Idiocracy was meant to be satire, not a blueprint.
Matthew J. Barbeler
@mrbarbeler.bsky.social
Creative Director of Player One Publishing | Dad, Author, More Than Meets The Eye
Going to an estate sale is just looting a corpse with extra steps.
Holy shit... Sean Astin, Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres and Kevin Eastman are all coming to Supanova Brisbane this year!!!
20 years later, I still get the urge to roll a fresh Level 1 and adventure through Elwynn Forest.
Do you think Stephen King ever sits back and thinks 'Good luck adapting THIS one, Hollywood!' 😂
Sometimes you gotta be able to acknowledge the direction you've taken in a book isn't the right thing for the overall story. Lucky I only got 60k into this novel before realising ;)
A little update on the status of The Mountain's Shattered Heart (Miner's Quest 1) and the rewrite/review of The Shadow's Rising Fury (Miner's Quest 2) - a free post over on my Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/158201... #LitRPG #GameLit #ProgressionFantasy #Amwriting
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Thanks to Hasbro, I'm gonna be able to create a custom Hatchet & Kaiser action figure set with very little effort 😂 #LitRPG #GameLit#AussieAuthor #edgeforce
Mortal Kombat 2 review - it's, uh, better than Mortal Kombat: Annihilation I guess.
Does anyone else get to the point where they consider and overthink what they post on social media that you end up just posting nothing?
New dating strategy to whittle out the incompatible - give me the name of a book series that you've read with at least 7 books in it. Then we can go out for coffee.
Anyone else up to date with The Boys? Because GOD DAYUM.
There should be a filter on dating apps to filter out people who don't have favourite books.
The Mandalorian and Grogu is one of the worst film titles of all time, and it's not even close.
Magic night was so fun! We got three games in. I won the first, then was mana starved and had shit draws for the last two. Still, super fun. A mate played the island walk Merfolk deck and just wrecked the entire table. Then my other mate wrecked the table with flying dinosaurs.
Hehehe a couple of you found the paperback I sneakily published... 😈
I don't think I'll ever get sick of the thrill of finishing a novel and being on the cusp of releasing it.
Almost twelve years to the day since I held my first novel for the first time. Thanks for everything, Metro 7. For the lessons learned, the confidence/delusion to keep going, and the knowledge that there aren't many better feelings than holding something you've created in your hands.
We're currently watching a real life Picture of Dorian Gray, but the picture isn't a painting kept secret. It's a President kept in the open, reflecting the ugly heart of a nation.
How long until we start wearing bondage gear and trading in guzzoline?
It's wild to me that we live in a world where one of the best video game to movie adaptations is Sonic the Hedgehog. And we're getting a fourth movie, and all the preceding three movies go kinda hard.
Huh. . .you know, one advantage of the LitRPG format is I don't have to work item descriptions into the narrative, smoothing them over into regular sentences. They can be separated into descriptive blocks of text. And that sort of takes a mental burden off me, the writer. Well done, brain. Brain: ☕
Anyone looking to study item synergies, deep mechanical interactions, and a gameplay loop that makes you come back for more-that whole JUST ONE MORE RUN!!! mentality, you should played Mewgenics.
My parents surprised me with the best birthday present I've ever gotten... A replica Thylacoleo Carnifex skull, mounted, with custom labelling that matches my book #Carnifex. One of a kind. Best thing ever. 💀
