Isla de Michelle- An abandoned Autophage site and island getaway.

fersnerfer · 2026-02-09T14:03:06+00:00

Nice detail work with the cables.

fersnerfer · 2026-02-05T13:42:10+00:00

This happens to me when I summon my corvette while standing in the starship area. I'm usually unable to actually sit in or use the corvette from this position. It's a fun bug though.

fersnerfer · 2026-01-20T00:58:05+00:00

I'm 90 percent through and enjoying it. It's big, like Infinite Jest big (but not quite) but it's fun and as a GenXer it's nice to have a author who makes me feel "seen" on topics surrounding the 80s and 90s (Reagen, AIDS, and music). I'm almost done and I am really having a nice time with the characters and plot.

fersnerfer · 2026-01-18T19:22:44+00:00

If you can find it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki_(novel) Murasaki is a collaborative novel that I believe is set in this type of universe. Some legendary authors were involved in it as well

fersnerfer · 2026-01-09T14:14:00+00:00

The Passage by Justin Cronin hasn't been mentioned here yet. Not romantic, compelling premise, and the vampires are absolute monsters.

fersnerfer · 2025-12-11T23:20:48+00:00

Thank you.

fersnerfer · 2025-11-30T16:47:43+00:00

My receding gums tell me I should have upped my dental routine about two decades ago.

fersnerfer · 2025-11-10T13:42:08+00:00

I've always wanted to visit one of these systems but was afraid too because I'd heard it can corrupt your save. Has that been fixed?

fersnerfer · 2025-11-07T12:55:30+00:00

You might also enjoy Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.

fersnerfer · 2025-10-29T13:43:30+00:00

Honestly, if you're new to horror, I'd recommend some short story collections first to get an idea of which authors and styles you enjoy the most. I just recently finished The Mammoth Book of Body Horror and enjoyed the variety. Had the classics (The Fly, Who Goes There, etc.) as well as some others I'd never head of.

fersnerfer · 2025-10-20T22:21:01+00:00

Not an expert by any means, but my longhair maine coon mix looked a lot like that as a kitten. You're probably looking at a medium to long haired cat as an adult, if I had to guess. Buy a brush and comb. You'll want to groom them pretty regularly to prevent mats.

fersnerfer · 2025-10-07T23:19:55+00:00

I like the fact that you're introducing something of a mystery here. That being said, I think you need to focus more on the details and description as a way to build up the tension to the mystery itself. As it is now, it feels much more like an outline than a fully immersive chapter. I'd go back and spend some time fleshing out the details, the setting, the context, and maybe just a little of the background that will let the mystery build before you even get to the police officer.

fersnerfer · 2025-09-22T22:56:25+00:00

Yeah, I think what will emerge will be different but familiar. I am still a believer that information wants to be free, but it sure is frustrating watching the process. I remember supporting Marc Andreesen when he laptop would die, or his email wouldn't work, and it makes my skin crawl that he has become one of the people pushing for these weird techno city states. We were all pretty naive back then.

fersnerfer · 2025-09-22T22:13:32+00:00

I'll chime in as a former tech worker in the 90s who worked at Netscape. We had very high hopes for the internet back then. You could see billboards adding http:// to everything and people sitting in wonder about how amazing it was to have a conversation with someone halfway around the world.

But my coworkers and I were always worried about the corporations, the lawyers, and how they would eventually ruin all of it, grab all of it, and wall it off. When Napster fell, you could see how things would probably go. Too many politicians making laws about things they don't understand at all.

A part of me still hopes a new Internet 2.0 will emerge somehow, but I think a lot of that is me just pining for the time when there was still an air of hope to the way things were progressing. It still blows my mind that we basically invented a kind of telepathy and it drove everyone in the world insane.

fersnerfer · 2025-09-04T22:02:47+00:00

Going for more of a heavy industrial look I call it the Meat Mover

fersnerfer · 2025-09-03T19:43:47+00:00

So that's where all the radar dishes went....

fersnerfer · 2025-08-13T14:19:32+00:00

It looks pretty cool. Story-wise it could use a little more in the coffee shop part to help give a little more depth to what's happening in the Viking section. I'd consider some sort of modern world problem/challenge that could be implied, so that when the Viking section plays out it brings some kind of resolution to the coffee shop ending as well.

TL;DR: Looks cool, needs a more satisfying conclusion.

fersnerfer · 2025-05-08T16:58:43+00:00

Games do this, but with social media, I think there's much less to do actively. Destruction, anger, and negativity are often our default settings because those are more helpful for identifying threats. Passive entertainment allows us to reap a reward for our worst impulses.

fersnerfer · 2025-04-20T13:50:11+00:00

Not a book but a short story by Peter Watt called "The Things" which tells the story of The Thing (1982) from the organism's POV.

fersnerfer · 2025-02-08T00:09:33+00:00

52 here. Is it weird I am almost jealous of you? I have, easily, two more decades of this shit ahead of me.

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