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Chapter 3 is a go

Rolf Hartmann February 9, 2018

Chapter 3 of Hero Worship is a go, with the setting established the plot starts picking up. You can skip to Chapter 3 in the document just by clicking on it in the contents. https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQPYZuKwnCJjObNzgVN_dRpz8ERn2ARIKwhrF64R0M1LLVy5FCXMu3fXrF4HDe7CGdLaOHgsuhfux0B/pub I should acknowledge some advice from my brother on this to make things more obvious because as much as some…

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Chapter 2 is live

Rolf Hartmann January 13, 2018

Hero Worship Chapter 2 is now up. This is more of a behind the scenes chapter of how the Supers in this setting are wrapped up in promotional and merchandising empires, but I'm proud of how funny a couple of scenes in particular turned out. A large part of my reasoning for some of this…

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Hero Worship Chapter One: As You Know Bob

Rolf Hartmann November 29, 2017

A satirical deconstruction of superhero stories, but unlike most I have seen this tries to look at the problems of what if people of such immense power had more common failings, and how that could easily lead to disaster.

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A Modern Moral Panic

Rolf Hartmann June 5, 2017

A point Douglas Murray commonly makes is that our society suffers from a shortage of real Nazis; because the radical left desperately wants to fight such a force of pure evil that would justify any action taken against it, but they so rarely can find any.  Either the last couple years has witnessed an amazing…

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Electing For Abusudity

Rolf Hartmann November 30, 2016

The recently ended US Presidential Election spelled the end of two political dynasties, and the political parties respective primaries while normally serving an important purpose ended up positing the two least likable candidates in recent history. The result was largely a side-show, yet it proved positively elemental in how it pit order vs chaos.

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For the Love of Audiobooks

Rolf Hartmann October 25, 2016

Trying to use my time more efficiently I have recently taken up using audiobooks and have already gotten sucked in.

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Lays of Ancient Rome

Rolf Hartmann September 30, 2016

I finally got around to reading the book a few weeks ago and suffice to say it did not disappoint. The whole project fascinates me as Thomas Babington Macaulay sought to recreat an approximation of the Roman tradition of epic poetry. These traditions existed in most cultures but almost invariably died out as the elites…

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Tact vs Honesty

Rolf Hartmann September 24, 2016

In a recent speech by Donald Trump he claimed that he takes flak for too much honesty, while complaining that Hillary Clinton was too deceptive. Unfortunately things have gotten to a point where bluntness and getting into people's faces has become equated with honesty while manners and thoughtfulness get associated with deception. This has mainly…

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Removing the Barnacles

Rolf Hartmann September 13, 2016

Several weeks ago I graduated from infantry school and at it a Sergeant (actually a Sergeant First Class or SFC) Black mentioned an ancient quote: "Of ever hundred men ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are doughty fighters and we're lucky to have them for they make the battle, but one is the warrior…

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Insanity over an Insane Character

Rolf Hartmann August 10, 2016

There's a bunch of moronic drivel about the Harley-Joker relationship thanks to the release of Suicide Squad and its beyond ridiculous, especially considering she's possibly the most popular comics character to come out of the 90's (the only rival is Deadpool). Her merchandise usually outsells even many of the characters considered iconic to the genre.…

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