13/ So then I rewrite it. That's the second draft. Still garbage. Rewrite again. 3rd draft. Still garbage, but hints of acceptability. Ari 1 & 2 took 6 drafts.
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24/ no, seriously, nice https://linux.die.net/man/1/nice
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25/ No. If I'm trying to decide the OCEAN Big Five personality breakdown of, say, Cody, Blue's son, I need to have a list of potential conflicts he might have with his dad, his mom, Father Alex, Doug Stewart Test, Sam Barrus, etc., so I need to see >>>https://twitter.com/IamSoterson/status/1154498787009683456 …
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26/ THEIR character sheets, and I need to know how old Cody is, which means I need to think about Dog lifespans, which means that I need to do a spreadsheet to make sure that there's enough time for population growth at 624 Hektor, which means I need to figure out what year >
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27/ The Discord took place, which means I also need to check travel times from A to B, which means I need to model the ship that took folks from A to B, which means I need to investigate a series of proposals for fission drives plus also run a new spreadsheet for chemical drives
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28/ which means I need to figure out the mass of the ship and the number of engines, which means I need to go back to Ari 1 & 2 and find out how many engines are left over from a particular Gamma stunt, then make an inventory of those bc Mike Martin has dibs on a few
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29/ so now I've just generated like four new spreadsheets. And you will read one sentence in the book. "Cody was five". And then I'll think "Oooh...that resonates a bit with a Harlan Ellison short story. Was it 'When Jefty was Five' or 'Six'? " >>>
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30/ So I'll look that up too. And I will have just updated four text files and a bunch of spreadsheets. To generate "Cody was five". And that's why I can't do it while weeding the vineyard.
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31/ Go back and check Ari 2. There's a bishop, and he's Nigerian.
I wonder...https://twitter.com/BostonDelendEst/status/1154500325547470848 …Show this thread
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I don’t know whether to feel relieved and happy, or sad and left out because as a Protestant I’m not spergy enough.
(I had to actually go look that word up...never heard of it before today.)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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