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February 14, 2022
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM announced for 2024.
I was going to wax a little wroth over the concept art (found here) for THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM, but then I looked up Helm Hammerhand. It is in fact correct that Helm faced a combined force of Dunlendings, Umbar Corsairs, and Easterlings, which would make the Mumakil there at least defensible. And since this show is going to be anime, I can’t really fault them for putting a war elephant in the concept art.
I should also note that I shouldn’t be so cranky about sticking to the text. For starters, there isn’t much text to stick to. And, for that matter, they just demonstrated that they did their homework. And, lastly: war elephants. I should not get in the way of war elephants*. Particularly if there’s a viable path for them being there anyway.
Moe Lane
*This is, I feel, valuable life advice generally.
The ‘Gimme a break’ JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION trailer.
Do understand: I am not sorry that they made JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION. I pretty much like all of the people acting in it, so I have no qualms about them getting paid large sums of other people’s money to be in this movie. Grab a bucket when it’s raining soup, is my motto.
But… surely the Jurassic Park universe has heard of depleted uranium rounds, yes? Or even elephant guns. Semtex. The A-10 Warthog. Hell, put a T-Rex up against an Abrams tank in a shoving match and the tank wins, because it weights sixty tons to the T-Rex’s eight. And as for the sea dinosaurs, two words: hydrostatic shock. I’m missing why this isn’t being resolved very, very quickly.
I know, I know: just watch the movie, Moe. I dunno why this bugs me so. It just does, okay?
#commissionearned
Give the gift of PICKMAN’S MODEL: A ROMANCE this Valentine’s Day!
PICKMAN’S MODEL: A ROMANCE! So good! So cheap. Perfect for that last-minute Valentine’s Day gift! …If your significant other has a certain set of mind. I will not lie to you: this is not a conventional love story. But that is perfectly fine. It merely means that you and your love are not conventional sorts of people.
#commissionearned
February 13, 2022
‘Simple Gits.’
Simple Gits, The Pyrates Royale
#commissionearned
The Obligatory “Yes, it is pretty” LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER Amazon teaser trailer.
:sigh: All right, let’s have a look at the bastard*.
A new legend begins this fall. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, only on @PrimeVideo Sept 2, 2022. #LOTRonPrime #LOTR #LOTRROP pic.twitter.com/o4o2udfiec
— The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime) February 14, 2022
“Haven’t you ever wondered? What else is out there?”
…Well, child: depending on who you ask in the Second Age, the answer would likely be NO. Because if they’re an Elf or Númenórean, they know perfectly well what else is out there, within certain established limits; and if they’re a Dwarf, well, they most certainly do not care. I mean, geez, this is Middle-Earth’s Golden Age**. All that stuff in the Third and Fourth Age was the equivalent of Fallout 4. All these Peoples know their world!
A gwann-o nin parth! Or Ar lende mime mardi-salque!, if you prefer the High Elvish.
Moe Lane
*That was from some movie. Damned if I remember the name, but it had Shelley Long in it playing a woman with multiple personalities.
**All right, fine, technically the Golden Age was the time before the destruction of the Two Trees of Valinor. Sorta. It’s complicated.
Tweet of the Day, Soon On Swords Of The Serpentine. SOON… edition.
I was kind of hoping to run this at WashingCon this year, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. I have the PDF, but I’d need to teach people the game and I’d rather have a print copy for that. Also, I don’t think WashingCon’s going to get back to me about me running a game (or buying vendor space), which is kind of weird and frustrating.
Still, can’t patiently wait for Swords of the Serpentine.
A blog post about finishing Swords of the Serpentine:https://t.co/B0kkhEhXVN#SerpentineRPG
— Kevin Kulp (@KevinKulp) February 13, 2022
02/13/22 Snippet, THE THING IN THE AIRLOCK.
More priorities!
Patreon!“All right, Ms. Waite. Let’s go back to how you knew Oates. You were friends?”
Waite gave him a closed-mouth grin. “You could say that. We didn’t have much in common at first, except that she was gonna have my ass arrested for power-squatting. Shirl told me that herself, after it didn’t matter anymore.” She shook her head. “I don’t know why that didn’t bug me. You think it would, but I guess I was in a forgiving mood. Besides, I kinda felt I’d dodged some debris. The world might of ended, but at least I wasn’t gonna end up stuck in some dirtside jail.”
“I don’t know,” Tobias mused. “At least you wouldn’t have to worry about the air, or the radiation.”
She gave him a look. “You just heard me confess to a crime, right?”
“Sure, Ms. Waite. But like you said: the world ended. I have to pick and choose what crimes to care about. Murder beats illegal accounting.”
Patreon Microfiction: 008.
February 12, 2022
If you have a QR scanner, I need to check this code for the pre-release Fermi Resolution RPG.
Version .80, more or less. The code works for me, but I want to make sure that people can download the PDF properly. And yes, this means that if it works I’m giving out the pre-release for free. I plan to offer this at Farpoint as an inducement. I also plan to do something similar for the Kickstarter, but I want to make sure I’ve done it right first.
