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March 18, 2022
Tweet of the Day, HOOKERS! edition.
I’m telling you right now: people are just gonna use this for HOOKERS! Real-time, personalized virtual HOOKERS!
https://t.co/o3lQ5RRADg pic.twitter.com/wr8aaVBLdz
— Foster (@foster_type) March 18, 2022
Whether this is more or less dystopian than the above Tweets suggest is obviously going to be a matter of your own personal opinion.
Moe Lane
PS: Of course I used the Bender voice.
#commissionearned
March 17, 2022
‘If I Ever Leave This World Alive.’
Fine. Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
GURPS SOCIAL ENGINEERING now available on Print On Demand.
Available on Amazon, no less.
Daily Illuminator: GURPS Social Engineering Now In Print https://t.co/u1ikJ6SGVN
— Steve Jackson Games (@SJGames) March 17, 2022
I like the idea of getting around shipping costs this way, and I wish they’d use it to do more with In Nomine. But then, who are they gonna have run a rejuvenation of that particular RPG? Those of us who could credibly write or edit the game line have scattered to the four winds*.
Ach, well.
Moe Lane
#commissionearned
*I won’t bore you with melancholy reminiscences about names you wouldn’t recognize anyway. But some of those folks knew what they were about when it came to writing gaming material…
03/17/22 Snippet, THE DECALOGUE KILLER.
False Witness!
Patreon!“Mr. Walters was a key member of this firm,” Sally Martinez told me, as imperiously as she could. Since she was in charge of a pretty big city law firm, her ‘could’ wasn’t half bad. “I would expect some delicacy in the reports on his death.”
“All right, Ms. Martinez,” I said, and bit back a smile at her little look of surprise. “So give me some delicate details about the guy. What were his good points? Gave to the poor, loving family, did charitable works in his spare time?”
I could tell she wanted to lie. She really did. Instead Martinez grimaced and said, “Mr. Walters was nothing if not attached to his work. He was an excellent defense attorney, and a scrupulous one. Do you understand me, Mr. Boyden? He was no kind of ‘False Witness,’ and our firm will not look kindly on any allegation that he was.”
The way she was glaring at me, I’m surprised my tie didn’t catch fire. “Didn’t say anything of the sort, Ms. Martinez. I’m not the one hanging the monikers on the Decalogue Killer’s victims.”
“No, you just feed red meat to the ign… the good citizens of Bay City. Then you report on whatever moniker they come up with. It’s all nice and tidy that way, isn’t it?”
“Maybe,” I said, because it wasn’t like I was gonna agree with her in public.
An important milestone on the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter.
This was a private goal, not a public one: I broke $2,100 on the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter! This was important because of my funding realities. The very short version is that it can take more than a year’s worth of various money pools refilling before I can squeeze enough cash out to self-publish a novel. Note: this is not a complaint. I am very lucky to have those money pools. Most people do not. Many of the people who do have those pools need the money for more important things, like food and rent.
In practical terms, this means that my Kickstarters are “I need to get over the finish line,” not “pay for my artistic vision.” I calculated that I could hopefully get the book out at the end of the summer if I put together a Kickstarter, assuming that the money pools filled at their usual rates. It was a safe enough bet – but now that we’re above that $2,100 number, it’s no longer a bet at all. I can cover my remaining expenses for TINSEL RAIN with what I have in savings and what I pull in from the Kickstarter. From now on in, all cash collected can go towards new projects. Which is very neat-o: thanks.
No, seriously, thanks.
SWORDS OF THE SERPENTINE: new shipping date, price warning.
SWORDS OF THE SERPENTINE is Pelgrane Press’s sword-and-sorcery GUMSHOE game, and I’ve been looking forward to getting it. I’ve also pre-ordered it, so the news about the price change is only vexing in an academic way:
The ink issues have been resolved with updated files, and the printers have gone back to work on the print book. They’ve got some backlogs at the moment, and their expected ship date is mid-May. We’ll send out an email before they ship out to confirm pre-orderers addresses. If you haven’t pre-ordered your copy yet, you may be interested to know that, due to increases in the print costs, we’ve had to push up the MSRP of the print book to $59.95/£49.95; however, it will remain at its existing $49.95/£39.95 for pre-orderers.
Yay, inflation! And this is just going to get worse, folks. Now is the time to lock in sales prices.
Hey, it’s Saint Patrick’s Day!
:sigh: Fine. Like Canute, I see the futility of commanding the sea not to rise.* Just try not to get too drunk tonight and stay off the damn roads. …That’s directed at people who aren’t long-time readers. I know y’all who are, are too smart to do something that dumb.
*You will be utterly unsurprised to discover that there is some argument over whether Canute knew he couldn’t command the seas, or if he even ever tried to command the seas at all. The whole damn universe is waiting for us to discover the chronoscanner…
March 16, 2022
In Nomine Revisited: Happy Frank’s 24-hour Garage and Pit Stop.
Sometimes you just have to have normal places in your game.
Happy-Franks-24-hour-Garage-and-Pit-Stop-Google-DocsDownloadTweet Thread of the Day, This One Is My Favorite edition.
I don’t know if any of these are real Space Force patches, and I refuse to find out.
22nd Space Operation Squadron. they had a bet with the 23rd about who could look more evil pic.twitter.com/PoUyA8UWYs
— Ben (@cinemashoebox) March 16, 2022
