Harper Kingsley blog

There is something very addicting about "Fallout Shelter." It’s one of those games where once you begin playing you just can’t seem to stop yourself. It might be because of the jangling coin sounds or it might be seeing the characters’ smiling faces, but once you begin playing it’s next to impossible to stop. It’s a game that really gets to you.

From what I understand, the actual "Fallout" series of games are very different. So you could be a fan of "Fallout Shelter" and not like the actual series, or you might be a "Fallout " fan that will be disappointed by the Sims-style app. Either way, do your research or take the plunge. Just don’t cry too much if your Android build isn’t robust enough to handle the challenge.

This game is addicting and your phone battery might thank you for deciding not to play it. It is definitely a battery drainer if you leave it running on the screen. But there’s something about playing the benevolent — or not so benevolent — overseer to a bunch of obedient drones.

RE: Bob’s Burgers

I can see why the kids would prefer to play with Bob over Linda

He’s reading his paper and relaxing. The kids are free to plan things out for themselves and indulge their creativity with very little interference. When they need or want his attention, he’s right there to be called upon. And he’s always very easygoing with them.

"Would your mother let you do this?"

Meanwhile, Linda attempts to force fun on the kids. She overpowers every situation that she’s in.

Sometimes kids just want to play. If you’re the adult, you’re the passive audience.

My seadragons begin as flopping mudskippers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudskipper]. They already have the front legs to pull them around. As time passes, they adapt to their environment and begin evolving into their secondary, humanoid form.

From something strange and a bit ugly looking, they metamorphose into the perfect predator. Humans are drawn to their dangerous sex appeal and the pheromones they produce. A seadragon rarely goes hungry once it attains a human-shape to wear.

I’ve been picture prompting my way through writing "Bryan at the End of the World." It’s oddly cathartic to get my "what if the world ended" fears down in print.

Anyways, this is something I’m working on. It’s not complete, but will appear on Kimichee when it’s done. "Teaser – RE: Bryan at the End of the World" –

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"Bryan at the End of the World" is a pseudo-sci-fi survivalist story. Bryan Waterson is a 19 year old kid that survives the end of society and the human race by himself.

He watches the world crumble away and his parents and siblings *transform* and it’s horrifying to him. And then there’s the waiting for when he will change, then the misery of being alone, and then finally the fear that he *won’t* ever change.

"They became some beautiful experience. He can see their changed forms merging with the nature around him, new species blooming and growing. And he has to wonder what is wrong with him that he was left behind."

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Someone said the world would end not with a bang but a whimper, and it was true. The human race came to an end because of antibiotic resistant germs and hubris.

It was a mess of a situation. Humans created their own downfall by pumping themselves and all of their food animals with antibiotics. Then to solve the problem of antibiotic resistant

—-events: too many 100 year olds, cemeteries running out of room, transformative nano-technology. People dying and turning into unnaturally hued flowers. Bryan continues to care for the plants that his family have become. Wonders if they’re still "alive" in there and whether they’re happy or not. Wonders why he was left behind. The only good thing is that it’s easy to tell the once-human plants from regular ones, as they look different.—-

Bryan Waterson wasn’t completely sure about the sequence of events. He knew he was alone and that every person he’d ever met was dead.

All he knew was that he wanted to survive.