Moe Lane's Blog, page 647
October 28, 2021
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.
Quote of the Day, You Volunteered To Write A Screenplay For Paul Verhoeven, Scooter McGee edition.
Don’t be surprised when that particular path takes you to weird places:
[Paul Verhoeven’s upcoming film Benedetta] is based on the book by Judith C. Brown. The screenwriter of the film, Gerard Soeteman, has distanced himself from the project because he “is very unhappy with the director’s emphasis on the sexual aspect of the true life story of a lesbian nun in the Renaissance.”
After all, ‘messing with the book’ is pretty much Verhoeven’s thing. You think he was gonna stop doing that? For Heaven’s sake: why?
Moe Lane
PS: You can watch the trailer at the GeekTyrant link. I’m not putting it up here out of prurient interest: when you promise me ‘lesbian nun erotic thriller,’ I expect at least cleavage. Which is, I suppose, the exact opposite of Soeteman’s objections.
10/27/21 Snippet, TINSEL RAIN.
Worldbuilding!
Patreon!I waited until Graciella was off chasing the Lore before I went to go have a chat with Mira. Why her? Because if you volunteer to help a Shamus, you should learn right off the bat what that means.
Mira worked out of one of the soup kitchens the Syndicate runs, all over the city. It takes an effort to starve in Cin City, but it’s easy to miss a few meals; those places always have people coming and going, all hours of the day or night. Seems like the kitchens always have pots of this or that, bubbling away. Amazing how many different kinds of ingredients you need for soup or rice, too. And the Syndicate funds it all themselves! Guess charity is its own reward.
She was going through some papers when I arrived, and her nose gave the same little wrinkle at the sack in my hand as had every other cleaning lady I passed on the way. “That’s a bad habit,” I muttered as I plopped the sack on a spare desk.
“I know,” she agreed. “We’ve gotten spoiled, the last few years. We’re working on it. So, what in God’s name is that?”
I opened up the sack, to reveal my little friend from last night. It didn’t look any better now. “Funny: I was going to ask you the same question.”
Two thousand, eight hundred, ninety-nine and eight-tenths hours.
2,899.8 hours. That is my current runtime on Fallout 4, according to Steam. And apparently I did not know before today that you can get power cables inside your buildings by putting a power conduit on a floor mat, connecting it to an another conduit, and then move the mat inside.
…2,899.8 HOURS!
October 26, 2021
‘The Devil’s Son.’
Yeaaah maybe we’ll put the video for this under the fold. It’s a good song and performance, mind you, but the video… well. There’s a reason I picked it for Halloween month.
