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Story Contest Submission Period is CLOSED
The submission period for the Age of Ruin Second Story Collection Contest is now CLOSED. I’d like to extend my sincerest thanks to everyone who submitted a story to the Contest. Over the next month or so, I’ll be going through all the submissions I’ve gotten and will be making selections for what to include Continue reading
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Carrion, Part 4
Bryce Chesterton took a moment to catch his breath. Strangling someone to death was hard work, even if they couldn’t put up much of a fight. After he had some air in his lungs, he got to work. Bryce pushed Richard Maseuchy’s bloated, doughy corpse out of the way. He reached into his bag and Continue reading
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Carrion, Part 3
The meeting Richard Maseuchy had requested with management wasn’t going nearly as well as he had imagined it would. What he intended to be a redressing of his grievances with his treatment at the company had turned into a conga line of middle managers and department heads berating him. All he could do was stand Continue reading
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What is Art?
Pictured: a art. One of the most powerful mental tools I’ve ever learned to use is to carefully distinguish various concepts that people generally tend to run together. Doing this makes it easier to understand issues, and to find out where problems really lay, if anywhere. A great example of concepts that get run together Continue reading
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Incongruent Premises
A video popped up on my feed from YouTuber Riloe. His video talks about a game whose name I don’t remember, but it’s a post-apocalyptic extraction shooter where the NPC enemies are too busy fighting each other to worry too much about you. Here’s an imbed of the video: The genre description looks promising, the Continue reading
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“Why Not Just Nuke It From Orbit?”
In a lot of ways, science fiction is a genre of contrivances. One of the main questions that crops up in the genre is the title of this very article, and the extent to which the author, director, etc. can make you not care about that question is a pretty strong indication of the overall Continue reading
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Satire and Media Literacy
I’m a bit late to the party on this topic, but that’s never stopped me before. Shortly before the release of Helldivers 2, there was a flurry of discussion about Starship Troopers, the film directed by Paul Verhoeven, and how to properly interpret it. The way most people seem to process the movie is to Continue reading
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