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September 13, 2021
The Demented HAWKEYE Christmas Disney+ trailer.
My attention… has been acquired.
GeekTyrant detected a Die Hard vibe: I can see that, but there’s also a Lethal Weapon theme going on here, because Hawkeye is visibly deciding that he’s getting Too Old For This Sh*t. I also give points for there being a Broadway musical about Captain America in the MCU, because of course there would be one. They missed a bet there, though, in not getting Chris Evans to play the actor playing Cap in the musical. Farce is its own justification.
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PS: Kate Bishop apparently isn’t coming into this already being perfect in every way, which is nice. “Cocky 22 year old hotshot who still needs seasoning” is a perfectly cromulent archetype for a superheroine.
September 12, 2021
The HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED trailer.
There was a time where I would have gone right out and bought HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED. …Only I couldn’t, because that time was in 1996 and there wasn’t a computer on the planet back then that could play this game. Looks fun as hell, though.
Comes out September 30th. Which is, of course, in the future. Yeah, I knew that…
09/12/21 Snippet, ETERNAL NIGHT OF THE MOON-BEASTS.
Exploration!
Patreon!In the old days — which was to say, six months ago — Tobias could have flown a drone into Jetshaft from the perfect safety of his own office pod. Humans had spent forty years creating an Lunar orbital satellite network that would do the work of a proper ionosphere, and nobody had really comprehended just how useful it had been until the whole thing had just detonated, in the space of three seconds. Trying to figure out why had driven three researchers to suicide; and from what their surviving colleagues had gathered, it wasn’t because the poor bastards had failed to find the answer.
The various Lunar facilities did have enough emergency replacement satellites on-hand to allow limited communications beyond line of sight, and things could be done with relays and cables. But if Tobias wanted to remotely pilot a search vessel out past the horizon, he’d have to stick relatively close to it. That meant firing up a hopper and parking it somewhere with a good view of the target.
And it has to be me, he thought as the drone approached the target. Everybody else is too busy with keeping us all alive. Even this trip was only justifiable because it would be malignantly helpful if they could loot Jetshaft for spare parts. Plus rescue any survivors, naturally. The other facilities all needed more workers.
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Ghosts.’
‘Ghosts’ is, I guess, a bit grim. I mean, what happens if you implode? It doesn’t sound entirely pleasant, imploding.
Patreon!Tweet of the Day, This Tweet Is Slightly Too Coarse To Embed edition.
But God, it’s such a metaphor. Metaphor for what? I dunno, whatever you like. I count at least three and I’m not even trying very hard.
September 11, 2021
As was probably obvious…
…I took it easy, today. I didn’t want to contribute to the trying day that a lot of people ended up having, and it never hurts to show some empathy. I can go back to the usual round of things tomorrow.
If you could use a little peacefulness, still:
Book of the Week: How To Lie With Statistics.
This is Darrell Huff’s classic How To Lie With Statistics, not the auto-generated knockoff sales leecher that I almost linked to as a joke. I was real tempted, too. But I overcame my darker impulses. That’s been kind of the theme today, really.
September 10, 2021
I knew Christopher Nolan was working on an Oppenheimer biopic…
…but I didn’t realize he was shopping it around: “Normally, Nolan would have just worked with Warner Bros. on this, but he clearly wasn’t happy with how WarnerMedia is handling the release of their films by debuting them on HBO Max and theaters simultaneously. So, now he’s looking at other studio options.” He’s not the only director unhappy about simultaneous release, either, and who can blame them? Aside from everything else, it makes it harder to figure out who gets what money.
Relatedly: Disney’s going to release the rest of its 2021 slate in theaters only. Which is good! Now, if they’d only grow up and pay Scarlett Johansson a sufficient amount of forgive-us money for screwing up the BLACK WIDOW release.
