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September 1, 2021
Annnnnd here comes the rain.
If I don’t post anything else for the rest of the day, it’s because the power’s out. Or there was a tornado. Buy my books!
SHAZAM!: FURY OF THE GODS has wrapped up production.
And that’s a wrap! pic.twitter.com/7Zum78l8YL
— David F. Sandberg (@ponysmasher) August 31, 2021
I liked SHAZAM! a lot, as you may recall: it was sweet, decent (in the ethical sense), and it didn’t sneer at the source material. It was obviously silly, but I was there for that. I look forward to SHAZAM!: FURY OF THE GODS, and… Please, God: don’t let it suck.
August 31, 2021
‘Pretty Good Year.’
Yeah, I’m doing it again, mostly because I think it was. At least, I’ve managed to put together a decent back catalog in the last fifteen months. That’s not too shabby.
CDPR hires them some modders.
Seems like a good call:
Developer CD Projekt Red has scooped up some modders to help the team iron out Cyberpunk 2077 backend issues and work on official mod support.
The news comes by way of Twitch streamer and YouTuber Tyler McVicker, who spotted in a Discord server that the Budapest-based custom development studio Yigsoft will be joining CD Projekt Red’s ranks. Yigsoft is best known for the open-source tool WolvenKit, which allowed modders to edit any file in CDPR titles such as Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3.
If there’s a game that could profit from an extensive mod library, it’s CYBERPUNK 2077. Note: I am not slamming the game. I had a lot of fun playing it. I’m ready to play it some more, once I have more missions to muck about with. I’m only gonna get that from a vibrant modding experience. So hire away, guys.
Tweet of the Day, Zoinks edition.
I smilingly decline to give any context. I had to look it up myself, and I won’t deny you the pleasure of finding it all out for yourself.
This is honestly the greatest day. pic.twitter.com/EHr3yRhVPM
— Joe Cunningham (@JoePCunningham) September 1, 2021
This month’s Patreon entries!
They’re up:
Chapters 1 through 4 of MORGAN BAROD. To whet the whistle!Monster War Doom, Part 3: Monsters (The Unnatural): To flesh out the PCs!
Patreon!Item Seed: Deorderant.
Deorderant
Description: available in either solid or spray form. Odorless, but tastes slightly of peppermint. Deorderant can be easily transported (it’s highly stable under earth-like conditions), but any attempts to label the canisters the stuff is stored in will rapidly fail.
The Exalted Races officially don’t trade with us mere Galactic species. They don’t do much unofficial trade with us, either — but apparently individual members of hyper-evolved species will still have specific needs that can’t be filled conventionally. There’s quite a few of them among the Hamganda, for example: we trade them copies of humanity’s yearly cultural output* in exchange for whatever gimcracks they happen to have lying around at the time. It’s rarely a bad deal. Certainly Deorderant ended up being handy.
Deorderant is a directed entropy increaser. It eats ‘dead’ information that it comes in contact with, like DNA flakes, the printed word, or digital records; astoundingly, it’s aggressively non-toxic when it comes to living creatures, which in this context includes ‘artificial intelligences.’ Spray some in a room (Deorderant gas lasts a half-hour before dissipating), and it will prevent spying from outside. It’ll also eat the words off the page (or files off the hard drive) of anything that isn’t encased in an element (copper plating will do), so people are careful where they use it. The standard practice is to put two people in vaccuum suits, their communications devices connected by a copper cable; this way, they can talk to each other (and transfer files) in perfect security. The solid stuff isn’t too shabby, either: people picked up on its ability to destroy DNA evidence right away, but it’s also a remarkably good treatment against non-sapient infovores and memetic-based assaults — and, obviously, any kind of psionic attack.
All of this obviously violates multiple physical laws — but then, most Exalted Race tech does. People are used to it by now: scientists in particular treat Deorderant as flat-out magic, and it’s hard to argue that this particular act of memetic self-defense is the wrong idea. It’s never great when a scientist goes stark, raving mad in the immediate presence of multiple high-energy, poorly-understood artifacts.
*We’re pretty sure they’re just interested in the pornography, but don’t want to say. There’s a strong argument that we’re trading with the Hamgandan equivalent of healthy adolescents.
DECISIONS is now available in paperback!
Got it done before September. DECISIONS is likely to be the last fiction I publish in 2021: the Kickstarter money has been well and truly squeezed dry at this point. On the other hand, it helped fund two novels, one collection of short stories, three illustrated chapbooks, an illustrated short story, the upcoming RPG supplement, and an audiobook — so I probably shouldn’t complain.
August 30, 2021
I really don’t get this Amazon advertising thing at all.
Hopefully it’s because I’m new to it, and not simply old. Any insight would be lovely, really. I’m not proud.
…Well, I am, actually. Just not about stuff like that.
