Literature, comics, role-playing games and other sweet stuff
If you’ve ever scrolled through the comment section of a cultural event release announcement, the meme above is old hat.Although taken slightly out of its original context, it often describes a commenter’s desire to own a certain product even if they have no idea whether they will like it or not.On the surface, such a …
Continue reading “How NOT to make money in a hype-driven industry (part 1)”
I came back to Twitter and YouTube on Friday after a week, where I hadn’t had the time to keep up on the goings on within the hashtag movement called #comicsgate. And, boy oh boy, had something changed all of a sudden. Now, a week before, Youtuber and Twitter comedian Nerkish, had been officially denounced …
(note: I will throughout this piece avoid using any names. This is mostly because I do not wish to spend massive amounts of time and space with Twitter screenshots, and so forth. There should be enough for a serious reader to do hashtag and youtube research without my having to make this writ longer than …
[The following is part of an attempt at making an episodic blog. My collected thoughts on the novel Sick Bag Song and my analysis takes up way more space than I feel like I can expect the average reader to read in one go. The following, then, is an attempt at something which should give a clear …
Continue reading “My thoughts on Nick Cave’s Sick Bag Song, part I”
As some people might know, Knights of the Dinner Table Live Action has run into trouble. I don’t know exactly what happened; did Ken Whitman mismanage the money raised? Or, were there simply a bunch of unforeseen costs which made actually delivering on the promises made in the Kickstarter campaign impossible? To be honest, it …
Continue reading “Mismanaging Kickstarter funds; a tale of two series”
Lately, social media has been bothering me. The concept more than the actual transmitters. The core of my antipathy for Facebook and other social media is the way that it resembles a shouting match. Or rather a a hundred different protests and marches blended together with people waving banners and playing media clips which try …
Continue reading “A Farewell to Facebook – Signing out of social media … sorta”
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