Alec Patton

Fantasy writer, Engineer, Artist, aspiring Curmudgeon and unrepentant Misanthrope. Technophobe, architecture buff, ultra-INTJ, agnostic and recovering lurker.

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After a 3-year long wait, my latest book is LIVE!
https://t.co/pj4EBQcXsq
Folks, "Preservation's Cost" has everything you crave in old-school fantasy. It's got dragons, giants, manticores and tarrasques, undead, scheming nobles, unethical sorcerers, angry druids, dwarven kingdoms, ancient ruins, haunted necropolii, powerful artifacts, and much, much more!

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@LeMangy 🥳🍾

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@Steve_Sailer @UrbanCourtyard If Chicago brought back the stockyards, they could put on a Pamplonian running of the bulls through the Loop, ending it at the Board of Trade.

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@wesyang This is SO Red Scare-coded

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@TheCriticalDri2 I would say Buffy the Vampire Slayer is next, but the poorly executed (and received) attempt to resuscitate it has already come and gone in the blink of an eye.

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I only have one or two houses fitting that description in my current neighborhood, fortunately. Ugh, I've definitely run into the dog problem before, and the worst I ever had it was when I was on 0.1875 acres in a city and four of my adjacent neighbors had dogs, and when one would see a squirrel and start barking the others would chime in. I had a chorus of barking in surround-sound. Just awful.

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Plus, by then your eyes have difficulty seeing things up close like you need to, to do detail work, and your hands are no longer rock-steady. So even if you have the free time and financial freedom, you can never achieve the same level of craftsmanship that you could before. You are irrevocably diminished. Bleak.

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@Steve_Sailer I heartily approved when this was revealed: it is grand without being pretentious, imposing without being oppressive. It's an authentic homage to the Stripped Classicism of the 1930's and 40's.

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@TheIllegit @NickKnudsenUS It's incomprehensible to some people that there is a large contingent of us who don't seethe with class envy.

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The image is iconic because it is so pure. The idea of it transcends the rudimentary technique and what must have been, even back then, an over-reliance on fantasy tropes (let's be honest, the wizard hat verges on corny). But I love it regardless. That's the image you put on a T-shirt or album cover, or airbrush on the side of a van...

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@Will_Tanner_1 I appreciate the overt homage to Stripped Classical. It's grand without being pretentious. Imposing without being oppressive.

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@LeMangy I don't think we've seen the last of Surfer Mommy

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@Melvin_Deeply But Drinker is just getting started; he's still learning.

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@TheCriticalDri2 Spielberg and Ridley Scott should pack it in before they endanger their legacies. It happens. Besides, some new blood is sorely needed in the film industry anyway.

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@GanzeGeschichte Will modern architects ever be held accountable for their egregious and innumerable crimes?

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@YoDanno I have a friend who back in the day regularly used to let me borrow his AD&D books - EXCEPT for this one, because he was afraid a page would fall out and get lost.

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@RubyQNUFC "World Cup"? More like World Cup Sizes!

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@LeMangy He who gasps last gasps best (hope it was you).

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@SixbyFire @theepicmap Ah yes, fond memories of Bentleyville coming to mind...

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@cliftonaduncan There is plenty of fresh source material being produced by self-published authors; the trick is getting the exposure our work merits. Once that disconnect is remedied the culture will renew itself.