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“Sir, I hate the amount of noise the fans make!”
“The fans keeping the city aloft?”
“Yes. I mean, obviously we need the to stay up in the air, I get that, but do I have to live right next door to one?”
“Have you noticed that there is nowhere in the city that doesn’t have some sort of mechanical gubbins geared towards keeping the city aloft?”
“Well…”
“So where would you like to live, because I can think of a terrific location about 15 feet that way.”
“…there’s nothing there.”
“I know.”
*curtain*
A small tableau of a day in the life of a flying city skypirate in Airborne Kingdom. I’ve lived it so you don’t have to.
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I love the idea of airborne city and managing it. Cool concept. And living on the edge , all the time. Exciting.
Whatever you do Colonel, do not forget the parachute. 🙂
Wise words, colonel. Strange how they are said at just the time I needed to hear them. 🙏
"Good things happen in the North." GoT begs your pardon. Also, hell of an outro.
43:20 I am crossing pollinating here: But herself might like to read/listen to 5,000 words per hour by Chris Fox. He also has a youtube channel (Chris Writes I think its called) where he sets out what he does block by block.
I am also a keen writer. And it is exactly that "headspace" thing I run into. Plus when I end up thinking/writing it, all I do is write flippin' ruddy world building stuff. Anyway, cross-pollination there.
He has helped me (chris) in writing better and with more gusto, so hopefully herself finds him and his video as useful.
Great outro O7 I agree
No doubt it's been percolating for more than a decade but it's all spilling out. One could hope that the better part of a year's isolation would cause people to be more introspective, but I'm afraid we're all still looking for answers from without rather than meanings from within. It takes courage.
Just picked this dried up at this video and this looks intriguing. Might have to pick this one up. Great work Colonel.
Happy new year Ulysses!
If you're afraid to butcher quotes, go for a short one, like;
" Yabba Dabba Doo " – Fred Flintstone (Alan Reed) by Hanna-Barbera (it meaning the end of work, does rather require a Back To Work t-shirt or something) or " I'll be back " – The Terminator by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd.
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Albert Einstein
And if you like Peter Pan, I'm sure you agree with this one;
“سنوات المراهقه في حياة كل انسان (وانسانه) هي سنوات ضائعه لا معنى لها مسروقة من الطفولة والرجولة معا.” Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi
Almost forgot the translation; " The teenage years in every human life are wasted, meaningless years stolen from childhood and adulthood together. "
22 minutes in, laughing so hard I was crying. love it! ♥
Nice tip of the hat to the late Dr. of Gonzo Journalism – When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro…
Very sound advice for anyone who is firmly entrenched in the mundane day-to-day grind of life
Happy New Year, Colonel!
I enjoyed the outro. I am also a fan of William Gibson. An author friend of mine and I were talking about that opener one day, and it dawned on us that for all my children (except maybe the oldest), it wouldn't mean a churning hazy gray. It would mean an unnatural blue.
Came for Airborne Kingdom, ended up with list of stuff to read…hehe
I knew a bunch of kids that couldn't wait to grow up and as adults they became a child's version of what a grown up should be.
I think the bombastic outro was better than the gameplay today!
very much enjoyed the outro, bravo
"People complaining about the fans that keep them alive" – The whole reason for game companies having community managers instead of doing it themselves.
The similarities to Kerbel Space Program are unsurprising.
"Oh great that makes me a community manager" you could feel the joy in that one 🙂
Dare I predict literary works being developed into video games in the future? Wuthering Heights Zombie Attack!
In my case as a child, my imagination was my safety
This game is gorgeous!
Best outro ever, Colonel. Thanks for putting it out there.
Not nearly as inspiring but one of my fav openings is from Stephenson's Seveneves: "The moon blew up suddenly and without warning."
"Thx for watching" the 48 min video is 28 minutes in 🤣
Thanks for the secret colonel 😉
I mean, if they're on about the fans, turn'em off for about ten seconds.
They'll suddenly become VERY appreciate, I think.
"That makes me a community manager"
Heh. There are some things you just can't escape from.
New favorite outro. Happy New Year, Colonel.
Coronel, the last part pf this video was not only generally eye opening, but inspiring to me. I had two jobs I lost and have been jobless for the last 3 or 4 mouth due to COVID-19. this truly was, the one thing warmed my heart for my personal future.
I appreciate you a lot sir.
Thank you.
My favorite opening, "Mandy came out of the all night Vurt-U-Want clutching a bag of goodies." Vurt by Jeff Noon
Colonel! You, yes you, should record audio books. Seriously! Somehow with adding your own "sauce"/ "pennies" to it. I would buy them, no joke.
Great outro – well worth it, Johnny, thank you!
Much better than that awful do it rant – this is a call to pens!
"Sir, I hate the amount of noise the fans make!"
"The fans keeping the city aloft?"
"Yes. I mean, obviously we need the to stay up in the air, I get that, but do I have to live right next door to one?"
"Have you noticed that there is nowhere in the city that doesn't have some sort of mechanical gubbins geared towards keeping the city aloft?"
"Well…"
"So where would you like to live, because I can think of a terrific location about 15 feet that way."
"…there's nothing there."
"I know."
curtain
The best "I know" I know of.
Lovely soliloquy at the end or maybe I should say monologue.