I have software for it

that's rad

it was not cheap

but if I make the right decisions as a result of it, it will more than pay for itself

in fact it'll pay for itself in about 10 sales

My predicted expenses for self-publishing at the most basic level should be 1) cover design 2) line-editing 3) formatting 4) advertising

but I think 4) is the only real essential thing there. self-pub authors vastly over think cover design

because they have infallibly bad taste

@Mortal I DISLIKE BANDCAMP

SADLY, THERE ARE NO REAL OPTIONS

SOUNDCLOUD APPEARS TO BE IMPLODING

@UOC DEPENDS ON GENRE

BUT GENERALLY, I AGREE EXCEPT THAT I WOULD MAKE SURE THE COVER IS APPEALING

PEOPLE BUY BY COVER APPEAL AND READING THE FIRST TEN PAGES

@diversity_is_racism I don't contest the importance of a well-designed and appealing cover. I just think that simplicity and good taste will win me the day over paying a designer to design me something like this

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cXGuv5FML._SY346_.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5143AFW-9tL._SY346_.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TGHFAVhSL._SY346_.jpg

@UOC YES THE PROBLEM WITH THOSE IS THAT THEY ARE TASTELESS

NO MATTER WHAT THEY PAID FOR THOSE, IT WILL NOT WORK

THE FIRST ONE LOOKS GOOD AND THE THIRD IS OK FOR A ROMANCE NOVEL

first one is best. Third one looks worse up close. The art is bad.

IT'S HORRIBLY CHEESY

ONLY GOOD FOR CHEESY GENRES

ALSO AGREED THE ART IS INEPT

THE SECOND ONE IS A REAL TURD

THEN AGAIN, IF IT'S TEEN ROMANCE, MAYBE

notice how so much shit is just tolkien universe ripoffs

I've been paying a lot of attention to story writing and it seems like the background/universe of stories is either dollar store effort or so autistically fixated upon that they forget to write a story

everything in modern fantasy is tolkien ripoffs

that's exactly right exilarch

99% of it is shit

30 seconds I did a better cover

their world building is either nonexistent to the point that it may as well just be tolkien fanfiction and at least admit it instead of trying to pretend to be original, or... you know

I don't really get the alternate worlds conceit

It made sense pre-tolkien when people went to Venus or Mars

and Tolkien himself basically just reimagined europe

Then spergs got a hold of the idea and started fetishizing it

Thanks @diversity_is_racism. Soundcloud looks done for, yes. Good riddance. Hopefully Bandcamp will receive a backlash against their use of people's content for leftist political fundraising. This isn't the first time they've done it.

spergs will ban me for mentioning it, but certain genres of fantasy are notoriously a lot more creative

like what

FANTASY IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY CRAP

@diversity_is_racism bandcamp is the only service that actually makes money

I BELIEVE IT

the probem is that they are SJWs

well pander to whiners

SOUNDCLOUD = BANKRUPTCY

AND NO VOLUME CONTROL

WHICH IS RETARDED STUPID

bandcamp just takes a cut of streaming and digitla downloads

so everything gets marked up a dollar or so

from retail

@Deleted User 57835c2c ANNE McCAFFREY WAS GOOD

DISCOGS WAS BETTER

UNTIL THEY BANNED FAR-RIGHT-ISH MUSIC

bandcamp doesn't care unless you are going KILL THE JEWS

and title your tracks that

they let GBK and Arghoslent use it

Bandcamp is also the only one that offers a worthwhile setup for artists to sell their work.

This trans tactics will probably get them more sales

from sjws

then they can say they only made X in profit that day

Most customers will probably be oblivious about where their money is going.

Anne McCaffrey was good. Gene Wolfe was great. Ursula le Guin was a good writer. Fritz Lieber. old school guys like David Lindsay, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, ER Eddison. Mervyn Peake.

