B.R. Keid

Engineer. Marine veteran. Farmer. #milscifi author. Read the COMPLETE Autonomous Weapons Division trilogy today!

[B.R. Keid @keidwrites]

It's almost time! Hard Drop is finally going up for presale on Amazon on—you guessed it—November 10, the Marine Corps Birthday!

ARC copies are available now! NetGalley users, the link is below. If you're not on NetGalley, shoot me a DM with a link to one of your reviews and I can hook you up!

#HardDrop #NetGalley #MilitarySciFi #SpaceOpera

[Macroblock @sainimatic]

Start by not thinking of them as backgrounds. The environment your characters exist in can pack a lot of information about them and their world. It's basically free bandwidth to pack more details about your story without slowing things down. Plus you can sneak in some easter eggs

[B.R. Keid @keidwrites]

@ryanpatrickauth 100%. The number of times I say, "Nah, you do it"

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@oldyzach Still one of the best shmups of all time!

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@Kristin_Fiction @DavidBadurina I _disdain_ 4.7 and to a lesser degree 4.8. Fable is very, very good, but will be cost prohibitive for most of my use cases. 4.6 FTW (honestly, I miss 4.5).

[B.R. Keid @keidwrites]

Seconded. @VincentAbnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series is still my favorite 40k fiction, with Interceptor City a close second.

The Horus Heresy, all the Primarch and Space Marine drama, it's absolutely wonderful mythos. But the grunts in the dirt? Better stories bar none.

[Spearman Burke @Spearman_Burke]

I remember when I stopped reading books about 40k’s Space Marines and started reading more about the Imperial Guard. Something about envisioning some poor grunt in a trench fixing a bayonet to his lasgun with shivering hands while untold hordes of aliens and monsters charged his position felt more relatable.

[B.R. Keid @keidwrites]

@sainimatic @etscrivner "because the massively increased coordination costs eliminate the ability to throw work away and iterate"

Is this still true in the age of agentic development? (In terms of software projects, anyway)

[B.R. Keid @keidwrites]

@sainimatic @breeder_j 100%. I'm done crafting shit and collecting trifles. Just put me in the driver's seat of a killer story.

[Macroblock @sainimatic]

I've waited my whole life for a tool like this

Built from scratch in Dreams on Playstation
Painted over in Rebelle & Photoshop

✅natural gestural controls
✅no asset management
✅no file management
✅no node graphs
✅no rendering
✅no waiting

Just pure creativity in 3D space

[B.R. Keid @keidwrites]

@sainimatic

[B.R. Keid @keidwrites]

@jflWrites Scratch.

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@SeloSlav I'm still reeling that the image on the left is in a browser 😮

[B.R. Keid @keidwrites]

@oldyzach Strike Commander! 🫡

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@sainimatic Yeah. The AI render is... interesting in a "oh, that's neat" kind of way. But it's not good. Your art is good. Please keep it up.

[B.R. Keid @keidwrites]

@oldyzach Looks like hope. 🫡

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@sainimatic @FatherPhi 4.7 does NOT want to do work. It's wild.

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@SeloSlav Dude this is amazing.

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@sainimatic @TechSpatiales This is glorious.

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@SeloSlav You lost me at DIY plumbing. 😂

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@SeloSlav @blakeir +1 to playing outside. I still remember all the epic battles in the yard with my Micro Machine armies.