Lets say you have a character who has a reasonably good income, who has got into the habit of anonymously gifting to people in need, and has done that for so long that they feel it's become a part of their character. Their income suddenly reduces to the point that they can only survive, but not share and not increase. How does the character react?

How do they find purpose when their chosen purpose has suddenly been ripped away?

Do they even have one?

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Ok so, first things first. Any of my long-term followers will remember my ongoing struggles with the twin forces of Not Having Blood and Being Terminally Bearded. I can't fix the latter (doesn't matter how often you cut it off, it always grows back) but the former is theoretically curable.

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I've been watching Picard, the new Star Trek series CBS produceccd, with Patrick Stewart and a bunch of people. It's... confusing. The pacing is the problem, whenever I think about it. The conceit is interesting, but the pacing is terrible, and it also suffers from something I've come to think of as "hifi/low budget" in its set design, inasmuch as the production of relatively high quality props and sets - or the parts thereof - has become possible for a fairly low price, leading to a lot

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Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes. But when Untitled came out in 92, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisps sound, and a new sheen of consumate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. They've been compared to Weezer, but I think the group has a far more optimistic, forward-thinking sense of humour.

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I have a bunch of words. They'll be posted soon.

Soon being some time before the end of next week.

I hope.

What are promises?

I understand this is all the rage when you release words.

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I'm not going to complain about having too much work (but I do).

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Have a playlist

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The following is a bunch of self-indulent responses to a list of questions designed to fluff my own ego. This is Jake's fault (and by extension a few others), and I'm doing it because I am apparently a complete clown about focusing on what matters.

Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?

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Listen.

Have a playlist

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they sing the story