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Tweet of the Day, PSA: When To Keep Your Hands To Yourself edition.

Which is to say: when you find something that looks like this.

pic.twitter.com/w3zIpvgxwC

— Havoc Six (@Havoc_Six) December 20, 2024

Via @RocketPulpHack. I figure nobody died, because otherwise I’d have seen this fifty million times already, but… there aren’t that many industrial uses for something with that shape. Since one of them is to blow things up that other people don’t want you to blow up, better safe than sorry: call the nice explosive experts. You know. Just in case.

Trying to decide on the third Fermi Resolution historical map.

I was expecting it to be somewhere around the 2700s, since that’s more or less the widest expansion of the Universal Dominion, but the truth is that the Dominion went into a long period of stasis after trying to digest Deseret. Which it had far too much trouble doing. Possibly I should tweak the Vargas-era map, and show the board at the start of the Great War? That might work.

I dunno.

The ‘Oh, hey. Colors.’ SUPERMAN Teaser Trailer.

Look, James Gunn. You have earned some forbearance from me, because of the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY trilogy. I respect that. I was also raised DC.

So DO NOT [expletive deleted] THIS ONE UP.

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The Fermi Resolution at other times: 2250 AD.

Things are going on. Maps are being revised / updated. This will be handy for a later project / stretch goal for the Fermi Resolution Worldbook Backerkit.

Obviously not the finished product, but my map guy needs to see where the changes will be.

‘We Three Kings.’

We Three Kings, Clamavi De Profundis

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A week to go until Christmas!

Now is the time for last-minute shopping! My books at this point would not show up until after Christmas, alas. But there’s still tons of other stuff you could still get, preferably via the link above.

…Look, it’s nowhere near the affiliate income it was in the old days, but every little bit helps, ‘kay?

Moe Lane

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Had a productive talk with Backerkit today.

The word of the day is discoverability. This is what Backerkit felt I wanted for my crowdfunding projects; and as soon as I heard the word, I agreed with them. The problem is not that I’m at all worried that the Fermi Resolution Worldbook will not fund. I’m not worried, because it will fund, and very possibly on the first day. What I’m trying to do with this project is go beyond my usual supporters* and pull in people who will be discovering my stuff for the first time. That is a somewhat different problem to solve.

The good news is, there’s stuff that can be done. Early incentives, polls, cross-pollination with other creators, encouraging links from social media… the person I met with today had some very helpful insights, and I’m already in a pretty good place. Turns out starting early and working in a steady and timely fashion is a good thing. Go figure.

At any rate, the Launch Page should be up and running by the end of the week (my project is still in the review process). I’ll keep people posting. Believe me, I will…

Moe Lane

*Who are wonderful people. So wonderful, I wish I had more of you.

In the mail: @HPLHS’s THE TEMPLE.

At last.

In the mail. Cc @hplhs pic.twitter.com/dd6rcrEu44

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) December 18, 2024

Gonna finish THE TEMPLE tonight, I think. Got interrupted while listening to the original download about halfway through, didn’t get back to it after. Should be fun!

Still trying to find a floormap generator.

I think my best bet is something designed for horror/zombie games, as they would have the kind of art assets I need for the RPG supplement. As a reminder: it doesn’t need to be complex, but I should be able to explicitly use it for commercial purposes. I have looked at the ones mentioned last time, but unfortunately they seem fantasy-only. I do need fantasy assets, but I also need post-apocalyptic ones. I seem to be in a niche! Yay.

The VENOM: THE LAST DANCE Honest Trailer.

Ehh. I liked VENOM: THE LAST DANCE. The trick was not to take it seriously for a minute. Usually Honest Trailers gets that… again, ehh.

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