Skyrocket44

Why is it that clicking on my own stories WHILE LOGGED IN raises the view count? Real poindexters running this site

Skyrocket44

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You know, sometimes I wonder why people even bother with anything Viv makes at this point. You want something that features shitty characters with ultimately redeeming qualities, the Undisputed movies are right there. No relationship drama, no daddy issues - just Michael Jai White and prime Scott Adkins beating the shit out of dudes in increasingly outlandish ways, with moment women will never understand sprinkled in between.

Skyrocket44

Time is the harshest critic.
          
          I may not live in Santa Clara, but I can postulate that Nvidia had spent the better part of two years developing the 12-volt cable that supplies its colossal overvaluation of silicon they call a 4090 with six hundred watts of power. It is assumed with their decades of expertise making Giant Video Cards that Cost Too Much, that they could not possibly have missed that the connector they used has a rating of 51 amps at 20°C which, if you don't remember your physical science textbooks, means the cable is only good for six hundred and twelve. A small problem with that: people tend to turn their computers on, and the power connector suddenly gets exposed to temperatures not uncommon to highways in the Atacama Desert. Thus, the most powerful graphics card of all time is unleashed upon the world with a cable that only works when you notice the smell of burning plastic emanating from your case.
          1800 miles away and over 25 years prior, Ford thought that they had acquired a license to print money after their engineering doctorates stuck a tall SUV body on top of a one-ton pickup chassis and put the whole four-and-half-thousand pound thing on lighter tires that were inflated less for better gas mileage. Within two years, reports came crashing in of Explorers suffering high-speed tire failures with optional rollovers, which suppliers Firestone blamed on people using their off-road vehicle that can carry a lot of stuff... off-road and carrying a lot of stuff. Not wanting egg on their face, Firestone quietly replaced the flimsy radials with rubber that worked past their warranty. But across the world, the toll was slowly accumulating, and once news of the fiasco went public (in the year 2000, mind you), over 300 people had died between two countries alone. Ford had no choice but to issue a recall. Six million tires were sent back, Ford ended their relationship with Firestone, and the latter's CEO Masatoshi Ono committed ritualistic two-weeks-notice.

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lot better than "sorry for teh inactivity," huh?
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As for what you can expect from me next, I leave you with the following.
            
            ● E1M3 will be released.
            ● At the same time, the whole of RED BASTARD will be re-edited, including a conversion from second-person to third-person.
            ● There will be a proper cover for the story.
            ● I may also write an essay on the thought processes behind RED BASTARD, if you are interested.
            ● [REDACTED]
            
            I thank you very much for your patience.
            
            S44
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Fortunately, the lives of people (and four-thousand dollar PC's) do not hang in the balance when I write fanfiction, but it may be this fact that has led me to a state of complacency. When I recently opened my RED BASTARD file to take a gander at the chapters I started writing over two years ago, I was simply appalled by how terrible I was. Why did you make a story with a named main character, and make it second-freaking-person? Why is Ryan Allen getting distracted by detonator wiring when there's people that need to be saved? Why all the food comparisons - was dinner not enough?
            
            Of course, my skills were still burgeoning, but back then I surprised myself when my first stab at writing for reasons other than grades ended up being ten thousand words long. When I decided to put my apparent talent to a longer project eventually called RED BASTARD, I was more critical with three redrafts per chapter, but still satisfied. It was a damn slight better than all the stale episode retreads with a super-special OC that did nothing but waste oxygen, change nothing of note, and mount the girl-of-the-day. Each time I uploaded, I patted myself on the back. Present me would have slapped myself and redraft again.
            
            I can claim to post the best work that I possibly can across three websites, but to who? Certainly myself, if only to see how the whole process finally came together and the satisfaction of a job well done. But as my word count went down, and days became weeks became months without even opening the file, I began to realize that I was writing for myself - not for the few dozen people who follow RED BASTARD and feeling their patience run dry when they look at the update date, knowing that its author is still active.
            
            Which leads us to to today, where I must apologize for my tardiness in updating RED BASTARD. I have not given up on the story, and will commit more to it than I have the past year.
            
            "RED BASTARD will continue..." is a promise to myself, and now, to you as well.
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Gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to inform you that after eighteen long months and a hiatus broken out of spite, the draft for RED BASTARD's E1M3 is finally complete! And it's weighing in at a scale-shattering 13334 words! But fret not, dear reader - I will cut it down in size to be far more manageable.
          
          However, you may have to wait for a while before it is unleashed upon the internet. For E1M3's release, I will also go back and re-edit both PRB and the first two chapters of RED BASTARD, as well as make a proper cover for it. I want all three of you on this website to be able to enjoy the best possible work I can present.
          
          As for what you can expect from RED BASTARD going forward, the action will pick up from the admittedly lackluster E1M1 and 2. I intend for this fanfiction to be heavily plot- and action-focused, a reading experience as bold and thrilling as its all-capital title would suggest. I'm not going to divulge on what will happen in upcoming chapters (or other stories, maybe), but one thing is certain:
          
          RED BASTARD will continue...
          
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          ...and I won't make Millie attempt suicide.