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In this week's episode, we look at five ways writers can avoid the self-destructive mindset trap of "comparisonitis", and five ways that comparing oneself to other writers can be useful. Once again it is time for Coupon of the Week! This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Cloak of Wolves, Book #2 in the Cloak Mage series, (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) at my Payhip store: WOLVES50 The coupon code is valid through August 5th, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook this summer, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 259 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is July 11th, 2025, and today we are looking at why comparing yourself to other writers is a bad idea. Before that, we will do Coupon of the Week and have an update on my current writing progress. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Cloak of Wolves, Book #2 in the Cloak Mage series (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) at my Payhip store, and that is WOLVES50. This coupon code is valid through August 5th, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook to listen to during your travels this summer, we have got you covered. Now let's have an update on my current writing projects. I'm pleased to report that Shield of Power is 100% done, completing the Shield War series. You can get Shield of Power at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Apple Books, Smashwords and my own Payhip store. It's been selling briskly and it's gotten good reviews so far, so thank you very much to everyone who has bought and enjoyed the book. Now that Shield of Power is done, the first third of my Super Summer of Finishing Things is complete. So what's next? My next main project is Stealth and Spells Online: Final Quest. It was originally going to be named Reactant, but I changed the title to Final Quest to emphasize really and truly and definitively that this is the final book in the trilogy. In fact, I'm already done with the rough draft and I am done with the first phase of editing it as of this recording. If you've been listening to the podcast for a long time, you know how I frequently say that if you keep chipping away the novel over a long enough time, sooner or later you'll finish it. That is exactly what happened here. Since October of 2024, I've been writing 500 words a day on Final Quest, and this piled up over time enough so that after Shield of Power came out, I only had 3,000 more words to write to finish Final Quest, and I did that in an afternoon. One more phase of editing on that and then I would like to have Stealth and Spells Online: Final Quest out before July 22nd, if all goes well. I'm also 21,000 words into Ghost in the Siege, which will be my main project once Final Quest is finished. Ghost in the Siege will be the sixth and final book in the Ghost Armor series and will hopefully cap off my Super Summer of Finishing Things. In audiobook news, Shield of Battle (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) is now out. You can get it at Audible, Amazon, Apple, and Google Play as of this recording. Because of some difficulties with Findaway Voices, it's going to take a little bit longer to get into the other stores, but I'm working on a way to do that and as I mentioned before, Ghost in the Corruption (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy ) is done and just has to finish processing on the various stores, and so hopefully that should be out before too much longer. So that's where I'm at with my current writing and audiobook projects. 00:02:52 Main Topic: Comparison Now let's move right on to our main topic, The Dangers of Comparison. In Episode 257, we started a series on mindset for writers. In some of the previous series I've talked about some of the practical ways to help with distractions, procrastination, and managing time wasters. In this series, we're going to focus on things that derail writers from a mindset perspective because as we know with any endeavor in life, mindset is something like three quarters of the battle where if you convince yourself that you're going to fail before you start, you're probably going to fail. So that's why it's important to have an appropriate mindset to the task at hand. Today we're going to focus on comparing yourself to others, and I will share five reasons it's not a great idea to compare yourself to others aimlessly and how to shift your focus to five more constructive ways to compare your work to other authors. Comparisons are a constant of the reading world. Librarians and Goodreads reviewers talk constantly about “readalikes” or finding books that have similar themes or settings. Book displays and shops and libraries love to group similar books or authors together. People look at the bestseller lists like they're sports scores. Dollar amounts in publishing deals are a constant source of gossip and jealousy. Sometimes comparison is useful, especially when creating ads or finding the right demographics to market to. Other times, it can lead to limiting or self-destructive thoughts. So let's start off with five reasons not to compare yourself to others. #1: It can limit you creatively. It can be easy to look at the bestseller list and try to think of ways to write a similar book. Following publishing trends keeps you from your most creative work and frankly isn't as enjoyable to write and most likely for your readers to read. Also, unless you're a fast writer, the publishing world might have moved on by the time you finished that book. In fact, I just saw a thread on social media about that where the commenter was bemoaning the fact that she used to enjoy what's now called cozy fantasy, but that as the genre has evolved, it's developed established tropes and the writers of it are not willing to variate from those tropes. So you have what she said in her words were dozens of clones of Lattes and Legends and Bookshops and Bone Dusts floating around, which is a tricky thread to balance, I do admit, because you want something that'll appeal to the reader, but then the readers like familiarity. What they really seem to like is familiarity presented to them in a way they've never seen before, which can be a challenge when you are trying to look at the bestseller list and limit yourself creatively. #2: What other people are doing is out of your control. You can't control if a book you think isn't as good as yours is suddenly the runaway hit of the year or an author who isn't experienced as you suddenly gets a movie deal. You can't control their success, so don't worry about it or get upset by it. You can control if you're wasting time online mocking those people or complaining about it, for example. That's a waste of your time and energy and doesn't actually make you feel better in the long run (and possibly in the short run as well). I believe in psychology and in military theory for that matter, there's something called the locus of control where you identify the things that you can control and then you drill in and focus in on the things you can control rather than worrying about the things you can't control. As we said, if an author who wrote a book you don't think is very good or you don't personally like has had a massive amount of success, there's nothing you can do about that and worrying about it is a waste of time and comparing yourself to that writer is also a waste of time. So that's why it's a better idea to focus in on what you can control. #3: You're not being fair to yourself. Comparing yourself to other authors, especially as an aspiring or new author, isn't being fair to yourself. They have years (if not decades) of experience that you don't have. It's like comparing yourself to an ultra-marathoner when you're someone who's just starting to jog and struggling to get all the way around the block, which is some of the tricky parts of someone like me giving advice to new writers because Shield of Power was my 163rd book and Stealth and Spells Online: Final Quest will be my 164th. I've been doing this for a long time, which means I probably know what I'm talking about, but that not everything I do is immediately reproducible by someone who hasn't been doing it as long as I have. If you're writing something that's not as marketable or in a smaller genre, it's not fair to compare yourself to people in the biggest genre or even your own previous work. For example, I can't compare the amount one of my technical books earns to one of my fantasy books. If I did that, it'd be a disappointment. But in reality, my technical books have had steady success and have even been used as textbooks at times (which is always surprising when I discovered that's happened because my Windows Command Line book and my Linux Command Line book have both been used as textbooks at various times, which was a surprise to me because that's not what I expected when I set out to write them, but I'm glad that they've been able to be useful for people). #4: And point number four, which I think is a really important one, someone's online life is only the highlight reel of someone's actual life. Looking at someone's social media accounts isn't a great way to know what they're actually doing or how they're actually doing. Just because they're posting pictures of tropical vacations, speaking at conferences, or showing off shiny new stuff doesn't mean you're seeing the full picture of how they're actually doing. As I said in a recent episode that when I was applying for disability insurance (just in case I need it someday), I learned that writers are actually one of the hardest professions to insure due to their high rates of mental illness and substance abuse. You might see the good stuff, but they might not be posting the challenges that come with their success: increased stress and anxiety, more criticism, the need to hire people and how much time it takes to manage them, more complicated taxes, increased business expenses, and relationship problems from the demands of success. These are all things that can accompany success. You're not getting the whole picture. You need to keep that in mind when you compare yourself to people online. The best fictional example out of this that applies to so many situations is Lord Denethor and the Palantir from Return of the King. If you read the book, Denethor has been using the Palantir for years to spy on Sauron and give advantages to his forces and the soldiers of Gondor. But Sauron is able to manipulate what Denethor sees in the Palantir and has been gradually using this to create an edited version of what Denethor sees in the Palantir, and that drives Denethor to despair and eventual suicide. People talk about the increased rates of mental illness related to social media. Sauron did that deliberately to Denethor through the Palantir. It's a sign of how good J.R.R. Tolkien was a writer that he managed to anticipate the effects that Facebook would have on some people by like 60 years. So always bear that in mind when you're looking at someone online and feeling jealous of them. You are not getting the whole picture and there are more than likely things going on that are difficulties in their life that they just don't talk about. #5: Your time is better spent writing than comparing yourself to other writers. And this is back to our old friend, the locus of control. Looking at other authors' sales ranks and reviews is not a productive use of your time. As I mentioned in the writing adjacent activities series, you need to be purposeful in non-writing tasks that take up your time and make sure you're not pretending they're writing related. If you need to compare sales ranks or some other data point with other authors or something you're actively working on like ad targeting, schedule that time and don't let it turn into an Internet spiral of time wasting. And now to avoid those Internet spirals of time wasting, here are five ways to use comparisons positively and constructively. #1: Number one, getting keywords or demographics for marketing purposes. For sites like BookBub or when creating keyword ads, knowing authors who are similar to you is incredibly helpful and can help you structure your ads. And this doesn't even necessarily require you to read the other author's books to see if they actually compare. There are tools that let you expedite this process. For example, if you look on Amazon at the Also Boughts, you can scroll through some of that and see which other authors and which other books people have bought in addition to your own and then you can test using those for keyword targeting. On Goodreads, people put books in lists or compare books. You can use that data to generate keywords for ad targeting. You can test them very easily. With BookBub ads in particular, if you build a campaign around just a single author and keywords and test the results. You can quickly see whether a specific author generates an appropriate click-through rate for you to use or not. #2: A second way is to find authors you might want to do a promo with. Some authors, especially in the romance genre, do really well with group promotions. Finding other authors that write similar books and are at a similar level of success may be a way to take advantage of that. I've never actually set up a group promo, but I have participated in several of them from time to time with pretty good results. #3: A third way is to better understand reader preferences in a genre. My best story for this is I've gone through six different variations of cover design for the Silent Order series. When I started out, I was using GIMP and stock photo images. GIMP is the free Linux version of Photoshop essentially. After I learned Photoshop, I upgraded to characters on the covers, but they never quite sold quite as well until finally I saw a Penny Arcade comic where they were commenting how they just want to buy books where they have spaceships in close proximity to planets on the covers. And I thought, huh, that makes a lot of sense. So I redesigned all the covers to have a spaceship in close proximity to a planet, and the series immediately started selling a fair bit better with those covers. I would say that was not so much a comparison thing, just a genre preference I stumbled across and then had sort of the moment of enlightenment that I did. But if I had looked at the bestseller list for various science fiction categories, I would have realized that most of the bestsellers had spaceships and planets in close proximity to each other on the cover. So I redesigned all the covers. It was just that I was too fond of the character based covers to give them up until I had that moment of revelation. So all the main books in the series were redesigned to have the spaceship covers, though for the free short stories, I did keep the character covers just because I was giving away the free short stories and I did like the character covers, so I got to have my cake and eat it too, which was nice. #4: Learn from the successes and failures of others. You can learn from what another author does well. For example, Brandon Sanderson is very good at communicating his writing progress and other updates to his fans through weekly video messages on YouTube. Other authors are good at collaborating with other authors, while others make engaging and funny videos that make people more interested in their work. Knowing your own strengths is an important first step. If you're just trying to follow everyone who is a success without first reflecting on that, you'll chase too many options and then can't excel at any of them. You can also learn from when an author responds poorly and how the Internet reacts to it. Understandably, I'm not going to give specific examples here. For myself, I tend to focus on what I do best, which is writing really fast and doing social media updates. I never got into video because I kind of have a face for radio and I just don't enjoy doing video. I don't enjoy editing them. It's a lot of work that I don't really enjoy, so I don't do it. #5: Being informed makes comparisons less emotional. Knowing, for example, that an author was hired to write a book based on an existing outline created by the publisher, and then promised a future book deal with a big marketing budget in a preferred genre as part of the contract makes their cross-genre success seem less surprising and makes you feel less guilty for not being able to do the same on your own as an indie author. It's not a fair comparison because they have advantages that you can't understand without some industry knowledge. For people that compare themselves to me, for example, they should know that I've been writing since I was a teenager a very long time ago. I was an early adopter of self-publishing when it was less competitive and I usually work more than eight hours a day and I generally keep to a very rigid writing schedule. Some authors like me were able to get the rights back to their earlier published works and then self-publish them early on in order to finish a series, which is much less likely to be an option in a contract for a traditionally published author now. If you're just starting out, travel frequently for work, and only have an hour a day to write (and even that is dicey because your partner would rather you spend that time on some other activity because they don't support your writing), you can't possibly compare your writing output to mine. Knowing all this about me explains why it might be harder for you and why you shouldn't feel bad about having a harder time with writing. Comparison has been called “The Thief of Joy” all over social media for many years. That can definitely be true, but like so many things in life, how you respond to something and find ways to help it make you stronger is what really matters. Comparison has its place in the writing world, but it's important to keep it in perspective and not to let it overwhelm you emotionally or keep you from your writing goals or plans. So that is it for talking about comparison. I hope that was helpful and offered some useful tips on how to avoid the trap of comparison-itis. So that's it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

