Nick B.

Curious autodidact, software engineer, fiction enthusiast, gamer, husband, and apparently a bot magnet.

Ex falso sequitur quodlibet.

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

"You have heretofore read public sentiment in your newspapers, that live by falsehood and excitement; and the quicker you seek for truth in other quarters, the better."
- William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

Guy posts he built a cool record breaking RC plane, but some claim he copied an existing one...

I'm no aerospace expert, but the two look slightly different in shape to me. Curious to see how this plays out.

https://t.co/Di6g4TUCUh

[Tomas Salvo @tomas_salvo22]

Since February, I've designed and built the world's fastest RC airplane in my college dorm, and that’s not clickbait. Reaper has a 5kg carbon-fiber frame, 250N turbojet, and flies at 500mph. New to X and will be going through the whole build here in the coming days.

#aerospace

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Socialism is a hatred of what actually is thanks to a preference for what cannot ever be.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work.

He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in.

Two years later, it was over. 🧵

[Klara @klara_sjo]

"Christian characters in movies are poorly written because the writers are atheists."

"Atheist characters in movies are poorly written because the writers are Christian."

Stop fighting.

All human experience is poorly written in movies because the writers are Californian.

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

Like Biden, this guy should have been out of office long long ago.

That said, I wish him well.

[TMZ @TMZ]

Sen. Mitch McConnell was found unconscious when rushed to the hospital.

Details: https://t.co/l2gNF4GABx

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

@TheCriticalDri2 I can honestly say this is the first Nolan film since Memento that I have zero interest in seeing based on the trailer.

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

For any writers out there, published or otherwise, this is a pretty good podcast on the topic and I'm glad it's back for another round:

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

WriterDojo is BACK!

For those who don't know, that's a podcast hosted by me and Steve Diamond about writing and the publishing business. We've got over 150 episodes on a wide variety of topics with a bunch of great guests.

The show is to help writers and aspiring writers, but if you're a reader and want to see how the sausage is made, the show is fun.

We've been on hiatus for the last year dude to Steve's job (our last episode was an interview with @TheCriticalDri2 back in February of 2025!) but the first episode of the new season came out today.

Places you can hear the podcast:
https://t.co/NeSEQnfyye
or another spotify address:
https://t.co/2qTfgA4RMS
Plus Apple and RedCircle…
https://t.co/WAyaCH1wVm
https://t.co/2yKIyu35mG
Where to go to support The WriterDojo® paetron:
https://t.co/mvcLhZiY4J

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

The CIA’s covert operations are designed to make sure “extraordinary evidence” is suppressed and never available.

This is why the “Skeptic Movement” is so loved by clandestine & covert operations people in the IC.

It makes “ordinary claims” about secret ops impossible to prove.

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

I was under the impression that Trumps Birthright order went a lot further than it actually did. In reality it's a relatively mild clarification to the 14th.

Far from getting it right (my initial take), the SCOTUS decision has opened the door to way worse.

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

@monsterhunter45 You know what, I'll withdraw that second part. I'm no longer sure SCOTUS got it right, my memory of the text of Trumps order was faulty.

I stand by the first part. Allowing it to remain this way is a huge problem.

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

@monsterhunter45 Voting citizen? Heck, natural born citizen, over 35, 14 years resident? That's an eligible presidential candidate.

The worst part: It's not the court decision that made it legal, they're actually correctly doing their job here. Changing this requires amending/repealing the 14th.

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

I’ve been telling people this for years.
GRRM pissed off millions of customers but he don’t give a shit. He got his bag. But his legacy is being such an epic bum ass bum that he crippled an entire genre, ruined consumer sentiment, and killed off an entire generation of epic fantasy authors.

Romantasy and LitRPG grew as a direct result of filling the smoking crater George left in the industry. New writers could no longer get deals to write epic fantasy unless the entire series was in the bag, and nobody can afford to gamble that much time to write that many books they may never sell.

