thanks for mentioning Geeknights, going to check that out. Can't get enough related podcasts.

Yup. I'm new. Another ltl;ftc.

Standard nerdish sort.

Will post more when I get the feel of the place.

Are you a bot? You have to tell me if you are.

Did you like Evangelion?

Turkish?

Oh, come on now. If the rest of us can push through liking MD Geist before knowing better, you can get past Evangelion. I'm not saying the stain on your soul will go away, but you can at least experience some of the more enjoyable titles out there. Stuff like Ninja Resurrection. You should definitely watch that.

Because tiny robots can't step on things and crush them. Duh.

3 Words: Stoner SunShine Spark

Nothing wrong with medium sized robots.

Then what size is something like G0-T0 or Giru?

Hi
Joined a few days ago, been a Fast Karate listener for a few years. More into video-games than anime, I suppose

Strangeside said:

Hey guys. College freshman to Temple University, originally from Pittsburgh. I actually listened to the podcast a few years ago, but didn't keep myself updated. Just recently came back, and have resumed having strangers stare at me on the bus for laughing as I wear my headphones. God damn it, Dave and Joel.

Where in the city are you staying? I'm in the Northwest in E. Mt. Airy.

Welcome to Philly.

Hiya, been listening to the podcast for years (around 08 or 09, whenever the baby-bomb episode was), finally decided to join the forums. I'm a 19-year old kid form the chicago suburbs, eventually taking college classes for cooking.

As you can tell, I am a 'brony'. I'll try to contain myself so I won't annoy the crap out of anyone.

Thanks for the book club comment! I appreciate it. Joel, it looks like we're going to have to step it up (2: the streets).

It's huge in the US.

So I was like "Hey, I should make an account on the Fast Karate forum. Why the hell haven't I done that yet?"

And then I tried to make an account, and it wouldn't let me, because I apparently already did that like a year ago. And now here I am.

Hey Mark, s'up?

It is definitely a classy movie.

im gona tell yeah right now you guys have some fans all the way down here in the new zealand believe it lmao

Oooh! A forum member with a D&D monster icon - roll for initiative!

[   ] Yes
[   ] No
[   ] Attack of Opportunity

Glad to have you on board, and thanks for the feedback! What is your book about?

The book is called Prey for Vengeance. I'm waiting on a friend of mine to finish the cover so I can publish it through the Amazon Kindle store and the B&N nook. The guy doing the cover will then turn his efforts to adapting it into a graphic novel. I had another friend who double majored in English and Education who edited it for me so I don't come of as a total hack.
As for what it's about, it falls into the interstitial art category, which is just a wine snifter toting way of saying that I was too lazy to fall into a single genre. In essence it's a action adventure targeted towards young adults that involves a four way international family feud and the new modern generation of children and how they become indoctrinated into the hate and violence. It takes place at a school that was created in a peace negotiation where the children can go in absolute secrecy that will help promote peace between the families and prevent kidnapping and hostage situations on all sides. The main heroine had most of her family wiped out when she was young and has been in hiding most of her life and this is her first look at the enemy that forced her and her immediate family to hide out in third world countries to escape detection.
The story is a series with the chracters progressing in years in a coming of age sort of way and the story is told in short bursts of different prospectives. I hate hamfisted conflict and the main antagonist I hope comes off as the previous generation as opposed to the relationships between characters. I'm hoping to get it out this month depending on my slacker artist buddy who is also the editor of our podcast. (2lazy2botaku.com) The first draft and part of the second is already done for the second book so hopefully I can get that out soon as well.
Thanks for the interest and sorry I feel the need to write a book whenever I start a sentence. Twitter is my antonist in life.

You are being hetero-normative.

I enjoy strong female protagonists but my book has several heavy characters. I set off different sections of the book by putting up the name in bold and going from their prospective. A case could be made that my main character isn't really the protagonist. It goes main female character, love interest, main point of contention character, and the character that doesn't want to admit his involvement in the feud. I did my best to make the main protagonist be the new generation of kids dealing with their parents past and the antagonist being that past. I started this book with two characters I had heard about a friend use in his Cyberpunk 2020 pen and paper campaign and I wanted to incorporate them into my own story. The other character doesn't show up until book two because my first draft turned into a short story that primarily featured an exposition hammer. So I took that short and turned it into a full novel and spaced out the exposition. It took me a year and a half and a lot of outside opinion and revisions but I'm pretty happy with how the series is shaping up. I was learning to write as I went which meant a lot of simple writing mistakes got changed and story angles got moved around. I got a death threat from a friend when i killed off a plot device character in one of the early drafts and that character eventually became something quite pivitol. It's been a long hard road and a labor of love. I hope people will enjoy it half as much as I have enjoyed writing it.