Moe Lane's Blog, page 755
April 20, 2021
Sounds like I can play Outriders again.
Been holding off on getting back into Outriders because of the inventory bug, but it looks like they finally fixed it. Not that my gear was all that great, but I upgraded it and it was mine. I didn’t want it messed with.
In the mail: FROZEN DREAMS in hardcover!
BEHOLD! It looks pretty spiffy, too. Tell all your friends to buy a copy.
04/20/21 Snippet, MEATBAGS.
I swear, this is my favorite character to write dialog for.
Patreon!So, there I was, in a mixed squad — I’ll say this; meatbags are even harder to kill than cockroaches sometimes. There was me and Smart Yuri and Brave Little Toaster and Chikako and Botlicker and Joe Buckley, and we all agreed on one thing: Spica 7 completely sucked. Didn’t know either the people or the meatbags, except for the Toaster, but after a couple of days it didn’t matter. The amount of mud gumming up my joints, I didn’t know me, either.
And what happened there… look, the squad of giant Horde mecha-chewers bursting up through the ground wasn’t anybody’s fault, OK? We were all so busy watching the skies and the goopy horizon that we forgot about the ground. We should have been listening, sure; but I’m not a meatbag, I don’t know how to listen through mud. You meatbags are the ones with mud growing in your ears.
No, wait, you meatbags have this goop called ‘wax.’ Which you then used to smear together around a piece of string and burn the whole thing, right? For light. Because you can’t handle even a little electricity.
So they got tactical surprise. We didn’t know anything was wrong until the first mecha-chewer burst out of the mud and just misted Buckley. I looked at the Horde’s tac-records later, and they weren’t even trying to get any of the meatbags in the breakout. It was a million-to-one chance Buckley was there in just the wrong place, and at least it was quick, right?
All right. FINE. I’ll try TED LASSO.
Everybody happy, now? Swear to God, it’s like an infectious meme. Or a cult. Oh, well, Apple TV’s only five bucks a month.
Tweet of the Day, FORK HANDS edition.
This is pretty good.
I like this fork hands explanation: pic.twitter.com/aK368dhB8t
— Dinidu Perera (@nunu10000) April 19, 2021
Via @BrianFaughnan.
April 19, 2021
04/19/21 Snippet, Le Roi Est Mort.
This one is mostly done already, but it needed a little expanding. I don’t see it needing much more work.
Patreon!But as the parade begins to slow, there is a commotion. A commotion around… you?
Yes, you. A person comes through the crowd, eyes wild and searching, and light upon your form. At first you think this is a madman, and you smile. It is a rule of the Golden Emperor that you must treat madmen gently. But you then realize, with a start of surprise, that this is no lunatic. It is the one from the neighborhood, the one who earlier… no. The past is the past, and this is the now.
You squint, so as not to see. But you can still hear the voice. The voice entreats, harangues, begs; it tells you of dangers and perils. You must leave, according to the voice; you must leave now. Before your eternal now ends.
For a moment — just a moment! — the scent of the lotuses fades a little, and you half-wonder of your plans for after the funeral. A trace thought, filled with hesitation or even perhaps apprehension, brushes through your mind, and you notice how heavy are both the pole and the banner bearing the Sign of the Golden Emperor. To your shame, for a moment you weaken.
But the wind shifts, and the smell of the lotus comes back, and with a happy sigh you gratefully abandon those thoughts. They are unimportant, anyway. The funeral of the Golden Emperor, now: that is important.
The voice continues to entreat beg, but you march onward. Behind you, the begging turns to angry shouts as some stout fellows, no doubt here to make the parade pass smoothly, escort the voice and its owner away. You feel grateful as you move onward.
After a moment, you may or may not hear something like a splash.
Apparently Rob Zombie is doing a Munsters movie.
It was reported last month (by Murphy’s Multiverse) that Rob Zombie would be getting back behind the camera for this next horror project, a new interpretation of The Munsters, which would film this coming May in Budapest.
From what I’m hearing, and I have not been able to confirm this, The Munsters is actually going to be a Peacock original/exclusive that will open day-and-date in theaters via Universal Pictures/UPHE, similar to what Warner Bros. is doing with HBO Max. It’s a great way to strengthen the return on a larger budgeted risk like The Munsters, which is reportedly in the $30M-$40M range.
Apparently Rob is a hardcore Munsters fan, so this is ‘labor of love’ territory. I’m curious to see what he does with it, too. Admittedly, I’m more of an Addams Family guy, but I don’t scorn the other aesthetic, either. Besides: they had an admittedly sweet car. I think I had that car as a Matchbox or Hot Wheels as a kid, although I may be misremembering it.
So, there’s a prequel of ARMY OF THE DEAD called ARMY OF THIEVES…
…which is casually mentioned here while they were talking about a not-gonna-happen Atom movie made in the PRC*. The two movies are coming out at the same time, I guess? God, I hate what this damn virus has done to movie distribution.
Moe Lane
*Well, I’m not gonna see it. I’m trying to cut down on my consumption of products made with slave labor.
