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5 thoughts on “537 – Kooky And Spooky”

  1. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    Obligatory William Gibson reference for the excellent novel “Spook Country”. I’ve read it fourteen times and still find something new each time – the man does not waste a word. No, not crazy at all.

  2. Clint

    Hurray, people in the comments can have names again (if they choose to)!

  3. Evervigilant

    Yay for names! I love the pun as he takes the offered drink.

  4. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    …Just for a moment, like a mirage … ” And when I turned the headlights on,
    Just for a minute I thought I saw the both of us
    On some kinda tropical island someplace
    Walkin’ down a white sandy beach eatin’ something…”

    1. Wyrmlaf

      Nice Stan Ridgeway reference

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537 – Kooky And Spooky
Posted on November 20, 2024 by Dawn
How 'bout them spook stories now, Chuck?   Comments update: We seem to have fixed the issue of being able to add your name when leaving a comment. So you should be able to be anonymous or just leave a name when you comment.

I nearly had to kick myself…

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Clint
Hey, our Kickstarter finally launched! A little later than I originally planned, but it’s live and, er… kicking… Anyhow, remember some time back when I bragged about how Volume 2 was going to be so much easier to put together because I’d learned my lessons from the first time around and this time all the issues in it were 24 pages long? No? Good. I probably shouldn’t have brought it up, huh? Well, funny story… last week we’re on the very cusp of hitting the launch button, when some gut feeling has me go through the pages again and — oh hey, Episode 15 was 28 pages. Oh. So wait, that means the 200 page book I calculated for was now looking at 196 pages of content rather than 192, and here’s the hilarious thing, that doesn’t include the covers. No room for an interior title page or introduction, and most importantly no room for the Special Thanks page where we promised to put the names of our higher-tier backers. And this is why you always double check your math before going live. Adding some more pages to the printing quote turned out to not be catastrophic, and in terms of the campaign itself just meant putting that little tilde squiggle (you know, this guy: ~) in front of 200 so that it was an approximation instead of a confident absolute. Honestly I doubt anyone would have thrown a fit over their final book having a few extra pages than indicated (less pages would be another matter). But still, it would have felt embarrassing to me to edit after the fact, and especially in regards to some stupid counting error on my part. Maybe I’m the bizarre one for getting worked up about accuracy like that in the wild and woolly world of crowdfunding where creators have been known to pull all kinds of Darth Vaderesque “alterings of the deal” up to and including just running off with all the money people entrusted to them.  But then again all those horror stories are such that I think it’s really important for us to be honest and on the level as much as possible, even with the little things.