One of my assertions in the Imperishable Legacy series is that a super huge armed force (a billion troops or more) is an unwieldy army that is difficult to keep under control (and worse when it comes to trying to feed them).

Can any known command structure manage such a large force?

A look at how the Earth was made if you were Uatu the Watcher packing a camcorder for one of his earlier assignments.

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And the music is totally kick-ass.

(In case the youtube video doesn't show up: go here)

*keep wallet closed* (Stay silent)

BUT I HAVE A RIGHT TO BE PAID FOR MY MODS -

*keep wallet closed* (Stay silent)

BUT -

*keep wallet closed* (Stay silent)

A silently closed wallet is the most powerful argument a gamer can make. There's no counter argument against it, and non-consumers are quite difficult to debate with if you don't know who they are.

Silently closed wallets all but killed paid mods for The Sims. That's why there's still such a huge free community for that series of games.

Silently. Closed. Wallets. Folks.

I just realized.

Unbirth is the most extreme, awesome, intimate subject that I have ever encountered. When I go back to other kinds of sex or fetish stories, nothing has the flavor of unbirth-related stuff. It hasn't leaked over into my plans for non sex-related writing, but damn, whenever I read any sex story, I just say to myself, this shit's bland. I've spent ten years living on French cuisine and this other stuff is all McDonald's Dollar Menu crap.

I can't wait for the world at large to have a breakthrough unbirth related story that explodes in the world of erotica. All I need is for it to be an underground hit and I can feel unleashed at last!!!

But given the real world responses I've seen to unbirth, I ain't gonna be the first sucka out...
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Here is the link to download and read the text of the first new story I've written in many years.

http://pastebin.com/5Qv4ywgz

The story is in alpha release. It needs a severe beating. Unlike my previous Eka's Portal Writer's Group stories, I expect MANY major improvements to be made before this goes live. One of the big problems with my EPWG entries is that they weren't bug checked before the public got to see them. That won't happen this time.

This story may exhibit some old mistakes I've made before but that's the point of having this unlisted on Pastebin for now: when they get pointed out, it won't be after the story has gone live. This is where those old mistakes get...
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Way back in the day I spoke of a story line that was difficult to do with a realistic human being. That being, someone who would willingly give themselves over as food for a predator. How would that be possible?

I never really pursued that question over the years because, primarily, family obligations hit me like a bullet train; and secondly, I write vore as the WORST FATE EVER and not as a titillating thing. (Kinda in the way that people write like hell about zombies but zombies were never presented as a sex symbol... that I could tell.) And for me it's hard to depict a person as a willing prey without romanticizing or sexualizing it.
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And network topology, too.

She started asking me questions about our overloaded network at home and I had already exposed her heavily to subnetting principles some years ago when I had to get my Cisco cert for my job. Well it seems that stuff clicked in her head at some point because she suggested that we put each room of PCs on a subnet (we have a LOT of PCs) which would reduce congestion. I was already planning this, but I said hey, let her try to design it.

By George she made it happen, cap'n. She subnetted four rooms on paper with IP address blocks for 8 PCs each (for expansion purposes; we don't have THAT many PCs!), and then a separate network just for wireless devices. She showed me the diagram on Cisco Packet Tracer 6 and then I had to do a little...
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Yeah, this one has been addressed before and it was a subject of controversy regarding the structure of this story:

The third person / single person perspective vs the third person / multi person perspective?

To start off: first person perspective is right out. I know my Ian Scranton character more than well enough, but... no. Trust me, if you have issues with my writing now, you'll have libraries full of issues if I try to go first person.

Now that I'm rewriting the story, my actual reason for doing multi person perspectives has become amazingly clear. The problem with doing a limited third person perspective is it's impossible to show exactly why Ian Scranton's arrival on Absegami is one critical reason why this didn't happen:
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I'm assuming everyone got the actual POINT of The Many Journeys of Ian Scranton as I originally wrote it, but if not, here it is. Watch my blog for upcoming Pastebin links to the new rewrites.

WARNING!! If you haven't read the original story, these are all spoilers!!!

Ian Scranton arrived on a world named Absegami (Ross-154-D by our maps) that was being marked for a big fat Base Delta Zero. Roshana Caladuri, who came to be his companion (or was it the other way around, LOL), was a Siluvaran black ops agent who went the ultimate distance to hide among the enemy - she became a Silurhean*. Her...
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Happy New Years 2015! Oh wait a second. This ain't starting off so happy.

I went to do my yearly check of my Maxell/Kodak/TDK Gold CD backups of my story archives and what do i find?

BIT ROT.

Like a giant column of Siafu ants striking in the dead of night, bit rot arrived at some point between August of 2014 and New Year's Day 2015 and worked its way into my dry, dark, (relatively) dust-free, room temperature, sealed storage box to devour all my writing archives since 2009. I have 2 surviving CD archives dating to late 2009. Everything else is toast except what's on my main hard drive right now. As indicated I had 3 brands of CDs involved in this and all of them were affected; also my music and TV show DVD archives got devoured by...
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