Moe Lane's Blog, page 501
September 1, 2022
09/01/2022 Snippet, BUZZ ON THE STREETS.
I have the last line to this story. I just don’t know how we’re getting it, yet.
Patreon!And the coffee is good here. I inhaled half of it in one go, which earned me a raised eyebrow. “Long night, I see.” Lucas grinned. “Was it a fun one?”
“Depends on how you define ‘fun.’ I was up until three AM trying to sort out which one of four rich idiots had murdered the fifth. That count?”
Lucas considered it. “It depends. Did you figure it out?”
“Of course.”
“A promising start. Did the murderer try to kill you?”
“One of them did.”
“Ooh, there were multiple murderers? That’s definitely fun. They were all in on it?”
“Nah.” I drank more coffee. “I said idiots, remember? They all had their own plan to bump off the fifth guy, only he had poisoned himself before the festivities even started. I think he did it just to spite them.” I finished my cup, and waved for another. “After an evening with that crowd, I was starting to see his point.”
“Well, it’s definitely ‘madcap,’” Lucas allowed. “Hold on, though. If he killed himself, isn’t that just suicide?”
“I’m sure they’re all arguing that right now with the cops,” I said with profound, grim satisfaction. “They all tried to murder the old bastard, though. I’ll give ‘em credit for making the effort.”
August 31, 2022
‘Orinoco Flow.’
#commissionearned
For your hate-viewing pleasure…
…this introductory clip for LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER.
apparently this is the intro for the new LOTR show… this is what $750 million buys you pic.twitter.com/Jdod3nyVag
— Celestial Stud (@BigGulpAmerikan) August 31, 2022
I am struck by how quickly I decided I hated the elvish douchebro. He’s got that look, right? He looks like the kind of guy who made people make that nail polish that chemically reacts to the presence of roofies. I’m hoping that’s deliberate, because otherwise the actor got some baaaaaad direction, there.
The August Patreon Entries.
Stuff I just make up stuff about: science fiction, and warfare!
Short Story: Tour Of Duty. It’s amazing what people get used to. Set in the same universe as the upcoming novel GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND.RPG Entry: Ashes of Empire, Part 6b: The Overthrow War . The next entry will probably be the last one. This one looks at the broad details of the war, because the war itself would make for a better wargame.
Patreon!Tweet of the Day, I Dunno If I’d Say ‘Sort Of Interesting Idea’ edition.
‘Worst imaginable way’ is spot-on, though.
This looks like a sort of interesting idea that has been executed in the worst imaginable way https://t.co/5KFuzoFPNq
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) August 31, 2022
I mean, if you’re going to go with this sort of thing, just run a GURPS Fantasy II: Adventures in the Mad Lands. No, really. I figure we can point this out, now that Pooh is all public domain. For damn sure it’s more respectful to both Pooh and slasher flicks than this one is.
#commissionearned
Snippet the Last, TOUR OF DUTY.
14.8K words. 14.8! These are supposed to be 3K, tops.
Patreon!March 12
Three full days have passed since Aldini and Janusz disappeared. All of our stocks of oxy-nitro are in place and accounted for. Even with minimal systems and no effort, their life support would have run out by now. The Cold Equations say they’re dead. I can’t say that I liked Janusz, but damn. Suffocating in your suit must be a horrible way to go. I wonder what made him crack?
Anyway, we go back to work tomorrow.
[Addendum]
They found Janusz’s body, in one of the Hawoo rooms. His suit was intact, but the CO2 buildup had gotten too much for him, poor bastard. They’ll collect him in the morning, once we’ve cleared a space for the corpse. Sounds mildly callous, but the suit’s just as good as a body bag and nobody wants it in the middle of the room.
Besides, there’s still no sign of Aldini — and now they’re really looking: the arms and legs of Janusz’s suit had been spot-welded together, and all of his communications were disabled. The bastard had left Janusz to slowly suffocate in the dark. That’s… vicious. It’s also something the space-happy do, so now we really have to find him. That kind of madness can be catching.
August 30, 2022
‘My Way.’
Since we were talking about Zack Snyder…
…Although that song’s grimmer than I remember.
#commissionearned
Quote of the Day, The Pain Was The Point edition.
How amusing: “The executives over at Warner Bros. are having regrets about bringing director Zack Snyder back to complete his four-hour cut of Justice League, which cost the studio an extra $70 million to complete because a completed version of his film did not already exist.”
…Maybe you shouldn’t have tried to make a Zack Snyder flick into a Joss Whedon flick, guys. Whedon’s on my [expletive deleted] list for his personal behavior, these days – but he was never gonna be able to give Warner Bros. the JUSTICE LEAGUE they wanted. When Snyder came in and applied to the screws to get the JUSTICE LEAGUE he wanted, I laughed and I laughed and I laughed. Mind: I enjoyed both movies!
It’s just that I enjoy watching a major movie studio howl with outrage over the consequences of their actions even more. May they remember it, the next time. And the time after that.
#commissionearned
The WEIRD: THE WAL YANKOVIC STORY trailer.
They really went with it. This is gonna be hysterical.
Moe Lane
PS: The joke, for the benefit of future historians: at the time of this writing, Weird Al Yankovic is known for being one of the single most respectable and wholesome musical geniuses in Western history. There are no scandals involving the man. Many if not most of the musicians who he has parodied take quiet pride now in being important enough to be worth a Weird Al parody. I kind of hope he’s a space alien, because that would mean that space aliens exist, are here, and are rocking entities.
So don’t use this biopic for your master’s thesis.