Publishers no longer took chances on new series because customers had got burned by lazy shirkers like George and Pat. Agents wouldn’t represent new epic fantasy unless the whole thing was done. It hurt Indy because dudes had to convince customers that they weren’t bums too. Except when book one makes $50 total, because customers said Im not starting a new series until it’s done! they sure as shit ain’t writing book two. So it’s a self fulfilling prophesy of suck.

In the comments Dunning-Krugerands are saying this isn’t true. Look at guys like Brandon Sanderson. Wrong. Guys like him, or me, who already had established names, reputations, and fan bases were fine. We had enough customers who trusted us we could still do new things and people would come along to make it economically viable.

For example, the only reason my epic fantasy series got picked up is because I was already successful and could guarantee a viable level of sales off my existing fans. Newbs don’t have that. And over the ten years it took for me to write the six books to finish it, the entire time I heard from potential customers, nope, not gonna start a new series that might not finish because of George.

I am fine during this because I’m still gonna make a couple hundred grand off each of those just off my existing fans. Newbs make two bucks an hour, say to hell with being a writer I’m going back to my day job, and you all missed out on the next great author and his absolutely brilliant series, because you were too mad at billionaire George shoving twinkies in his mouth instead of writing.

Nope. Guys like me and Brandon are fine. George’s profound laziness screwed over the new guys. Customers and the industry quit taking chances on new guys. We will never know how many excellent fantasy series we missed out on, robbed by George’s laziness burning so many customers.

Some writers gave up, but others moved into different genres. Which is good. But it sure does suck if epic fantasy is your jam. LitRPG is close but different enough it blew up during this time frame because that’s where the talented went.

Being such a pretentious, bloviating bum that you damage an entire industry and strangle a generation of aspiring artists is quite the legacy.

Kal (who is a good writer btw, check out his books) asks what can we do about this? For me personally I’m just gonna continue mocking George’s work ethic in the hopes more normies realize what an outlier he is, and how they should expand their horizons to read other authors who aren’t stuck up, know it all, dickheads.

And before anybody starts barking at me that I’m such a hypocrite because I’ve not finished all my series, sorry I’ve only finished three of eight so far, and have only written THIRTY books since George’s last one, the next MHI comes out in December, and the last two books are next year, and I’m not planning on retiring anytime soon (if ever).

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

@ericweinstein Just the door hitting Keir Starmer's rump on his way out.

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

@Itssan17 No.

I'm tired of watching them turn gold characters into worthless lumps of lead; I'm done paying them to work their disappointing reverse alchemy.

Not just for Supergirl, but all DC, barring something getting universal acclaim I'm out until Gunn is.

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

@StutteringCraig I keep waiting for someone to make an open source football (or any sport) game that allows players to import their own player stats and team logos/colors every year; but I guess the businesses would bury them in lawsuits even though you can't copyright rules.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

British man visits the US for a few days and has a gun rights awakening

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

@titMcGrit2 True. But The Rocketeer canonically contains at least one of these guys already.

Well, with the serial numbers filed off anyway.

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

There are very few things that make me genuinely angry. This did.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

https://t.co/EuKgGWBRhS

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

@heelvsbabyface "When one falls, we continue."

[Nick B. @ThisOldNick]

"When one falls, we continue. WHEN one falls, not if, when!"

Gaming is in a much better place with more widely available and free tools than it was in 1983; if it could survive the fall of Atari then, it can survive the loss of every AAA studio today.

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Sandy Petersen, the designer of Doom, Quake, Call of Cthulhu, and Age of Empires, responding on social media to fans asking how to save Blizzard:

"We don't need to save Blizzard. We didn't need to save Microsoft or id Software or Ensemble Studios or Atari. We don't need to save ANY game company. If they die, they die. They will be replaced with new, likely superior game companies. Gaming continues."

The man who helped build the foundations of modern gaming says let the industry's legacy studios die. Is he right?