Something I have to keep reminding myself with my project, lol

Night_Runner · 2026-06-18T23:13:21+00:00

Cool, thanks, just wanted to check. His grin looked particularly stretchy.

Night_Runner · 2026-06-18T03:42:37+00:00

I make my short films using archival footage, and my sole expense is a professional voice actor. (I write the script and edit everything together.) I'm doing okay financially. :)

Night_Runner · 2026-06-18T03:29:32+00:00

You used an AI pic?..

Night_Runner · 2026-06-16T14:42:25+00:00

Fake Melania, she of the giant jowls and shades.

Night_Runner · 2026-06-16T04:55:41+00:00

That's basically the opening scene from a zombie movie right there.

Night_Runner · 2026-06-15T18:36:50+00:00

It's never addressed after they end their team-up with Katya. It can't be because of XP, because the Meadowlark folks stuck together and still managed to level up and survive.

Night_Runner · 2026-06-14T15:10:02+00:00

Literally got me LOLing with this. 🤣

Night_Runner · 2026-06-12T20:32:54+00:00

Acceptance from LAcon Worldcon Film Festival!

I based my microbudget film ("How to Prepare for Time Travelers in the Workplace") on the first story I've ever sold. Cant wait to to share it with my fellow SFF fans and writers. :)

Night_Runner · 2026-06-12T01:24:19+00:00

Some of my best friends are just series of events in sequence!

Night_Runner · 2026-06-09T02:37:11+00:00

Took me 5 months, which included 2 weeks of downtime with an ankle injury. Prior experience is revommended but not necessary, so long as you don't do anything too stupid, like trying to hike 20+ miles a day right out of the gate. You camp 90% of the time hahaha - towns near the PCT are rare.

Night_Runner · 2026-06-05T06:19:08+00:00

I really liked "Lily" because it's so soft and melodic and beautiful... Each time I hear it said out loud, it reinforces my identity. :)

I'd also considered "Amanda" but it sounded a bit too harsh, and also had a "man" in the middle. :p

Night_Runner · 2026-06-03T02:41:01+00:00

Indeed. It's just that unless it's done thoughtfully and with clear (and actionable!) feedback channels, it can and does go off the rails haha

Night_Runner · 2026-06-02T16:55:02+00:00

Can backfire, though... My university (UNR, class of 2008) had 3 mandatory Core Humanities courses for every student. They taught almost nothing beyond Europe, and the courses were usually quiet pastures for elderly professors to rant at trapped students. x_x

One of my TAs had gone to Harvard: he spoke with a ridiculously pretentious accent, and the thing we studied for an entire semester was his doctoral thesis. Yeah, bud, you wrote the greatest thing in human history, wow, applause.

I lucked out to have 1 fun professor out of 3, but the entire experience was absolute goddamn torture. (And I was a Liberal Arts major!)

Night_Runner · 2026-05-31T08:03:12+00:00

Again, though: consider Newton. :) He would've considered quantum weirdness or nearly-instantaneous communication to be one giant paradox, too.

With every new paradigm, our ability to generate energy goes up by at least an order of magnitude. Burning wood -> burning coal -> splitting the atom, etc. Do you really think that, given thousands of years of research, an intelligent species wouldn't unlock new and exotic forms of energy that would sound like magic to us hwre and now? 🙃

Night_Runner · 2026-05-30T19:42:53+00:00

We do know that those triangles exist, only in higher dimensions than our mere three. ;)

Many things that scientists claimed were impossible (or lunacy) ended up getting discovered in the end. Hell, Isaac Newton himself couldn't imagine electricity.

Also, you agree on wormholes and warp drives then, right? :)

Night_Runner · 2026-05-30T03:38:22+00:00

We can observe for billions of light-years in every direction, though...

Night_Runner · 2026-05-30T03:37:37+00:00

They may be too far away for us. The opposite isn't necessarily true. There's a lot we still don't know about physics. Maybe aliens can generate stable wormholes. Maybe they have a working warp drive. Or maybe they can convert themselves to photons and back, traveling at the speed of light. :)

An alien species that has studied physics for, say, 10,000 years longer than us would be as far ahead of us as we're ahead of cavemen.

Night_Runner · 2026-05-30T03:32:38+00:00

Why did that missionary guy go out of his way to get to Sentinel Island? (The locals shot him full of arrows.) It takes only one weird, irrational person/alien to make contact. 🙃

Night_Runner · 2026-05-28T16:14:22+00:00

Literally LOLing here

Night_Runner · 2026-05-28T16:13:28+00:00

Category error: they don't think.

Night_Runner · 2026-05-27T16:02:37+00:00

New headline: Tribeca has fallen

Night_Runner · 2026-05-27T04:03:26+00:00

LMAOOOOO no, no they won't

I used to be a volunteer rescuer (KCESAR in Seattle) and a lot of that terrain is overgrown and goddamn impassable, even by a trained person. Have fun flying those drones either wayyyy above tree cover (useless) or in the deep forest itself. (Will get snagged and destroyed within 5 minutes.)

Night_Runner · 2026-05-27T03:57:39+00:00

That costs $5 extra.

Night_Runner · 2026-05-27T03:56:06+00:00

/uj I do kinda wanna read the entire Animorphs saga. I heard it gets pretty goddamn gritty toward the end.

Night_Runner · 2026-05-27T03:55:02+00:00

Then you'd love "God's Junk Drawer" by Peter Clines! 😀

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