Posts by Ryan Jassil

Fireside Magazine: My Thoughts on Issue No. 1

Apr22nd
2012 Leave a Comment Written by Ryan Jassil

Let’s get the sticky bit out of the way up front; I threw some money at Fireside Magazine in its Kickstarter stage (it was the first project I ever backed), so while I don’t have a financial stake in the magazine, I am certainly biased in that I want to see it grow and prosper. Also, my face is in it. So, you know, there’s that.

Fireside Goodies for Backers

The thing is, Fireside editor Brian White and the Issue No. 1 team have put together something very special here, and you’d do yourself a favor by checking it out, and seeing to it that it continues. READ MORE »

Books, Etc., Introspective

Hours

Jan13th
2012 Leave a Comment Written by Ryan Jassil

Another terribleminds challenge: Song Shuffle Stories. When I rolled the dice, I came up with Hours by Tycho. Not much to draw from in the song itself (I use it for work/writing music), but I wanted to participate and not cheat, so I whipped something up and wrote it in second person for fun. Thanks for stopping by to read. READ MORE »

Fiction, Flash Fiction Challenge

Gained the Lead?

Jun24th
2011 2 Comments Written by Ryan Jassil

“You can’t just keep turning this into a conversation about gaming.”

“Why the hell not? That’s what it’s about.” I still can’t bring myself to look her in the eye.

“Bullshit! That’s bullshit and you know it. How the fuck am I supposed to trust anything you say when I know – I KNOW – that you aren’t even acknowledging the problem we’re trying to talk about.” Her voice rises, builds to a crescendo, and collapses into tears with her last words.

And all I can think about is the fact that I’m not plugged in right now, and there are people dying somewhere because she keeps fucking talking to me. READ MORE »

Fiction, Flash Fiction Challenge fiction, gamers, gaming, robots

You Need to Learn About Chuck Wendig, Right Now

Jun20th
2011 Leave a Comment Written by Ryan Jassil

Discovery

I found Chuck Wendig, writer, author, pen monkey, game developer, and father, by coincidence. One of the Ars Technica contributors whom I regularly stalk on Twitter posted a link to Wendig’s recent post on the rules of freelancing. I decided to give it a read, and after I had washed the laughter-driven urine out of my pants and rebooted my mind to incorporate all the useful knowledge that Wendig imparted, I exchanged a few tweets with Webster and Wendig (now that sounds like a team). Long sentence short, I ended up buying Irregular Creatures, a collection of nine short stories. READ MORE »

Books, Etc. books, btfo, coafpm, irregular creatures, reviews, writing

5 Reasons You Should Have Seen X-Men: First Class By Now

Jun8th
2011 3 Comments Written by Ryan Jassil

X-Men: First Class Poster Image for Criticism

Poster From Theatrical Release

Your mileage from the first three X-Men films may vary. The general consensus is that there was a good movie and a great movie, followed by an abomination that we no longer speak of in certain company. Your knowledge of the comic book stories may or may not hamper your experience (I’ll argue shortly that ignorance is no disadvantage), but as someone who has only had a few passing flirtations with the comics, I can say that this revisionist history of the X-Men’s early days goes down pretty easily. I truly hope that any future X-Men films ignore the earlier trilogy (or duology, depending on how vehemently you reject the third movie) and instead return to X-Men: First Class as the canon for moving forward in the series. I’ve got several good reasons (five, actually) for thinking this way, so hit the jump and hear my words (…with your eyes). Fair warning though; here be spoilers. READ MORE »

Movies, Sci Fi comics, first class, movies, reviews, X-men, x-men first class