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June 13, 2022
The STARFIELD: Official Gameplay Reveal trailer.
Alright, Bethesda. Let’s see if you can wow me.
[UPDATE]: Well. That seems almost insanely ambitious. Not that I’m complaining, yet.
Tweet of the Day, It Ain’t Bragging If It’s True edition.
Everything worked out for Gabe pretty much the way he wanted it to go, and that’s just fine with him.
Going for max value in today’s Penny Arcade:https://t.co/eMNr9100NP#pennyarcade
— Gabe (@cwgabriel) June 13, 2022
June 12, 2022
You know something? It was a quiet day.
I didn’t do much, beyond a bunch of laundry and burgers on the grill. It was a peaceful, not-much-important nice day in June. I slept in. Oh, and I installed Bioshock 2, just to see what it was like. They don’t have to all be eventual days.
The PREY Hulu trailer.
It looks better than I thought it would.
I’m just not real fond of the premise, honestly. My rule of thumb has always been, If it raises a hand to a human, it dies. I want to see the movie where the humans teach the Predator species to find somebody else to hunt. Preferably somebody nonsapient, because humanity can get real ridiculously sentimental about that sort of thing…
Patreon Microfiction: Chosen Reader.
It’s not that the wizard in ‘Chosen Reader’ is a bad wizard, in any sense of the term. The apprentice has heard the horror stories about how awful an apprenticeship can be, but this guy? This guy is a solid teacher and mentor. They click, and not in a creepy or co-dependent way, either. Shoot, she could walk out this morning – with his blessing – and ace her journeyman test.
Well. The written part, at least. Incantations require practice until they’re in muscle memory, so that’s what they’ve been working on.
And she’s not gonna keep this secret from her mentor forever. She just wants a chance to do a little of her own research, first. She’d hate for things to get weird.
…Anyway.
Patreon!June 11, 2022
‘The Alternative Polka.’
Weird Al’s polkas are so incredibly useful.
Back from Galactic Con!
…Well, first I had dinner. And a nap that was surprisingly hard to wake up from. And then I drifted along for a bit, until it was time for me to buckle down and work on things. So this is a little delayed.
Anyway, Galactic Con went fine, in the sense that I made the table fee back. And I like it as a venue. But I gotta start finding book festivals. Heck, at this rate it almost feels like I need to start one (I am absolutely not going to start one). So: news on good venues in Maryland would be welcome.
Tweet of the Day, The Surprising/Non-Surprising Video Game Forgery Scandal edition.
Surprising because I didn’t know there was a video game forgery scandal.
People worried about forgeries of old video games.
— Neil Stevens (@presjpolkrta) June 11, 2022
Wait until the forgeries of those very expensive Nintendo games start being exposed.https://t.co/LMbGzus02j
Non-surprising, once I found out that some of these games can go for a hundred thousand bucks. Yeah, you’re gonna get forgeries when that happens. Whether or not you’re also gonna get a specific person abusing your trust networks is another question; but in general? Yeah, you can expect that too.
Book of the Week: TINSE… Hah! Just kidding. It’s AGENT OF BYZANTIUM.
AGENT OF BYZANTIUM is a collection of Harry Turtledove’s Basil Argyros stories. They’re set in a timeline where Mohammed ended up a Christian bishop in Iberia (and eventual saint), instead of the founder of Islam; it’s now the 14th Century, and the Byzantine Empire is doing fine. Unfortunately for them, so are the Sassanids. Basically the stories are about technological innovations, and how an empire that’s not so much technophobic as it is cautious would deal with them. Good stuff all around.
#commissionearned
