Brendan Tynan Buck

Writer. Magic Player. Level 6 Retail Drone. Level 4 Customer Service Representative.

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

@noveldeadbeat The first book is probably the place where it is most obviously the result of self publishing, but after that the novels structurally shape up. I think the novels veer from "this is good fun" to something much better than that.

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

@noveldeadbeat DCC is good. I think solid characters (Donut is a gem, but the cast is full of likeables) anchor the RPG mechanics heavy premise. It is kind of like you if gave Hitchhikers Guide a anarchopunk class consciousness and then smashed it together with a trapped in an MMO isekai.

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

@noveldeadbeat The exact circumstance isn't even true! You get taxed at any age, but the early WD penalty only applies for 59 and 1/2 or earlier. And that is explicitly to encourage folks to save.

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

@markjansen10 @acvalensVT Look, since you are responding to this, can you clarify your policy on adult content as well?

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

@noveldeadbeat I'm popping my head up on this app to say ask the actual fuck is wrong with dudes these days.

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

They should name that combo move from Osprey and Strickland. House Blade? Blade Call? Hidden call? Lots of good choices.

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

@noveldeadbeat I honestly look at those days kind of fondly, until I realize that this application was the on ramp for the hell we're currently in. But that is how they get you.

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

@noveldeadbeat It is depressing that his name keeps popping up for big jobs like senator and president.

[Rep. Nydia Velazquez @NydiaVelazquez]

These allegations are damning. An explicit quid pro quo. Mayor Adams backed Trump’s immigration agenda to dodge corruption charges.

NYC can’t be led by someone under Trump’s thumb and willing to sell out New Yorkers. Mayor Adams must resign.

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

I don't know what we need this to look like going forward, but we know what it shouldn't look like. Musk taking Twitter should have been a moment that struck as much fear as him buying every radio station. Speech shouldn't be concentrated into the whims of one man.

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

As I move away from Twitter I wonder this: if we ever get out of the hole of this current moment, I think we should question the nature of digital spaces like this one and their relationship to private ownership. What does it mean when the public square can be bought?

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

2016 showed how amoral profit driven algorithms that had no content regulation for misinfo could be a cancer to our Republic. 2024 has shown us how fucking dangerous it is for one man to be able to buy the public square and fill it with whatever he wants.

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

I mean there were many points I should have peaced before this. Nazi content, trans policies, etc, but the habit of this place was hard go break, but I am finally broken. Elon can go fuck himself.

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

Yeah, I'm switching over to BlueSky, which already feels like this place did pre-Musk. Might still peep my head in every once in a while, but you can find me as AkaiChar.

[Brendan Tynan Buck @RedCometKick]

Honestly, this site has felt more and more like a ghost of itself and now that Musk is doing to the government exactly what he did to Twitter, it doesn't feel great to give him ad dollars.