less than two months after release, highguard is shutting down. the usual suspects are chalking up its demise to culture war nonsense when the truth is more mundane: mismanagement sank another project. the video game industry punishes success and failure alike, but hubris most of all
04.03.2026 02:36 — 👍 363 🔁 66 💬 8 📌 5I'm using Bluehost to host the Wordpress setup for me. I think it's like $15 a month + I paid something upfront for the domain and renewal. I believe the something up front was a few hundred but that's because I paid for like 4 or 5 years in advance.
03.03.2026 19:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!
03.03.2026 18:16 — 👍 503 🔁 335 💬 104 📌 4Yay! I'm glad you had some progress and that you're getting some encouraging changes.
03.03.2026 18:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh yay! Congratulations!
03.03.2026 18:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OH YAY! Happy birthday!
03.03.2026 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I actually got the print editions of Clarksworld precisely because it makes me excited to see my friends work in paper!
...I just googled it and was about to be like
WELL THANKS JOHN. I'MA TOTALLY SLEEP WELL TONIGHT.
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02.03.2026 04:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome... FOUND IT!
01.03.2026 17:11 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
That necklace is so pretty!
Your selfie game is always impeccable.
I appreciate you checking, but no that isn't it. This was much more dance / trance / EDM.
Thank you though!
But like. Google is worthless now and when I only *kinda* know the lyrics and I don't remember the artist Spotify is like
"Uh. Did you mean Lord Huron?"
No no I do not.
"Tonight we meet our dest-in-y
and touch
the sky."
Or something like that. It's all humanity meeting aliens going to be great.
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER WTF THIS ALBUM / ARTIST IS? IS THIS RINGING ANY BELLS? I'm going NUTS here.
Okay internet. I BESEECH YOU. Especially folks like @runningboard7.bsky.social. I have a music query.
There was a mid-oughts dance / trance / electronica album that was basically all about UFOs and lights in the sky. One of the songs had lyrics roughly like...
Fuck AI with a bag of rusty dicks. Now some dip shit wants AI to "handwrite" letters for you? In Your Handwriting? AND YOUR SIGNATURE?!?
Burn it down.
Burn it all down.
You show that Terra what for.
24.02.2026 18:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Oh no!
I hope they pass swiftly.
I'm so sorry. I was hoping to bump into you at a con and put a name with a face!
24.02.2026 18:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Could we just have healthcare instead of digital necromancy?
Tech bros will incinerate billions to talk to their dead Grandma instead of going to therapy and accepting mortality.
Ooooooo but okay. Honeycomb Storage Wall are just soooo satisfying.
24.02.2026 18:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SPACE TRAIIIINNSSSS
24.02.2026 03:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
END
TO
END
TRAAANNNSSSFORRRRMAAAATI ope nvm.
A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone
I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…
24.02.2026 01:17 — 👍 9146 🔁 2137 💬 52 📌 59Be safe.
22.02.2026 23:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I hope it somehow fills the hollowness inside. They'll scream louder and louder how creative they are to try and plaster over it, because inside they know deep down what they've made is not really Satisfactory because it came without struggle.
22.02.2026 18:18 — 👍 31 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Do you expect me to bow down to you and your awesome writing skilz that you wrote 200 books in one year?
Nah numb nuts because YOU DIDN'T WRITE THEM. You just entered into the options menu and said "Give me 200 books please" without actually doing shit for it.
To steal a line from my book (which see, I remember inside and out, because I wrote the damn thing myself front to back many times with MUCH struggle):
They want all of the pomp without any of the circumstance of actual creation.
And it might be a videogame but dammit if that isn't true for art.
GenAI bros are the ones who just want to type in a prompt and boop, out comes a factory. The wussies don't want to actually face the overwhelm of *making* something.
They want the product, not the process.
