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    The Authority of the Author

    I've gotten to be pretty confident at this point, thanks to long experience and much positive feedback. I can sometimes stray into either doubt or overconfidence, but for the most part I'm cool, calm, and collected about it. Specifically, I believe in my ability to construct quality prose...
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    The Gaming Thread

    Tried out the demo for Menace, an upcoming military sci-fi tactics game in a similar vein to stuff like XCOM or Phoenix Point. I had a lot of fun with it once I started to understand the systems. Rather than individual soldiers you control squads or vehicles, which can gain perks and stuff...
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    What are you reading?

    Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth. My first book by him. I'm only two chapters in, but it seems incredibly promising. The writing is lush and lively, and the characters I've met so far have an element of authentic humanity about them, with all the beauty and ugliness that entails. This...
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    Favourite Quotes

    Hells, that's it. Now I remember the scene, and the entire episode. The third series is just fantastic, but then they all are.
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    Favourite Quotes

    Love these. Don't remember this quote, but I think that name points to the third one? Been rewatching Blackadder recently, in fact, for the first time in many years. Doing it out of order, so I'm done with the fourth series and halfway through the second one. The first has some brilliant lines...
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    The Gaming Thread

    My thoughts exactly. I'm thinking it would be nice to have an upgrade even for 40K Total War and Dawn of War 4. My old workhorse isn't the spring chicken she used to be, no sir. That ghastly chimera has served me well, but may be about time for her to retire to an auxiliary role.
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    The Gaming Thread

    Speaking of the PS5, I really should play more with mine. Poor neglected creature. I've been using it mostly to play UFC 5 online. Haven't had an active PS+ subscription for a good while now, but I'm starting to really miss it now. There was something cathartic about jumping into a couple...
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    The Gaming Thread

    If you enjoy Final Fantasy, then Expedition 33 might be a good fit. RDR2 is fantastic. And although I haven't gotten very deep into it, God of War Ragnarok has been great so far; should probably play the previous one first, which is also a pretty great game.
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    What made me happy today?

    I'm so out of the loop I had no idea that fight was even happening until after it was done, but yeah. Bit of a mismatch, there. ETA: My bad, I somehow managed to not see that this was about Andrew Tate. Had no idea about that. Thought this was in reference to the Jake Paul thing. That'll teach...
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    What made me happy today?

    Happy birthday! Welcome to my advanced old age. Hope you like it.
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    What Are You Listening To?

    Been up to my eyeballs in this whole album for a little while—there's a wonderful music video thing called Sound and Fury on Netflix, or at least it used to be there. This song in particular is one of my favorites, it tickles some of my deeper reaches. The whole thing is worth a listen, and a...
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    What are you reading?

    Yuletide looms yet again, so I'm reading Terry Pratchett's Hogfather for the however manieth time. It's the one and only Christmas tradition I have for myself. Still finding new things and nuances, little crooks and crevices that I somehow missed on every other occasion. It's gotta be in my top...
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    Posting while drunk

    I'm in Norway, and I've just had the local thing-aquavita-which is tangentially related to Christmas.
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    Posting while drunk

    I'm having my first serious drink(s) in about six weeks. My favorite bartender is in attendance, and the bar is playing one of my most cherished songs. It's a premium night. Cheers! Skal!
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    Word Counts and Updates

    Yeah, I failed. Only made it to 11.613 words of my target 25K. I'll be performing apologetics in my progress journal at some point, and muse about the future of this project. Lovely to see that so many of you met or exceeded your goals!
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