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The new BOLD MARAUDER serial is up.

A few days late, but I was sick. And now it’s up, and I can stop feeling bad about it. Huzzah!

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So, WashingCon is now in limbo.

This is very sad:

The owner to the name and rights for WashingCon has ghosted the rest of the staff for something like a year or more.

AwesomeCon, with the help of Labyrinth has done a great job of picking up the game convention slack.

Maybe, someday, we’ll be back… but for now

— WashingCon (@washingcondc) November 21, 2024

Not least because I do not want to switch over to running convention TTRPG games at AwesomeCon. WashingCon was a great convention and I enjoyed GMing games there, not least because it wasn’t a chaotic, overstuffed mess. It was a nice place to have a mini-vacation. I’m gonna miss it.

Ach, well.

Oh, frabjous day! If you pre-ordered @HPLHS’s THE TEMPLE, check your email.

I don’t know if the HPL Historical Society’s quite finished with the physical version yet, but the digital version of their latest Dark Adventure Radio Theater play THE TEMPLE is available. Or at least if you pre-ordered. I’m listening to it now, in fact.

Surprises are awesome.

Tweet of the Day, Okay, This Is Gonna Be My Best-Seller Car Brand edition.

I don’t care if this ad features the weapons-grade emotional manipulation that you only see in Thai retail commercials*. Let me repeat this: I don’t care. When I make it as a writer, I’m getting a Volvo.

Volvo posted a 3 min and 46 second ad on Instagram, shot by Hoyte Van Hoytema, the cinematographer of Interstellar and Oppenheimer.

It goes against every single rule you can think about as a social lead. Length. Format. Over-produced.

Every comment under the ad said it… pic.twitter.com/wkmghuP4ye

— Guillaume Huin (@HuinGuillaume) November 21, 2024

Note: you can help me along that path by buying my books.

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*You think I jest? Fine. On your own head be it.

…and that’s not even the most brutal one. I mean, top ten, but Thai advertisers can absolutely go harder. Don’t look this stuff up unprepared.

First look at Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN.

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ doesn’t look half bad, but… can we maybe get it in black and white? Or – hear me out – black, white… and green? That’d look good, right? That scene in a stark B&W, except for the unholy emerald glow of the Mad Science apparatuses. I think that would pop, visually.

First look at Guillermo del Toro's ‘FRANKENSTEIN’

Releasing on Netflix in 2025.

(Via: https://t.co/B4lLiakRR5) pic.twitter.com/TUeNondyME

— The Hollywood Handle (@HollywoodHandle) November 21, 2024

Anyway. Pretty cool.

‘Something.’

Something, Beatles

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Movie of the Week: GODZILLA MINUS ONE.

GODZILLA MINUS ONE seemed to have taken forever to make it over here in physical form – I can only conclude that the studio really wasn’t expecting it to take off as hard in the United States as it did – but we have it now. No digital copy included, but that’s all right. I’ve already watched it on one of the streaming services. No Minus Color version, either, which is less all right. Ach, well.

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Star Wars will break your heart, Henry Cavill.

Look, Henry – I am taking advantage of our shared identity as gamer geeks to use your first name – I understand that the opportunity to be in a Star Wars movie is a strong temptation. And that it’s a opportunity that you might never get again. Still. You remember what happened with The Witcher, right? And the DCU? And the Warhammer 40K project… actually, what did happen with that project? I never heard.

Anyway: “A new rumor from industry scooper MTTSH is now claiming that Henry Cavill (Man of Steel, The Witcher) has had discussions with the studio about possibly taking a role in the new trilogy.” This is a tainted fruit, Henry. I mean, you’ll make a ton of money off of it and people will absolutely be on your side when you start fighting the studio, but… will you really be happy with how it all plays out?

I’m just asking, dude.

11/20/2024 Snippet, SUICIDE PLAGUE.

This suddenly got a lot more ominous.

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The strainer was alientech, and Norm hated it. It worked, and it didn’t hurt, so it was probably being used for something like its original use. That wasn’t nothing. In fact, when it came to gizmos from the dead Galactic Amalgamation, ‘did the job with no side effects’ was the germanium standard.

Wriggling through the shimmering film that somehow managed to soak through his cleanroom suit, regular clothes, and even outer epidermis, leaving behind all the muck and dirt? It was just flat out disgusting. He still did it, because he knew it was safe, but there was always that moment where you had to wonder whether the film was going to let you through, this time. The techies claimed the strainer ‘fed’ itself through regular dust and cosmic rays, somehow, but what if they had gotten it wrong? They couldn’t begin to tell you how the damned thing operated.

Just like all the other alientech out there.

None of this showed in Norm’s face as he glooped his way through the strainer. Whining or gibbering never helped. Getting on with things did.

So, they’re doing an anime Anne of Green Gables.

There is a certain bitter irony in the fact that I far more trust a Japanese anime studio to do a better job of making a proper Anne of Green Gables show than I do a Western live-action one. If this is what we’ll be getting, it’ll be delightful. And since this site’s Web Dude has indicated that Anne is Big In Japan, it probably will be what we’ll be getting, at that.

Oh my gosh! She’s so cute! https://t.co/zM0yIoR9l6

— Elwë Singollo (@Strangeland_Elf) November 20, 2024

Still: trust, but verify.