New book!

New Alms is a city of sin and vice, populated by all manner of criminals. The ruling Cerenite priests can barely keep order; not that they—or anyone else for that matter—ever try too hard. It's a den of cutthroats and thieves, and there ain't many thieves out there as talented or as skilled as Jackson Balor. When Jackson's hired by a priest to steal an old mask, he thinks it's just another job. But that's before he sees the blasphemous shrine it's housed in, before he starts getting followed around by bugs and birds and three-eyed cats, before he finds out that the mask was a vessel for the Wild God Ferengris, and that by filching it, he's invited the Enemy of Civilization to take up residence inside his head. Now to save his own mind, Jackson's gonna have to team up with the very Wild cult he stole the mask from and take it back from the Cerenite Temple. But the priests have their own plans for the Wild God's artifact. They have their own ambitions for New Alms—and Jackson's about to learn that there ain't no room in their design for no-good criminal scum like him.

Coming July 19th!

Pre-order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9QZH5H

Pre-order on Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-thief-and-the-wild/id6499389974

i didnt even realize this was a porn bot i was like yeah thats a regular text post on tumblr dot com

Kindergarteners will be so proud of themselves for being able to draw a triangle. My GPU can draw tens of thousands of those in a second. You are not special.

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

and the second is "be yourself"

New book!

New Alms is a city of sin and vice, populated by all manner of criminals. The ruling Cerenite priests can barely keep order; not that they—or anyone else for that matter—ever try too hard. It's a den of cutthroats and thieves, and there ain't many thieves out there as talented or as skilled as Jackson Balor. When Jackson's hired by a priest to steal an old mask, he thinks it's just another job. But that's before he sees the blasphemous shrine it's housed in, before he starts getting followed around by bugs and birds and three-eyed cats, before he finds out that the mask was a vessel for the Wild God Ferengris, and that by filching it, he's invited the Enemy of Civilization to take up residence inside his head. Now to save his own mind, Jackson's gonna have to team up with the very Wild cult he stole the mask from and take it back from the Cerenite Temple. But the priests have their own plans for the Wild God's artifact. They have their own ambitions for New Alms—and Jackson's about to learn that there ain't no room in their design for no-good criminal scum like him.

Coming July 19th!

Pre-order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9QZH5H

Pre-order on Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-thief-and-the-wild/id6499389974

The grave of H.R. Giger, the Swiss sculptor designer who designed, among other things, the alien creatures for the movie Alien.

thinking about the Moonlight Greatsword

in the Dark Souls series, it’s consistently associated with scaleless magic dragons. in Elden Ring, it’s associated with Ranni the Witch, but notably, guarded by a magic dragon.

in Bloodborne, it belongs to Ludwig, who is a big horse. by the Transitive Property, does this make Ludwig a magic dragon?

I can’t handle this 🥺

Look, I agree that trying to sell folks on original fiction by citing fanfic tropes is asinine, but at least "oh, it's got enemies to lovers!" tells you something substantive about the plot and characters. I once had somebody try to convince me to read a work of original fiction by telling me that it has a romance with a height gap.

the sigh of relief i let out after clicking on the last block of spoiler text

That old lady in Novac : Why did you bring me over here under Dinky the T Rex?

The Courier :

"It's better to do one thing well than two things poorly" is definitely a solid rule in game design, but I have to admit a weakness for old console games that were basically two different games stacked on top of each other. Zelda II: The Adventures of Link (top-down exploration overworld which becomes a side-scrolling action platformer in dungeons), Blaster Master (side-scrolling metroidvania which becomes a top-down arcade shooter in dungeons), and The Guardian Legend (top-down action RPG which becomes a vertical shoot-'em-up in dungeons) are all titles I remember fondly, but I think my favourite example of the type is the Super Nintendo version of Jurassic Park, which has a brightly coloured Legend of Zelda style top-down overworld, then when you go inside buildings it becomes a survival-horror first person shooter. It's a game-mechanically incomprehensible choice which actually makes perfect sense in terms of emulating the source material, and it's a small disappointment to me that nobody's ever made a serious effort at elaborating on it.