See that immediately made me think of a South Park episode where Randy Marsh and Mickey Mouse started the covid pandemic, after a shady interaction with a bat/prostitute in Wuhan...
Smh. Definitely written in another language and translated by someone where English is their second or third language. You should be getting a cut of every unit sold.
Grew up with a wood stove in a dilapidated trailer and I am endlessly entertained by tending a fire. Go to my best good friends Dads house and tend the stove/fireplace regularly. His Dad installed a furnace years ago but never uses it because hes scared it will burn the house down. But a log rolling out of the giant stone fireplace he built is of little concern. We get used to the ways we do things and ignore the rest.
How do you feel about mickey mouse owning that old piece of you?
(shrug) But in 2019 when I was pitching an anthology series to streaming my first pitch was to Hulu. They loved the concept but said, "In two weeks Disney will be buying us, and we don't think Disney will go for it." So... it sold to Apple.
Some are very protective of what they create. Believe that the value is in cresting the next thing. What is this Anthology and why do I not know about it?
Apple bought a couple scripts and didn't go into production because anthology programs tanked. Lately it's come back to life so you might yet see it. Short stories about how people tried to do good deeds but inadvertently destroyed others.
I would absolutely love this. Obsessed with the idea of good intentions being worth shit if you dont execute. I am also very adverse toward anyone trying to force "help" upon me, but theyre actually just making things more complicated.
The world is so corrupt. Is it so hard to leave a good thing alone? That being said-I miss my Intel-O-Vision. And pinball...Looking forward to the new book...(Hope I'm done with Pygmy by then...)
Sounds like you have the perfect editor. I'm giddy for you!
I just read possibly the best editor compliment I've ever heard. From the Acknowledgements section of Stephen Graham Jones' My Heart is a Chainsaw: "...he did what good editors do: he crawled inside the story, looked around at what it was trying to do, and offered up a list of ways it could do that better." I love that so much!
To Disney, No thank you. As much as I love gaming, if Chuck himself not involved directly, I'm not buying, not for one cent.
And hey! The pinball era was legendary. I caught bits of it when young. Don't know about you, but did you use the old crooked coin trick to by pass pinball machines? And play for less the price? Here it was 1dh = equivalent to 0.10 usd. We'd get the 0.25dh coin, same shape but was a few mm thicker. Then we'd need a pointy rock and flatten it well to trick the machine into thinking its a 1dh coin. It always worked, got caught a few times, but was worth it.
Wow. Now that’s a weird find! It must be a strange feeling to see your work be successful in decades to come, yet also see it monetized and manipulated in ways you can’t control.
Look what I did to Michael. Can't write about the bathrobe without violating his privacy but I sure as hell can tell you...........and it's beyond awesome and was almost an exact decade in the making.
Thanks for warning about pulling down the old version. I finished it this morning, and reread the first chapters to savour how every element was set up right from the beginning.
Sorry Chuck, I've got to say "Um Actually" on this.
The developer is "Cooking and Publishing." A tiny developer based in Spain. The CEO is Jordi Llordes Morell.
The company's website is currently down, but based off some of their other titles, I seriously doubt they had any contact with Disney.
And Disney is so protective of their IPs Sakurai had to scrub all Disney character motifs when introducing extra content from Kingdom Hearts (a disney/square enix game) into Super Smash Brothers Ultimate.
Unfortunately, I think they changed enough things to not need rights from Disney. (I'm not sure. This sounds like a question for Chelsea's husband) Kind of like a Kellog's Cheerio's cereal vs Generic's Grain Circles type situation.
Speaking of video games, I read on a Wikipedia page that you did some writing for Manhunt 2. Do you remember doing that, Chuck? I loved playing the first one. One of the most brutal games I've ever played.
What? Not that I know of. Someone might've licensed a line from a book, but that's about it. Like when Dodge wanted to mention Fight Club in a pick-up truck commercial... I made $5000!
Seriously? It's even on your personal Wikipedia page. "Palahniuk helped write some of the video game Manhunt 2 in his freelance writing in 2007."
But basically Manhunt was a video game for the Playstation 2 and it was about this prisoner on death row forced to participate in a snuff film. You had to sneak around different levels, executing gang members while surveillance cameras recorded you. The more brutal, the more stars you earned for each level.
The game I'm currently playing is Sims 3. I'm sure you've heard of Sims. My character is named Joanna and she is an author. Most of her life consist of eating, sleeping, playing computer games, and writing the next book. No friends, no family. I specifically gave her the "Loner" perk which means you get a mood boost when she's alone. The other perks are Perfectionist and Bookworm which book help her write better books. She has written 20 best-sellers, most of them in the Romance genre. I've had her complete so many novels that her royalty checks every Sunday are 40,000 simoleons. If only Sims were like real life...but not really lol
There is a Fight Club game for the PS2. I thought you were referring to the games made directly off the movie license right around when the movie came out. It is surprising that they used fight club to make a shovelware game. Most video games made off of movies are pretty bad so I guess the shovelware movie game would be extra bad.
So it can be traced back to Disney, huh? The root of all evil.
“The first rule of Mickey Mouse club house. . .”
The big media monopolies Chompsky always talks about.
See that immediately made me think of a South Park episode where Randy Marsh and Mickey Mouse started the covid pandemic, after a shady interaction with a bat/prostitute in Wuhan...
Smh. Definitely written in another language and translated by someone where English is their second or third language. You should be getting a cut of every unit sold.
