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September 25, 2020
Last week of the ‘Girl Genius – Adventures In Castle Heterodyne’ Kickstarter.
Pretty close, but not there yet!
09/25/2020 Snippet, THE THING IN MY HIP FLASK.
Two more scenes, tops! Huzzah! …And this one isn’t turning out half bad, I think.
Patreon!…most of the finished batch from the latest current production run had been stolen. Worse, the catalyst was missing, too. The staff were fast to assign blame: “It was Dave,” said Will, our night supervisor. “He came in, said he needed the truck loaded up for an emergency delivery. Then he grabbed the cleaning thingy and tossed that in the truck, too.”
I looked at him. Working on a distillery floor didn’t seem to do much for a person’s natural wit, but Will was usually the clearest head of the bunch. He seemed a little off, though. “Why didn’t you stop him?” I asked, a little more softly than I might have done.
Will wiped absently at some muck on his face. “I dunno, Cassie,” he replied. “He’s Dave, so he does the shipments, right? When he took the thingy, I dunno, I think I said something, but he said something and…” he concentrated for a moment, visibly trying to articulate something. I watched with no little horrified fascination as a trickle of blood descended from the corner of one eye.
That must be the ‘muck,’ I thought as Will wiped his face again.
September 24, 2020
The Snyder Cut will cost 70 million to reshoot.
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
The so-called “Snyder Cut” of “Justice League” will be a 4-hour-long, episodic presentation on HBO MAX, created with a budget of around $70 million. And while initial reporting held that no additional filming would occur and new material would largely consist of special effects work, that clearly has changed.
…Yes. Yes, clearly it has. Geektyrant feels, I think, that Zac Snyder has captured HBO Max’s heart so tightly that they’re going to give him all this money. As for me? …Well. I suspect another part of HBO Max’s anatomy is involved.
‘Star Wars, but it’s Mission Impossible.’
(Via GeekTyrant) Took me a second to realize why no James Earl Jones.
The conceit here is that these are all the good guys — including Peter Cushing, who is clearly going to do a face-heel turn in the show and that’s the twist. Jones is playing an obvious villain, and they don’t get cast billing (or whatever the term is) in a show like Mission: Impossible, since it’s an ensemble show with a bad guy of the week. This is really a pretty clever conceit.
Listening to a @BackerKit webinar at the moment.
Which in of itself is not that interesting, at least to people who are not me*; but I do want to plug BackerKit itself. I got it primarily because I wanted help getting the stuff out of the door (or into the in-boxes), and figured it was worth the cost. However: it still paid for itself, in the end. Making a profit on something that I was happily treating as a sunk cost is nothing to sneeze at.
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*But it is interesting. Advertising and marketing stuff. I’ve added an actual advertising budget to the next one, so it’s of interest to me.
09/24/2020 Snippet, THE THING IN MY HIP FLASK.
Oh, good. I figured out how it ends.
Patreon!Farmer Pierce — well, Mister Pierce, now — at first did not want to meet me at all; and when we did meet, he insisted that it be in a particular gas station parking lot. When I pulled up, he was already there, and inside his sparkling clean truck. And he would not come out until after I actually called him again on his phone.
When he did get out, I was surprised: the man was wearing a plastic raincoat and rubber gloves over what looked like a disposable hospital gown and pants, a hairnet, and an environmental mask. He wouldn’t go more than six inches from his car, either, and insisted I stay well downwind.
I found this… well, I found this utterly typical of the region. “If I’d known you’d do this, I’d have gone with the call!” I half-shouted at him. “When do you wash yourself down with bleach?”
“I have some back at the new place!” he said back, and I don’t think he was joking. “But you seem like a nice girl, so I thought you should get warned face-to-face!”
Tweet of the Day, I Don’t Believe It For A Second edition.
Sure, it’s a ‘prop.’ …Suuuuuuuuuure.
Shocked workers encounter 'giant rat' while cleaning sewers https://t.co/7lP6N2aJAI pic.twitter.com/MnfbBYPkm5
— New York Post (@nypost) September 24, 2020
Okay it is a prop – but that story is still what the Esoterrorists RPG would use as an example of a ‘veil-out:’ where you come up with a fake story to explain away a supernatural event. In this case: giant rats in the sewers! Nah, man, it’s just a movie prop.
Classic.
September 23, 2020
‘The Saga Begins.’
There’s a lot to say about PHANTOM MENACE, but at least we got this out of it.
The TRUTH SEEKERS Amazon series trailer.
This is a Nick Frost and Simon Pegg affair, although I think Simon’s just going to show up here and there. It’s mostly Nick, and that’s all right with me. Dude could use some front-row time.
TRUTH SEEKERS looks like fun. God knows when I’ll make time to see it, though.