Matías is part of a successful Kickstarter campaign, and I've written myself into a seven-year long term of service with the residents of Minnesota. We get into the financial weeds a little bit, discussing a few different ways to get funding for small projects.  More Twin Portals video content (including this episode) will be up on YouTube very shortly! --- "Twin Portals" is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. --- The title song, "Avernum," used with permission, and thanks to Leeland Campana of Star Wolf. --- Join the SWOJ crew on Discord here! --- Scott Hebert is a fiscal year 2025 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. --- Content Inquiries: twinportalsgame@gmail.com Business Inquiries: scootalongproductions@gmail.com From Scott:  D&D and Politics with Brennan Lee Mulligan - The 90 minute conversation we reference at the start. Arrowhead Regional Arts Council | Artist and Arts Organization Grants - The arts council serving northeast Minnesota. Minnesota State Arts Board - The arts board serving all of Minnesota. Springboard For The Arts - A Minnesota non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of artists. ExcaliburCon 2025 - August 16th-17th ---  From Matías: here it is, in the form of a large-ish text dump: Resources for people interested in crowdfunding: Kicktraq - https://kicktraq.com/ - Look up every crowdfunding campaign ever and its stats/progress: The Crowdfunding Nerds podcast: https://crowdfundingnerds.com/episodes/ The Game Design Roundtable podcast: https://thegamedesignroundtable.com/ The Think Like a Game Designer podcast: https://www.thinklikeagamedesigner.com/podcast Reddit! Some subreddits in particular: r/DestroyMyGame r/gameassets r/gamedev r/INAT r/IndieDev Many social media groups, small and large, across all of the platform, dedicated to networking and sharing your work. Free and inexpensive/useful tools: Canva, GIMP, Free Stock/Creative Commons image websites, DaVinci Resolve, OBS, Tabletop Simulator Outsourcing for small tasks: Fiverr, Upwork, r/INAT Free assets and resource packs for creators: Lots of them on itch.io. OpenGameArt.org. DMs Guild. The Custom Commands discord bot, for supplementing a community server - easy and flexible scripting. Essentially, identify where your target backers might hang out, and announce your project in any acceptable forum where those people would hang out. Leading up to and during a crowdfunding campaign, look for other upcoming/active campaigns with a similar vibe or audience, and contact their people directly to see if they're interested in cross-promotion. We met many friendly fellow developers this way. Build up an email mailing list as soon as possible, along with your community server.

Guest Federico Mena Quintero Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this special Maintainer Month episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer chats with Federico Mena Quintero, a foundational GNOME hacker and board member. Federico shares his journey from learning image processing in high school, becoming a key contributor to the GIMP project, and founding the GNOME desktop environment. He discusses the historical context, challenges, and achievements of GNOME and open source development. The conversation delves into the importance of maintaining infrastructural software, adapting to new technologies like the Rust programming language, and the socio-economic factors influencing the open source community's demographics. Press download now to hear more! [00:01:29] Federico describes GNOME as the “surface of your desk”- the visual and interactive layer of the Linux desktop. [00:02:16] Federico started writing image processing programs in high school and discovered GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) and began contributing plugins. Encouraged by positive feedback, he continued developing filters and building community resources. [00:10:20] The proprietary Motif GUI toolkit used by GIMP prompted the creation of GTK (GIMP Toolkit), a free alternative. GTK was split from GIMP and became a foundation for GNOME. Miguel de Icaza learned about modular component design from Microsoft and brought those ideas to the GNOME team. [00:14:48] Federico explains KDE was already launched but used the non-free Qt toolkit and GNOME was created as a fully free alternative using GTK. [00:17:58] They discuss GNOME's long-term success which has thousands of contributors and institutional backing from its foundation. [00:21:06] Federico reflects on his privilege. He never had to apply for his first job because he was recruited and recognizes the barriers to entry for underrepresented communities. [00:24:32] The conversation turns to global south and diversity. Federico discusses the limitations on who can participate in open source due to time, money, and societal roles, and notes that women and people outside the Global North often face greater barriers. [00:30:37] Richard inquires what Federico means by “maintaining infrastructure.” He explains that open source today is less about new features and more about keeping infrastructure working. [00:32:59] Federico talks about a recent project to replace a vital but abandoned infrastructure component and emphasizes the need for sustainable maintenance strategies. [00:36:25] Federico became maintainer of Librsvg image rendering library from C to Rust. [00:40:00] Find out where you can follow Federico on the web. Quotes [00:31:10] “Software doesn't rot, but the environment around it changes.” Spotlight [00:40:57] Richard's spotlight is the book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. [00:41:49] Federico's spotlight is two books: Malintzin's Choices and James. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) richard@sustainoss.org (mailto:richard@sustainoss.org) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/tags/sustainoss) SustainOSS Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/sustainoss.bsky.social) SustainOSS LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/sustainoss/) Open Collective-SustainOSS (Contribute) (https://opencollective.com/sustainoss) Richard Littauer Socials (https://www.burntfen.com/2023-05-30/socials) Federico Mena Quintero Blog (https://viruta.org/) Federico Mena Quintero Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@federicomena@mstdn.mx) GNOME (https://www.gnome.org/) GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) (https://www.gimp.org/) GTK (https://www.gtk.org/) Librsvg (https://github.com/GNOME/librsvg) 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491%3A_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus) La Malinche (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Malinche) Malintzin's Choices by Camila Townsend (https://archive.org/details/malintzinschoice0000town) James by Percival Everett (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_(novel)) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Federico Mena Quintero.

This track uses Gimp and Audacity to create sound from images. I uploaded two original images in different formats to Audacity, made various adjustments to the resulting sound and added some delay, reverb, etc. More on the 702nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Applications — The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software — at https://disquiet.com/0702/

For years, Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom have dominated the photo editing world, setting the gold standard for photographers and digital artists. However, in today's creative landscape, more photographers are seeking alternatives - whether to avoid subscription fees, find a workflow that better fits their style, or explore new editing tools. If you're looking for powerful alternatives that rival (or even exceed) Adobe's offerings in some areas, Capture One, ON1 Photo RAW, and Luminar Neo should be on your radar. Let's dive into how these platforms stack up and why they might be a great fit for your photography workflow. Ultimately, the "best" choice depends on your needs, editing style, and budget. If you need the absolute best RAW processing and studio-level control, Capture One is unbeatable. If you want a Photoshop + Lightroom replacement without ongoing fees, ON1 Photo RAW is a strong pick. And if you want creative edits in minutes without a learning curve, Luminar Neo is a powerhouse. Pro Tip: Many of these platforms offer free trials — so download a few, test them out, and see which one fits your creative flow! Click on the links below to learn more about and try the photo editing platforms mentioned in this episode: Capture One - https://www.captureone.com/ ON1 Photo RAW - https://nerdyphotographer.com/recommends/on1 (Use discount code NERDYPHOTO20 to save 20% on your purchase or subscription) Luminar NEO - https://nerdyphotographer.com/recommends/luminar (Use discount code NERDYPHOTO to save $10 on your purchase or subscription) Darktable - https://www.darktable.org GIMP - https://www.gimp.org/ Support The Nerdy Photographer Want to help The Nerdy Photographer Podcast? Here are a few simple (and mostly free) ways you can do that: Subscribe to the podcast! Tell your friends about the podcast Sign up for the newsletter - https://nerdyphotographer.com/newsletter Subscribe to our YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@CaseyFatchett Buy a print from the print shop - https://caseyfatchettphotography.pic-time.com/art Follow on Instagram - https://instagram.com/thenerdyphoto Follow on Threads - https://threads.net/@thenerdyphoto Follow on BlueSky - https://bsky.app/profile/thenerdyphoto.bsky.social Follow in Tiktok - https://tiktok.com/@thenerdyphoto Get some Nerdy Photographer merchandise - https://www.teepublic.com/stores/nerdy-photographer If you're feeling extra generous, check out our support page - https://nerdyphotographer.com/support-nerdy-photographer/ About The Podcast The Nerdy Photographer Podcast is written and produced by Casey Fatchett. Casey is a professional photographer in the New York City / Northern New Jersey with more than 20 years of experience. He just wants to help people and make them laugh. You can view Casey's wedding work at https://fatchett.com or his non-wedding work at https://caseyfatchettphotography.com    If you have any questions or comments about this episode or any other episodes, OR if you would like to ask a photography related question or have ideas for a topic for a future episode, please reach out to us at https://nerdyphotographer.com/contact

