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Book of the Week: Sink the Rising Sun.

I really need to get around to reading Jon Gabriel’s SINK THE RISING SUN. I should probably warn him: there are two book-related hobbies. There is buying books, and then there is reading books. Most of the people who do the second hobby also do the first one, only more enthusiastically.

Note that I say nothing bad about those people, and not just because I am one of them. After all, they plunk the money down, don’t they? Buying books is a lovely hobby, in that regard…

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Back from the Old Glory Harley-Davidson Holiday event!

It was a fine time. They were quite welcoming to me over there, very friendly, and I was able to sell some books. I even got pancakes and sausages! If you’re looking to buy a motorcycle and you live near Howard County, I can say that Old Glory Harley would be a good place to go price one.

Behold! At the Old Glory Harley-Davidson selling books! Oh, and they have motorcycles, too. Friendly group so far. pic.twitter.com/MNHrLEROF4

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) December 14, 2024

‘Angels We Have Heard on High.’

Angels We Have Heard on High, The Piano Guys

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The Exceptionally Self-Aware THE OUTER WORLDS 2 trailer.

THE OUTER WORLDS 2 is a sequel, with all that this implies. Obsidian knows it. They accept it. They may have actually rolled in it. I will not lie to you: I laughed. Repeatedly. That’s a good sign!

Oh, right, it’s Christmastime.

I should just try to take it easier this month. I mean, there’s still stories to finish, but it’s Christmas and I do get to have something like a vacation. I can’t be on all the time – and this month, apparently I can’t be on all the time, whether I want to be, or not.

Need to listen to my body and head more, I guess.

I need something that can generate floor plans for TTRPGs.

There’s a potential stretch goal for the Fermi Resolution Worldbook Backerkit next year that will require floor plans, so I need something that can generate those. It must:

Be suitable for modern campaigns;Allow for free commercial use;Handle things like ruins and damage;and is either for sale, or in the public domain. No subscriptions. Oh, and no AI. Absolutely none.

Suggestions?

Moe Lane

PS: I’m not hiring an artist to do this one. I can’t afford it, full stop. I can only justify buying a program because I’ll reuse it.

Oddities in the release of SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE.

As in, it may not be out until 2027? SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE was supposed to be out earlier this year, but according to Jharrel Jerome (the guy playing Miles Morales) he hasn’t even recorded any lines. Not being an expert on animation productions or anything, I don’t know when that sort of thing shows up in the schedule, but obviously you need to do it before you start refining your raw movie into a finished project.

This doesn’t sound like great news, in order words.

‘The Season’s Upon Us.’

I have no response to whether or not this is a documentary showing the Christmas holidays as observed by the Irish-American community.

The Season’s Upon Us, Dropkick Murphys

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Oh, hey: I have an adventure for a stretch goal for the Backerkit!

That being THE FERMI RESOLUTION WORLDBOOK (teaser page and launch party). When I playtested the rules, I actually ran an adventure (based on a story from TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Vol 1) for it. This adventure will be an excellent stretch goal, when coupled with a short primer on how to run games set in that time period. In fact, I can do this with a bunch of short stories.

That may end up being useful, although I’m just doing one primer for this thing. Playtesting is, after all, a requirement.

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12/12/2024 Snippet, TIMMY AND THE BAD PLACE.

Damned if watching the movie didn’t help.

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Maggie Henderson wasn’t the mayor of Frostvale Pines. That was an old guy named Bob. She wasn’t the fire or police chief, either. No, Mrs. Henderson owned the local coffee shop, which made her the person running the town. Timmy could get his head around that. He’d seen lots of people run things from behind the scenes.

What got Timmy was the way Mrs. Henderson talked. Nobody was that nice all the time and meant it. And her smile! It reached her eyes! That was way crazy, too.

“We first noticed something was wrong a week ago, Tim.” (He was apparently too old for ‘Timmy,’ and too young for ‘Timothy.’ It’d been weird for a second when she’d asked what his name was, too.) “Little things, like a garbage can knocked down, or a light left on. We weren’t sure what was going on until food started going missing. Then we knew.” Mrs. Henderson’s smile went worried. Really worried. “Somebody from Out Of Town had shown up.”

Timmy could hear the capitals in the words. “You mean, somebody like me. Not somebody from, um…”

“The Big City?” Timmy noted those capitals, too. “Oh, no, definitely not like one of those folks. They’re always welcome to visit our little town! In fact, they come here all the time, especially around the turn of the year. But they’re not the sort who’d just hide and steal food. That’s a… well, that’s a problem.”