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Oh, woops. That's what you get when you don't read post dates.

I'm about to go for the fourth boss of Persona 5's storyline today. That's so good when a good game holds of its promises and even more. Also yay for another Persona fan here.

On other news... Second turn for presidential elections here in France that Sunday. And after that, the legislatives' circus. Boy are we on a ride here.

"Direct hit!" the Tactical Officer crowed across the bridge of HMS Thornbird, but then frowned at the screen. "Ah, direct hit to their decoys, rather. Sorry, captain."

"It's still a valuable hit," the XO reassures the young officer. "It gives us that much more chance next time. And with our vector bending away from theirs, I doubt they'll want to stop and make repairs."

"Um." The note of uncertainty was injected by the Comms officer. "Captain? It's the convoy... they've turned away from the hyper limit and are vectoring in-system..."



I may need to come up with another way to display the plot, it's getting ridiculous... Tango 2 is down its shields and decoys, which means you've got a good chance of doing critical damage if you can hit it again.

hS

But option C

Out at a friend's bday party so don't have time to post properly

Elcalion, evasory

Your options are: a) keep going in the same direction, b) swing back towards the hyper limit, or c) try to loop away from Tango 3, back towards the Thornbird, and hope the bad guys overshoot.

Or anything else, of course, but it seems like people might be overwhelmed by the number of choices.

hS

Ah, heck with it. It's mattcipher94@gmail.com

Come on Rockstar. It can't be that hard! Heck, I'll play with Microsoft's little Xbox on PC thing, just let me play the darn game, man.

And then if you would port Red Dead 1 while we're at it, that would be amazing.

I just sent him an @ so he might look in here.

I still think doing it in midair is a little much silly, even for a gunslinger.

—doctorlit knows pretty much nothing at all about guns

I had forgotten about that detail. Still, though, I did think we were getting a fairly close adaptation of the earlier books, other than something I'll bring up in a bit to keep it of preview.

The face-shrouded figures in the trailer are likely can-toi, replacing the slow mutants for a species(?) that actually appears again later in the series. They're not wearing their famous yellow coats, but I seem to recall that was implied to be their disguise when visiting Earth; they may dress more conservatively in Mid-World. (Low men were first mentioned in the novella Hearts in Atlantis, but I haven't seen the movie adaptation to compare facial make-up and in fact don't even know if they appear on screen.)

Okay, so here's the NSFW paragraph. The one scene that's basically guaranteed to be cut is when Roland comes upon Jake being molested by the lust demon, then exchanges sex with her/it for information. I totally understand they won't want the underage actor in a scene like that, but at the same time, Roland kind of needs to encounter her/it at some point. Maybe Jake will be absent from the scene, or maybe they're cutting Mordred out entirely? I wouldn't mind the Man in Black remaining the primary antagonist until the end; maybe the whole Mordred subplot was one of the mistaken paths Roland took that prevented his success in the cycle we read in the novels?

I rather hope we get the flashback sequence of Wizard and Glass. I found that whole novel quite serviceable as a standalone story. I also hope the Crimson King is . . . not a garbage character? I think that's a nice way to put that. The scene of Stephen King's prevented death could also use a delicate touch, especially in regards to the man who hit him in real life, who has passed away since.

I do think, and suspect, the whole original ka-tet will return; as you said, there's fate there. Callahan better show up as well, I don't want him getting cut.

Dad-a-chad? Dum-a-dum? Don't you dare tell me you don't like the lobstrosities! The lobstrosities are the absolute best thing ever. There was a time period in high school when I went around campus saying, "Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum?" all over.

—doctorlit dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dum-a-chum dad-a-chad

Not that it really matters, either... My family wouldn't want me going out to visit people I only know thanks to online communication, because they're super tight and all that. We're not known for being gregarious, which is sad and awful because there are a number of friends I've made here whom I've longed to meet in person for a while now... just my luck that my responsibilities and my parents are working together to prevent that, and not necessarily unintentionally, either. :C

live trailer in the works.

link

We'll literally have JUST missed each other. Literally, how!?

I can't find your e-mail in your username. Do you think you could fix that or at least send me your e-mail address some other way?

So, the allegations against Nord seem to have gotten lost in the shuffle.

Is Nord still around? I haven't seen him on the Board lately. If he is, could someone please draw his attention to this thread?

Also, can anyone provide details of or otherwise expand on the allegations made in this post? It's probably ill-advised to judge anyone's actions off of a summary of one side of the story if it's possible to avoid that. (That being said, if this summary is accurate, apologies on Nord's part appear to be called for.)

