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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

If you don't like porn, don't watch it/read it/write it/perform in it. If you're offended/disgusted by a discussion of it done in a barely-R-rated comedic song, ? Another good song about it, this one PG: "I do have a cause, though; it is obscenity. I'm for it." (intro to Smut, by Tom Lehrer)

Terraria is amazing. It's like Minecraft, but without the motion sickness, good 2D graphics rather than bad 3D, and fewer 8-year olds. Also, Persona 4 Golden. One of the greatest JRPGs ever, and the one of even fewer that's playable in a reasonable form on a modern PC vs. being console-only...

My response: (It's funnier that this only has the original broadway version with Russian subs.)

Depends on your viewing distance and your eyesight. I find 4K to require scaling, even at 32", at desktop distance. 100-110DPI with subpixel anti-aliasing is generally pretty good for general use with text at desktop distance, for me, and both of my monitors (38" ultrawide 3840x1600 and a 27"...

Spellsinger and The Hour of the Gate by Alan Dean Foster (The sequels after that are best forgotten about.)

Claude.ai is of free/public ones the winner here, it can do ~70,000 words (100k tokens) - although starting with a full 70k word document right off will give you like half a dozen free queries before you hit the limit for the day. One trick to using it is to feed your whole work in, and then...

There's a lot of good western fantasy set in later periods or worlds based on later periods, ranging from Regency through to faux-WWI (hat tip to Patricia Wrede's Mairelon the Magician and sequels.) There are a fair number of alt-WWI and alt-WWII stories, as well, including in translated...

Lemon oil is pretty good. Makes for good cookies/frosting.

My WIP has magic systems - "Traditional" which is soft-ish - and can in theory do anything but where there isn't a defined path to any of it until someone discovers it (and where knowledge of how to do things is often kept secret by the discoverers), and "Modern" which is hard, and can only do...

Not web, and not traditional Isekai, but the first thing that comes to mind for "MC with no cheats" that is Isekai-adjacent is Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp.

I'm trying to get to 2.5D; I'm definitely not quite getting there. At some point I'll do another rev of the checkpoint mix I created ("GentoonMix" on CivitAI; IDK if that's a safe site to link to here) As someone with absolutely near-zero talent for drawing, it's still been really amazing to...

Interestingly, SH emails me with replies, and someone replied and then deleted it saying they didn't care for the western-cartoon style. *shrug* right? But given the general trend of anime/manga-inspired art, and how easy it is to tell SD to "redraw this in a new style" using a different...

Book smart. Below average on common sense but still functional Street dumb. EQ really dumb (somewhere on the spectrum, which doesn't help.)

I don't mean personally, but his later books felt a lot more experimental, and not in ways that worked well for me. If you ever want to be mindblown about "That got written when?" read The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. It doesn't have Gibson's sense of style, but it talks about the...

That reminds me of one of my favorite opening lines of a book: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." (Neuromancer, by William Gibson before he got completely weird.) I'm not sure that description works anymore for people who are too young to remember...

Two more chapters are currently with my beta reader, hope to be posting at least one of them in the next day or two. In the meanwhile, I generated a bunch of AI character portraits of the main cast and a few of the minor characters...

For my work in progress novel... Tried to get these to be in a consistent style... sort of worked, but some are more "3D" than I'd like still. Violet (borrowing the composition from the wonderful cover @Hans.Trondheim made for this!) Elise Gwen Tess Cory Diane Joel Mark (narrator)...

The explicit influences are a little bit of Toradora, Persona 4, The Gondoliers (yes, the Gilbert and Sullivan one), the Ethshar novels, and a mishmash of 1980s RPG-spinoff portal fantasies and novels. There are also a lot of other littler references, some of which I'm undecided if I'll remove...

Don't particular like or dislike cooking. What I Like is eating, and saving money. It's often easier to get food to eat that I like, and cooked the way I want it, by cooking it myself. And it's usually much cheaper than eating out.