Roger Zelazny

Algernon Blackwood. Arthur Machen

Hope Mirlees

hell = retards + chinese plastic

if I succeed in this shit I will walk around wearing a shirt that says it

@UOC AGREED ON URSULA LeGUIN

NOT CERTAIN ABOUT THE OTHERS BECAUSE I HAVE NOT READ THEM

C.S. LEWIS IS CLOSE TO FANTASY/SCI-FI IN THE "PERELANDRA" SERIES

GOOD STUFF

Perelandra was great

and "Out of the Silent Planet" was one of the only good songs from Iron Maiden's "Brave New World" album

INDEED. MORE OF A BRADBURY FAN, BUT I LIKE LEWIS

ALSO GRAHAM GREENE

AGREED ALSO ON THE MAIDEN ALBUM

BUT

IF YOU LISTEN TO ONLY ONE MAIDEN, MAKE IT "KILLERS"

I like both those. Those guys are halfway between fantasy and pure lit

BOTH VERY LITERARY

ALSO AN EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS FAN HERE

SORT OF THE ORIGINS OF THE GENRE

bah

this really rustles my jimmies

fuck

I have two great products but the best sourcing sites are down

woe is me niggaz

The Conan books are good

I wish I had slaves

so I could make them manufacture for me

I'm really glad mass transport and capitalism afford me the opportunity to effectively do that via chinese

but it'd be so much more satisfying if I could actually see them toiling

also, realization: political alignment is essentially a psychological issue.

Liberal: "Daddy is old and unhip! He doesn't even know who my favorite bands are! I'll try to do the aggressive opposite of everything he does on reflex"

Conservative: "Dad is not a perfect man, but things turned out well for him personally, so I'm sure there's a lot I can learn. I'll at least hear him out before trying to reinvent the wheel needlessly"

coincidentally, I'm 2/3 through That Hideous Strength

good book

@warkin AGREED. QUALITY LITERATURE.

Good description of the bureaucratic evil

IT SPREADS

LIKE AIDS

IN A BATHHOUSE

WITH INSUFFICIENTLY CLEAN WATER

SNEAKING INTO THE RECTUM

THROUGH FOAMING SUDS ON THE SURFACE

THEN TAKING OVER THE RANDOM CELLS

REPURPOSING THEM TO REPRODUCE IT

ANOTHER VICTIM SUBJUGATED

SODOMY OF THE DNA

Divisionists

@Deleted User 57835c2c and also adding on to the last thing you said

Or maybe liquifactionists

what you described as the liberal psychology

is essentially adolescence

whereas the conservative one is early adulthood

I keep trying to get this fagi paki @fallot to read naked lunch but he won't

I capitulated

I'll eventually read it

keep bugging me about it every month or so to avoid me forgetting

The mature adult psychology is vigilant citizen

"fuck you dad" -> "I guess dad had a point" -> "HAIL SATHANAS"

True

https://www.meetmetalheads.com

Google ads really has me figured out

damn look at those dogs though

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/40792818

the nerve of this motherfucker

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3175768&page=7

PIEGEL: Mr. Heredia, will you watch the 100 meter final in Beijing?

Heredia: Of course. But the winner will not be clean. Not even any of the contestants will be clean. (emphasis added)

SPIEGEL: Of eight runners

Heredia: eight will be doped.

SPIEGEL: There is no way to prove that.

Heredia: There is no doubt about it. The difference between 10.0 and 9.7 seconds is the drugs.

Ugly

lotta forehead

Lotta nigga

Last one is like an a Wyatt Mann comic

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7NDnww4jPL4 I had this chorus stuck in my head all day

THOSE ARE SOME AFRICAN HOTTIES

STILL UNAPPEALING

BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT MY TRIBE

SAME WAY IRISH GIRLS LOOK JUST A BIT ODD

AND RUSSIAN GIRLS LOOK ASIAN

CUTE JUST LIKE THESE BLACK LADIES

Most of those girls are hamites

Not tr00 blax

disgust

do you like Rigor Mortis @UOC

I'm not familiar

need to move you to Readers :O

what's Readers?

the role subgroup

I meant remove you from metal >:3

Oh haha

I'll listen to their stuff tomorrow.

I was listening to Serpent Ascending today

great record

I hope you mean Rigor Mortis @Death Strike's Bat

don't answer

let me hope

no ANANKU

:(

@UOC I'm afraid

you may like Ananku

and then we can't be friends anymore

tell me what you think anyway

I don't really have an opinion yet. I pulled it off DMU's recc but I don't think I like it as much as whoever wrote the review lol

But I only listened to the first half, and that lazily, so I have no judgment to cast

I think its garbage

not even 30 seconds of it are good

its one of those albums that tries very hard to look and sound like it should be good

but isn't at all

haha

I'll give it a thorough listen soon. rigor mortis tomorrow tho

it's a g rower

I've mostly been listening to classical stuff and some modern piano like Ryuchi Sakamoto and Library Tapes

Rigor Mortis s/t rules.