Explanation of three methods for capturing screenshots for your game. 1. Print Screen key 2. Snipping tool 3. OBS with VLC (VideoLAN). How to use Gimp to crop and scale a screenshot image to the desired size. Links and Notes Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) – https://obsproject.com/ VideoLAN, VLC media player – https://www.videolan.org/ Gimp (GNU Image … Continue reading Screenshots – Knox Game Design, May 2025 →

Hosts: Gene Mitchell and Joe Myshko Air date: May 24, 2025 Topic: ARM CPU's have names, Gimp has security flaws, 10 years ban on AI regulations proposed,             Fake Paypal, Verizon/Frontier Merger, MacReaper attacks Apple Special Guest(s):

On Nick Ferrari at Breakfast.Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has branded Sir Kier Starmer the 'manacled gimp of Brussels,' over the Brexit reset deal. Nick is joined by Shadow Foreign Secretary, Dame Priti Patel. The UK, France and Canada have threatened action against Israel over Gaza in a joint statement.A couple in Winchester have been awarded damages by the High Court after footballs were repeatedly kicked over their garden fence. All of this and more on Nick Ferrari - The Whole Show Podcast.

video: https://youtu.be/ZGuuQ6i5uhM In this episode of Destination Linux, we discuss the latest accessibility features from Valve for Steam, aimed at creating a more inclusive gaming environment. We also explore the COSMIC desktop Alpha 7 release from System76, highlighting new workspace management enhancements. The conversation includes community feedback on Apple's contributions to open source. Then we talk about an aritcle from XDA Developers about Linux being difficult while Pewdiepie made a video about why Linux is great. Forum Discussion Thread (https://destinationlinux.net/forum) Download as MP3 (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/32f28071-0b08-4ea1-afcc-37af75bd83d6/001e36e3-bd99-4451-8b42-53dc0fb642ca.mp3) Support the show by becoming a patron at tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) or get some swag at tuxdigital.com/store (https://tuxdigital.com/store) Hosted by: Ryan (DasGeek) = dasgeek.net (https://dasgeek.net) Jill Bryant = jilllinuxgirl.com (https://jilllinuxgirl.com) Michael Tunnell = michaeltunnell.com (https://michaeltunnell.com) Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:32 Community Feedback 00:09:52 Sandfly Security 00:12:20 Leveling the Playing Field: Steam Adds Accessibility Tags 00:13:33 Easy Mode Activated: The Great Difficulty Debate 00:15:10 Hard Mode: Dark Souls and the Art of Pain 00:16:42 From Dark Souls to Guitar Hero 00:17:41 Save Anywhere: The Feature Every Game Needs 00:18:24 Tuning In: Audio Features That Level the Field 00:20:36 Visual Comfort Mode: Making Games Easier on the Eyes 00:21:40 Ryan's GPS: Recalculating… Always 00:23:16 Camera Chaos: Why Comfort Settings Matter 00:24:17 Lost? Maybe. Late to the Party? Never. 00:24:52 When Film Grain Becomes Film Pain 00:25:48 Input Options for Every Gamer 00:27:59 Not Everyone Games—But Gaming Grows Linux 00:29:33 Jill's Car, Ryan's Crisis: Who Gave Him the Map? 00:31:31 Rust Never Looked So Good: COSMIC Alpha 7 Arrives 00:37:04 Ryan's Ego Boost... and Michael's Reality Check 00:38:30 Accessibility First: COSMIC Adds Helpful New Features 00:40:08 Not Just Pretty—COSMIC Is Getting Powerful 00:42:00 Magnified Improvements: Jill Helps Tune COSMIC 00:44:26 Ryan Explains the Universe to Neil deGrasse Tyson 00:45:42 Linux Didn't Click? Better Write a Blog Post 00:47:25 You Don't Have to Game to Benefit from It 00:50:29 Rootkits in Disguise: The Anti-Cheat Dilemma 00:52:19 Climbing the Linux Curve with NVIDIA Dragging You Down 00:53:30 Surprise! Your Windows-Only Gear Isn't Cross-Platform. 00:56:55 Switching Takes Time—That's Not a Linux Thing, That's a Tech Thing 00:58:07 GIMP ≠ Photoshop—But That's Not the Point 00:59:00 RTFM: A Warm Hug from the Linux Community 01:00:50 Bring the Linux Critique, Not the Baggage 01:01:58 Broken Drivers and Bing Results—Living the Windows Dream 01:03:42 Step Aside, Ryan—Pewds Did It Better 01:07:41 In Conclusion: Linux Deserves a Fairer Shot 01:08:20 Offline Knowledge, Anytime, Anywhere 01:10:09 Support the Show 01:12:57 Destination Red Hat Summit 01:13:38 Outro 01:15:29 Post Show Links: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/536595840131663919 (https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/536595840131663919) https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/accessibility_features (https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/accessibility_features) https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta (https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta) https://www.xda-developers.com/regret-switching-linux/ (https://www.xda-developers.com/regret-switching-linux/) Pewdiepie's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0) Michael's reaction to Pewdiepie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OflAHf5DKQ4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OflAHf5DKQ4) https://kiwix.org/en/ (https://kiwix.org/en/)

Passámos uma semana interessante e infernal, a ler programas eleitorais sobre software livre enquanto gatos se roçam em microfones; falámos de novidades de domótica e assistentes de música; meta-motores de busca privados, livres e fresquinhos, actualização do GIMP para 3.0, antecipação salivante do Ubuntu 25.04 que sai nesta quinta-feira; quem ganha num combate entre Fedora e Ubuntu; e ainda parvoíces sobre carochos da Adobe e metadonas metafóricas.

Hauke, Jean und Micha ziehen ihr persönliches Resümee von den CLT. Dabei geht es dann noch um das BSI und deren Google Deal, das neue Gimp und so ein wenig Gedanken zu digitalen Souveränität.

Guitarist Kenny Lopez of Fermented Mess, Stabbed, Gimp, Private Mind, NYC Shootout, High Reach and more takes time from his busy schedule to catch up with Big Will,then Tom Saltman returns to recommend music, talk punishers and make a special announcement... heavyholepodcast.com Voicemail - 631-837-3274

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. If you you take a lot of photos, some of them will show problems. But you don't need to throw them away. With GIMP, you can fix these common problems and restore your photos. In this episode I take a look at two problems that turn out to be related and to have similar fixes: Dark photos, and Color problems. Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8OJJbhNWGs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbU8FqTI-A4 https://www.ahuka.com/gimp/more-photo-fixes/ Provide feedback on this episode.

Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye to X11, Ubuntu looks to drop GNU coreutils, GIMP 3 is out and still has a terrible name, and new Pebble devices will be shipping soon™.   News Home Assistant officially... Read More

video: https://youtu.be/uBdiXBkw-PM In this episode of Destination Linux, we explore the interplay of technology, community, and privacy. Hosts Ryan, Michael, and Jill share insights from the SCaLE 22x conference, highlighting the importance of community in open-source and an inspiring young talent. We discuss digital rights through the EFF's new tool, Rayhunter, aimed at combating cellular spying, and Jill introduces the wholesome game Wake Cup, emphasizing the joy of non-violent gameplay. The episode wraps up with recommendations for software tools like Turn On and Bat, showcasing our passion for enhancing user experience in the Linux community. Forum Discussion Thread (https://destinationlinux.net/forum) Download as MP3 (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/32f28071-0b08-4ea1-afcc-37af75bd83d6/bcda63a6-4503-40e4-aac7-e7002046a110.mp3) Support the show by becoming a patron at tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) or get some swag at tuxdigital.com/store (https://tuxdigital.com/store) Hosted by: Ryan (DasGeek) = dasgeek.net (https://dasgeek.net) Jill Bryant = jilllinuxgirl.com (https://jilllinuxgirl.com) Michael Tunnell = michaeltunnell.com (https://michaeltunnell.com) Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:17 Inside SCaLE 22x: Jill's Best Moments 00:06:45 A Special SCaLE Surprise 00:12:31 Linux Knows No Age Limits 00:13:33 Reuniting with Old Friends at SCaLE 00:16:51 COSMIC Collaboration: Accessibility Testing with System76 00:19:55 Catching Up with the Legendary Jon 'Maddog' Hall 00:21:19 Sandfly Security 00:23:26 Spying from the Sky: Cell Tower Impostors Revealed 00:37:39 Seven-Year Journey: GIMP 3.0 Reaches New Heights 00:49:42 Is AI Taking Over Creative Tools? 00:53:19 Imagining GIMP with AI Integration 00:57:31 GIMP 3.0: Not Quite Pro-Ready? 00:59:51 Wake Cup: Defend the Grind, One Cup at a Time 01:03:29 Good Cup of Coffe and a Good Barista 01:06:04 Back to Wake Cup: Grinding for Likes 01:06:25 Sellout Mode 01:07:38 Software Spotlight: Powering Up with Turn On 01:09:44 From Cat to Bat: Terminal Tools with Wings 01:12:37 Support the Show 01:17:05 Outro Links: SCaLE 22x https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x) System76 COSMIC https://system76.com/ (https://system76.com/) Jon 'Maddog' Hall https://youtu.be/90N6oWIkDZI (https://youtu.be/90N6oWIkDZI) https://youtu.be/9WBd8ISmtuI (https://youtu.be/9WBd8ISmtuI) Sandfly Security http://destinationlinux.net/sandfly (http://destinationlinux.net/sandfly) EFF's Rayhunter https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying) GIMP 3.0 https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/ (https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/) Wake Cup https://store.steampowered.com/app/2881430/Wake_Cup/ (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2881430/Wake_Cup/) Software Spotlight: Turn On https://flathub.org/apps/de.swsnr.turnon (https://flathub.org/apps/de.swsnr.turnon) Tip of the Week: Bat https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) Support the Show https://tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) https://store.tuxdigital.com/ (https://store.tuxdigital.com/)

Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye to X11, Ubuntu looks to drop GNU coreutils, GIMP 3 is out and still has a terrible name, and new Pebble devices will be shipping soon™.   News Home Assistant officially... Read More

In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss: Using Mairdi M100V BT bone conduction headphone for this recording Google Meet app for iOS/iPadOS does not provide recording function Open Source apps The GIMP 3.0 ReactOS 0.4.15 Visio alternatives: Draw.io, Mermaid.live Google lost Google Maps Timelines! The decline of programming jobs? Or, have the jobs been redefined/re-titled? Jon asked ChatGPT to tell him about himself

Gimp 3 is finally here, after 7,10, 13, or 20 years of waiting, depending on who you ask. Blender 4.4 and Calibre 8 are out, Fedora 42 goes Beta, and Gnome 48 is available. Firefox finally brings back PWA, Linux 6.15 fixes a de-randomized security misfeature, and Asahi Lina has stepped back from Linux GPU development. For tips, we have the ifne command for if not empty, pw-metadata for getting and setting options in Pipewire, Lutris and Gamescope for running old Wine games on high resolution displays, and talk for old school text chatting in a terminal. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/41QPaBp and have a great week! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Jeff Massie, and Ken McDonald Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

video: https://youtu.be/DVABDjehaWM Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, there is just so much to talk about that we couldn't fit it all in the show. It is just a stacked week. And we're going to be starting things off with GNOME 48. That was released this week. Also, GIMP 3.0 was released. There's a new version of Kali Linux that's out. SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview has been released from Valve. And Pebble Watches are back. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what's going on in the Linux and open source world. So let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews. Download as MP3 (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/2389be04-5c79-485e-b1ca-3a5b2cebb006/5fb98f6c-a929-481f-8957-84b4ebecfb7f.mp3) Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) Store = tuxdigital.com/store (https://tuxdigital.com/store) Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:41 GNOME 48 Released 06:08 GIMP 3.0 Released 12:08 Enlightenment 0.27.1 Released 14:31 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad] 16:26 elementary OS 8.0.1 Released 19:34 Two New PebbleOS Watches 24:00 Kali Linux 2025.1a Released 28:11 SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview Released 32:06 Support the show Links: GNOME 48 Released https://release.gnome.org/48/ (https://release.gnome.org/48/) https://youtu.be/F_JSFOo1LKQ (https://youtu.be/F_JSFOo1LKQ) GIMP 3.0 Released https://www.gimp.org/ (https://www.gimp.org/) https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/ (https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/) https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP (https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP) https://youtu.be/BQrW3hdrzH0 (https://youtu.be/BQrW3hdrzH0) Enlightenment 0.27.1 Released https://www.enlightenment.org/ (https://www.enlightenment.org/) https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2025-03-14-enlightenment-0.27.1 (https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2025-03-14-enlightenment-0.27.1) Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad] https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly (https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly) elementary OS 8.0.1 Released https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-0-1-available-now/ (https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-0-1-available-now/) Two New PebbleOS Watches https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watches (https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watches) https://store.repebble.com/ (https://store.repebble.com/) Kali Linux 2025.1a Released https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2025-1-release/ (https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2025-1-release/) Xfce 4.20 https://thisweekinlinux.com/291 (https://thisweekinlinux.com/291) KDE Plasma 6.2 https://thisweekinlinux.com/281 (https://thisweekinlinux.com/281) 6.1 https://thisweekinlinux.com/268 (https://thisweekinlinux.com/268) 6.0 https://thisweekinlinux.com/255 (https://thisweekinlinux.com/255) SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview Released https://steamcommunity.com/games/1675200/announcements/detail/529841158837240757 (https://steamcommunity.com/games/1675200/announcements/detail/529841158837240757) Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) https://store.tuxdigital.com/ (https://store.tuxdigital.com/)

The day has finally GIMP 3 is actually here, when we recorded this we were still in RC3 but either way Jehan is here to talk about the state of the project, why it to so long to get here and much more.==========Support The Channel==========► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF► Other Methods: https://cointr.ee/brodierobertson==========Guest Links==========Website: https://www.gimp.org/Release Notes: https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html==========Support The Show==========► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF► Other Methods: https://cointr.ee/brodierobertson=========Video Platforms==========

В этом выпуске: как неправильно отсортировать песни в музыкальном альбоме, как зарождается жизнь в стиральных машинах, что нового в Gimp 3.0, как ремонтировать штуки без схемы на руках, учимся печатать TPU, играем в Half-Life 2 RTX и обсуждаем темы наших слушателей. [00:01:28] Чему мы научились https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleMusic/comments/1al9iv1/macos_app_grouping_songs_in_wrong_album_in/ https://docs.continue.dev/getting-started/overview [00:28:37] [Одной строкой] Gimp 3.0 [00:40:57] Как Саша… Читать далее →

Anna Kalinowsky, heise-online-Chefredakteur Dr. Volker Zota und Markus Will sprechen in dieser Ausgabe der #heiseshow unter anderem über folgende Themen: - Postbot statt Postamt: Können Automaten Filialen ersetzen? Die Deutsche Post will erstmals Automaten als vollwertige Postfilialen einsetzen. Was können die neuen Postbots alles leisten? Welche Auswirkungen hat dies auf den Service in ländlichen Gebieten? Und wie steht es um den Datenschutz bei der digitalen Identifikation? - Verflixte sieben Jahre: GIMP 3.0 veröffentlicht – Nach sieben Jahren Entwicklungszeit ist die Open-Source-Bildbearbeitung GIMP in Version 3.0 erschienen. Was sind die wichtigsten Neuerungen der freien Photoshop-Alternative? Kann GIMP mit kommerziellen Programmen mithalten? Und wie sieht die Zukunft des Projekts aus? - Krisenkommunikation: Was ist mit Samsung los? Der Chef des südkoreanischen Technologiekonzerns schwört seine Führungskräfte auf eine Krise ein. Welche Probleme plagen den Elektronik-Riesen? Wie wirkt sich der zunehmende Wettbewerb besonders aus China auf Samsung aus? Und ist die Krisenkommunikation des Unternehmens angemessen? Außerdem wieder mit dabei: ein Nerd-Geburtstag, das WTF der Woche und knifflige Quizfragen.

Anna Kalinowsky, heise-online-Chefredakteur Dr. Volker Zota und Markus Will sprechen in dieser Ausgabe der #heiseshow unter anderem über folgende Themen: - Postbot statt Postamt: Können Automaten Filialen ersetzen? Die Deutsche Post will erstmals Automaten als vollwertige Postfilialen einsetzen. Was können die neuen Postbots alles leisten? Welche Auswirkungen hat dies auf den Service in ländlichen Gebieten? Und wie steht es um den Datenschutz bei der digitalen Identifikation? - Verflixte sieben Jahre: GIMP 3.0 veröffentlicht – Nach sieben Jahren Entwicklungszeit ist die Open-Source-Bildbearbeitung GIMP in Version 3.0 erschienen. Was sind die wichtigsten Neuerungen der freien Photoshop-Alternative? Kann GIMP mit kommerziellen Programmen mithalten? Und wie sieht die Zukunft des Projekts aus? - Krisenkommunikation: Was ist mit Samsung los? Der Chef des südkoreanischen Technologiekonzerns schwört seine Führungskräfte auf eine Krise ein. Welche Probleme plagen den Elektronik-Riesen? Wie wirkt sich der zunehmende Wettbewerb besonders aus China auf Samsung aus? Und ist die Krisenkommunikation des Unternehmens angemessen? Außerdem wieder mit dabei: ein Nerd-Geburtstag, das WTF der Woche und knifflige Quizfragen.

After years in development, GIMP 3.0 is out with a gang of new features. Raspberry Pi announces a high-performance, secure microcontroller. We discuss gaming on ARM in 2025, and a Pico-powered calculator project.

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THAT TWIST ENDING!! The Usual Suspects Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Save & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejects Download the PrizePicks today at https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/RE... & use code REJECTS to get $50 instantly when you play $5! The Usual Suspects Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, & Spoiler Review!! Join Andrew Gordon and Aaron Alexander as they unravel the intricate web of crime and deception in the 1995 cult classic, The Usual Suspects. Written by Mission: Impossible & Jack Reacher scribe, Christopher McMcQuarrie, & Directed by the once-prolific Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns), this iconic crime thriller follows a group of small-time criminals whose lives become entwined in a mysterious plot masterminded by the elusive Keyser Söze. Kevin Spacey (L.A. Confidential, House of Cards, Being a Weirdo on YouTube Now) delivers a mesmerizing performance as the unassuming "Verbal" Kint—whose seemingly ordinary tale conceals a shocking secret. Alongside him, Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary, End of Days) shines as the enigmatic Dean Keaton, while Stephen Baldwin (Bio-Dome, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas) and Benicio del Toro (Sicario, Traffic, Guardians of the Galaxy) add to the film's compelling ensemble. Kevin Pollak (A Few Good Men) rounds out the cast with his memorable portrayal of Todd Hockney, along with appearances from Chazz Palminteri (Bullets Over Broadway), Pete Postlethwaite (Inception, The Town), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, Do The Right Thing), Clark Gregg (The Avengers), and MORE! Andrew & Aaron break down every iconic moment—from the tension-filled interrogation scenes to the climactic reveal that has defined the film's legacy + The Lineup, Kobayashi's Proposal, Who's the Gimp?, I'm Smarter than You, New York's Finest, The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled, & Beyond!! Does this hold up as one of the GREATEST crime films of all time??? Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Follow Andrew Gordon on Socials:  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MovieSource Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/agor711/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Agor711 Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 258: Jay & Ray cross the threshold into a world of new idioms.thresholdgimpSubscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Instagram, & FB.Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for the advertising, film, and video industries. Grab a taste of the groove salad at bigsciencemusic.comsome of the W9Y sources include phrase finder uk, word wizard forums, etymology online, the OED, American Dictionary of Idioms, Wiki, newspapers.com, stackexchange, worldwidewords.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. If you you take a lot of photos, some of them will show problems. But you don't need to throw them away. With GIMP, you can fix these common problems and restore your photos. In this episode I look at getting rid of fingers in photos, fixing red eyes in photos, and fixing common artefacts caused by a speck of dust or damage to the negative. Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VcthL001Uc Provide feedback on this episode.

