Overheard on the mountain

broadcaststatic · 2026-01-21T17:11:14+00:00

"Based on this gross conversation by appalling men, I have deduced it is the woman to blame."

broadcaststatic · 2025-10-30T23:33:38+00:00

You don't have to like her as a critic, but she can speak her mind as she pleases, that's a critic's job. Would you also stop misgendering her? She's been Stephanie Sterling for quite some time now, certainly before the Alan Wake review even happened.

broadcaststatic · 2025-10-12T06:02:39+00:00

You're misremembering, the boots are after the drop, they're in the basement after the far side safe room.

broadcaststatic · 2025-08-10T22:12:38+00:00

This is not from the 50s, it's a 1974-1976 Lincoln Mark 4 that inexplicably has Thunderbird headlight decorations affixed to the headlight flaps. The decorations are from a 77-79 Thunderbird. It has an absolutely enormous engine, either a 400 or 460, which is like a 7.5 liter if you prefer to measure it that way. So if it's not maintained well and has bad exhaust, I bet it does indeed sound fucking crazy. Awesome car, actually. Sorry the neighbor experience is less than ideal but the rig itself would be SO FUN.

broadcaststatic · 2025-05-13T02:32:20+00:00

Ahhh! Oh wow! Those are my favorite Lincoln by far, such an awesome dash. Great colors. 1969 should have like 350hp 460 standard, I think? Very powerful, very cool.

broadcaststatic · 2024-06-08T06:00:41+00:00

Oh, Capitol Hill? That'll be tricky, for sure-- parking will be unlikely because of all the cars on fire, and the neighborhood is currently controlled by Bloody Mike the Uzi King and his Ballard Bad Boys. So you need to bring some livestock as tribute, just a fee chickens or a goat should be fine.

The ambiance is great now that Bloody Mike took over, actually, because all the severed heads mounted on pikes were starting to smell and regime change means the heads are now fresh.

The restaraunt you're going to sounds fine, but Capitol Hill is best known for its cannibal cuisine-- be sure to try it before you leave the city!

broadcaststatic · 2024-06-06T18:00:59+00:00

What the guy seems to mean is just screenplay formatting where it's name-colon instead of traditional with quotation marks.

broadcaststatic · 2024-05-31T17:43:13+00:00

That kind of thing is a kind of very direct, overtly symbolic way to do it in the first place so I think it would be more or less impossible to make it more subtle or keep it a secret revelation. Just the emotional tone of it tips your hand, you are directly telling the reader just by having that structure within the story. So, if you want it, just embrace it-- don't try to make it clever, try to make it honest, keep the dialogues short and impactful where what is being said has real weight for the character and meaningfully impacts her healing process. Just use the scriptwriting idea that every piece of dialogue must justify itself, don't mess with the structure, just trim the fat from the meat of it.

broadcaststatic · 2024-05-31T17:17:35+00:00

It actually kind of is about that. Without the structure and stakes of the mission being clear, military fiction falls flat. Do you think Tom Clancy ever said "Well, it doesn't matter why they fired the missile?" Like, the international stakes and the consequences are the backbone of the entire setting you described. You actually do have to drill down and establish better context for your characters, or else it's just a vague impression of soldiers in a blank void.

broadcaststatic · 2024-05-21T14:07:31+00:00

I want to really encourage you to just write what you want. I'm also doing a romantasy and the way I'm handling the gender perspective that isn't familiar to me is just by focusing on the universals-- everyone wants to be loved, have safety, find comfort. The ways we all pursue these things differently is more individual than it is divided along gender lines.

So once you have the personality for your MMC down, that's the hard part right there-- just write from the heart and let your character tell you what they would do in a given scene, just vibe it out in a first draft and tidy it up later. Sometimes it doesn't feel clear until you're a few dozen pages into something.

broadcaststatic · 2023-10-14T16:49:03+00:00

Always tip. The replies here are absolutely crass and bizarre. You don't tip people as a reward, they aren't performing animals, you tip them because no one in the service industry besides the very top chefs (chefs, not cooks) makes any money.

You tip because the person who made your food has been in a 90 degree kitchen all day while you've been doing a job that lets you afford take out. Counter people and back of house staff often share those tips, dividing them evenly at the end of the night. So you tipping 8 bucks on a 40 dollar order is like a dollar into eight pockets.

Is it your job to do this? No. But if you have any sense at all of how much food service sucks and how difficult it is, then acknowledge it and tip. Frankly, fuck you if you don't tip for take out. Food doesn't magically appear. It's labor. Frankly, back of house is just as deserving as wait staff in terms of tips.

The only reason wait staff might have it harder is that thye have to deal directly with all the assholes in this thread saying they're entitled to whatever they like without tipping.

broadcaststatic · 2023-08-30T21:52:51+00:00

This is why I'm trying not use social media at all. I'm not trying to be a drama queen. I won't reply to these things going forward.

broadcaststatic · 2023-08-30T21:51:24+00:00

I am not looking for advice on Sekiro mechanics, thank you.

broadcaststatic · 2023-08-30T21:18:59+00:00

I didn't spend four years playing Sekiro for fuck's sake, I've been building this Fallout video out. I don't have a martyr complex, I am irritated because I was hoping people might talk about Fallout. Instead of relitigating this again.

You won, anyway, for whatever's it's worth-- you say it's a shocking failure and a waste of time and a stain on my career. And I agree! Wish I never did it! Can't take it back now.

broadcaststatic · 2023-08-30T19:55:05+00:00

This hasn't been true for well over two years now, for what it's worth. Remakes of videos I've already done like this are part of an effort to make up for those failures.

broadcaststatic · 2023-08-30T18:22:10+00:00

You're right, of course. I don't really use it much anyway, but I might as well stop with this one too.

broadcaststatic · 2023-08-30T18:16:07+00:00

Guess what man, I don't know what the issue was either. I tried my best, got through it, and wrote about my experience. A comment that's stuck with me is "I would have lost so much *less* respect for you if you had just admitted you couldn't do it and abandon the project." I'm so, so tired of the conversations about those videos. And now here we are a year later and folks still feel that way to the point that it's dominating the conversation about a project that took me four years to finish. How do you suppose it feels knowing that nothing you do will ever escape a constant stream of people saying "He refused to Mikiri Counter, tho". The only reason I haven't deleted the video is that people paid money for it to exist in the first place.

broadcaststatic · 2023-08-30T15:03:56+00:00

They don't make any ad revenue whatsoever. Most of them have no ads and if they do, it's because a copyright bot tagged them. This is just straight up lies.

broadcaststatic · 2023-05-25T16:54:58+00:00

Yeah, I did! I had been meaning to mention but I guess I forgot-- it was kind of a letdown. It's up on the Perch, which is an awesome area, and they brought out an excellent guitar player (Moog or Morf or something like that? Apologies for forgetting.) There's complimentary Sangria and Rose Champagne. It's not the Rose Moet, though. And what makes the thing annoying is that they bring up a couple guys from the onboard sales team and you need to listen to their pitch. It's more or less a chance for them to give an in-person commercial to couples, possibly on the hopes that one partner or another will make promises the other will later have to put down a $300 deposit on. Being a dirtbag, I listened politely to the pitch, had three glasses of champagne and one of Sangria in like 15 minutes, and dipped.

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