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November 1, 2021
The BOOK OF BOBA FETT Disney+ trailer.
Looks good, but not yet EPIC: in my opinion, THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT needs more blaster fire and betrayal. As long as the betrayer isn’t Fennec Shand, because she’s fun. But it’ll probably be Fennec Shand.
NaNoWriMo 2021 has begun!
This year I’ll be turning my novella GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND into an actual novel. It needs it, honestly. I also think that it gets to be the manuscript I send out to be endlessly rejected and/or brandish when somebody asks me, Do you have a novel available? I mean, I could self-publish it, but I don’t make enough to hope to publish more than one novel a year*.
Anyway, this one is not in the world of the Fermi Resolution. But keep an eye out for a possible fun thing associated with next year’s Kickstarter…
*Speaking off…
My books. (#commissionearned)My Patreon.October 31, 2021
The October Patreon stuff is up!
This month we have:
A chapter from TINSEL RAIN! Alchemy! Spirits! Spare ribs!Part V of MONSTER WAR DOOM! Details on the bad guys, who are arguably the good guys, only they’re not there yet and they definitely do oppose your players!As always, check out my Patreon!
Patreon!Patreon Microfiction: Mission of (Technical) Mercy.
I’m not sure what’s so bad that hangin’ seems like a better option, but whatever it is; it’s in the Devil’s Mine. So much so the sheriff’s not entirely certain he wants to go there himself. But the protagonist has his own reasons for seeing the job done… yeah, yeah, yeah: ‘Mission of (Technical) Mercy’ could have been a longer story.
Patreon!Bezos plans to build Orbital Reef in, guess where, orbit.
This is smart of Jeff Bezos. He should stop chasing Elon Musk when it comes to building rockets and concentrate instead on building orbital business parks:
Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos, has unveiled plans for a space station called Orbital Reef.
The space station would be built to give anyone “the opportunity to establish their own address on orbit” by providing services such as planning, payload development, training, transportation, data analysis and security.
Besides, there’s a LOT of [expletive deleted]ing money in all of that. Which Bezos knows, perfectly well: Amazon makes a metric [expletive deleted]-ton of cash selling services to people*. Expanding that out to LEO seems a reasonable progression. And a good start.
(AVia: @BrianFaughnan)
Moe Lane
*For example: I publish books, remember? Because I don’t! Amazon publishes them, and gives me my cut.
The Skin Horse 2022 Calendar Kickstarter.
This one was easy to justify in my head; I’m gonna need a calendar for 2022 anyway. I’d rather it was a Skin Horse 2022 Calendar, honestly. And getting an original strip at the $50 level makes this even more of a steal.
October 30, 2021
‘Mary Jane’s Last Dance.’
Mary Jane’s Last Dance, Tom Petty
#commissionearned
Shockingly, CYBERPUNK 2077 updates/DLC now delayed to 2022.
This is not actually shocking: “Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red announced last week that its Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 versions of the game had been delayed until 2022. On Thursday, the developer updated its development roadmap — first published in January — with a more detailed look at the delay, showing there are no more expected updates for 2021.” It’s almost November, after all. If they weren’t going to have big DLC for the game out by now, they weren’t going to be able to manage it by the end of the year.
And, honestly? That’s not bugging me. I played the game, I beat the game, and I can always play it again when they get around to giving me the DLC. Or if the modding community takes off. Modding is why I still play Fallout 4, after all. And if it doesn’t happen… meh. I got my money’s worth already.
Moe Lane
#commissionearned
Halloween tomorrow!
Holiday weekend today. Had to make sure the kids had their homework done, so as to make sure it wasn’t hanging over their heads for the trick-or-treating. Also had to prep this month’s Patreon story (which is a chapter from TINSEL RAIN), so it’s been a day.
