New Year 2024

 OK - going to dust this thing off for real now.

Image made by KingNot on Deviantart - used/shared with permission.

 

 

This year - LOW "Social media" - high own website activity.  As a buddy pointed out better to have an island on the net than shouting to be heard in a lonely but crowded place.  Social Media is a Satanic poison on society and the ideals of the early WWW internet.  We knew about it then - the fear the internet would be turned into "TV 2.0" and the only communication is to buy things from a limited number of big companies.

Social Media started as a way for the uncreative and non-tech inclined people to have their own websites which was trendy then but potentially very expensive.  The modern "Social media" grew from "Free" webhosting and message board sites like Plastic but morphed into the monsters we have today.  So as servers like Dreamhost (I recommend) set themselves up so you'd not need to take a HTML class then get ruined worse than a RIAA lawsuit threatened if your "Cat" page went viral.  It pulled out a lot of the air from the DIY website people and then over a few years turned into the sludge pit we have today.

Hey - not knockin' anyone, I got sucked in myself.  All the time I wasted with pointless 'arguments' with people who were tinpot generals and possibly some early bots/AIs...?

Can't change that but will push forward.

What I will do is change directions so I can publish some good stories I've written, many already done.  These aren't long novels but rather short stories so I'll sell them for a few $ each.

Therefore most of my internet time will be just posting notice when I do an update, especially another story.  I will pass around or 're-...whatever' some stuff I like to help the indie balls rolling, but no huge announcements over fake politics and debate over absurd "Issues".  All they do is try to get people to argue so they see more ads.

  I might advertise but per "Dead Internet" I think it largely only pays a gulag click farm.  A friend of mine used to use twitter a lot and whenever he advertised a product of his the hits came in but zero response.  Now his stuff is super NSFW but then again if you go on that toxic sh-thole there's tons of cam girls and trans- people waving their junk in front of you.

Oh - btw - while I will certainly use AI art I'll continue to employ the talents of the various illustrators I've worked with over the years.  Most illustrators who do commission work just do figures and HATE detailed backgrounds, crowds, etc. so there's no "Jurrrb" taken, just an improvement in quality for work that was refused.  I actually spent good $ with a friend to upgrade Corel Painter and 3D software over this refusal for work and then AIart came into play so it'll be used less...oh well...

This particular one is by Gulavisual who I've followed and made some commissions from for years -

Don’t see Marvel’s “Captain Marvel”

First and foremost, if you are an adult white male the main “Actress” Brie Larson said it’s not for you.  

Drooling 3rd wave FemiNOT Misandrist.  Modern fake ideals that are an insult to things people lived
and died for in the past.  Tempted to make some non-PC remark about her belonging in Larry Flynt’s
publication then a few years later being found in a dumpster with a heroin needle in her eye.  
But that’d be a horrible insult. A horrible insult to Larry’s Magazine, the ladies who’ve contributed to
it and even the hooker/strippers found dead in a dumpster.

Then Rotten Tomatoes fully edits and blocks its reviews now.  No more “I don’t plan to see this movie”,
user reviews on hold, strong allegations of editing out 1 star, 2 star from statistics.  Uh, when many
thousands of seperate people bomb the reviews it isn’t proof of “Fan rage” it means the movie
SUCKS no matter how much $ Disney dumps into it.

I feel safe to assume - one man’s opinion - that Rotten Tomatoes is sold out and no longer relevant.  
Just a sock puppet owned by big corporations that if Disney decides to make Episode 10 of Star Wars
and it’s just Jar Jar doing grotesque sex on George Lucas for a few hours, mostly with his tongue
they’ll give it a 10/10 with one ‘radical’ critic an 8.5 to ‘prove’ they aren’t all muppets in human form
with Disney workers pulling the levers.  And they’d savage any movie made by any ‘outsider’ no
matter how good it was. Again “One man’s Opinion”...

Then again, I’ve seen this lesson and how people indeed repeat the same mistakes again and again.

In the late 70s/early 80s publishers began “Operation Shoot Self in Foot” or rather what we called
“Political Correctness” into the 90s.  Rubbing off all the rough edges to smooth everything down
so it could be shoved down the largest throat. Ok if it chokes, just no rough edges.  Also they put
out lots of “Token” publications - written by - place minority here- that were often near plagarist at
best blatant Mary Sue writing and added nothing to the genre.  

Too bad scifi/fantasy was always legit ‘progressive’ sneaking in women and black writers if they
were GOOD storytellers even taking risks to do so.  Many stories by very comfortable “Privileged
White Males” that did indeed challenge the racism/sexism so entrenched at the time. Those classic
Weird Tales lurid covers were done by a Mexican single mother, btw.  That’s when Black Mask
magazine had a proud triple K white hood cover.

Well, the core audience WAS 99.9% the “White male patriarchy” and if your favorite form of escape
-the latest space opera/heroic fantasy turns into a poorly written screech hating you, well you don’t
really buy it, right?  And indeed said market collapsed. But this was lead by a few big publishers and
the market shrank and a friendly distributor helped choke out the smaller ones. Corporate Welfare
assured no elite with the program would go without a mansion or yacht, though they made sure Warren had huge financial troubles and Carter got cancer and died.  

We’ve had a huge vacuum in publishing of what the public wanted compared to what the publishers
decided to print.  Virtually no competition till the internet opened the market. No more having to know
about it somehow despite magazines refusing to take ads, distributors refusing to ship and stores
refusing to order due to ‘exclusivity’ agreements.  Then they blamed the internet when it was them
having the same generic mass appeal bland corporate stuff and less and less of it costing more and
more.

Pretty funny - the flagship of this Failboat was Marion Zimmer Bradley - the “Sword and Sorceress
” rotten bloody tampon.  But it seems (Google her name) there’s pretty horrible allegations against
her and her husband. Are the fake ideal hipster girls who shoved her in my face when I was picking
up the latest Frazetta reprint book going to burn their maybe half read copies of her books and hang
out in Barnes and Noble, running up to patrons who pick them up (they keep them in print despite
seemingly very low sales) and spraying paint on them, then when kicked out screaming outside and
throwing a trash can?

So, now comic books, movies, video games - even tabletop RPGs are doing the same SJW
pandering.  Afraid of a very few “Hipster” - that’s a fake subculture created by corporate marketing
people via WIRED magazine and others - and an insult to Hippies and Beatniks and any true
Bohemians…  Afraid of those vocal minorities they censor, ban, un-person, shame anything
but a bland, stupid, mass appealing and counter-sexist, counter racist against White Men who
still have most of the idle consumer buying power…

Just DON’T buy their stuff.  You support it if you do. Don’t rent it, watch it on Netflix.  
Don’t even pirate it.

I mean the NEW stuff.

Why not go back to where they draw the tiny sliver of any good story?  The magazine rack from
the 70s, 80s. Archive org. Ebay - look for cheap reading copies not expensive "Collectors" but
dog-eared affordable copies.

You aren’t supporting them but the memory of when comics were GOOD for a while.
 Fighting the code, skipping it in the Magazine world, crazy bizzare publications.  
Captain Marvel is dead, let him rest in peace, tell Marvel to make up NEW heroes not chew up,
excrete, slurp up and regurgitate their same slime again and again only pausing to poison it with
Social Justice venom.

So if their paid ads into the “Groupthink” tug the heart strings of your nostalgia, including to younger
people for when they weren’t born yet, go to the past they feed from and do it on the cheap - avoid
this new insult to those memories.