Moe Lane's Blog, page 776
March 11, 2021
Tweet of the Day, One For The Marvelous Future List edition.
Saw this on the Penny Arcade Discord. Watch the bottom one first, so that you can appreciate the hysterical joke in the top one. But the original is in fact awesome, all on its own.
This is incredible, but the whole time I kept thinking something was missing so I tweaked it slightly. https://t.co/9prgrgjEsx pic.twitter.com/4hnb6QjpQL
— OwenAdamsYT (@OwenAdamsYT1) March 9, 2021
Tweet of the Day, On To The Next Informative Failure edition.
I say this approvingly. This is how you get to putting rockets in the air and getting them back safely and then put them into the air again.
SN10 engine was low on thrust due (probably) to partial helium ingestion from fuel header tank. Impact of 10m/s crushed legs & part of skirt. Multiple fixes in work for SN11.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 9, 2021
Via Instapundit. I’ll say this: watching Musk’s space program is a lot of fun. We might get somebody back to the Moon in my lifetime, at that.
March 10, 2021
Today was Shorts Day!
It’s a magical time, when a middle-aged man can break out the cargo shorts for the first time in a year. I get to wear them tomorrow and Friday, too! It’s very thrilling.
…Yeah, sorry, that was today. Shorts, and getting stuff written, but you knew about the stuff being written already. Some days aren’t very exciting.
03/10/21 Snippet, PIGEON.
Another character!
Patreon!Step one was finding a partner, preferably one who was what we in my profession call a ‘shield.’ Shields need to have several virtues, like: large, tough, and gullible. Some would add ‘dumb,’ but you should avoid the truly stupid ones. When a shield dies, the person using him as one typically dies a few moments later. No, you definitely want one smart enough to stay alive.
But you don’t want a sage, either. Fortunately, I knew just the guy for the job… “Hey, Bub!” I said cheerfully as I poked my head into the stables behind the Oasis. “Got a job for ya.”
Bub looked down at me. Not because he didn’t like me, but because he’s two yards tall and pretty damn wide. His face furrowed. “You pay me for the last one, Zed?” he rumbled. I had, but I didn’t remind him of that. Bub would remember in a moment, and he hated it when humans showed off their mental agility.
Last days of the DIFFERENT TROUBLE Kickstarter!
Greg Stolze’s DIFFERENT TROUBLE is a science fiction TTRPG supplement to TERMINATION SHOCK, which is itself a science fiction TTRPG (obviously) that aims to get playable realistic aliens and AIs, among other things. It’s a fun setting and I hear the game itself is fun to play; I’ve backed it. Greg’s just having the Kickstarter go down to the wire, that’s all.
03/10/21 Snippet, DUNGEON CLEANING.
Excitement!
Patreon!First things first; getting this damn carriage under control — no, wait, already covered. Alonzo had jammed the ‘jutting spike’ part of his dwarven army ax into the floor. It ripped up a couple of inches of carpet before the point caught in the wood underneath, but it did catch — and now he was half-sliding, half-hopping down to the front box. I’d rather his hands on the reins than whatever air-daemon they had installed for stuff like this.
So. Alonzo, good. Marta? Marta was jammed up against one of the bolted-on chairs and quickly shoving on sticky-feet. So, good. Silverlie and Jik-Yik were checking each other’s safety leashes and trying not to bounce too much. Good enough. And Evelyn? She had somehow managed to wedge herself upright — if ‘upright’ even meant anything, at the moment, and was waiting, crossbow in hand. That was not good, because it meant she’d be a target as soon as we straightened out. And me? I was planning to be even worse off than Evelyn, in a moment.
Tweet of the Day, This Is What Living Your Best Life Looks Like edition.
Just passing time with the pachyderms.
Wild elephants splash and play in man's pool during up close and personal encounter pic.twitter.com/wLaCtFSM2C
— The Sun (@TheSun) March 10, 2021
Via @BrianFaughnan.
March 9, 2021
THE HOWLING TIME DRAWS NEAR.
I had forgotten the onrushing horror.
Brood X cicadas are about to put on one of the wildest shows in nature. And D.C. is the main stage. https://t.co/YIpyG03dTz
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 9, 2021
Time for the song!