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the second female would look better than the first is their circumstances were reversed

that little goblin is creeping me out tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2REkk9SCRn0

prozak are we still going to this on date night

Niggers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrTQ2X8ssYw

I have prince albert

my woman bought me a pipe and that tobacco for my birthday

I gotta work on my pipe appeal

Im more of a cigar smoker myself but i did pick up a corncob pipe and this brand of tobacco SAIL.

I think a good bowl of tobacco is nicer when you don't have the time to sit through a stogie

I like cigars too but i find they take more commitment to a sesh than I usually have. I just end up smoking 1/3 and then never finishing it.

I should just get smaller cigars

but a friend of mine is a big cigar guy and is always giving me big fat ones

This immigration reform seems promising.

only mentioned white countries as places that they could potentially receive "merit based immigrants" from

link

link please*

he announce in on youtube, NBC

mmk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0dAjlszac0

Spencer was denouncing it for some reason, but I think it seems like good news

maybe he was thinking that it would bring in a bunch of Asians, forgeting that Asians have poor English generally

has Spencer actually put out any policy papers yet

not that I know of

HOWDY ALL

HOPE YOU ARE ALL SODOMIZING THE WEAK

THE WAR CONTINUES APACE HERE

@UOC I LIKE PRINCE ALBERT.

@charles watson this is a pretty decent proposal you're right

@Parasite NEVER SMOKED SAIL, BUT MANY LOVE IT

MAIN TECHNIQUE IS TO SMOKE AS SLOWLY AS POSSIBLE

AND DO NOT PACK TOO TIGHTLY

@charles watson SPENCER IS RIGHT TO PUSH TRUMP FURTHER RIGHT, BUT FOR NOW, THIS IS A BIG STEP

WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO ROLL STUFF BACK IN LAYERS

ALSO THE PINCER STRATEGY: REDUCE REWARDS, RAISE COSTS

yes, that's true, it does seem like his role to play

I don't have a problem with spencer pushing trump further right, I am just waiting for some actual far-right policy proposals. Mainstream think-tanks put out big white papers on all these policy proposals that provide the technical basis for regulatory or legislative action.

far-right won't gain much serious traction until it provides decision-makers with policy basis for implementing our principles

@fallot what was that cool website you linked me to with MB types MB types but each had been named and was kind moving toward a more archetypal approach?

i already ripped through the 50g pouch. I ran out about a week and a half ago. There was 2 other brands of tobacco at the cigar shop, Mr' B's and the other i can't remember the name of.

I think Mr. B's is a Canadian brand with at least 10 different blends and aromatics

I have to get a proper pipe though now, the corn cob pipe is just a bit too small

@UOC I AGREE TO A POINT, BUT KEEP IN MIND THIS: WORKING WITHIN BROKEN MECHANISMS MAKES BROKEN PLANS

MORE IMPORTANTLY, I THINK THE ALT RIGHT NEEDS SENSIBLE GOALS

THAT INCLUDE REMOVAL OF MODERNITY

THESE CAN BE CULTURAL, AS THIS HAS WORKED WELL SO FAR

@Parasite AGREED ON THE SMALL COBS

I LIKE A WIDER BOWL

IN CANADA, I AM NOT SURE WHAT THE SITUATION IS REGARDING PURCHASING OF PIPES

IT DEPENDS ON YOUR PRICE RANGE, BUT THERE ARE SOME GREAT ARTISANAL MAKERS

@charles watson THE ALT RIGHT WINS BY CONTINUALLY WIDENING THE WINDOW OF DISCOURSE

TRUMP HAS ALREADY GREATLY WIDENED IT BY SUGGESTING ANYTHING BUT INFINITE CENTRAL AMERICAN IMMIGRATION

@diversity_is_racism Agree generally. Policy is downstream of culture. Cultural front is most critical. But policy-nerds are best deployed by creating the technical foundation for policy that is made palatable by victory in the culture war.

Trump next policy proposal needs to be to sodomize the weak, and send their throbbing anus's to Mexico

"A Bill to Ensure the Endless Sodomization of the Weak"

"1.1 - DEFINITIONS:"

Other than preference, Is there any advantage to having long/short and straight/curved stems? @diversity_is_racism

I haven't found any difference between curved/straight but i think longer stems tend to give slightly cooler smoke and are slightly more prone to going out

Yeah i have used long straights and enjoyed the longer cooler draw

That is it though just the corn cob which is too short and burns too hot and the long straight which was a big improvement all around

I just had to dry my tobacco out a bit longer to get a good start in the long pipe

When are we gassing the Jews?

We already did that