In this week's episode, we continue our discuss about how seeking prestige can be dangerous for writers, specifically in the form of traditional publishing and the New York Times Bestseller list. This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Dragonskull: Shield of the Knight, Book #2 in the Dragonskull series (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills), at my Payhip store: DRAGONSHIELD50 The coupon code is valid through March 21, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook for spring, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00   Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 241 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is February 28th, 2025. Today we are continuing our discussion of how to escape the trap of prestige for writers, specifically traditional publishing and The New York Times Bestseller List. Before we get to our main topic, we will do Coupon of the Week, an update on my current writing and audiobook projects, and then Question of the Week.   This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Dragonskull: Shield of the Knight, Book Two in the Dragonskull series (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills), at my Payhip store. That coupon code is DRAGONSHIELD50. As always, I'll include the coupon code and the link to the store in the show notes. This coupon code is valid through March 21st, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook as we start to head into the spring months, we have got you covered. Now an update on my current writing projects. I'm pleased to report I am done with the rough draft of Ghost in the Assembly. I came in at 106,000 words, so it'll definitely be over a hundred thousand words when it's done. I'm about 20% of the way through the first round of edits, so I am confident in saying that if all goes well and nothing unexpected happens, I am on track to have it out in March. I am also 10,000 words into Shield of Battle, which will be the fifth of six books in the Shield War series and I'm hoping to have that out in April, if all goes well.   In audiobook news, recording for both Cloak of Dragonfire and Orc-Hoard is done. I'm just waiting for them to get through the processing on the various stores so they're available. There is also an audiobook edition of Half Elven Thief Omnibus One and Cloak Mage Omnibus Three that hopefully should be coming in March. More news with that to come.   00:01:55 Question of the Week   Now let's move on to Question of the Week. Question of the Week is intended to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics. This week's question: what is your favorite subgenre of fantasy, high fantasy, epic fantasy, sword and sorcery, historical fantasy, urban fantasy, LitRPG, cultivation, or something else? No wrong answers, obviously.   Cindy says: Epic fantasy or those with a good history for that world. The Ghost Series are fantastic at this.   Thanks, Cindy.   Justin says: I enjoy all those sub-genres, if they are done well. In times past I would've said comic fantasy, but that is because Terry Pratchett at his best was just that good.   Mary says: High fantasy.   Surabhi says: I'd honestly read anything fantasy that's written well and has characters I'm attached to, given that it's not too gritty. Bonus points if there's humor! Also, I love your books so much and they're the perfect blend of fantasy, adventure, and characters. Your books were what really got me into Sword and Sorcery.   Thanks, Surabhi.     Matthew says: See, that's difficult. I love my sabers, both light and metal. I would say urban fantasy crosses the boundary the most. If it's a captivating story, it will be read.   John F says: I can't choose one- Lord of the Rings or LWW, The Inheritance Cycle, The Dresden Files, Caina, Ridmark, or Nadia. I think what draws me is great characters who grow. The setting/genre is just the device. That's why I keep coming back to your books. You create great characters.   Thanks, John F.   John K says: I think I'm partial to historical fantasy. I enjoy all genres, but when I think of my favorites, they tend to be derivations of historical settings. Think Guy Gavriel Kay or Miles Cameron. That said, I was weaned on Robert E. Howard, Fritz Lieber, Michael Moorcock, Karl Edward Wagner, Jack Vance, so a strong sword and sorcery second place.   Juana says: High fantasy. Belgariad, Tolkien, dragons, et cetera.   Jonathan says: Sword and sorcery in space! Prehistoric sword and sorcery, sword and sorcery always.   Quint: says Sword and sorcery!   Michael says: Sword and sorcery.   For myself, I think I would agree with our last couple of commenters and it would be sword and sorcery. My ideal fantasy novel has a barbarian hero wandering from corrupt city state to corrupt city state messing up the business of some evil wizards. I'm also very fond of what's called generic fantasy (if a fighter, a dwarf, an elf, and a wizard are going into a dungeon and fighting some orcs, I'm happy).   00:04:18 Main Topic of the Week: Escaping the Prestige Trap, Part 2   Now onto our main topic for the week, Escaping the Prestige Trap, Part 2, and we'll focus on traditional publishing and the New York Times Bestseller List this week. As we talked about last week, much of the idea of success, especially in the United States, is based on hitting certain milestones in a specific order. In the writing world, these measures of success have until fairly recently been getting an MFA, finding an agent, getting traditionally published, and hitting The New York Times Bestseller List. Last week we talked about the risks of an MFA and an agent. This week, we are going to talk about two more of those writing markers of prestige, getting traditionally published and having a book land on The New York Times Bestseller List. Why are they no longer as important? What should you devote your energy and focus to instead?   So let's start with looking at getting traditionally published. Most writers have dreamed of seeing their book for sale and traditional publishing for a long time has been the only route to this path. Until about 15 years ago, traditional publishing was the way that a majority of authors made their living. Now that big name authors like Hugh Howie, Andy Weir, and Colleen Hoover have had success starting as self-published authors (or in the case of authors Sarah J. Maas and Ali Hazelwood, fan fiction authors) and then are getting traditional publishing deals made for them for their self-published works. It's proof that self-publishing is no longer a sign that the author isn't good enough to be published traditionally. Previous to the rise of the Kindle, that was a common belief that if you were self-published, it was because you were not good enough to get traditionally published. That was sort of this pernicious belief that traditional publishing was a meritocracy, when in fact it tended to be based on who you knew. But that was all 15 years ago and now we are well into the age of self-publishing. Why do authors still want to be traditionally published when in my frank opinion, self-publishing is the better path? Well, I think there are three main reasons for that.   One of the main reasons is that the authors say they want to be traditionally published is to have someone else handle the marketing and the advertising. They don't realize how meager marketing budgets and staffing support are, especially for unknown authors. Many traditionally published authors are handling large portions of their own marketing and hiring publicists out of their own pocket because publishers are spending much less on marketing. The new reality is that traditional publishers aren't going to do much for you as a debut author unless you are already a public figure.   Even traditionally published authors are not exempt from having to do their own marketing now. James Patterson set up an entire company himself to handle his marketing. Though, to be fair to James Patterson, his background was in advertising before he came into publishing, so he wasn't exactly a neophyte in the field, but you see more and more traditionally published authors who you think would be successful just discontented with the system and starting to dabble in self-publishing or looking at alternative publishers like Aethon Books and different arrangements of publishing because the traditional system is just so bad for writers. The second main reason authors want to be traditionally published is that they want to avoid the financial burden of publishing. This is an outdated way of thinking. The barrier to publishing these days is not so much financial as it is knowledge. In fact, I published a book entirely using free open source software in 2017 just to prove that it could be done. It was Silent Order: Eclipse Hand, the fourth book in my science fiction series. I wrote it on Ubuntu using Libre Office and I edited it in Libre Office and I did the formatting on Ubuntu and I did the cover in the GIMP, which is a free and open source image editing program. This was all using free software and I didn't have to pay for the program. Obviously I had to pay for the computer I was using and the Internet connection, but in the modern era, having an internet connection is in many ways almost a requirement, so that's the cost you would be paying anyway.   The idea that you must spend tens of thousands of dollars in formatting, editing, cover, and marketing comes from scammy self-publishing services. Self-publishing, much like traditional publishing, has more than its fair share of scams or from people who aren't willing to take the time to learn these skills and just want to cut someone a check to solve the problem. There are many low cost and effective ways to learn these skills and resources designed specifically for authors. People like Joanna Penn have free videos online explaining how to do this, and as I've said, a lot of the software you can use to self-publish is either free or low cost, and you can get some very good programs like Atticus or Vellum or Jutoh for formatting eBooks for very low cost.   The third reason that writers want to be traditionally published is that many believe they will get paid more this way, which is, unless you are in the top 1% of traditionally published authors, very wrong. Every so often, there's a study bemoaning the fact that most publishers will only sell about $600 worth of any individual book, and that is true of a large percentage of traditionally published books. Traditional publishers typically pay a lump sum called advance, and then royalties based on sales. An average advance is about the same as two or three months of salary from an office job and so not a reflection of the amount of time it typically takes most authors to finish a book. Most books do not earn out their advance, which means the advance is likely to be the only money the author receives for the book. Even well-known traditionally published authors are not earning enough to support themselves as full-time authors. So as you can see, all three of these reasons are putting a lot of faith in traditional publishers, faith that seems increasingly unnecessary or downright misplaced. I think it is very healthy to get rid of the idea that good writing comes from traditional publishers and that the prestige of being traditionally published is the only way you'll be accepted as a writer or be able to earn a living as a full-time writer. I strongly recommend that people stop thinking that marketing is beneath you as an author or too difficult to learn. Whether you are indie or tradpub, you are producing a product that you want to sell, thus you are a businessperson. The idea that only indie authors have to sell their work is outdated. The sooner you accept this reality, the more options you will have. Self-publishing and indie publishing are admittedly more work. However, the benefits are significant. Here are five benefits of self-publishing versus traditional publishing.   The first advantage of self-publishing is you have complete creative control. You decide what the content of your book will be; you decide what the cover will be. If you don't want to make the covers yourself or you don't want to learn how to do that, you can very affordably hire someone to do it for you and they will make the cover exactly to your specifications. You also have more freedom to experiment with cross-genre books. As I've mentioned before, publishers really aren't a fan of cross genre books until they make a ton of money, like the new romantasy trend.   Traditional publishing is very trend driven and cautious. Back in the 2000s before I gave up on traditional publishing and discovered self-publishing, I would submit to agents a lot. Agents all had these guidelines for fantasy saying that they didn't want to see stories with elves and orcs and dwarves and other traditional fantasy creatures because they thought that was passe. Well, when I started self-publishing, I thought I'm going to write a traditional fantasy series with elves and orcs and dwarves and other traditional fantasy creatures just because I can and Frostborn has been my bestselling series of all time in the time I've been self-publishing, so you can see the advantages of having creative control.   The second advantage is you can control the marketing. Tradpub authors often sign a contract that they'll get their social media and website content approved by the publisher before posting. They may even be given boilerplate or pre-written things to post. In self-publishing, you have real time data to help you make decisions and adjust ads and overall strategy on the fly to maximize revenue. For example, if one of your books is selling strangely well on Google Play, it's time to adjust BookBub ads to focus on that platform instead of Amazon.   You can also easily change your cover, your blurb, and so forth after release. I've changed covers of some of my books many times trying to optimize them for increased sales and that is nearly impossible to do with traditional publishing. And in fact, Brandon Sanderson gave a recent interview where he talked about how the original cover of his Mistborn book was so unrelated to the content of the book that it almost sunk the book and hence his career.   You also have the ability to run ad campaigns as you see fit, not just an initial launch like tradpub does. For example, in February 2025, I've been heavily advertising my Demonsouled series even though I finished writing that series back in 2013, but I've been able to increase sales and derive a significant profit from those ads.   A third big advantage is that you get a far greater share of the profits. Most of the stores, if you price an ebook between $2.99 (prices are USD) and $9.99, you will get 70% of the sale price, which means if you sell an ebook for $4.99, you're probably going to get about $3.50 per sale (depending on currency fluctuations and so forth). That is vastly more than you would get from any publishing contract.   You also don't have to worry about the publisher trying to cheat you out of royalties. We talked about an agency stealing money last episode. Every platform you publish your book on, whether Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Smashwords and Apple will give you a monthly spreadsheet of your sales and then you can look at it for yourself, see exactly how many books you sold and exactly how much money you're going to get. I have only very rarely seen traditional publishing royalty statements that are as clear and have as much data in them as a spreadsheet from Google Play or Amazon. A fourth advantage is you don't have to worry about publishers abandoning you mid-series. In traditional publishing, there is what's called the Publishing Death Spiral where let's say an author is contracted to write a series of five books. The author writes the first book and it sells well. Then the author publishes the second book and it doesn't sell quite as well, but the publisher is annoyed enough by the decrease in sales that they drop the writer entirely and don't finish the series. This happens quite a bit in the traditional publishing world, and you don't have to worry about that in indie publishing because you can just publish as often as you want. If you're not happy with the sales of the first few books in the series, you can change the covers, try ad campaigns, and other strategies.   Finally, you can publish as often as you want and when you want. In traditional publishing, there is often a rule of thumb that an author should only publish one book a year under their name. Considering that last year I published 10 books under my name, that seems somewhat ridiculous, but that's a function of the fact that traditional publishing has only so much capacity and the pieces of the machine involved there are slow and not very responsive. Whereas with self-publishing, you have much more freedom and everything involved with it is much more responsive. There's no artificial deadlines, so you can take as long as you want to prepare it and if the book is ready, you don't have to wait a year to put it out because it would mess up the publisher's schedule.   So what to do instead of chasing traditional publishing? Learn about self-publishing, especially about scams and bad deals related to it. Publish your own works by a platform such as KDP, Barnes and Noble Press, Kobo Writing Life, Apple Books, Google Play, Smashwords, and possibly your own Payhip and/or Shopify store.   Conquer your fear of marketing and advertising. Even traditionally published authors are shouldering more of this work and paying out of their own pocket to hire someone to do it, and if you are paying your own marketing costs, you might as well self-publish and keep a greater share of the profits. The second half of our main topic, another potential risk of prestige, is getting on The New York Times Bestseller List. I should note that I suppose someone could accuse me of sour grapes here saying, oh, Jonathan Moeller, you've never been on The New York Times Bestseller List. You must just be bitter about it. That is not true. I do not want to be on The New York Times Bestseller List. What I would like to be is a number one Amazon bestseller. Admittedly though, that's unlikely, but a number one Amazon bestseller would make a lot more money than a number one New York Times Bestseller List, though because of the way it works, if you are a number one Amazon bestseller, you might be a New York Times Bestseller, but you might not. Let's get into that now.   Many writers have the dream of seeing their name on the New York Times Bestseller List. One self-help guru wrote about “manifesting” this milestone for herself by writing out the words “My book is number one on The New York Times Bestseller List” every day until it happened. Such is the mystique of this milestone that many authors crave it as a necessity. However, this list has seen challenges to its prestige in recent years. The one thing that shocks most people when they dig into the topic is that the list is not an objective list based on the raw number of books sold. The list is “editorial content” and The New York Times can exclude, include, or rank the books on the list however they choose.   What it does not capture is perennial sellers or classics. For example, the Bible and the Quran are obviously some of the bestselling books of all time, but you won't see editions of the Bible or the Quran on the New York Times Bestseller List. Textbooks and classroom materials, I guarantee there are some textbooks that are standards in their field that would be on the bestseller list every year, but they're not because The New York Times doesn't track them. Ebooks available only from a single vendor such as Kindle Unlimited books, ebook sales from not reporting vendors such as Shopify or Payhip. Reference Works including test prep guides (because I guarantee when test season comes around the ACT and SAT prep guides or the GRE prep guides sell a lot of copies) and coloring books or puzzle books.  It would be quite a blow to the authors on the list to realize that if these excluded works were included on the list, they would in all likelihood be consistently below To Kill a Mockingbird, SAT prep books, citation manuals, Bibles/other religious works, and coloring books about The Eras Tour.   Publishers, political figures, religious groups, and anyone with enough money can buy their way into the rank by purchasing their books in enormous quantities. In fact, it's widely acknowledged in the United States that this is essentially a legal form of bribery and a bit of money laundering too, where a publisher will give a truly enormous advance to a public figure or politician that they like, and that advance will essentially be a payment to that public figure in the totally legal form of an enormous book advance that isn't going to pay out. Because this is happening with such frequency, The New York Times gave into the pressure to acknowledge titles suspected of this strategy with a special mark next to it on the list. However, these books remain on the list and can still be called a New York Times Bestseller.   Since the list is not an objective marker of sales and certainly not some guarantee of quality, why focus on making it there? I think trying to get your book on The New York Times Bestseller List would be an enormous waste of time, since the list is fundamentally an artificial construction that doesn't reflect sales reality very well.   So what can you do instead? Focus on raw sales numbers and revenue, not lists. Even Amazon's bestseller category lists have a certain amount of non-quantitative factors. In the indie author community, there's a saying called Bank not Rank, which means you should focus on how much revenue your books are actually generating instead of whatever sales rank they are on whatever platform. I think that's a wiser approach to focus your efforts.   You can use lists like those from Publishers Weekly instead if you're interested in what's selling or trends in the industry, although that too can be manipulated and these use only a fairly small subset of data that favors retail booksellers, but it's still more objective in measuring than The New York Times.   I suppose in the end, you should try and focus on ebook and writing activities that'll bring you actual revenue or satisfaction rather than chasing the hollow prestige of things like traditional publishing, agents, MFAs, and The New York Times Bestseller List.   So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all back episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

