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Blog postSo this isn’t the thing we’ve been promising forever when we started being more active on YouTube, but this is a thing we did. It’s a fully scripted and planned bit of satire. Like, we actually wrote a thing with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...4 weeks ago Read more
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Blog postWe’ve been posting more videos than other content over the last year. Most of it has been sim-aviation related, though we did recut a video of D. playing Rockband 2. Yesterday we put up something of an “out takes” reel […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...2 months ago Read more
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Blog postWe put together another video in Adobe Premiere last night. This one was a technical challenge. The source material had a displayed timestamp, and I wanted it to be sync’d throughout.
It’s how “we” crushed a nosewheel on landing.
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Blog postAs I’ve been “flying” and re-learning old skills in a new sim, I’ve also learned that aerial refueling is tougher than simpler sims make it out to be. Please enjoy a video I captured, that also happens to show off […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...1 year ago Read more
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Blog postWe’ve added a new title to our stories section.
In addition to being IT professionals, comic artists, and writers, we’re also gamers. (In addition to being those three types of nerds, we’re also a fourth kind of nerd.) In particular, we’ve been long time flight simulator pilots.
During the social distancing, I’ve rediscovered my love of this hobby with a new sim. In an effort to justify the deduction on our corporate taxes, I’ve started writing a new series of micro-stories,&n1 year ago Read more -
Blog postThe news of the day aside, we were happy to see Tidewater Comicon feature us in their exhibitor highlight this week. While that show has been postponed for one year, rest assured that we intend to use our table when it returns in 2021.
The main purpose of this post is to let you know we are still alive and continuing to suck at social media.
For those fans who are readers, an eBook distributor we know is having a sale lasting through most of this month (that link will probably2 years ago Read more -
Blog postSeemingly stuck in limited release, we’ve been trying to find this one in a moderately convenient theater. As it turns out, Jojo Rabbit was not quite the movie we expected, but it was worth the wait and worth seeing in the theater. The critic taglines about the film all remark on its humor and brilliance as a satire. It earns these accolades, but it also deals somewhat seriously with the darker subjects of Germany’s last days in the Second World War.
Jojo Rabbit is not a spoof or paro3 years ago Read more -
Blog postJexi is a lonely guy expands his life romantic comedy. It’s not terribly groundbreaking in terms of story or devices, but what it lacks in innovation it makes up for in being genuinely funny. I found myself laughing from start to finish.
The titular character is an “intelligent assistant” software installed on some unnamed brand of smartphone. Voiced by Rose Byrne, she promises to make Phil’s (Adam Devine) life better. Brash and foul mouthed – Jexi is rated R for language – she berate3 years ago Read more -
Blog postWe braved the news reports of “non-specific threats” to see Joker on opening day. First, it was a spectacularly well done movie. As “Batman canon,” it’s sort of Cesar Romero doing a Heath Ledger impersonation in Taxi Driver. As its own film, it is an excellent portrayal of a man driven mad by a society unforgiving of his mental illness.
Joaquin Phoenix does an excellent job portraying this descent from illness into madness. The film focuses so much on him that it doesn’t leave much ro3 years ago Read more -
Blog postWe have a tendency to enjoy small and independent films. It’s not that we don’t like big action blockbusters with special effects budgets that rival the GDP of small nations, but films that we have to go to an “art house theatre” to see only get made when they have an actual story to deliver. The Peanut Butter Falcon is such a film.
A young man with Down syndrome, Zak (played by Zack Gottsagen) escapes the nursing home where he lives to pursue his dream to go to a professional wrestli3 years ago Read more
Titles By D. Clarence Snyder
Khutulun's Response Ability (The Bright Future)
Apr 12, 2018
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Bounty: HAND DELIVER Intact Prototype Game Console – Gates City – 1M$ – [apply for job]
For the freelance mercenary, Khutulun, the advertisement sounded like a straightforward theft. Secure a box, deliver it to an office, and collect a million dollars – not credits, dollars. The stipulation that it be hand delivered was unusual and made the gig more difficult. No dead drops or third party couriers meant she would have to have the thing in her possession for a longer time, and Gates City was a dangerous place to be in possession of anything stolen from The Microsoft Nation-Status Corporation.
