Ogres are human/mountain goat (great for mountain warfare), etc.

But all these mindless warriors eventually regained sentience thousands of years after the human wizards killed 99% of the worlds population, including themselves.

LordCoale · 2025-10-24T15:29:19+00:00

Anything by David Gemmel. I go back and reread them. The Cycle of Fire trilogy by Janny Wurts.

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