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October 31, 2021
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.
Tweet of the Day, This Is What Flubbing Your Fence Skill Check Looks Like edition.
“Thank God! They only took the cash.”
Local GW was broken into and they only took the money in the till.
— Nexx (@evil_scott) October 29, 2021
THE BOXES ARE WORTH MORE FOOLS pic.twitter.com/4AcUEC0yrg
Although my wife notes that the real loot is pretty bulky.
Book of the Week: Mexican Gothic.
I’ve been meaning to read Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic for a while now, and I can say that it’s living up to the title. It is definitely Mexican, and very nicely Gothic. I suppose that there’s probably some metaphor or something involving society lurking under the surface somewhere, but honestly it’s mostly about a plucky heroine dealing with a dilapidated house that’s filled with strange people. So, you know: gothic. #commissionearned
October 29, 2021
The Official WHEEL OF TIME trailer.
I wonder if I need to read the books to really get into the show. Heck, I wonder if I’ll have the time to watch THE WHEEL OF TIME. It seems like there’s always something else to do.
10/29/21 Snippet, TINSEL RAIN.
Crap ghouls!
Patreon!That earned me a scowl — and then a frown as Mira, you know, really looked at the thing. “Wait, is this a necrófago?” The frown got deeper. “Somebody’s been at it, though.”
“No kidding?” Now that she said what it was, or I guess what it had started out as, I could recognize it, too. Necrófagos are creatures that like to eat, well, crap. And rats. Oh, and giant spiders, although they hunt those in packs. There’s tons of the things in the Cin City sewer system, where there’s an abundant supply of the first food item, and these days very little of the other two.
And the reason why Mira was frowning was that dealing with necrófagos was a Syndicate thing. The creatures don’t bother people, at least while the people are alive; and they definitely don’t jab messed-up bone needles in other’s feet. This was, as they say, worrisome behavior.