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Você conseguiu acompanhar tudo o que rolou no mundo da tecnologia e open source esse ano? Com tanta informação nova a cada dia, é quase impossível acompanhar tudo, não é mesmo? Neste Diocast que encerra a temporada de 2024, preparamos um episódio especial pra te deixar por dentro das principais notícias deste ano: afinal de contas, "onde o Linux falhou e onde acertou em 2024"? E o melhor de tudo é que as notícias deste episódio foram escolhidas com a ajuda de vocês, a nossa comunidade! É muito legal ver como vocês participam e ajudam a definir o conteúdo do podcast. Além das principais sugestões enviadas por vocês no Instagram do Diolinux, também fizemos um apanhado de notícias escolhidas pela nossa equipe. Aqui vai um aperitivo do que vai rolar: ainda não tivemos o lançamento de um novo GIMP 3, mas será que as várias melhorias desta atualização serão o suficiente quando ela chegar? Além disso, o elementary OS 8 chegou com várias correções de bugs, melhoria do desempenho e suporte facilitado ao Flathub para melhorar a experiência do usuário. Será que estamos vendo a versão definitiva desta distro? Outro ponto discutido foi o lançamento da versão alpha 4 do COSMIC Desktop, um novo player no mundo dos ambientes desktops para Linux. Será que eles estão conseguindo entregar uma experiência de usuário elegante, fácil de usar e personalizável? Também abordamos as últimas notícias sobre o Steam Deck, Kernel Linux, Arm no desktop e Inteligência Artificial e aqui vai um spoiler: uma dessas aí gerou um debate acalorado. Agora vamos entrar em um pequeno hiato e voltamos em fevereiro de 2025 com episódios inéditos, a gente tá com tudo pra te entregar ainda mais conteúdo bacana no Diocast e no Diolinux Labs. Já estamos preparando um monte de novidades. Fique ligado! --- Deixe seu comentário, ele pode ser lido no próximo programa. https://diolinux.com.br/podcast/onde-linux-falhou-e-acertou-em-2024.html

Welcome to the 12th and final episode of Character Study, the monthly series dedicated to exploring the psychological makeup, motivations and complexities of the characters that reside in the world of Pulp Fiction. For our 12th and final Character Study, I am joined by Ian Harries, co-host of The Podcast Nobody Asked For, as we examine the leather wearing, trunk living, BDSM aficionado, The Gimp, to figure out what the fuck lead him to this.  *Theme music by: Cyn Electric* Ian Harries: Listen to The Podcast Nobody Asked For: ThePodcastNobodyAskedFor.co.uk  Follow The Podcast Nobody Asked For on their Socials:  FB & Twitter - @NobodyAsked4Pod  Instagram - @ThePodcastNobodyAskedFor  Become a member of The Church of Tarantino: Patreon: patreon.com/TheChurchofTarantino Follow us on our socials: Facebook / Instagram / X(Twitter) & Letterboxd: @ChurchOfQTPod Email: TheChurchOfTarantino@gmail.com We're also on the Rabbit Hole Podcast Network: https://rabbitholepodcasts.com/the-church-of-tarantino/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thechurchoftarantino/support

