This is just a reminder to everyone out there who gets annoyed by safety laws. They exist for a reason, and if you don’t want to follow them at least make sure to have the decency to only hurt yourself.
How do you do this? I feel super awkward trying to self promote my Kindlevella, even to my friends. Do you have any tips for how to handle that feeling? Or just in general for that matter.
Honestly? I never try to promote my books to friends or family. Ever. If they read it, great, I’ll talk to them about it. But if they don’t, I never encourage them to. Many of them apologize for never having read it! And I never expect them to.
What you kind of have to realize, is the fact that you wrote a book and they didn’t, makes you kind of special. I don’t say that to be egotistical. It doesn’t make you GOOD or BETTER. It just makes you special. It makes you someone who loves that kind of story enough that you wrote it because you wanted to be able to read it.
So you need to direct your attention to other people who love that kind of story. Statistically speaking, that’s unlikely to be people you know IRL. You have to go online and find those folks. And you have to realize that they are HUNGRY for that kind of story.
Because if you’re a fan of that kind of story, you KNOW that there aren’t enough of them out there. You know that every time you finish reading a good one, you wish you had another one to read right away. Or you wish the one you just finished had another book in the series to read.
That’s the secret. Be a huge fan. Write what you’re a fan of. Find other huge fans and tell them, however you can, that you’re writing what you’re both fans of.
i learned that actor Danny Trejo has the most on-screen deaths of anyone in Hollywood history, with 65. Followed by Christopher Lee (60), Lance Henriksen (51), Vincent Price (41), Dennis Hopper (41), Boris Karloff (41), and John Hurt (39). (x)
Yet poor Sean Bean is stuck with the reputation for dying in every movie. Unfair.
Give him time, he still has many years of dying yet to come.
Also there’s the question of density vs quantity. If you make a hundred movies and die in 50, and someone else makes 30 movies and dies in 30, the first one has died more, but the second one has died more often per movie.
It’s the DPM ratio that really counts, IMO.
65/402 16% Danny Trejo 60/282 21% Christopher Lee 51/259 20% Lance Henriksen 41/211 19% Vincent Price 41/205 20% Dennis Hopper 41/204 20% Boris Karloff 39/209 19% John Hurt 33/117 28% Sean Bean
I’m so proud of the statistical side of tumblr for coming through on this.
I know its fun to be like omg twitter is dying lets goooo
but its really sad that we’re losing yet another form of human communication and years of information because of another ceo baby manchild. I’m going to lose contact with a bunch of friends i’ve made because of this and it sucks
the “no spoiler culture”, mainly perpetuated by the marvel cinematic universe, that pushes the idea that a story is only worth watching and telling if the audience knows absolutely nothing about it beforehand, has done irreparable damage to storytelling and how an audience interacts with the story. in this essay i will-
It’s also really ironic coming from a franchise based entirely on very popular pre-existing source material.
I know it’s been literal years since EXU started, but nothing has ever tickled me more than learning Aabria meant for the Crown Keepers to trade that crown in for influence.
Can you imagine giving your players a bargaining chip to buy themselves into the big leagues and they just freaking abscond with that shit? (of course you can PCs will jump ship at first opportunity)
And the pivot she makes after they don’t give it to Gilmore where she’s like… ‘Ok, you wanna make a story about keeping this dangerous object out of unsafe hands? Well then the first hands we have to examine are yours’.
I’ve never seen a funnier series of unfortunate consequences.
Dorian had his entire alignment shifted to the left and they didn’t have to do any of that 😂
Play a warlock character who calls himself Vithimorex or something like that. Always mention how grateful you are to your patron, Frank, for the wondrous powers he gives you.
Slowly reveal that the powers you get from Frank are things like “sense of smell” and “verbal communication”. As it turns out, Vithimorex is an extradimensional Thing possessing the person formerly known as Frank. All the eldritch blasts and shadow conjurations are boring powers according to Vithimorex. He can’t wait for the level 14 ability to understand and appreciate music.
Also, I realized something about the name I made up, so here’s a song:
When the moon splits in two and your nightmares come true, Vithimorex…
When the world seems to bleed since the dead god was freed, Vithimorex…
The really hilariously ill-conceived part of the Twitter rate limiting thing is that comments and retweets are the same kind of entity as tweets in the back-end database, they’re just “parented” to whatever tweet they’re commenting on or retweeting, and the rate limit they’ve placed on the API simply counts how many of those entities you’ve requested without checking a. whether they’re the children of another entity or not, nor b. whether you’ve already seen that particular entity today.
Thus, the limit isn’t really “600 tweets”. A tweet, each comment on that tweet, and each retweet of that tweet all count against the limit as you view them. For example, if a quote-retweet crosses your dashboard, the quote-retweet itself and the little preview of what it’s responding to that appears above it each count separately against the limit. Click into that quote-retweet to read the comments? They both get counted against your limit a second time, as does each individual comment you read – and heaven help you if any of those comments were themselves commented upon!
The upshot is that if your account isn’t verified, using Twitter in the manner that its own monetisation model assumes – and, indeed demands – it will be used can easily exhaust your entire daily allocation of tweet views in as little as a couple dozen engagements.
so that’s why i ran out in like two hours
If anything, two hours reflects a very restrained usage pattern. Owing to the way that tweet views are counted, somebody who’s using the site the way its user experience “wants” it to be used might readily burn through their daily 600 views in five to ten minutes!
Wait, wait, wait, so, Twitter now works like those mobile games that give you free “lives” and once you’re out, sorry! Wait til tomorrow… or pay!
It’s a bit worse than that, because the verified limit is only 6000 views, and there’s presently no way to increase it beyond that. That might feel like a big number, but for the reasons outlined above, even a paying user with an ideal usage pattern will be able to use site for perhaps 60 minutes a day before they get put on hold, too.