By itself, anything that was worth a million dollars to a competitor was sure to draw the attention of Microsoft’s entire police force. The console had already been stolen and recovered once. Adding a traitor, a corrupt Senator, and a murder, Khutulun’s synthetic legs were about to carry her into a whole new kind of challenge.
For the freelance mercenary, Khutulun, the advertisement sounded like a straightforward theft. Secure a box, deliver it to an office, and collect a million dollars – not credits, dollars. The stipulation that it be hand delivered was unusual and made the gig more difficult. No dead drops or third party couriers meant she would have to have the thing in her possession for a longer time, and Gates City was a dangerous place to be in possession of anything stolen from The Microsoft Nation-Status Corporation.
By itself, anything that was worth a million dollars to a competitor was sure to draw the attention of Microsoft’s entire police force. The console had already been stolen and recovered once. Adding a traitor, a corrupt Senator, and a murder, Khutulun’s synthetic legs were about to carry her into a whole new kind of challenge.
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The Case of the North Station Mummy
Apr 10, 2019
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Police officer keeps secret you won’t believe!Ned Crystie is a normal police officer in every way, if you don’t count the set of wings he keeps hidden under his uniform.Mummy waiting for train gets stuck in handrail. How it got there is shocking!There is nothing unusual about a dead body lying next to train tracks in Boston, except when that body is a thousand year old mummy that appeared out of nowhere, and the person who discovered it is covered in faerie magic.One weird trick to charge your cellphone! All you need is a magic wand!Officer Crystie suspects a larger truth about faeries in the human world, but investigating risks exposing the secret he has kept since he was exiled from Faerieland two thousand winters ago.
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The Incubus Gambit (The Bright Future Book 2)
Dec 25, 2018
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Killer new firewall protects data from hackers!The all natural diet corporations don’t want you to know about!She turned her cell phone off; the reason why is shocking!108,903 words you need to read. #98,641 is insane!Not everyone was delighted by the advent of synthetic body parts. Some people protested the new technology, some fled “The Altered State” to form Naturalist colonies, and others took more direct actions.Hackers have turned up dead all over the city. When a friend goes missing, one hacker hires Canbe to discover what happened. The shape-shifting freelance mercenary discovers more about the people in her life than she ever wanted to know as she takes on her most difficult infiltration yet—living in a cult dedicated to reducing the use of synthetic parts by murdering people who have them.
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Butcher's Cleanup Service (The Bright Future)
Feb 20, 2018
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Spies and corruption have always been problems for governments and corporations. When corporations became sovereign nations, those problems did not go away. They became intertwined and compounded until they landed on Senator Saul.
One of his employees stole the most valuable prototype in the history of a nation-status corporation, but that isn’t a problem. The thief was arrested and a freelancer recovered the prototype. When a spy is caught, scrutiny follows. A decade of operations and actions would be questioned. Saul sponsored the thief’s citizenship, but that could be explained. What no Senator wants to explain is a captured spy’s role in election fraud.
As a freelancer, Butcher specializes in only one thing. He does it well. He does it efficiently. It also happens to be the one thing a corrupt Senator needs done to avoid explaining what his former employee might reveal.
One of his employees stole the most valuable prototype in the history of a nation-status corporation, but that isn’t a problem. The thief was arrested and a freelancer recovered the prototype. When a spy is caught, scrutiny follows. A decade of operations and actions would be questioned. Saul sponsored the thief’s citizenship, but that could be explained. What no Senator wants to explain is a captured spy’s role in election fraud.
As a freelancer, Butcher specializes in only one thing. He does it well. He does it efficiently. It also happens to be the one thing a corrupt Senator needs done to avoid explaining what his former employee might reveal.
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McGoohan's Changing Heart (The Bright Future)
Feb 15, 2018
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Sergeant McGoohan wasn’t always a corporate police officer protecting the baked goods and other interests of a nation-status corporation. Kraft Security Services’ sarcastic top-cop was once a police officer for the city’s elite Corporate Affairs Division.
