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LOC: Seattle, WA
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LAST LOGIN: October 04
LOC: Seattle, WA
GEN: Male
LAST LOGIN: October 04
The account photo is “Bit” from Tron, “saying” yes. The joke being that it’s a bit, and “speaks” in boolean true/false, yes/no statements. Get it?
The original was a tiny, poorly compressed jpg, which was (poorly) traced in Inkscape and exported as a rather nicer png.
Thus is the magic of computers.
I mirror everything I post here at my personal site, bbot.org. I also add some commentary, and entries for pieces not yet written, if metafiction is your cup of tea.
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Version 3
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operations log rotation: 02021/10/31 0000:00.000 LR CR ^C ^D ust be a fool or a coward. Was that the log rotation? Getting tired. Looks like it's Halloween now. Once more, for the record. I'm crouching under a tree in a forest a few clicks from what the map calls Chester Morse Lake. Judging from the remains, this used to be a resort of some sort. Now it's rather too close to the border, and has accumulated a a supurb collection of craters, none of which are large enough to hide me, and only s...
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Version 2
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operations log rotation: 02021/10/31 0000:00.000 (9 hidden. (Unchanged.)) Int/Ext/Amb/dT/Cool: 35/6/6/1/0% (34 hidden. (User spec.)) Batt: 94% FSAP: Ready. EMC: Safe. 12.7mm: Safe. 30mm: Safe. ATGM: Safe. APS: Safe. HEMM: Safe. AVCM: Safe. (8 hidden. (Unchanged.)) HUP EOF EOL ...ust be a fool or a coward. Was that the log rotation? Getting tired. Oh hey, it's halloween now. Once more, for the record. I'm crouching under a tree in a forest a few clicks from what the map calls Chester Morse Lak...
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Version 1
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He was six thousand years old, and showed every moment. Not that he looked old, far from it. The shell he wore was young, apparent twentysomething, back ramrod straight, posture stiff. But he stared right through you. He saw every single flaw and vulnerability and he knew, he knew how small and weak you were, that you were a pathetic worm compared to but a ten thousandth of his life. A single word of rebuke could crush a man's soul, which is perhaps why he spoke so seldom. He had/was tens of ...
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Version 1
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operations log snip: 02021/10/31 0129:13.285 (9 hidden. (Unchanged.)) Int/Ext/Amb/dT/Cool: 35/6/6/1/0% (34 hidden. (User spec.)) Batt: 94% FSAP: Ready. EMC: Safe. 12.7mm: Safe. 30mm: Safe. ATGM: Safe. APS: Safe. HEMM: Safe. AVCM: Safe. (8 hidden. (Unchanged.)) I crouch in the soft gloom of the forest. Of course, to these eyes, there is no such thing as dark, and to an extent that is true. There is easily enough starlight filtering through the canopy to light the scene, and everything glows by...
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Metacognition (Or *introspection*, if you're not some sort of pompous jackass) is a trap I used fall into fairly frequently. Do I like the music that I like because I authentically like it, or because I feel that I should like it? Am I an atheist because I really deep down don't believe there's a god, or because I just want to hang out with the cool kids? Is whatever project I'm working on at the time actually interesting, or am I working on it just to show off how smart and awesome I am? But...
"Gossamer’s eyes snapped open. / Gradually, the frigid temperatures that had gripped his body for the past fifty long, lonely years" Actin and myosin, like any other protein, act more slowly at low temperatures. This would make muscle contractions slow and difficult. "highly reflective and strong metal, possibly titanium" Titanium is a dull gray metal, and is by no means "highly reflective". This could be written off as a mistake on the character's part, however. "discovered Asteroid Cygnus X...
Fairly often you explicitly spell out things that the reader should be able to figure out for themselves. It should be as obvious to the reader as it is to Nick that the deal is a setup, etc. Describe smells, sounds, postures, gestures, all the details that make a scene; instead of a soul-less description of events. Label-dropping tends to interrupt the narrative. Instead of just stating the name, describe the object. Expensive things are "heavy", "intricately crafted", "obviously (objectivel...
Very well done. You could certainly quibble with the quality of the writing, but after all, it's being written by a Hack Writer. The only out and out technical error I could find was, "They walked through the door, and found themselves facing a man in a suit. He wore a solid black outfit from head to toe, with jet black hair. The only white came from his immaculate set of teeth, which grinned at them now." So, was his skin black as well? A Evil Negro might incite a Class Action Lawsuit as wel...
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