Dark Herbalist, Book 1, Video Game Plotline Tester.

Quick score: 3/5

You might have read two previous posts complaining about much of the dialog,  (the first complaint being the plot/premise of the book is a massive VR world doesn't have people fully "realizing the potential of diversity" of the game.  (Though in hindsight, the person introducing and ( Read more... )

I thought this was a stealth lead-in commercial for the next film in The Purge franchise.
you know, "God Bless our New Founding Fathers"? FounderBot. Stands to reason. Like FounderBot is supposed to help you prepare for The Purge.
And then it gets into this f'ed up, "it'll cuck you by 'taking care of your wife'" thing, & I thought it'd be a ( Read more... )

Breathing huskily, my cyber-kunoichi broke off the kiss, slid away from me and towards the hotel bed.
"If we're going to do this, I should remove my dentures." She smilied weakly, setting a highball glass on the nightstand and filling it halfway with water.
Then she reached under her dress...

Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist is a 2015 release with simultaeneous release in America through FUNimation.  And as each episode progressed, the show has established itself as not only one of the best anime of the year, but as one of the best televised science fiction offerings of the year, period.  And as ( Read more... )

(On explaining why the Attractive Human-Looking Alien Princess also inexplicably speaks Englishto the Earth Space Cadet)

... It had been well established the powers of Convergent Evolution dictate that if a niche exists in nature, it will be filled. In lieu of canids, an incredibly dog like Tazmanian Tiger emerges. Where there's a gap in the ( Read more... )

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Con Suite on The FUMP Sideshow.



Yeah, this situation should ring familiar to a lot of convention staffers. Who also happen to be CW McCall fans. Hey, head over to MaxDeGroot.com for more of this artist.

This is one of several Minis that I finished at ConFusion 2010. (All-in-all, not that great a con - a few interesting things happened, but not that exciting.)

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Never Before has a something this beautiful been this boring, so don't bother.

Like a blitzed bottle blonde in a bar. Banal booty begging for attention. Been there, done better.

More to come...

Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border

Doctor, that means he has a Doctorate in something. Probably wasn't in Common Sense.

The Popo has asked you to pull over. He asked you to pop the trunk. He did not ask you to step out of your vehicle. This is what you do when he doesn't tell you to step out of ( Read more... )