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August 21, 2021
Tweet of the Day / Book of the Week: GURPS Girl Genius.
I… I could never quite make myself believe that this day would ever come.
The Girl Genius Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game prerelease PDF is on Warehouse 23 now! This is the prerelease PDF, and the project will be coming to Kickstarter in the future for a physical edition!
— Steve Jackson Games (@SJGames) August 21, 2021
-HShttps://t.co/JU8lqz1nDg pic.twitter.com/wk76poDczS
August 20, 2021
The Final THE ETERNALS trailer.
I’m kind of grooving on the no foolin’ superpowers. And THE ETERNALS is coming out on my wedding anniversary! …We’ll be going somewhere else besides the movie theater for that, but it’s still interesting.
08/20/21 Snippet, RESCUE.
Fighting to get this under control.
Patreon!…when the stitches were done some of the same grain alcohol being used to clean the scalp ended up going down Ted’s gullet. Two good knocks later, and he was sent off to his bunk, which surprised him. He was on the kind of ship that you’d expect would make you finish your shift, outpatient surgery or not. But aside from a few mutters, they let him try to get some sleep in peace.
Emphasis on try. The damn stitches hurt like hell. And when Ted finally did doze off, the dreams were awful, all feverish and red-tinged, with waves that sounded like scratches at the door. The dreams came in waves, too, making Ted feel hot and thirsty and even watched, despite the part of him which knew he was asleep. At least twice during the night he was brought to terrified wakefulness in the rocking cabin he shared with three other crewmembers — and where were they, anyway?
Ted decided they must be still out, working in the storm. He thought about trying to get up and help them, but the very thought unnerved him. It seemed just so much easier to lie in bed and wait for… whatever it was that was coming.
What came was dawn. And pirates.
Horror short film: “THE PICKMAN MODEL.”
The “Okay. It’s a martial arts flick” SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS clip.
Via @IMAO_, who is likewise nodding along sagely. As Tom Vargas might say: about what you’d expect from the Order of St. Jackie.
Shang-Chi most DEFINITELY knows how to fight in this new clip from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. pic.twitter.com/lfbdZK1yh1
— IGN (@IGN) August 20, 2021
Elon Musk spins the Wheel of the Blue Sky, and it lands on…
…”android:”
Elon Musk is actually building a Tesla Bot, with a prototype intended to be revealed next year. https://t.co/mRZDPcB3sT
— CNET (@CNET) August 20, 2021
Here’s the thing about Musk’s Wheel of Blue Sky, though: sometimes it lands on something he can actually make. Mostly rockets, sure, but he is also busily putting up an orbital telecommunications network, and the electric car thing is actually quite a bit further along than I thought it’d get. My wife’s raised an eyebrow over the android thing, and I don’t blame her – but while it’s smart to bet against the Tesla bot, it’s also smart to put down a reasonable amount of speculative money on it succeeding, too. You never know.
August 19, 2021
I’m editing some chapters, and then…
…going to bed. My sleep patterns have been getting mixed up, and I have to stop that before it degrades further. Better to not keep going along on the same cycle of poor planning and and missed deadlines.
It’s been a rough week for all of us, I think.
Tweet of the Day, Truly, The Ship’s Name Was Well-Chosen edition.
You would think she would be cautious about returning to the scene of the crime, as it were.
You would think.
BREAKING NEWS: OH. MY. GOD. pic.twitter.com/A0tWtZUPyO
— Shiv Ramdas (@nameshiv)
Cover to MORGAN BAROD back from the artist!
Things, as they say, proceed.
MORGAN BAROD is not yet available for pre-order; be sure to check out my other books in the meantime. Still hoping for a September 1st release, but it may end up being delayed a week or two. Publishing, alas, is not an exact science.
