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December 8, 2021
The new THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT trailer.
…It is acceptable. I expect that many awful people will meet their gritty ends in this show, which works for me. Weird how this particular character captured fan interest, based on two, three scenes — but then, the action figure was way cool. Good luck finding an original, still in its box…
12/08/21 Snippet, TINSEL RAIN.
“BOOTLEGGER REVERSE, MISTER SULU!*”
Patreon!*Classical reference. #commissionearned
The gun felt a little sluggish after the third shot, so I dropped it in my lap and grabbed the wheel with both hands. My plan was to hit the stop-pedal, which would shake whatever it was up there off the roof, but I must have hit the go-pedal instead, because suddenly I was zooming down the road so fast the needle was approaching 55. I wasn’t sure what would happen if I hit that number. The car would explode, or something? There was something in the Lore about speed and exploding cars. In fact, I suddenly remembered that there was a lot in the Lore about exploding cars. It’s a miracle any of the Old Americans ever lived to old age.
But if I didn’t like going fast (I was going to run out of straight street soon, so I wouldn’t be doing it for long), neither did the monster; it started hammering on the roof again, but this time it sounded more like the thing was just trying to hold on. So I shoved the go-pedal again (it’s got a real name, but ‘go-pedal’ was how I learned it); and, just as the needle was about to hit the Boom Speed I took my foot off and twisted the wheel, hard.
Yeah. In the Lore, what was supposed to happen then was: the car would go in a full 360 degree turn, then come to a complete stop while the critter on the top of the car would go flying. I would then make a quick quip before I leaned out the window shot whatever-it-was with one of the missile tubes the Old Americans always kept in the back. Only I didn’t have one of those, so that’s where it started to go wrong.
Tweet of the Day, They Cannot See The Edition.
Clearly.
— Holly Jolly Cactus(@cactikaktos) December 8, 2021
December 7, 2021
Tweet-Thread of the Day, It’s All True edition.
All of it. Perfectly true. But not actually infallible, because… never mind.
What kind of online Catholics the Muppets are, knee jerk reactions only, a thread:
— John Herreid (@HerreidJohn) December 7, 2021
12/07/21 Snippet, THE STARS ARE WRONG.
There are some weird things about this culture, huh?
Patreon!By the time I could assemble enough time for even a squad of Guardians, there was no point to it. Jefsin-Fankin had wriggled away from his usual haunts, and none of our informants or rumormongers had any idea where he had gone.
Jak was eager to go looking for him anyway. The rioting had left him choleric and awake, used to staving in skulls to keep the peace — and restless, now that peace had come. “We should kick down some doors, anyway,” he muttered over his beer one night. “A good shaking, and a Kee will tell you everything you want. A knife at their brat’s throat, and they’ll do anything you want, too.” He glared at me. “Or would that make things less quiet for your liking, Ward?”
“It would,” I agreed, with a scowl for his tone. “We just had a flood wash over the city, Jak, and now a lot of old fights and grudges are wriggling out of the muck. Some of them, we do not want flopping over our own boots. And the Kee were hardly meek and mild in the riots, were they?”
Jak flushed; he, too, had seen what had happened to one notorious gang when they had tried to make the Kee pay for protection from the riots. How could he not? Every gallows in town had borne new fruit. “Even scum will fight when it’s at their doorstep,” he muttered; I forbore from pointing out that he had just contradicted himself.
12/07/21 Snippet, THE DOOM THAT CAME TO LUNA CITY.
Ad hoc meetings!
Patreon!Luna under lifeboat — or Lifeboat — rules was a mix of the old and new. Tobias theoretically could give orders to everybody in the bus and expect them to be obeyed; and as long as they were smart orders, they would be. But more than one facility had gotten wrecked by bad orders, given by officers and managers who weren’t flexible enough to understand that rules had fundamentally changed, including some of the ones involving physics. The line between prudence and insubordination was razor thin these days, and a smart officer never tried to grab it.
So… Tobias had a war council. “A month ago, Luna City shut down all life support in order to stop an… infestation. The site was monitored until the reactor went offline. Now there’s power again. We have enough life support on our own to investigate and get back safely, but no communication channel to Heinlein base. And we’re temporarily out of communication range of Luna City.”
12/07/21 Snippet, TINSEL RAIN.
I can still hear the soundtrack.
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There is a room, deep in the heart of the Billy. In it are some things that I can’t talk about, a few I won’t talk about, and a couple of things that nobody cares about now but nobody dares throw out. And there’s also the Driving Machine. It’s a wonder of the Old Americans, used I guess to teach their kids the basics of driving. It’s coin-fed, probably because the Machine’s got it all: a steering wheel, a lever, two pedals, and electronic courses to drive on. It even has a soundtrack!
Anyway, all Shamuses trained in Cin City will have fond memories of being brought down there, and taught how to drive fast. And not to brag, but I was a natural. The Loremasters even gave me extra training: most Shamuses got an hour or two, but I was allowed a whole ten. Ten! And they were ten of the best hours of my teenage years.
…Actually driving one of these glorious monsters into the city was a little different than the Machine. Starting with all the screaming. I bet the pedestrians outside were yelling a lot, too.
The VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE Honest Trailer.
I did in fact pick up on the gay elements in VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE. Or at least some of them: the video snapshot below points out one I missed (yeah, I don’t know how that eluded me, either). Honest Trailers also points out that it’s a fun movie, which I agree with completely. Almost operatic, as I’ve said elsewhere. They should sing arias in the next one.
Seriously.
#commissionearned
