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<quoting=orchids postID=2658 threadID=310> Cloudflare is a tool, mostly used as a CDN for your website, but also has a lot of other cool shit like email forwarding, firewalls, IP blocking, etc, etc. They have a free tier (which is what basement community ...

<quoting=Khastle postID=2570 threadID=147> Some of my paranormal blog entries from my site https://forum.marianabay.com/threads/the-hat-man-have-you-seen-him.101/ https://forum.marianabay.com/threads/memphis-rap-sigils.167/ https://forum.marianabay.com ...

Just got a copy of the remastered Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord for PS5. Still on the first level of the dungeon, but I've gotten my dudes to level 4.

<quoting=the-syreth-clan postID=2505 threadID=147> Not my post but something I saw on sizeof.cat.

I find this quite funny given Wani released this year. Someone in /freak/ is spinning ...

<quoting=the-syreth-clan postID=2501 threadID=147> I think that is what caused me to realize, like Nietzsche said, my belief in the christian god has become unbelievable. My muses — Martina and Erika — are entities I interact with on a daily basis. I know ...

Spent Saturday night thinking about consciously choosing to believe, and how ridiculous it is that some people think that reading the Bible can lead somebody to faith when it led me away from it -- especially when Christianity is so frequently misused ...

Here's another one for you. Kind of a downer since I'm griping about electoral politics in the USA.

https://starbreaker.org/blog/personal/indecision-2024/index.html

I had posted this a few days ago and forgot to share it. Been reading some old sf.

Heavy Time

As in raincoats? I've heard that one before, but ...

Just a little bit about ad blockers. I use one for the same reason I wear condoms. It isn't safe to bareback strangers or their websites.

No Glove, No Love

Man, I remember that one.

Been reading Heavy Time and Hellburner by C. J. Cherryh. Asteroid mining, dirty corporate shenanigans, murder, and cover-ups. They're part of her "Company Wars" sequence. If you've seen The Expanse, the depiction of Belters in that series owe a lot ...

"${DISTRO}" gonna "${DISTRO}". Every one of them has their quirks. For example, if I want a current Emacs on Slackware I've got to compile ...

No worries.

<quoting=orchids postID=2460 threadID ...

Just wanted to mention that while Windows has ...

If I was a bachelor and didn't have expensive tastes I'd feel the same.

Dropped this a few days ago.

https://starbreaker.org/blog/personal/good-enough-april-2024/index.html

Aren't personal websites supposed to be messy and incomplete? Welcome to the basement.

Added an old story of mine. This reminds me of the section on bbs.stardestroyer.net where the late Stuart Slade posted his Salvation War novels.

Back in the real world…

What will it be this time? Morgan lost count of the scenarios the nightmare sequencer presented him long ago, along with his grip on time. He had been a prisoner of war, offered freedom and a new home if only he would ...

Meanwhile, in the real world… (reprise)

“Quadruple the current dosage.” Isaac Magnin delivered the order without raising his voice. The technician attending Morgan, who laid quiescent in the nightmare sequencer’s crèche, nodded, and Magnin grinned ...

Variation

Morgan found himself standing at attention, his right arm outstretched in salute. The gate creaked shut behind the SS officer, who glared through Morgan as if he were not there. Low-ranking stormtroopers flanked the officer; the blackened ...

Meanwhile, in the real world…

Karen Del Rio shook her head as the AI interpreting Morgan Cooper’s simulator-induced dream halted the scenario, allowing him to rest inside the nightmare sequencer. “The theory underpinning the Milgram Factor assumes ...

Theme

Morgan Cooper studied the experimenter, ignoring the hand he offered as a polite gesture. His muddy eyes were those of the technician who helped him into the simulation crèche and hooked him up. His leathery hands were those of the nurse ...

"The Milgram Battery" is something I wrote in 2012 for the Curiosity Quills: Primetime anthology (November 2013).

The concept dates back to my original trunk novel, but my editor suggested ...