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October 29, 2021
Getting the last FERMI RESOLUTION RPG art in!
And damn but this looks good. Ben Fleuter‘s outdone himself here. Can’t wait to see the other character sketch!
The WITCHER Season 2 trailer.
October 28, 2021
Early night tonight (Cookery suggestions welcome).
I’ve got a full weekend ahead; Halloween approaches, and we’re going to have a proper one this Sunday. Which means, among other things, that I need to come up with good snack food for the day. Something simple, harvest-style (not spooky-style), and with as little cooking as possible. I’d make a gallon of hot cider, but I’m the only one who’d be drinking it…
Special Halloween gifts from @HPLHS: audio short stories!
The stories are “Seaton’s Aunt” (Walter de la Mare) and “What Was It?” (Fitz-James O’Brien), and they’re from the HPL Historical Society’s upcoming The Literature of Lovecraft audiobook. Lemme put up the ad copy:
“The Literature of Lovecraft is a collection of weird tales that Lovecraft himself enjoyed and endorsed in his Commonplace Book and in his essay Supernatural Horror in Literature. Volume 1 of this collection consists of 43 tales read by the HPLHS’ own Sean Branney and Andrew Leman, giving you nearly fifty hours of readings of some of the best tales of horror and the supernatural ever written. The readings feature original music by Troy Sterling Nies. The Literature of Lovecraft is not yet available for order but is coming soon from the HPLHS.”
Their audio-only stuff is always fun, so I downloaded it – despite not being an audiobook sort of person. Dunno why I’m not, honestly. Particularly since I like their DARTs. Guess I’m just contrary that way?
The shipping crisis is *already* cutting into the bone.
From the GURPS Girl Genius Kickstarter:
With supply chain issues across the world, we want to be sure we have plenty of room for error and delays and still meet the May estimated delivery date. One of the supply issues is paper. We have been communicating closely with the printer. There’s a possible future in which they literally don’t have enough of our paper stock to print as many copies as we now “fear” you might ask for, and still hit the agreed schedule.
If you look at the project reward levels, you’ll notice that every print reward now has a limit. We would rather limit quantities than make the project late.
If this possibly going to happen with paper (we’re one of the top five paper producers), it’s definitely going to happen with a bunch of other things. Buy your Christmas presents now, and make sure they’re coming from a place that can weather our supply problems with minimum disruption. Because this will get worse.
Just the way it is, sorry.
Moe Lane
Tweet of the Day, The Line Must Be Drawn HERE edition.
I will not sacrifice the McRib. We’ve made too many apologies already; too many retreats. They attack Pumpkin Spice, and we fall back. They sneer at candy corn, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!
Exhausted from defending Candy Corn all month then gotta head right back in cause you hear ppl slandering the McRib pic.twitter.com/DeBFGcgfM8
— Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi (@roywoodjr) October 28, 2021
I was gonna finish the speech, but it’s not like I’m gonna punch anybody other this or anything.
The ‘It’ll be good if they played it straight’ HELLBOUND Netflix trailer.
I would be more confident of HELLBOUND if it lived up to this trailer.
But the problem here is that modern popular culture has a real issue with taking seriously the idea of ‘Some things are objectively bad and deserve to be punished, whether you like it or not.’ The odds are great that this flick will wimp out and make the supernatural antagonists hypocrites, liars, or just wrong. Even though the real frisson of horror for the audience would come when they realize how all those relatable, real characters are really going to Hell and that’s it, that’s the ending, REPENT, YE SINNERS.
But maybe I will be pleasantly surprised. It’s a South Korean flick, after all. Maybe other cultural cinematic assumptions would be in play.
October 27, 2021
The ‘You can’t see it, but my eyes are narrowed’ LIGHTYEAR teaser trailer.
Like many people, I have questions.
To infinity and …
— Disney and Pixar's Lightyear (@PixarsLightyear) October 27, 2021Experience the origin story of a Space Ranger in Disney and Pixar’s #Lightyear, in theaters Summer 2022.
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Fortunately, I have one advantage over many of those people: I don’t require that the answers to those questions make sense. Mostly, I just care if LIGHTYEAR is worth watching. If it is, it can be an incoherent, jumbled mess on the worldbuilding front.
Ooh Watch: two new supplements for Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition.
We got Sabbat: The Black Hand (supposedly coming out in October) and Second Inquisition (coming out in January). Well. I just got them both. I happened to have enough personal cash to cover the purchases.
Moe Lane
PS: I’m more interested in Second Inquisition; I’m assuming that it’s gonna cover more original ground than the Sabbat sourcebook. But I figure I’ll like both books.