- Tomash

I hear People's Commissioner :-P

Elcalion, out of this world

Oh, man! That's pretty cool! It's a shame that the movie based on The Eyes of the Dragon was never finished, as I really loved that book, and I'm with you in the boat of "can't read any actual horror by Stephen King." >u<

Have you read his memoir/writing advice combo? It's pretty good, and it explains a lot about why he writes such messed-up stuff.

(Fun fact: One time, my friend shipped me with the Eyes of the Dragon version of Randall Flagg, and it escalated to the point of him having been my LO for a while. Those were interesting times.)

-Twistey

P.S. Nobody's mentioned that it's Cinco de Mayo... (quietly goes back to reading Things I'm Not Allowed to Do at the PPC)

I got an offer for a job near Cincinnati a couple of days a go - they have yet to sign the letter but I have good faith that they will soon enough - and we're currently working out whether to transition out of my current job so I can move there or to hold out until my current company transitions me to full-time. With luck though I should be able to go full-time once again soon enough, though! (Also, Voyd told me the other day that he has found a new job at a Wal-Mart at his town and that's wonderful. :D)

I'm also working on the second of two interludes I have planned, and kinda waiting on the current beta for the first one (and looking for a second beta for both). Unfortunately, though, progress on this interlude has been stupidly slow, thanks to... well, I won't say, but it's a personal project I thought up this past weekend and I'm keeping it under wraps until I sort out the baseline mechanics for it. But once it's ready for presentation I'll put it up on the Board for your evaluation along with both of the interludes! 'Twas about time I got something posted for the PPC after being out of touch with writing my agents for like what, six months? ^^;

Probably too much math. But this is pretty dang cool! You seem to have put a ton of effort into it, and I love the prose here. If you want to, maybe develop it into an epic poem somehow? I mean, the Star Wars movies are already considered epic film, and plus, it'd take time, but it'd be fun. :)

-Twistey

Something that has been briefly mentioned is that there are different types of beta reading. Some authors want nothing more than a SPaG check. They might be upset with a beta for suggestions regarding a clunky sentence or sticky plot point, because they only want the SPaG help in minimal words. Other authors want to have long chats regarding plots, the wording of sentences, canon points, characterization, fan theories, almost anything via the comments on the Gdoc. (I wouldn't know anyone like that /sarcasm).

Both of those situations are valid beta/author relationships. If you are a SPaG only author and you get a chatty beta, you aren't going to be happy. If are a chatty author and get a minimalist beta you aren't going to be happy.

Being more specific about what you want when posting the request should help with getting the right match. Being honest about your abilities is important, too. Me, personally, I will never be a SPaG beta. My grammar is shaky at best. It's improved over the years, but I still make a lot of mistakes and wouldn't want someone else to think that my reading means they are good on the grammar front. However, I like to think I am pretty good at some other aspects of beta reading like the overall voice of the piece.

The suggestion for feedback to your betas is a good one. Allowing people to be apprentice beta readers is a good idea. Having demo Gdocs of good beta work available is a good idea, too.

I don't know if everyone is totally familiar with Gdocs, but it allows you to set what level of access people have to the document. I like to set it to comment only for the beta process. The beta can highlight and add a comment, but cannot change the text. I like having documents I am beta reading set like this, too. It avoids having a cat walk across the keyboard and change things without my knowledge when I leave the computer for a bit. The comments appear on the side of the document as near to the highlighted text as possible, and have the added bonus of allowing you to reply to them.

Suggest is another level it offers where the beta can type in your document, but it is highlighted and asks the author if they want to accept the change or not. I prefer comments myself even for, "you missed the word 'a' here." type stuff.

"Comms! I need you to open up communications with the Convoy. Tactics! I need a missile on T2's Southeastern-most point, send the live one towards the end point of the Convoy's vector. I want us going south with all we got! Put our vector on the southern central Hex with thrusters on full force! We need to make it to our Convoy as soon as possible!"

... thinks he's running a warship. He's clearly not entirely in the same universe as the rest of us.

The best part is that the Ship's Counsellor apparently outranks the XO. Iiii get the feeling this is one of those ships... you know, the ones enlisted spacers whisper horror stories to each other about...

hS

Not speaking for Iximaz as to whether or not the apology is accepted, for the reasons stated here.

But I'll take this as one more chance for Bramandin, with consequences if she attempts to contact Iximaz again.