I do, in fact. I'm very much into that kind of thing!

Goddammit, I don't need any more miniatures war games *looks up Chain of Command*

"Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where are my f**king subsidies?!"

When @nytpitchbot.bsky.social gets outjerked by the actual New York Times...

Thank you! I had a blast writing it.

It's like in the old Star Wars EU media where you've got defecting Imperial ships fighting side-by-side with Rebel X-Wings. A cool visual, but I just hope we win :(

Thanks for doing this, Mr. Scalzi! I'm kind of late to the party, but I just launched a dieselpunk space opera featuring a plucky female lead who blows up a bunch of space fascists (if anyone's into that kind of thing lately...) www.amazon.com/dp/B0F16GPN8V And it's edited by @catrambo.bsky.social!

Even during my anti-government days as a young man who'd just been sent to fight in the desert for paper-thin reasons easily debunked by just paying attention to the news...I was still only against the part of the .gov that did illegal wars. Not Medicaid and the Park Service. I mean, WTF, over?!

Will it have power armor like in the book and nudity like in the Verhoeven movie? Because if so, that thing would PRINT money

Oooh...neato!

Nonsense! You're a squad of...one. And can therefore take only one point of damage - okay, yeah never mind. But still, by golly...ya know

We're currently in the cyberpunk dystopia phase, but without even the small comforts of hidden arm-mounted lasers you can have installed by your local ripperdoc or catgirl assassins prowling the skyline :(

"What is your biggest weakness?" Well, my need for money. Gonna hire me or nah?

It's like, I could totally be replaced with a robot that just mutters, "Christ, now what?" every few minutes.

God, there were more protests during the run-up to the Iraq war - I've been asking people around me, "Is anybody DOING anything about this?"

Oof! Please tell me you're saying, "Heh! You should see the other guy..." when people ask what happened.