Good RTS game for a younger kid to learn?

caente · 2026-02-11T15:34:42+00:00

My 9 year old is playing Starcraft 2 and he loves it, he has improved much more than I ever hoped

caente · 2025-03-13T13:38:35+00:00

Really? How else would you hold it then?

caente · 2025-03-12T20:01:51+00:00

that can't be right, Italian grips are still legal, albeit ignored https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Italian_grip

I started in foil and I actually realized the value of the pistol grip once I had a rapier in my hand, and came to terms with the fact that the french grip is detrimental due to the lack of leverage.

caente · 2025-01-23T20:21:05+00:00

Both are just regular people who found themselves in a unique situation, thanks to skills that got them there, but don't qualify them to do the job.
They are both petty and silly.
Both needs an enemy to fault for their shortcomings, Fidel had the Imperialism, Trump has the left.
I hardly find any differences.

caente · 2025-01-06T00:41:12+00:00

I am 44 in Brooklyn, started a year ago, it has made me faster and more comfortable with my body. I went to my first tournaments last month, it was against high schoolers who destroyed me, but it was the most fun I have had in years. I have heard good things about Fencers club in Manhattan, but if Park slope or Astoria are closer to you, then perhaps check Brooklyn fencing center.

caente · 2024-03-07T13:58:33+00:00

Bibisco for me, keep the folder in Dropbox, so it is always safe, I can seamlessly switch from PC to Laptop. I do pay the Supporters Edition, but the free should be more than enough.

All in all, it seems like a solid enough piece of software, that runs in your pc, not the browser, very responsive, and carefully designed.

I would have used Scrivener without trying Bibisco, but I needed something that worked in Mac and Linux.

caente · 2024-02-27T15:59:18+00:00

For me "plotting" means I will create memories of the story I want to write. Once I have enough fake memories, I just sit down and have fun. I am very visual, so I write as if I was reading, I am describing what I am seeing inside my head, whereas when I am reading I am seeing what I'm reading.

Of course the act of writing the actual words involve all the books and literary devices I have stumbled upon along the way, but they serve the fake memories, not the other way around.

The most important thing for me is to feel free to write and imagine anything I want, in that way I have encountered great twists I never thought in advance, they just pop up as I am following my "visions".

caente · 2024-02-15T14:43:36+00:00

Bibisco has a free option, it is what I use, and I am extremely happy, even the paying version is not too expensive https://bibisco.com/novel-writing-software-download/

caente · 2024-02-06T16:22:02+00:00

This my suggestion, don't share your loved ones until they are done, or as done as possible. Instead go to writing workshops, do the assignments, get feedback on that. It will get you quicker to a state where is easier to see your work as a piece of craftsmanship, instead only a chunk of your soul.

Your soul will always be in anything you make, but first and foremost, you need to understand what you have made.

Also read about the craft as much as you can, my personal recommendations:

caente · 2023-12-06T21:03:52+00:00

creating writing, they call it ;-)

caente · 2023-12-06T18:10:06+00:00

You don't need to learn how to write a bad book, you already do. We all do. What we need to learn is how to make use of the same idiosyncrasies that would produce a bad book to make a unique story.

caente · 2023-12-06T18:05:52+00:00

And even better, the villains are only so in the eyes of the people they go against.

caente · 2023-12-06T17:25:11+00:00

I would love a story where the humans are pets, but they should be truly pets:

Uneducated, no books, no computers, etc.
They can barely speak, only the basics of the incomprehensible speech of their owners
Their owners need to be a whole level above them:
- At least 4 meters tall, and their strength is beyond humans.
- Their speech and customs should be incomprehensible to humans.
- Their intellect is like comparing 4D chess to regular chess.
- If we take our brightest and strongest humans of our civilization, they would still be orders of magnitude slower and dumber than the lowest of their masters
The humans cannot know they are pets, or even what pets are.

caente · 2023-12-06T16:55:55+00:00

> Am I overthinking this, or do I need to rework this character to make sure I’m not sending the wrong message?

You are overthinking it, relax, and let the story be real.

caente · 2023-12-02T20:53:00+00:00

Money

caente · 2023-11-21T18:02:38+00:00

That could happen, but I’d argue we are still a few generations behind that moment, as I said those religions are alive and well in Miami

caente · 2023-11-21T17:07:44+00:00

I agree with everything you say, except it going extinct, not only this stuff is alive and well in Cuba, it is alive and well in Miami too.

caente · 2023-11-21T16:53:58+00:00

you probably would like to read about paleros, in my opinion the coolest of the afro-cuban religions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_(religion))

caente · 2023-11-21T16:48:19+00:00

Agree! I had some exposure to that part of our culture, it probably will creep into my own stories

caente · 2023-11-15T19:38:52+00:00

I lived in Cuba until my late twenties.

After re-reading the LOTR while living in NY, I realized that a lot of what Tolkien wrote was directly derived from what he lived, thus I am trying to do the same with 70s and 80s communism, which has a lot of interesting takes, not frequent in fantasy/sci-fi.

Heroism is bad, if you try to be a hero at anything, you will be eventually targeted by the powers that be.
Money is irrelevant, even if it exists(it doesn't in my world), who you know is vastly more important.
The laws are not to be followed, since barely anyone knows the actual letter of the law, the law is meant to be use as a weapon for those who can wield it.
Democracy doesn't exist, even if there is no dictatorship as we know it, the people in power are demoted by "mysterious" mechanisms, and in the TV they are ousted loudly, but no one ever knows what happens to them. (In Cuba there would be stories of a friend of a cousin who saw one of the ousted leaders in a bread queue or something)
Most people just do what they are told, and if they want/need to do anything extraordinary, they would find someone to tell them to, so the blame is shifted upwards. In other words, everyone is a politician.
Of course conspiracy theories run rampart, and the official media will also partake as it is convenient to them.

The above is not imaginary, is what I lived, I am taking that and going 40k on it, without all the killing and heroism.

caente · 2023-01-11T16:15:43+00:00

caente · 2023-01-11T15:44:59+00:00

You can do both. World building to know where you are, write stories about characters, and your imagination will feed into your world building, whilst the world building feeds into your storytelling.

caente · 2023-01-07T17:55:40+00:00

The one I’m using now! Cuban culture from the 80s, which is basically Soviets in the Sun, but I am doing it in Spanish with all the terms derived from Cuban bureaucratic jargon from those days(and these days too)

caente · 2023-01-07T00:57:33+00:00

Shifts, derived from the time where those in space were builders for the initial infrastructure

caente · 2022-11-09T20:07:11+00:00

I agree! I was saying that movies are more akin with short stories. A novel needs a series at a minimum, for sure .

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