video: https://youtu.be/k1abyzx5QkE This week in Linux, we've got a lot of good news with a new release of the LXQt desktop environment, a new accessory from Raspberry Pi. Valve has announced the official launch for the Steam game recording feature and GIMP 3.0 is finally at a point where we can just might have it at some point soon. We also have a bit of controversial news with Manjaro announcing a new data collection plan. We're gonna talk about all this and so much more on this week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what's going on in the Linux and open source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews. Download as MP3 (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/2389be04-5c79-485e-b1ca-3a5b2cebb006/f82cea5c-9dda-4107-9fe9-df56a74b9b0a.mp3) Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) Store = tuxdigital.com/store (https://tuxdigital.com/store) Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:44 LXQt 2.1.0 released 02:33 GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released For Testing 09:21 Manjaro Data Donor Telemetry 13:33 Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 & USB Hub 16:49 GNOME OS to be a General-Purpose Distro? 23:47 Steam Game Recording has officially launched 27:18 Linux Mint Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework 29:38 Support the show Links: LXQt 2.1.0 released https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/ (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/) GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released For Testing https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/11/06/gimp-3-0-RC1-released/ (https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/11/06/gimp-3-0-RC1-released/) Manjaro Data Donor Telemetry https://forum.manjaro.org/t/testers-needed-manjaro-data-donor/170163 (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/testers-needed-manjaro-data-donor/170163) https://youtu.be/pd_mlP5J1fw (https://youtu.be/pd_mlP5J1fw) (my in-depth video) Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 & USB Hub https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-touch-display-2-on-sale-now-at-60/ (https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-touch-display-2-on-sale-now-at-60/) https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/usb-3-hub/ (https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/usb-3-hub/) GNOME OS to be a General-Purpose Distro? https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2024/10/25/a-desktop-for-all/ (https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2024/10/25/a-desktop-for-all/) https://linuxiac.com/gnome-os-to-become-a-general-purpose-linux-distro/ (https://linuxiac.com/gnome-os-to-become-a-general-purpose-linux-distro/) Steam Game Recording has officially launched https://store.steampowered.com/gamerecording (https://store.steampowered.com/gamerecording) Linux Mint Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4762 (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4762) Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) https://tuxdigital.com/store (https://tuxdigital.com/store) https://tuxdigital.com/discord (https://tuxdigital.com/discord)

In this compelling episode of Champ Talk with Branden Hudson, hosts Branden and 'Uncomfortable Chet' explore the significance of accountability in health, fitness, and life decisions. They celebrate personal milestones like Chet's weight loss journey and discuss the rigorous '75 Hard' fitness challenge by Andy Frisella, which pushes mental and physical limits for transformative growth. The episode also features Brittany Ballard from Wealthways, highlighting their community efforts in financial literacy. Rich with anecdotes, the segment emphasizes the supportive culture at SBY MMA and Fitness, the impact of martial arts seminars, and the holistic benefits of both contact and non-contact classes. The conversation covers societal observations, the importance of integrity, and personal responsibility in fostering a better community. The hosts encourage listeners to engage with their content across platforms, promising continuous value and personal development.00:00 Welcome to Champ Talk00:33 Introducing Brittany Ballard02:08 Shoutout to Gimp in the Box03:38 Chet's Win of the Week05:42 The 75 Hard Challenge13:34 Seminar Highlights16:45 The Culture at SBY MMA21:02 Life Lessons from the Gym21:31 Dealing with Criticism and Haters22:29 Society's Shift and Personal Integrity25:18 The Importance of Accountability27:07 Consequences and Standards29:12 Personal Development and Growth34:06 The SBY MMA and Fitness Community42:56 The Role of Money in Business44:23 Final Thoughts and Call to Action

Smack, Smack, and Smack, oh my!  Make sure to say it three times cause you've never had a pumpkin spice cum shot like this before…seeds and all. Stuff me like a turkey and call me Gord cause Holly Wilde is munchin' this pumpkin pie with the novel Hallowpeen. Jerk my Jack-o-lantern and bob on my butternut balls cause this threesome is about to seed you deep and seed you good. 

In this week's episode, we take a look at the best methods for finding ad graphics for book advertising. TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 224 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is October 25th, 2024 and today we are discussing the best methods for sourcing images for ad graphics. We'll also have an update on my current writing and audiobook projects. Let's go right to that. I am currently 61,000 words into Cloak of Illusion and am hoping to have that out before the end of November, since 61,000 words puts me about halfway through the rough draft, I think. I'm also 14,000 words into Orc Hoard, which will be the 4th Rivah book, and if all goes well, the final book I publish in 2024. In audiobook news, recording is underway for Shield of Conquest. That will be excellently narrated by Brad Wills, and it's also underway for Cloak of Spears and Ghost in the Tombs, which will be narrated by Hollis McCarthy. I think probably Cloak of Spears will come out first, but we will see how things play out for the rest of the month. So that's it. That is the update on my current writing project. Next month and next week, I want to do a new podcast series for the month of November that I'm going to call Moeller Writing Tips Month as sort of a gentler alternative to National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo) for a couple of reasons. The NaNoWriMo organization has had a number of problems over the years, especially recently, so I don't feel comfortable endorsing it anymore. I've also begun to wonder if NaNoWriMo is a bit like a shock diet. If you talk to doctors and other medical experts about weight loss, they say the best way is always to make small, sustainable changes that you can keep up with over time. It's better to lose like a pound a month and keep it off than it is to lose like, 5 or 10 pounds a month in a shock crash diet only to gain it all back once you go back to your own old habits because that kind of a weighty yoyoing is very hard on the body. I wonder if National Novel Writing Month, where you write 50,000 words in a month is like that for a lot of people; it's sort of a crash diet. For someone like me, Ghost in the Tombs was my 156th novel. I typically can write a rough draft or novel in a month if I don't have anything else come up. So for me, that's normal, but for most people who don't have that kind of experience, I wonder if National Novel Writing Month would be the sort of writing equivalent of those crash diets that might leave you worse off than you were to begin with. So with that in mind, next month I'll start a podcast series discussing gentler ways one can ease into the regular habit of writing. More discussion on that topic next week and next month.   00:02:45 Main Topic: Sourcing Ad Graphics Now onto our main topic for the week, sourcing ad graphics. Before we get into that, a disclaimer. I am not a lawyer and none of what I'm about to say is actual legal advice. You obtain actual legal advice by hiring a lawyer who is qualified to practice in your jurisdiction. It is very important (to continue the disclaimer) to be on firm footing with the copyright of your ad image. If you don't own the image or the right license to use it, you're infringing on someone's copyright and they can respond either legally or through the places where your book is sold. This is less of a problem with ad images than is with book covers, but it still can happen. With that in mind, some of the free stock images sites have restrictions on commercial use or modification of the images. It's a good idea to read the licenses carefully. Some of these sites have often not gotten the appropriate clearances from the models in the pictures, so be cautious of using images with identifiable faces from those types of sites. If you're not familiar with the legal term, a model release is when a model or someone in a stock photograph appears in the stock photograph. They sign a release that gives the rights for their likeness to be used for the commercial image and not all free stock image sites do that. Good stock image sites like Shutterstock or iStock Photo or Dreamstime will clearly state on the image page whether or not a model release has been included. If a model release has not been included, you can't use it for commercial purposes, and though it is not terribly likely, you can open yourself up to legal liability that way. In that vein, be also cautious about Creative Commons sites, since copyrighted work frequently ends up on those sites. This is also true of the free stock image sites, where sometimes people will pirate images and post them there. Also, many Creative Commons photos are restricted from commercial use, modification, and/or the artists require attribution. Tread carefully and make sure you understand the conditions of using images with any of the various Creative Commons licenses. And before we get into further details, it's also important to understand the difference between creating book covers and creating ad images. The number one thing to remember about ad images is that ads are ephemeral, and they should change often because you often get diminishing returns for using the same ad graphics. Ads can be tailored for different audiences. Ads can be tailored for different platforms. In fact, you kind of have to tailor ads for different platforms because, for example, Bookbub and Facebook, the two ad platforms where indie authors are most likely to use ad graphics, have very different requirements for images. People are more tolerant of AI images in ads than in book covers, but AI is very polarizing, and if you use an ad image that is easily and immediately identifiable as AI, you will probably get some pushback for that. So with all that in mind, let's first look at some free places to get images for ads and then some paid options. The number one free option is public domain images from the US government pages. It is the law of the land in the United States that images produced by the US government or federal employees in the course of their duties (with some exceptions) are in the public domain. Some of these are great as using as backgrounds or components of an ad. For example, are you a sci-fi author in need of a planet you can put behind a spaceship? You're in luck; NASA has plenty of those images and you can find them quite easily. However, sometimes U.S. government websites use stock images or government created images that have some types of restrictions. For example, NASA forbids use of images of current astronauts for commercial purposes for any reason and has some pretty strong feelings about people using their images to create NFTs. You do not want to go through life getting sued by the federal government, so you probably want to avoid that. Sources that are easiest to be confident in, images that are explicitly included in public domain collections on U.S. government websites such as the Library of Congress free to use and reuse sets website or NASA's Images Hub (this page also includes some guidance on NASA specific researchers) and the National Gallery of Art Open Access Images page. All of these have ample supplies of images that are in the public domain, and you can look over them for images you can use for ads or components of ads. Another free option is other public domain collections. Some libraries and some museums have created public domain image collections or let you filter for public domain images on their site. Very large institutions tend to be cautious about using this type of copyright language and their staff generally have training on what is or is not public domain. The Art Institute of Chicago has a public domain filter on their search page and The Met museum in New York has an Open Access filter in their search page where you can look for images in the public domain. The third free option and one that I have done myself a lot is take your own photos and use your own photographs for backgrounds components in an ad, etcetera. Since you're the creator, you hold the copyright. I have done this in a lot of the books I have published in 2024 and the ad images I created in 2024. A fair bit of them have my own photos because I took some trips to some fairly scenic parts of the country this year. I was fortunate enough to be able to do that, so while I was there, I took lots of pictures with an eye towards using them in ad images and book covers because as you get more practice with graphic design, your projects tend to have more layers to them. You often come across things and think well, this wouldn't be a good image by itself but would be a great background or great foreground and I can use pieces of it to assemble a better picture. So I've done that a fair bit and since I own the rights to all the photographs, I am one hundred percent in the clear. Now let's move on to a few free or low-cost options and one that might be a bit controversial. In fact, it is controversial: AI generated images. The pros of this are that the US government has consistently ruled so far (this might change after the election, but it might not) is that AI images cannot be copyrighted in any capacity. This means you can quickly make eye-catching art that matches your specifications instead of hunting for stock art. The con is that many people will assume that the book is AI generated if they see an AI generated ad image and many people strongly dislike AI art in general, or object to AI art on principle, viewing it as a form of theft. For myself, I've decided that my personal ethical line on this (barring changes in circumstances or laws) is that I will not sell anything that was created by AI. If I am selling anything or giving away a free ebook, it is 100% written by me and the cover was either made by me or someone I hired to do it. And in the audio books I sell, they are 100% narrated by an actual human being. That said, I have, I'd say, from time to time, used AI for ad images for the reasons we've discussed. Ads are ephemeral and phased out pretty quickly, but I have found that it's generally unwise to use an unmodified AI image, because it has such a very clear and obvious AI look to it. It's a good idea if you are going to use an AI image for an ad to run it through Photoshop a bit and change the look and maybe eliminate some of the more obvious AI tells such as extra fingers or misshapen eyes, that kind of thing. So if you are comfortable using AI, it can be a good source of ad images with some work, but otherwise, if you're not comfortable with it and you think your audience would be offended by it, it's probably best to avoid it. So those are the free/slightly free options, and now it's time to move on to the official paid options. The first paid option we're going to discuss is Shutterstock. You pay by image. It's simpler than the credit systems that Dreamstime uses, and the interface is easy to use. I have not generally used Shutterstock all that much because it tends to be a bit more expensive than the other options. However, you can find some very high-quality photos there if you are patient enough to look. The second paid option we're going to look at is Dreamstime. You can either pay images a la carte with credits you buy or by subscription. I have used Dreamstime quite a bit and quite a few of my covers have images I have licensed from Dreamtime. I'd say the pros of Dreamstime is that it has a very large and very strong library. The con (and this is true of stock photo sites in general) is that it's very easy to find an image that is like 95% perfect, but that 5% would be a lot of work to fix in Photoshop or just isn't right for some reason. Additionally, I don't agree with this decision on Dreamstime where they've begun including a lot of AI generated stuff on their page. It's clearly labeled as AI and you can use filters in the search engine to filter out the AI stuff, but if you're looking for stuff for covers because like I've said before, my personal ethical line (barring changes in law) is that I won't sell anything that was made by AI. If I'm looking for elements for a cover, it's really annoying to have to double check to make sure that the image was not AI generated, which is another good reason to use your own photos because you can then be certain it wasn't AI generated. The final paid option that many authors and many professional graphic designers use is Adobe Stock. Adobe Stock is probably the gold standard for stock photos. It has a large library with a range of image types and very clear license terms. The flip side is it's expensive. You can often include it with an Adobe subscription (which is in itself quite expensive) and then you get a limited number of image credits every month and that can be quickly expensive. If you have an Adobe subscription, you can also use Adobe's Firefly AI image generating service. It's not quite as powerful as Midjourney or some of the other ones available, but that said, it is trained only on stuff that Adobe technically has the legal rights to do. In my experiments with it, I found that Adobe Firefly's AI generator is not good at generating scenes. It is good at generating components of scenes, like you could tell it to generate a forest or a beach or a mountain, or a castle or something, and that'd be pretty good. Then you can modify it and add in other elements later, but it's not so good at generating a finished scenes the way that something like Midjourney would be. Now that we've looked at sources for stock images, let's look at a couple of paid sites that can help you use the ad images you have found. Obviously, you can work on them in Photoshop or GIMP or Affinity Photo editor, but those are fairly complicated programs that can take quite a bit of effort to learn. There are websites that now specialize in helping you to create specific ad graphics. I'd say the most valuable one for indie authors is Book Brush. It is a specialized image editing website designed for indie authors. It lets you make things like 3D covers of your books or audiobooks to include as part of an ad, and it also has a variety of ad templates, where you will have ad templates that are the right size and resolution for the various ad platforms, and then you can drop in the elements you need to make an appropriate ad graphic. So if you're an indie author who just wants to make ad graphics or maybe even some basic covers, Book Brush would be well worth your time to investigate, in my opinion. A second option would be Canva Pro. Amazon has explicitly said in their guidelines they don't like people using it for book covers, but ads are a different game and Canva is reliable for this purpose. It's good for beginners and those starting out. It's quick and easy to reuse. The downside is that since Canva is so popular, people have gotten used to the Canva look and you get bored with seeing those, especially if you've only minimally modified a template, but with some creativity, you can make an ad graphic that looks fairly nice. So that is it for this week. I hope you will find that helpful for finding sources for your ad graphics. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave your review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

