tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post6538019423253749182..comments2024-03-27T01:28:28.346-07:00Comments on False Machine: Fire Ghostspjamesstuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-14183719644182513162016-03-24T22:05:08.790-07:002016-03-24T22:05:08.790-07:00Very good! I will polish up a few bits of writing ...Very good! I will polish up a few bits of writing and send it and the funds off to you by Saturday. Thank you for agreeing to help me. I realize that you're getting something out of the deal as well, but I appreciate the time you've spent so far in helping me. Electron Storieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03104540205401779953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-48437742062622002262016-03-24T11:44:32.399-07:002016-03-24T11:44:32.399-07:00If you are comfortably middle-class and the money ...If you are comfortably middle-class and the money ain't much to you then yes. If you ain't then it's probably not worth it.<br /><br />My emails pjamesstuart aaat gmail.compjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-83030037272692218192016-03-24T10:48:57.164-07:002016-03-24T10:48:57.164-07:00This may be a bit forward. In exchange for a $50 U...This may be a bit forward. In exchange for a $50 USD donation to paypal, would you be interested in looking over a single page of content? I am looking for an honest opinion on the fluff of game stuff I've made. Mostly wanting your opinion if it's original enough to set itself apart from a majority of gaming content out there. Possibly some advice or comments where I could impove? Anyway, I figured you could use help getting a new computer, and I could get some much needed advice. Thank very much for the responses!Electron Storieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03104540205401779953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-61306225983255694622016-03-24T01:44:13.942-07:002016-03-24T01:44:13.942-07:00- I think I read an article or post somewhere, may...- I think I read an article or post somewhere, maybe it was DnDwPS or Monsters and Manuals. I don't remember what the first think was that sucked me in but I read back through old posts, followed sidebar links and did the same thing with anything that looked interesting and just expanded from there. Then for Aug 2011 I got a computer (the same one that just broke, I'm typing this on my girlfriends) and about two days later made my first post.<br /><br />Then it just very slowly expanded from there. At some point Zak put me on his sidebar. I think that was the 'monsters of incompetence' post. Things kind if grew from there.<br /><br />The people on my sidebar are those I found either by following links or they linked to me, they are people I will usually read if I have time.<br /><br />Then a few years ago G+ started up and things kind of partly moved on there.<br /><br />- I read poetry if I can find periods of calm. I quite like the everyman pocket collections. I read pretty much everything. Haven't read any standard fiction in a while though. Reading the Poetic Edda right now.<br /><br />- In my case, absolutely and irrevocably not. Drugs have never been a good influence on me. Nothing I've ever produced on drugs has been any good. Getting off drugs has probably helped stabilise my mood and personality. To me drugs mean obesity, unemployment, poverty, lost days, increased depression, lassitude, failure and (more than usual) alienation. Writing and thinking are hard things to do and generally require focus and attention.<br /><br />You could put my before and after pictures on a social conservative advert about the dangers of drugs. Other people may be able to write or create well on them, but not me.<br /><br />I drink a bit but we are even cutting back on that and I haven't noticed any ill effects on my writing.<br /><br />If you mean any other altered states like meditation or anything like the occult, I have never tried.<br /><br />I have my own world of thoughts that I go to but that has always been the same ever since I was a kid and I suspect most kids are similar.<br /><br />- DCO roughly - 'Blind Descent' by James Tabor, the books of Norbert Carteret the cave explorer. Richard Forteys books on geology and evolution like 'Trilobite!" and a bunch of cave books I read for Veins of the Earth. If it ever comes out I will look at my shelves and try to produce an 'Appendix N'.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-38585365941127437812016-03-23T20:03:12.216-07:002016-03-23T20:03:12.216-07:00Feel free to respond to any, or none, of these que...Feel free to respond to any, or none, of these questions. Again, I really appreciate the time you've taken to respond to my questions and comments.