TREE LAW is apparently real, and it’s spectacular. I don’t know why it fascinates me so, but it does. Probably because it’s TREE LAW.
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Tweet of the Day, I LIKE This Casting edition.
Nathan Fillion is a great choice, here. He does ‘cocky’ well, and there’s few heroes cockier than Guy Gardner. I’m having possibly good initial feelings about SUPERMAN: LEGACY.
Via @IMAO_.
Looks like a full revamp of the CYBERPUNK 2077 game.
As in, they’re going to reset everybody’s character and then we need to figure out how to re-spec. I’m down with it, but it’ll take some getting used to. However, what I really need for CYBERPUNK 2077 are tiered opponents that respawn quickly, and/or lots more quest mods. Actually, what I really need is an MMO, but that’s not happening and we all know it.
I wonder if I’m just going to decide to start with a new CorpoV? Maybe. It’ll depend on how significant the changes really are.
#commissionearned
Quote of the Day, “History Doesn’t Always Repeat Herself*…” edition.
Ahem.
The mercenary captains are either capable men or they are not; if they are, you cannot trust them, because they always aspire to their own greatness, either by oppressing you, who are their master, or others contrary to your intentions; but if the captain is not skillful, you are ruined in the usual way.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter XII.
*”…sometimes she screams, ‘Why won’t anybody ever LISTEN to what I’m SAYING?’ and then lets fly with a club.” I had that on a button, once: I wonder whatever happened to it.
Retro-Tweet of the Day, Submitted Without Comment edition. (NSFW)
The H.P. Lovecraft: Maker of Modern Horror SPACE Module is confirmed!
I’m looking forward to attending this, next month:
H.P. Lovecraft: Maker of Modern Horror
H.P. Lovecraft revolutionized horror, modernized the Gothic, and created a 20th-century mythology explored by authors from Jorge Luis Borges to Stephen King. This module provides an overview of Lovecraft’s fiction, from his early “Dunsanian” fantasies to his later science fiction masterpieces. Along the way, it touches on Lovecraft’s life and times, his letters and criticism, and other aspects of his thought, but keeps the stories themselves central. We explore Lovecraft’s uses of settings such as “witch-haunted Arkham,” techniques including the near-hoax and “adventurous expectancy,” and his great theme of “cosmic indifference.”
…especially since Ken Hite’s going to be teaching it. There’s still space available: it’ll be on Thursdays in July, from 5-7 PM Eastern Time. It should be a blast and a half.
Patreon Microfiction: A Whiff of Buckshot.
‘A Whiff of Buckshot’ posits that there is absolutely no reason why a civilized member of a sapient species would not use firearms, should they be available. Even if there’s stuff like wands of Fireball, or what have you. Black powder works even when you don’t chant mystic prunes over it.
#commissionearned
The GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 Pitch Meeting.
He does drill down on how Marvel wasn’t taking any chances on this one. It was necessary to make the audience just flat-out hate the villain, and there’s one guaranteed way to do that, right off the bat. I mean, I had it shown to me and I still hate the guy.
Submitted without comme… actually, it’s not half bad.
It’s at least interesting. Rap and hip-hop really didn’t exist in a vacuum; heck, neither did pop. A lot of stuff in the 80s goes harder than you’d expect.
Iron Man, Sir Mix-A-Lot
#commissionearned
05/02/2023 Snippet, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA.
Flashback!
“Look, ma’am,” Lucas drawled, politely keeping his hands where the client could see them, “Liberty Lair isn’t just bragging when they say they’re thief-proof. They’ve got guards, they’ve got traps, they’ve even got spells. They’ve got people watching all the time, and they’ve got somebody watching those people. Most of all, they’ve got a dragon. Shoot, the dragon’s in charge, and she’s smart. Whatever you’re planning, for your sake I hope it’s not a smash-and-grab.”
The client smiled, thinly. Like Lucas, she was elvish, and claimed the name of “Two-Eyed Elanor” — but she talked like an Old Louisville lawyer instead of a Ladezel buccaneer, or even the more civilized tones of Lucas’s own Elf-Lands Delta gentry. “As I explained, Mr. Coltrane: I cannot give you the full details about the item we require until I at least have your signature on a nondisclosure agreement. Rest assured, though, we do expect that acquiring it will require skill, effort, and discretion. Which is why we’re ready to pay quite handsomely for it.”
“Yeah. A little too handsomely. You throw that kind of money around but won’t say what for, folks start to wonder if the job has teeth, and how many bites out of them it’ll take.”