New indie animated series by GLITCH. Trailer here:

Considering that it's GLITCH, I'm surprised that I'm surprised by what was in that, but here we are. Hopefully its as good as Muder Drones and Digital Circus (which, while not the greatest things ever, are still solid compared to the stuff coming out of Hollywierd).

Watch as deep sea researchers nerd out over externally shelled cephalopods! (I get that excited when I run into rare or cool plants, so I can pretty reasonably say that kind of reaction isn't scripted).

So, I was beating my head against a wall in Lies of P, and got to thinking: what would I want if I made Splintered Sky into a game. Obviously, there's a lot of different routes it could go, but something that really stuck with me was "wouldn't it be interesting to try to make an EVE style game out of the setting." So, I got to thinking "how could I make something like that and make it interesting." Full disclosure, I'm not a game designer (obviously) but it could be a fun thought experiment.

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Sooooo, the MH Wilds beta is going on. And I've been playing it. And I'm afraid that if I buy the game, its going to be the only thing I play for a long time. Just like what happened when I picked up MH World. Yes, it's that good.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to make myself do something else besides pummel balahara.

So, something that I have generally come to loath in contemporary storytelling is the very obnoxious trope of "sUbvOOrtinG tHi Aubiense exPertaCHuns dur hur hur I aRe seww cLEBbER" ["clever author" takes another drink of lead paint]. There's a single author that I've read that actually makes it work, and that's One, the creator of One Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100.

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Stars streak across the splintered sky,
I stare up in the night,
Moonrise wanes and waxes on and on,
Tears falling from the sight.

Where are you, those I miss so much,
What dreams have yet to come,
Cut from my breast, my dearest loves,
Brother and sister lost and gone.

Why did we break apart and fly
Apart like shards of shattered sky?
Was it out of our control?

I wish I knew the answers now,
Stars will you not tell me how,
To make us once more whole.

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Yea, things have been trying in the lake. Work really slammed me. Got a very severe case of writer's block. Chapters are being worked on, but it's taking me longer than I'd hoped. So, because I don't like going radio silent for too long, here's a scan of my design for Nightcrawler without his armor.

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… when you're looking forward to a week in the mountains where the forecast calls for triple digits, yet it's still at minimum ten degrees cooler than where you came from.

This is my life during the summer.

Originally, I had planned to include a large scale battle at Rose’s Blossom during the Festival Arc, culminating with Steel and Raven battling Nightcrawler as he’s about to kill Roseluck and Sunset. Ultimately, I decided that I wanted to go a different route, since it didn’t feel like it would mesh well with the tone of the story. However, when I was drafting and outlining the chapters, I considered that Steel’s modus operandi would probably mean he’d be prepared to face the Endless

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Because pony hugs would be great.