Dont go into that creep house where dude dresses up like a Gimp.. Oh you did? Well I warned you.. And Tonight we discuss a classic. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. Do you remember this movie? Is this the first time you had watched it? Let us know your thoughts..

What is a TPE dynamic all about? How do you get into one and how do you manage the reality versus the fantasy. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, why is Mr KRistofer stuck in a gimp suit for an entire day? All these questions and more in today's TOTAL POWER EXCHANGE PODCAST! — Try VIIA Hemp! https://bit.ly/viiawatts and use code WATTS! Try High Love YALL~! —- Watts Socials -Discord: https://discord.gg/bxqDQVcKH7Amps Linktree: https://linktr.ee/pupampKristofer Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mrkristoferSAFEWORD MERCH: http://www.safewordshop.comTWITCH: http://twitch.tv/wattsthesafewordWatts Your Safeword Podcast:Itunes: http://apple.co/2QkMDwkSpotify: http://spoti.fi/2QjPNjLTwitters:http://twitter.com/WattsTheSafewrdhttp://twitter.com/PupAmphttp://twitter.com/kristoferwestonInstagrams:https://instagram.com/PupAmp/https://instagram.com/mrkristoferwestonhttps://instagram.com/wattsthesafewordFacebook: http://ow.ly/Z5nvMPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/WattsTheSafewordOpening by the magical Aethernaut https://aethernaut.bandcamp.comMusic by Joakim Karud http://youtube.com/joakimkarud

The gang is back, and the big, weird news is that Microsoft is fixing Grub, and it may break your Linux dual boot. Then Torvalds talks about kernel work, AI, Rust, and more. Ubuntu is late, but will be fresher; Libreoffice ships 24.8; and Winter is coming for GIMP 3. For tips we have no more secrets for fun movie-style faux decryption, ProtonUp-Qt for managing Proton versions, brew for installing isolated software stacks, and crtlaltdel for managing what exactly your machine does in response to the classic three-finger salute. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3ADKZiu until next week! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: David Ruggles, Jeff Massie, and Rob Campbell Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

On Today's Show:Sexy Time Fun Facts:$1,500 worth of nipple rings stolen from Tacoma tattoo and piercing shop - LINKA Phone Sex Line Ran an Ad for Comic-Con Fans - LINKWe played 3 In 5. Rizz got a brutal email over the weekend regarding his performance at the Alumni Home Run Derby. Moon gave an elegant sports report as well.Follow us @RizzShow @MoonValjeanHere @KingScottRules @LernVsRadio @IamRafeWilliams > Check out King Scott's band @FreeThe2SG and Check out Moon's bands GREEK FIRE @GreekFire GOLDFINGER @GoldfingerMusic THE TEENAGE DIRTBAGS @TheTeenageDbags and Lern's band @LaneNarrows http://www.1057thepoint.com/Rizz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On Today's Show: Sexy Time Fun Facts: $1,500 worth of nipple rings stolen from Tacoma tattoo and piercing shop - LINK A Phone Sex Line Ran an Ad for Comic-Con Fans - LINK We played 3 In 5. Rizz got a brutal email over the weekend regarding his performance at the Alumni Home Run Derby. Moon gave an elegant sports report as well. Follow us @RizzShow @MoonValjeanHere @KingScottRules @LernVsRadio @IamRafeWilliams > Check out King Scott's band @FreeThe2SG and Check out Moon's bands GREEK FIRE @GreekFire GOLDFINGER @GoldfingerMusic THE TEENAGE DIRTBAGS @TheTeenageDbags and Lern's band @LaneNarrows http://www.1057thepoint.com/Rizz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First, Adam welcomes comedian Chad Daniels back to the show to talk about his new Netflix special Empty Nester, as they get into the passive and active trauma their parents passed onto them, how Chad has a dedicated promise to always tell the truth, how peanut butter and its counterparts have become a metaphor for life, and the new complex world of female vibrators. Then, Leah Knauer joins the show as the three discuss being able to know a person by the stickers on the back of their car and Adam's pitch for a gimp mascot for the NFL. Leah reads the news, which includes former LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announcing his candidacy for California governor, a humpback whale breaching on & capsizing a fishing boat off the New Hampshire coast, the booming business of AI Boyfriends, and zoo gorillas needing a limit on their screen time. Finally, Adam and Chad Daniels finish out the show by proposing to Leah their approach to applying reasonable gum laws to this country, limiting high capacity gum packs, applying licenses for gum purchases, and making sure you keep your gum protected behind a gum safe. For more with Chad Daniels: ● WATCH: His new special, Empty Nester, on Netflix July 16th ● INSTAGRAM: @thatchaddaniels ● WEBSITE: chaddaniels.com Thank you for supporting our sponsors: ● http://SimpliSafe.com/Adam ● http://ForThePeople.com/Adam or Dial #LAW (#529)

What changes do England have to make for the Slovenia game? How exactly do you bounce back from a poor start to an international tournament? How did a fire alarm, a stag do and a gimp suit ensure Alan had a lively trip to Frankfurt? Alan reports back about his time at the Waldstadion and his thoughts on England's performance against Denmark. Sign up to The Rest Is Football newsletter at therestisfootball.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Zach, Eden, Katie, Emily & Mayes Mayes rejects the terminology 'overserved', as it places the onus squarely on the bartender to monitor people's drunkenness. Emily reports back on her neon sign spottings at EDC and we find out what GIMP stands for. Do you prefer Video Games or Board Games? Is it this weekend or next weekend? Katie and Mayes break down Season 3 of Hacks, which is already coming up on it's finale next week. Zach gives some Tokyo Travel Tips because he's still there. Patreon Exclusive: All Free This Week COUNT THE DINGS MERCH STORE - Check it out here: https://bit.ly/CTDMERCH Sign up for Underdog Fantasy Promo Code DING: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-count-the-dings If you want to hear the full Mailbag, check out the Patreon! Join the Count The Dings Patreon for exclusive full, ad free episodes, extra Cinephobe content and more at www.patreon.com/CountTheDings Watch the Mailbag on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CountTheDings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices