Month: June 2016

My (enforced) weekend semi-hiatus.

My modem apparently blew and I can’t get a technician out this afternoon or tomorrow, so: no Internet before Tuesday. Not really Comcast’s fault, by the way: they could send somebody out this morning, but my kid had a dentist’s appointment; and they could send somebody out on Saturday, but we’re traveling. At any rate: I’m typing this on my Chromebook in a McDonald’s and I’m going to be largely off the grid until next Tuesday. Everybody have a good holiday!

Moe Lane

PS: There will be Internet at the place that we’re going to, so: semi-hiatus.

Tweet of the Day, You Know Why You Can’t Play As George Lucas in LEGO: SWTFA? edition.

That’s right, they couldn’t lick that “immediately start giggling and run George Lucas straight off of the nearest chasm. Over and over and over again” bug.  Real tricky one, that. On the bright side: instant DLC, am I right?

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Reminder: please check out my Patreon!

Found here, and here’s the video that they suggested that I create to try to explain it. I have since ditched the beard, by the way – which means that I look more like a hobbit than ever. :sigh: Such is my wyrd.

Moe Lane

PS: Basically, you give me money, I give you art. There are thresholds where, if they’re passed, upgrades to the art being given are engaged. Hey, all the cool kids are on Patreon…

Book of the Week: The Nightmare Stacks

I just finished it, and I’m comfortable with naming The Nightmare Stacks my Book of the Week. It’s about elves, and vampires, and (for a British Lefty, at least) a surprising amount of military porn. I mean, it was weird. I’d have totally expected it from an American author, but from Charlie Stross? Guess that’ll teach me to assume.

And so, adieu to The Thousand Names. I read the next two books in the series, by the way. They were good! Continue reading Book of the Week: The Nightmare Stacks

The Sleeper RPG.

I got alerted to this by one of my readers: remember that adventure seed I was talking about yesterday (finding what appears to have been a hushed-up secret government war in the last century)?  Turns out that a British game company came up with a RPG not utterly unlike that.  It’s called Sleeper, and while it’s not quite the same thing neither is it devoid of interest. Frozen super-soldiers being woken up, cultural drift, etc etc etc. I may have to check it out at some point.

Hey, you want a moment of mixed screaming fear / BLINDING, ALL-CONSUMING RAGE?

Here you go: ‘Back to the Future reboot.’ Which is apparently NOT HAPPENING; it was a joke done by this webcomic.  I mention this because I just spent five minutes frantically checking the Internet making sure that this movie would not happen, because I couldn’t figure out why they hadn’t tried this [expletive deleted] already.  It turns out it’s because Bob Gale (co-writer, co-producer) and Robert Zemeckis (co-writer, director) literally said “Over our dead bodies:”

Back in June [2015], the Oscar-winning director told the UK Telegraph that in regards to rebooting the Back To The Future trilogy onscreen, “That can’t happen until both Bob (Gale) and I are dead. And then I’m sure they’ll do it, unless there’s a way our estates can stop it.”

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