A respected authoritarian, McGoohan has spent decades climbing to the top of his career, bending the occasional rule in the interest of a peaceful state. The limited resources of the city has capped his salary, but a haunted past steers him away from the pursuit of money. Pressing his face to the glass ceiling, Corporate Affairs Officer McGoohan trains a younger officer to replace him, so he can enjoy an eventual retirement.
One stray bullet changes everything.
Years before The Cookie Caper, McGoohan and Canbe almost crossed paths, and the event altered the course of both their lives.
A respected authoritarian, McGoohan has spent decades climbing to the top of his career, bending the occasional rule in the interest of a peaceful state. The limited resources of the city has capped his salary, but a haunted past steers him away from the pursuit of money. Pressing his face to the glass ceiling, Corporate Affairs Officer McGoohan trains a younger officer to replace him, so he can enjoy an eventual retirement.
One stray bullet changes everything.
Years before The Cookie Caper, McGoohan and Canbe almost crossed paths, and the event altered the course of both their lives.
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The Cookie Caper (The Bright Future Book 1)
Feb 2, 2018
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In 2013, Nabisco’s Oreo generated over two billion dollars in revenue worldwide. In the decades since, its fortunes have only grown larger. Low carb, gluten free, and pure organic diet trends did nothing to slow the frosting sandwich juggernaut.
That was until a scientist baker, working in a secret lab, developed a recipe that threatens to take Oreo’s crown – a cookie so valuable that when the baker is murdered, nation-status corporations risk war to find and recover the prototype batch. A shape-shifting mercenary races against a corporate police officer forced by internal politics to be more interested in locating the cookies than investigating the murder of a citizen employee.
Free of the legal restrictions once imposed by weakened traditional governments, corporate states redraw maps and enforce their own law to claim the four billion dollar prize in a story of corporate power, personal identity, and moral flexibility.
That was until a scientist baker, working in a secret lab, developed a recipe that threatens to take Oreo’s crown – a cookie so valuable that when the baker is murdered, nation-status corporations risk war to find and recover the prototype batch. A shape-shifting mercenary races against a corporate police officer forced by internal politics to be more interested in locating the cookies than investigating the murder of a citizen employee.
Free of the legal restrictions once imposed by weakened traditional governments, corporate states redraw maps and enforce their own law to claim the four billion dollar prize in a story of corporate power, personal identity, and moral flexibility.
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The Armor Heist (The Bright Future)
Jan 30, 2018
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The Shipping Wars completely reformed the business of carrying things from one point to another. Competition grew so fierce that it finally burst into armed conflict. The old companies were destroyed by the fighting, and Parcel Service rose out of their combined ashes. Obtaining nation-status, Parcel Service exercised its power to make certain that those dark days of competition are gone. Every truck is armored, every package defended, every step taken to ensure that the mail must flow – through Parcel Service.
When an unscrupulous employee stole a valuable console and sold it to the competition, it was only natural that he used Parcel Service to move the device. He didn’t plan on getting caught or being forced to reveal the tracking number of the package. Now, the rightful owners want their console back, and they’ve offered a ridiculous bounty for its safe return. Armed with the knowledge of the console’s route, a smuggler, a sniper, and a shape-shifting thief concoct a risky plan to claim the bounty: taking on Parcel Service and hitting their armored car – with another armored car.
Set in "The Bright Future", this short story takes place before book 1 in the series: "The Cookie Caper".
When an unscrupulous employee stole a valuable console and sold it to the competition, it was only natural that he used Parcel Service to move the device. He didn’t plan on getting caught or being forced to reveal the tracking number of the package. Now, the rightful owners want their console back, and they’ve offered a ridiculous bounty for its safe return. Armed with the knowledge of the console’s route, a smuggler, a sniper, and a shape-shifting thief concoct a risky plan to claim the bounty: taking on Parcel Service and hitting their armored car – with another armored car.
Set in "The Bright Future", this short story takes place before book 1 in the series: "The Cookie Caper".
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