Recent content by wirehead

The departure from normalcy needs to make sense, I think. Did the chain of Roman Empire to Holy Roman Empire to Austrian to Austria-Hungary state happen about the same way as it has in reality if magic was involved? Maybe Charlemagne came about much in the same way, except that he was able to...

Yeah, being bad-ass and helmet-free is totally a movie trope. And comic books. Because you want to see people's faces. And, I dono, yeah, I wear helmets all the time while I'm biking, but if it was metal, I'd think twice about having all that weight on my head. Heck, even there, I bike past...

Minecraft is kinda cool because it is modeling a world where each "atom" is a block and behavior emerges. Whereas most of the other games, especially blocky games the days of yore, were modelling the world as a bunch of objects, without the vague potential for emergent behavior. Without the...

I created a conlang and lately, I've been taking names I've found cool and then translating the literal meaning of the name into the conlang. I've also adjusted the conlang such that any missing words tend towards the sound of the original name, or at least the part about the original name that...

I'm conscious that the stuff I'm writing lately is a bit of a reaction to the social thread in America that started in the 1980s and has continued to Trump. Feudalism as we see in medieval-themed fantasy is a product of knights and nobles and conventional weapons. And they ignore things like...

There were a few things that were my catnip. Granted, I tend to like campy stuff like Flash Gordon. Also, I checked out a few of the original translated graphic novels for comparison from the library after I saw it. For one, even though Cara Delevingne is a bit of an untrained actress and...

Metaphorically speaking, it depends on if you want the map to be at the beginning of the book or books or the end. :)

I mean, comparing to the modern day, we've got a bunch of people who play football or race formula one cars. And the folks who play football end up pretty damn battered by the end of their career and sometimes there's a car crash that kills the driver. There's really a spectrum between a...

Huh, so I've spent a bunch of time dusting off a bunch of notes from ~2003 that were more pseudo-medieval fantasy setting and, as I'm going through trying to turn them into something new, I'm realizing that the new version is drifting really far away from that. The realization that it was...