<br /><br />- How did you get involved in the game blog community? I've noticed you have numerous links to other blogs, and those blog have links to yours.<br /><br />- Is there any source (artist/music/book/movie) that you go to when you feel short on ideas?<br /><br />- Aldous Huxley wrote in 'Doors of Perception' that altered states of perception can be useful in the creative process. Would you agree? If so, what would you recommend?<br /><br />- I'm a big fan of 'Deep Carbon Observatory'. Can you tell me about any of your sources of inspiration for it?<br /><br />Thank you for your time. Please keep writing on the blog, and publishing your work. It's unfortunate that the gaming community has too few individuals with your level of imagination. Electron Storieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03104540205401779953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-56018729846195267262016-03-23T10:02:03.524-07:002016-03-23T10:02:03.524-07:00Its ok, go ahead. Might take a while as computer i...Its ok, go ahead. Might take a while as computer is boned.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-35919809127569356252016-03-23T09:40:14.765-07:002016-03-23T09:40:14.765-07:00Thank you, I appreciate the level of thought you p...Thank you, I appreciate the level of thought you put in your response. I do have a few more questions, but I want to ensure that I am not cluttering up your blog. Furthermore, I realise, like everyone else, you are a busy person. If you do not have the time to answer more, I would understand. So, wpuld it be alright with you if I posted a few more questions? Again, thank you for your detailed response.Electron Storieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03104540205401779953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-48895663428496878172016-03-22T23:12:25.045-07:002016-03-22T23:12:25.045-07:00Its usually hard for me to remember exactly what p...Its usually hard for me to remember exactly what prompted what.<br /><br />In this case I read something about ghosts, maybe that 'Against The Wicked City' post about them, and I remembered Noisms Yoon Suin Ghost generator, and I wanted to try to make a generator that could create ghosts and themysteries that sustained them, so that you always had to investigate to 'solve' a ghost, instead of fighting them.<br /><br />But I couldn't get it working.<br /><br />Then I already had the vague idea of the Phyrrous Plains and the Cities of the Plains in my head from FotVH. Places kind if like Colorado or a Cormac Mccarthy story, but with anceint civilisations.<br /><br />And I was thinking about fire for BFR.<br /><br />So I had the idea of combining them and from that point on it just flowed. The specitivity and beauty of the idea lead to a more stripped-down and fluid arrangement of concepts, leading to the table you see at the bottom.<br /><br />The words are a tidied-up version of what I wrote in notepad as I was considering the idea.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-61538455685877306442016-03-22T23:11:51.453-07:002016-03-22T23:11:51.453-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-51623771114513914132016-03-22T18:24:32.134-07:002016-03-22T18:24:32.134-07:00So, this will be a completely inane, fanboy-type q...So, this will be a completely inane, fanboy-type question. Where do you get your inspiration? I've been trying to develop my own sense of 'wonderful weird' in my own writing, but it has fallen short of the mark. I'd appreciate any advice or sources you could point me towards. I'm a pretty big fan of the content on your blog.Electron Storieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03104540205401779953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-24264410220600415252016-03-15T09:07:33.805-07:002016-03-15T09:07:33.805-07:00Hot. Sorry.
Hot. Sorry.<br />Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10092002529591261902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-3529884996201355982016-03-13T17:51:46.478-07:002016-03-13T17:51:46.478-07:00oooo yueah babyoooo yueah babyDungeon Smashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17400977043480856370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-78481103979490067332016-03-13T04:28:29.490-07:002016-03-13T04:28:29.490-07:00Cool.Cool.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-82017011227229489482016-03-12T23:37:37.689-08:002016-03-12T23:37:37.689-08:00Its all-profound all the time here babyIts all-profound all the time here babypjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-40016655169045427122016-03-12T16:33:48.962-08:002016-03-12T16:33:48.962-08:00profound, movingprofound, movingDungeon Smashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17400977043480856370noreply@blogger.com