Thursday, January 28, 2021

Has FacetuBe Really Had Enough of My Crap?

Today I posted to friend on the FacetuBe that I get into heated political debates with for fun, "Ted Cruz is a Canadian bitch."  I then got busy elsewhere on line where real events happen. About an hour later, I went back to the F-tuBe and found out I couldn't post for three days.
From there, I went on to review my permanent record, it really should be called The FaceBook Permanent Record because it is a record kept by buildings, well apartments these days, keeping track of my comments, at least those that are complained upon. While I am muddling along as an average person in life, I look like a pure libertine over the past year online.

Why is your account restricted?
Multiple posts from the last year didn't follow our standards.
OPEN · Jan 28, 2021
Your comment didn't follow our Community Standards on hate speech
CLOSED · May 31, 2020
Your comment didn't follow our Community Standards on hate speech
CLOSED · May 13, 2020
Your post didn't follow our Community Standards on nudity or sexual activity

When I am not preaching genocide against Canadians, I am showing my nipples and penis to everybody it seems.
This record seems to only go back a year. That is unfortunate. I remembering being asked weird questions by anonymous people representing themselves as "Facebook representatives" about whether my real name was "Thom K Wankum" or not. I didn't reply because they knew it wasn't because they were speaking to my direct Facetube account where my real name is seen by those knowing how to read and use Windows. I want those infractions listed as well.

Now do I think FacetuBe has gone too far this time? Naw, they didn't really do anything except respond to somebody's complaint about me. They're a private company and should be able to do what they like, unless they are receiving federal funds to defer significant expenses on their routine business conduct.



I can take three days here and there. I am not getting anybody killed-- despite of course I want to see all of Canada a radioactive wasteland-- though. So can we make the last President's account disabled for a decade or so?

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Ever Working on Spacers

 So you probably already know when it comes to my sci-fi RPG fix, there are fixes as I am complete space junky. There are so many good rocketship S-F RPG pieces out there anymore that I almost feel like I could craft my campaigns without writing a single note for myself. Well, that isn't happening though. So this year, I am scribbling notes and doodles about too settings called Big Space and Far Star.

I am currently all excited about "Big Space" is set in what I call my "War Star" subgenre of SF. Starships are often gunboats and the interactions of various interstellar resemble international politics of our near history. But I am not going to focus too much on the politics, but instead do my take on the organization of spacers within those fleets and diplomatic corps. Yes, another take on Star Trek with its serial numbers scrubbed off. As I have volumes of notes on alien species and differing sectors, there will plenty of rocket opera milieu for those that like reading and even playing in it. Many of the aliens will be recognizable many TV shows and S-F movie franchises-- the work is influenced by ST not wholly derivative. The tone is what makes the setting. It is that pseudo-science stuff where rocket fantasy works best, not bleeding over into the swords and laser gun sphere fantasy of say Star Wars

Here's the introduction that I am working on, after typing up ten pages elsewhere:
"When faster-than-light travel is a given and time dilation not even an afterthought, your part of the galaxy is territory that needs to be protected in three dimensions rather than two. Even the most diplomatic-leaning and scientific-minded interstellar ships, or “starships” for short, are potential gunboats just waiting to happen at any given encounter with alien species.
Players will be sent on missions that may last for years, exploring and discovering places unknown to the planet that is their home,“homeworld” if you will. Luckily the insides of their interstellar vessels are as comfortable as stages at TV show production facilities. Most of the worlds encountered are more like the hills of southern California or at worse rock quarries outside of Toronto Canada, where casual wear and maybe coats are needed more often than space suits..."

But the work will be distinct enough for the Spacers campaign. So once again, here goes the typing.