Wasteland Wasteland 3 Pre-Release Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Zboj Lamignat]

Cassandra's first paranormal rom-com Bearly a Lady releases this year.

I'm pretty sure we don't need examples. In fact I'm begging you not to provide them.

 

[Lahey]

https://www.tor.com/2017/10/06/five-books-that-taste-great/#more-301997

Text has texture to me. Sentences can be saline, sweet, some beautiful combination of flavor notes; a paragraph can be a course onto itself, eliciting genuine frissons of delight. My brain decodes poetry as amuse bouche, short stories as three-course meals, and novels as sprawling examples of literary cuisine.

Synesthesia is fun.

No. Really. It is. Except when you’re talking about bad books, bad writing. Fortunately, we’re not talking about bad books, but instead about excellent books. Books that feel like they were hand-prepped by Gordon Ramsay, or whichever haute chef appeals to your own particular sensibilities.

 

[Roguey]

To each his own. Looks like fetal alcohol syndrome to me.

Typical Asian without plastic surgery. It's not for everybody, true.

Also apart from her bitching, do we actually have any examples of her writing?

https://www.tor.com/author/cassandra-khaw/ The first sentence from the latest

The train rattles like teeth in a dead man’s skull

Okay dropped right there. Too many great bells tolling these days.

 

[Background Character]

I'm ready to punch Fargo in the face.

 

[Kitchen Utensil]

 

[BlackGoat]

Writing seems on par with Numanuma

 

[FeelTheRads]

Oh yeah, thank you McComb, I was always interested in seeing the writing of a teenage girl, I'm so glad you bully... err... coaxed (excellent writing by the way!) her into working for you!

edit: Ah, lol:

Text has texture to me. Sentences can be saline, sweet, some beautiful combination of flavor notes; a paragraph can be a course onto itself, eliciting genuine frissons of delight. My brain decodes poetry as amuse bouche, short stories as three-course meals, and novels as sprawling examples of literary cuisine.

Synesthesia is fun.

No. Really. It is. Except when you’re talking about bad books, bad writing. Fortunately, we’re not talking about bad books, but instead about excellent books. Books that feel like they were hand-prepped by Gordon Ramsay, or whichever haute chef appeals to your own particular sensibilities.

Yeah, high-school level writing. No wonder McComb appreciates it.

 

[Zombra]

She's way too goofy to be a narrator, but I bet she could do pretty good lunatic cultist dialogue. #brightside

 

[undecaf]

https://www.tor.com/author/cassandra-khaw/ The first sentence from the latest

The train rattles like teeth in a dead man’s skull

I want to laugh, but I can't.

 

[Roguey]

Oh yeah, thank you McComb, I was always interested in seeing the writing of a teenage girl, I'm so glad you bully... err... coaxed (excellent writing by the way!) her into working for you!

She's in her early 30s.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

but I bet she could do pretty good lunatic cultist dialogue.

Real question is: can she do anything else?

 

[Owlish]

Why is anyone shocked that they care more about "diversity" and virtue signaling than actual merit? Did you not pay attention for WL2 and Numenera before you backed this pile of rubbish? McComb's writing and visual cues are akin to what Cleve complained about his fag overlords were writing and asking to be drawn in the 90s, except McComb brags and shares on his social media for the world to see.

 

[StaticSpine]

Nice, she has a patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/cassandrakhaw

 

[Owlish]

Infinitron the Shill Jew, you knew perfectly well what I was referencing

 

[Infinitron]

Uh, okay!

I just wanted to say something about how one should be wary of, as they say on TVTropes, Flanderizing inXile's output thus far. As far as I know, for all the complaints they received, neither Wasteland 2 nor Torment were actually widely accused of being particularly SJW-inflected. Maybe that'll change now, maybe it won't.

 

[Jimmious]

To each his own. Looks like fetal alcohol syndrome to me.

Typical Asian without plastic surgery. It's not for everybody, true.

Also apart from her bitching, do we actually have any examples of her writing?

https://www.tor.com/author/cassandra-khaw/ The first sentence from the latest

The train rattles like teeth in a dead man’s skull

Okay dropped right there. Too many great bells tolling these days.

I .... well... I .... didn't find her writing bad? :selfhate:

*No seriously, I think she uses the language well.. Also sax man that summons monstrosities with his sax? Cool. Unfortunately these tweets fuckin ruin everything so...

 

[Lahey]

https://forums.inxile-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=18648

inXile Entertainment has just announced that the immensely talented Cassandra Khaw is writing for Wasteland 3.

Cassandra is one of the leading voices in queer fantasy fiction, and one of the most talented writers who have ever worked in video games. In an industry that is still dominated by straight white men writing straight white male characters, it takes massive bravery and unique talent to be successful as a diversity-conscious writer. Cassandra has been fantastically successful.

If you want to learn more about Cassandra's work before Wasteland 3 is released, you can check out her latest book Bearly a Lady, a disarmingly funny fantasy rom-com that's has already earned widespread acclaim. Fans of more serious horror fare will have a lot of fun with Hammers on Bone, which was a finalist for the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award for Best Novella.

You can also check out her video essay "What Video Games Could Learn From The Speculative Fiction Community " on youtube right here:

 

[Infinitron]

lol that's not an inXile staff member is it? Fantastic flamebait.

 

[Kitchen Utensil]

 

[Roguey]

I .... well... I .... didn't find her writing bad? :selfhate:

*No seriously, I think she uses the language well.. Also sax man that summons monstrosities with his sax? Cool. Unfortunately these tweets fuckin ruin everything so...

It's the same present tense purple prose I see everywhere else. All these progs write and act the same.

 

[Lahey]

lol that's not an inXile staff member is it? Fantastic flamebait.

No, just a regular user. The account was created in January and only has 3 posts, so I wouldn't be surprised if it belongs to a codexer.

 

[Shadenuat]

"queer fantasy fiction"

I eh
Id on't

...a what??

 

[Jimmious]

I .... well... I .... didn't find her writing bad? :selfhate:

*No seriously, I think she uses the language well.. Also sax man that summons monstrosities with his sax? Cool. Unfortunately these tweets fuckin ruin everything so...

It's the same present tense purple prose I see everywhere else. All these progs write and act the same.

I'm really out of sync with new writers etc

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Uhhhhhh....

 

[Abu Antar]

I regret posting that tweet. I'm getting traumatized over here.