Grew up with a wood stove in a dilapidated trailer and I am endlessly entertained by tending a fire. Go to my best good friends Dads house and tend the stove/fireplace regularly. His Dad installed a furnace years ago but never uses it because hes scared it will burn the house down. But a log rolling out of the giant stone fireplace he built is of little concern. We get used to the ways we do things and ignore the rest.
How do you feel about mickey mouse owning that old piece of you?
(shrug) But in 2019 when I was pitching an anthology series to streaming my first pitch was to Hulu. They loved the concept but said, "In two weeks Disney will be buying us, and we don't think Disney will go for it." So... it sold to Apple.
Some are very protective of what they create. Believe that the value is in cresting the next thing. What is this Anthology and why do I not know about it?
Apple bought a couple scripts and didn't go into production because anthology programs tanked. Lately it's come back to life so you might yet see it. Short stories about how people tried to do good deeds but inadvertently destroyed others.
I would absolutely love this. Obsessed with the idea of good intentions being worth shit if you dont execute. I am also very adverse toward anyone trying to force "help" upon me, but theyre actually just making things more complicated.
The world is so corrupt. Is it so hard to leave a good thing alone? That being said-I miss my Intel-O-Vision. And pinball...Looking forward to the new book...(Hope I'm done with Pygmy by then...)
Sounds like you have the perfect editor. I'm giddy for you!
I just read possibly the best editor compliment I've ever heard. From the Acknowledgements section of Stephen Graham Jones' My Heart is a Chainsaw: "...he did what good editors do: he crawled inside the story, looked around at what it was trying to do, and offered up a list of ways it could do that better." I love that so much!
Finding an editor who pushes you to do more damage to your characters is like winning the lottery! How exciting!
To Disney, No thank you. As much as I love gaming, if Chuck himself not involved directly, I'm not buying, not for one cent.
And hey! The pinball era was legendary. I caught bits of it when young. Don't know about you, but did you use the old crooked coin trick to by pass pinball machines? And play for less the price? Here it was 1dh = equivalent to 0.10 usd. We'd get the 0.25dh coin, same shape but was a few mm thicker. Then we'd need a pointy rock and flatten it well to trick the machine into thinking its a 1dh coin. It always worked, got caught a few times, but was worth it.
Wow. Now that’s a weird find! It must be a strange feeling to see your work be successful in decades to come, yet also see it monetized and manipulated in ways you can’t control.
Sitting by the wood stove editing sounds so dreamy
I got coal in the boiler.......
Payback is a bitch named Karie Anne
Look what I did to Michael. Can't write about the bathrobe without violating his privacy but I sure as hell can tell you...........and it's beyond awesome and was almost an exact decade in the making.
I will get you back, someday, somehow........ 😆
P.S. Just discovered it's 48 degrees and I should have been using wood. I shut it down before I blow the house lol
Thanks for warning about pulling down the old version. I finished it this morning, and reread the first chapters to savour how every element was set up right from the beginning.
Sorry Chuck, I've got to say "Um Actually" on this.
The developer is "Cooking and Publishing." A tiny developer based in Spain. The CEO is Jordi Llordes Morell.
The company's website is currently down, but based off some of their other titles, I seriously doubt they had any contact with Disney.
And Disney is so protective of their IPs Sakurai had to scrub all Disney character motifs when introducing extra content from Kingdom Hearts (a disney/square enix game) into Super Smash Brothers Ultimate.
Wah?! You're saying this is illegal? Disney does hold the licensing rights.
Unfortunately, I think they changed enough things to not need rights from Disney. (I'm not sure. This sounds like a question for Chelsea's husband) Kind of like a Kellog's Cheerio's cereal vs Generic's Grain Circles type situation.
It's not Tyler Durden, it's Dyler Turden.
(shrug) Disney owns the typeface.
Really?!
Unfortunately, the only way we'll know for sure is to buy the game, beat it, and watch the ending credits, because I can't find them otherwise.
Speaking of video games, I read on a Wikipedia page that you did some writing for Manhunt 2. Do you remember doing that, Chuck? I loved playing the first one. One of the most brutal games I've ever played.
What? Not that I know of. Someone might've licensed a line from a book, but that's about it. Like when Dodge wanted to mention Fight Club in a pick-up truck commercial... I made $5000!
But I don't even know what Manhunt is.
Seriously? It's even on your personal Wikipedia page. "Palahniuk helped write some of the video game Manhunt 2 in his freelance writing in 2007."
But basically Manhunt was a video game for the Playstation 2 and it was about this prisoner on death row forced to participate in a snuff film. You had to sneak around different levels, executing gang members while surveillance cameras recorded you. The more brutal, the more stars you earned for each level.
The game I'm currently playing is Sims 3. I'm sure you've heard of Sims. My character is named Joanna and she is an author. Most of her life consist of eating, sleeping, playing computer games, and writing the next book. No friends, no family. I specifically gave her the "Loner" perk which means you get a mood boost when she's alone. The other perks are Perfectionist and Bookworm which book help her write better books. She has written 20 best-sellers, most of them in the Romance genre. I've had her complete so many novels that her royalty checks every Sunday are 40,000 simoleons. If only Sims were like real life...but not really lol
There is a Fight Club game for the PS2. I thought you were referring to the games made directly off the movie license right around when the movie came out. It is surprising that they used fight club to make a shovelware game. Most video games made off of movies are pretty bad so I guess the shovelware movie game would be extra bad.
Woodstoves & editing. How lovely ❤.
Very.