Floating in a Tin Can: Second Stage Rocket

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ascent, comments, drama llama, elite dangerous, internet spaceship, news, sandbox, space mmo, star citizen

…look, I know the title sucks, but it’s a sequel to one of my posts shuddup.

Specifically, this is a sequel to my musings about internet spaceships in general and Star Citizen in specific.  I was sort of hoping to ignore the elephant in the room, but I have to face facts.  The entire thing going down with the game, its devs and its detractors has gotten to me.  Against my own better judgment and event my own advice to others to ignore haters…its there, like a bunch of mosquito bites.

“Chris Roberts is a con artist!” *sluuuurp*

Blaugust Day 22 – My Favorite Things About the Internet

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artist, blog, comments, community, digital life, internet, photoshop, writer, youtube poop

Yanno what?  My last couple of posts have been a bit blah.  I mean, I feel like I ended them on an upbeat note, and I tried to interject some humor in to the subjects I was touching on…but overall, I think it’s high time that I do a full post that accentuates the positive.

And, since digital mannerisms and behaviors have been rather forefront in my head a lot recently, I think I’ll sing the virtues of the internet.  Like a Julie Andrews with significantly less talent.

“thHA HhIIllLS ARre ah-LII-IIiiveE…”

Blaugust Day 21 – Minced Words

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argument, comments, context, definition, discussion, meaning, words

This post was spawned by a re-tweet of mine.

Retweeting as a display of how to be stupendously entitled. Don't be this image, kids. https://t.co/Ip84Eg2zH5

— Chris Neal (@wolfyseyes) August 20, 2015

And then a response from DirtyKlingon:

@wolfyseyes i hate the word entitled. i tend to hate those that use it. please don't use it. i mean i'm not your mom or anything but

— danky_kang (@deekay_zero) August 20, 2015

Which ticked off a whole line of tweets back and forth between us in a conversation that got my wheels turning and made me consider how certain words really need to be re-adjusted.

Blaugust Day 9 – We All Wanna Be Scooby-Doo

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chris roberts, comments, crowdfunding, deception, derek smart, kickstarter, mmos, opinion, scam, star citizen

I’ve been in a LOT of online comment sections over the course of my digital life, and I don’t really know why I make this blog post simply for the fact that I don’t think it will accomplish more than either preaching to the choir or yelling at the deaf.  That said, there’s been something about online behavior on my mind recently, and it is relevant to my gaming interests.

The show Scooby-Doo always had the same formula…a bunch of precocious adult-children arrive in a world that apparently is made of Halloween to solve a mystery, finding a person who has put together a scheme that involves a ridiculous amount of makeup and set-piece arrangement.  And in the end, the bad guy is literally unmasked.

With the advent of crowdfunding and early access games, there seems to be a very strong need nowadays for everyone to wanna be the guy or girl who pulls the mask off of the devious villain causing trouble for their own selfish ends.  Everyone wants that Scooby-Doo moment.