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December 11, 2020
The EVIL DEAD: THE GAME trailer.
FDA authorizes EUA for Pfizer vaccine.
Here we go.
Today, FDA issued the first emergency use authorization (EUA) for a vaccine for the prevention of #COVID19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 in individuals 16 years of age and older. The emergency use authorization allows the vaccine to be distributed in the U.S. https://t.co/1Vu0xQqmCB pic.twitter.com/c8maeePP9O
— U.S. FDA (@US_FDA) December 12, 2020
I’ve had Christmas gifts I’ve liked less.
‘Music of Dark Adventure.’
I may pick this up, if I get Christmas money that can be translated into HPLHS. Basically, the HPL Historical Society collected all of the orchestral music they use for their Dark Adventure Radio Theater shows and is now offering them in an album. I like it! If I ran a Call of Cthulhu game, I wouldn’t be waiting to pick it up.
Oh, this looks VERY nice.
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) December 11, 2020
Music of Dark Adventure https://t.co/lzfsMsgCu8
12/11/20 Snippet, TIMMY AND THE CHRISTMAS ELF.
More stalking!
Patreon!The elf had done something to the security pad that normally kept the door to the back of the mall closed. Timmy remembered that they could do stuff like that. Elves didn’t like electricity and iron, and those two things didn’t like them right back; but when it came to electric gadgets elves messed that stuff up, instead of being messed up by them. The power would come back on, but until then the door opened with a touch.
Behind was basically boring adult stuff. Timmy had been hoping for rows of shelves and crates, just like that old movie; what he got instead was a hallway with an old carpet and lights that were either too bright, or too flickery. The rooms here looked like offices, now closed because it was after dark, and if there were any cleaning ladies it was between shifts.
That would work. The elf was probably crouched in one of the offices, waiting to see if, ha, somebody was following it before it made a break for the door to the outside at the opposite end. Which was dumb, Timmy thought. If you need to run, run. That’s what he’d do. That’s what he’d done. But dumb was helping him, so Timmy stepped forward…
…and stopped at the question suddenly hissed behind him. “Hey! Are you supposed to be here?”
So, I was up until 5 AM on CYBERPUNK 2077.
I guess that means it’s… good? Also: it is remarkably easy to get into the habit of slaughtering gang members (after checking them for NCPD bounties, of course) in order to fund your cyberware debts. I realized this only after being surrounded by a pile of corpse parts in an alleyway. Am I a serial killer for the police? I asked myself, and was mildly troubled when I considered the answer.
Awk-ward…
Moe Lane
PS: Cyberpunk 2077 runs real smooth on my machine, by the way. I dunno, maybe the Day One Patch was included in the reinstallation.
December 10, 2020
12/10/20 Snippet, GHOST OF THE DEVIL HORSE.
Gadgets! Exposition!
Patreon!“The spectral reverberator, or specrev, is here to help us contact ghosts,” Hank went on. “The real deep ghosts, the ones so old they’re almost in stasis. This should help us focus them enough that they can function and communicate – and who knows? Maybe some of them will take advantage of the specrev to Go On.”
All right, quick debunking here: ghosts don’t actually fade away into nothing, because a ghost is actually a soul and those are invulnerable to everything. But the really old ghosts get that way because they found this equilibrium where they don’t feel pulled either Up or Down – or pulled to do anything else, really. Which all sounds really boring, but I guess some people prefer it to being judged. Or they’ve spent so long paring away the post-mortem unessentials that they’ve forgotten that there was anywhere else to go.
Barbara spoke up. “Why are we looking for the deeper ghosts?” she asked. “I thought the dig was going to focus on the Dominion Conquest period. The Council of Five and the Rattlesnake Legion sites: we already know their approximate locations, and whatever ghosts survive from then are still accessible by the usual methods.” Goat blood, if you’re not familiar with the techniques. Hey, it worked for the Antediluvian Greeks and Romans, right? “Or do you have another little surprise for us, Sage Johnson?”
Tweet of the Day, The NOBODY Trailer Goes To Places I’m Happy To Revisit.
It’s just enough different from JOHN WICK that I’ll go, Sure. Dude’s got to balance being a BAMF with his responsibilities as a husband and father. That’s relatable. Look, I go to movies to relax, okay? I’m not going to get upset that somebody made a movie that’s pretty close to a bunch of movies that I liked.
Obviously I’m going to be seeing BOB WICK in movie theaters. https://t.co/k36c4qYsMw
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) December 10, 2020
12/10/20 Snippet, TIMMY AND THE CHRISTMAS ELF.
Flushing out the game!
Patreon!In the end, Timmy decided to make like a lion and roar.
It was a little roar, though. He couldn’t be really loud; and he couldn’t roar right at the elf, either. Timmy knew that if he did, the elf would freak out in front of everybody, and that would be bad. But if he roared a little, at somebody who couldn’t hear him anyway? Yeah, that might make the elf run.
The trick was, finding somebody to roar at, close enough to the elf to spook it but not close enough that the elf could see who was roaring. Timmy picked a girl, close enough to his own age. She was with both her parents, trying not to listen as they yelled at each other the way adults do when they don’t want people to see them yelling. Timmy sighed. Some people just didn’t have any Christmas spirit.
