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November 13, 2020
Anybody playing CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR yet?
I’m not gonna lie: CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR looks tempting, on a meta-level. I don’t play shooters, you see. But I do kind of want to be sent out by the Gipper to covertly fight Commies in a suitably deniable fashion, so I’m not sure.
I also suspect I should wait a few months until the bugs get shaken out of the game. Which would be smart, because I have books to put to be anyway. But since when do I go for extra smartness?
Folks have any thoughts on this?
11/13/20 Update, TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter.
Five days left on the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter! Soon I can figure out how I’m gonna be doing all of this. Okay, I know how and the general steps involved; but the devil is, as they say, in the details. Everything is moving along well, which is the important thing. December’s gonna be busy, though.
Day 13, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo: 28275/60000.
Back on track, I think. But this is going to be a 80K word book, at minimum. I’m not sure why they picked 50K as the target number.
Patreon!“…Whenever we get a new ambassador, there’s always a list of people at the Castle who ‘get’ to meet them. This time,. your name was on the list, for two nights from now.” Dory looked very unhappy. “And you won’t be attending on her at the Castle, either. You’ll have to go to the Embassy itself. Should I bother to tell you to be careful?”
“If it makes you feel better. Or we can use that head of yours. You’re the hotshot Court Producer: what’s her angle here?”
“Good question.” Dory began to pace, not that there was any room for that. “Well, we know she wants to be seen meeting you.”
“We do?” I said.
Dory didn’t even bother to answer that, so I guess we did know it. “And she doesn’t want the Palace to know what she talked to you about. Got it!” She actually snapped her fingers. “She’s going to try to vamp you.” Only Dory didn’t use the word ‘seduce.’
You hear about people going pop-eyed, but you never see it. You never see yourself doing it, either. Well, all right, you can’t see yourself doing it – but you know what I mean. “That’s insane!” I almost yelled.
“Why?” said Dory, innocently, and then spoiled the effect by giggling. She doesn’t giggle often, so it’s younger than the rest of her. “Sorry, Tom. But it was worth it, just for the look on your face.”
“Funny. Ha. Ha. Ha. I’d rather bed a scorpion,” I said sourly.
“You might end up doing that. I hear Dominion archmages are good at shape-changing. It’d probably be lively, at least.”
“Dory.”
“What, you don’t want to lie back and think of New California?”
“DORY!”
“…
DUST studio to do MOREAU series.
This sounds promising:
Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi label Dust is developing a modern take on the classic H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau. The series will be titled Moreau and will be written by Zack Stentz (X-Men: First Class, Thor, Rim Of The World, Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles).
“The double helix wasn’t even a twinkle in Watson & Crick’s eye when H.G. Wells first wrote The Island of Dr. Moreau, but his 1896 novel proved astonishingly prescient about how unlocking the secrets of DNA would open the door to humanity playing God with the natural world in strange and frightening ways,” said Stentz. “And now, in the shadow of the CRISPR revolution, it felt like the perfect time to revisit Moreau and bring it into our own 21st Century world of transgenic animals, designer babies and other scientific advances Wells never could have dreamed of. I’m delighted to be working with Eric, Geoff & the Gunpowder & Sky team to welcome a whole new generation to the good doctor’s terrifying island.”
Via Geektyrant. They’re apparently going to gender-swap Moreau’s character, which I’ve decided I’m okay with: as long as there’s this vibe involved, of course. Probably not, but I can hope.
In the e-mail: THE MUMMY OF MONTE CRISTO.
Well, you know me: I’m fond of the PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES genre. It seems inevitable that THE MUMMY OF MONTE CRISTO is going to be one of those things that draws my eyes. Decent reviews, too. I’ll let you know how it reads.
November 12, 2020
WANDAVISION has a firm January release date.
WANDAVISION drops Jan 15th. About time – and I wonder if it has anything to do with the almost 74 million subscribers Disney+ apparently has now. If they’re looking to keep their content spread out, that would make sense, I guess?
A new era arrives. Marvel Studios’ #WandaVision, an Original Series, is streaming Jan. 15 on #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/5pBd438tCi
— WandaVision (@wandavision) November 12, 2020
11/12/20 Update, TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter.
Six days to go! Some more movement today on the Kickstarter. We go on as we started on; ready to meet what adventure comes our way. That is the proper path. And, really: how else can one go, honestly?
Day 12, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo: 26229/60000.
Back to work! After all the stuff that happened today, of course. But we must continue on!
Patreon!When I left the bar, it was raining, hard. In this town, the rains always come late at night. It’s easier that way, since cloudy days can be hell on people’s tanning schedules. Sunny days and rain-swept nights; you can set your clocks to the schedule. That schedule saved my bacon. Or maybe stopped me from becoming bacon.
You ever hear a fireball when it’s being aimed at you? People like to say that you’ll never hear the one that gets you. Yeah, no, it doesn’t work like that. You can hear the hiss any which way, but it ain’t gonna matter, because by the time you do the damned thing is moving faster than you can dodge.
The funny thing, though; if you get hit in the chest or the limbs, you can maybe come out of it all right. Nobody likes to get hit with a bunch of fire, but the flames go away real fast when it hits. Most clothes won’t catch right away. What you got to really worry about is a shot to the head; plenty of stuff up there to burn, and the fireball that had come out of the night was aimed right at my noggin.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Exploding Whale Incident. (Remastered video!)
It was a glorious day for the Republic, by all accounts. So glorious that they went to the trouble of digitally remastering the footage. But, really: isn’t this what the technology should be for?
Via @ZODIAC_MF.
