Month: March 2012

There’s been a change of plans. I’m going to park…the car. At…harvard…yard. (Wink) (Nudge)

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Due to some fancy footwork, some projects, luck, and various sundry things I *will* be attending PAX East in Boston weekend after next.  I’ll be there all three days.  I’ve not set out my schedule yet, but as soon as I know more I will post it here.

I’m really happy I was able to make this happen as I’ve attended every PAX on both coasts since 2007 and was really bummed I might miss it this year.  I’m trying to figure out if there’s something creative I can do before hand to have on hand at the event both for backers of my Kickstarter and anyone else.

More details soon.

There’s been a change of plans. I’m going to park…the car. At…harvard…yard. (Wink) (Nudge)

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Due to some fancy footwork, some projects, luck, and various sundry things I *will* be attending PAX East in Boston weekend after next.  I’ll be there all three days.  I’ve not set out my schedule yet, but as soon as I know more I will post it here.

I’m really happy I was able to make this happen as I’ve attended every PAX on both coasts since 2007 and was really bummed I might miss it this year.  I’m trying to figure out if there’s something creative I can do before hand to have on hand at the event both for backers of my Kickstarter and anyone else.

More details soon.

My Fundkicker started!! My Startfunder Kicked!! My Kickstarter Funded!!

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You have to imagine those words all spoken excited and breathlessly because holy crap.

When I began the Kickstarter experiment, it was with the intention of giving me a financial reason to work on one project over another.  The base idea was that I had two or three projects going, and the work on two of them was more tedious but much farther along.  The fun project was my first fiction and I’ve been noodling on it for a while.  So when I decided to do a Kickstarter for it I set the financial goal at whatever it would take for me to get the project to publishable format (editing, cover design, e-pub conversion, etc)  What I did not expect was to have it overfund by 530%.

So what happens now?  Well thanks to your generosity, I can now afford to essentially work on this full time for the next two weeks.  I’ve waffled between whether that means the project gets done earlier, or simply gets a bit bigger.  My original word target was around 50,000 words.  I’ve decided to expand that somewhat.  Not by a lot but what the money allows me to do, over the amount I asked for, is buy food, etc while I turn down other opportunities and just work on this.

That’s an incredible event.  I don’t just mean for me, I mean in general.  Much like the days before content creation was beholden to monolithic gatekeepers, artists can now find “Patrons” to support their work easily and cheaply. Of course, there’s always the risk that what I turn out might *suck* but I’m going to try and err on the side that it won’t.

The project is on track to complete around the end of May, give or take some time for editing which is actually out of my control.  I’ll soon be sending along the “teaser” text of about 3,000 words in email to everyone who donated. As the story progresses, if those who donated would be interested in progress reports or story snippets let me know via the message or comment feature on Kickstarter and I will keep the updates coming.

I’m Outraged (WARNING Mass Effect 3 ending spoilers)

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I’ve not played Mass Effect 3’s single player campaign yet because I am busy on a new writing project (Help fund my kickstarter here!) and because I spent so much time on my ME1 character’s face that I refuse to either remake it or play with a generic face until Bioware fixes the face import bug. You have to take stands in life people.  You can’t just shrug and say “ok” every time life hands you first world problem lemons and you realize they’ve been using you as their private lemonade making labor force your entire life.

My not playing the game hasn’t stopped the Internet however from informing me that I should be absolutely bugshit outraged by the end of the single player campaign. 

Well I’ve got your back Internet.  Despite not having played a single frame of it, I am indeed outraged at the end of Mass Effect 3.  Spoilers ahead.

Not only is it absolute bullshit that Commander Shepard is revealed to be an hermaphrodite, they go one step further and insult hermaphrodites everywhere by offering you the option of romancing yourself!  THAT’S NOT HOW THAT WORKS BIOWARE. It’s beyond stupid that after spending all that time on your FemShep or your ManShep that the end reveals none of it matters! You’re both!  Here’s some cake to eat, and you can have it too!

And don’t even get me started on the reveal of the new model of Geth that is completely human.  Hello?  Did they think we hadn’t seen Battlestar Galactica?  The reboot one I mean? The one with the horrible ending?

But probably the most frustrating part of the end was when the reapers revealed this is the sixth time they have destroyed the galaxy and they are becoming exceedingly efficient at it, then says HermaphroShep can choose a set number of people to rebuild the galaxy as long as something something something subconsciously chooses to something or other that the reapers want, I’m not really sure I understood it fully which is usually a sign of a bad ending.

Look, I know bad endings.  Hell people, I’m old enough that I’ve suffered through retroactively made bad beginnings.

So I’m absolutely outraged before I’ve even begun playing and I will sign any petition or send any ineffectual but hotly worded email or perhaps forum post until Bioware gives me the ending I want.

Nay, the ending I deserve.

I’m Outraged (WARNING Mass Effect 3 ending spoilers)

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I’ve not played Mass Effect 3’s single player campaign yet because I am busy on a new writing project (Help fund my kickstarter here!) and because I spent so much time on my ME1 character’s face that I refuse to either remake it or play with a generic face until Bioware fixes the face import bug. You have to take stands in life people.  You can’t just shrug and say “ok” every time life hands you first world problem lemons and you realize they’ve been using you as their private lemonade making labor force your entire life.

My not playing the game hasn’t stopped the Internet however from informing me that I should be absolutely bugshit outraged by the end of the single player campaign. 

Well I’ve got your back Internet.  Despite not having played a single frame of it, I am indeed outraged at the end of Mass Effect 3.  Spoilers ahead.

Not only is it absolute bullshit that Commander Shepard is revealed to be an hermaphrodite, they go one step further and insult hermaphrodites everywhere by offering you the option of romancing yourself!  THAT’S NOT HOW THAT WORKS BIOWARE. It’s beyond stupid that after spending all that time on your FemShep or your ManShep that the end reveals none of it matters! You’re both!  Here’s some cake to eat, and you can have it too!

And don’t even get me started on the reveal of the new model of Geth that is completely human.  Hello?  Did they think we hadn’t seen Battlestar Galactica?  The reboot one I mean? The one with the horrible ending?

But probably the most frustrating part of the end was when the reapers revealed this is the sixth time they have destroyed the galaxy and they are becoming exceedingly efficient at it, then says HermaphroShep can choose a set number of people to rebuild the galaxy as long as something something something subconsciously chooses to something or other that the reapers want, I’m not really sure I understood it fully which is usually a sign of a bad ending.

Look, I know bad endings.  Hell people, I’m old enough that I’ve suffered through retroactively made bad beginnings.

So I’m absolutely outraged before I’ve even begun playing and I will sign any petition or send any ineffectual but hotly worded email or perhaps forum post until Bioware gives me the ending I want.

Nay, the ending I deserve.