Tweet of the Day, I WAS JOKING ABOUT THE FACE! I WAS JOKING ABOUT THE FACE!

THE FACE WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE REAL! I SWEAR TO GOD!

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Purchased: GURPS Meta-Tech.

GURPS Meta-Tech is… honestly, it’s pretty hardcore gearhead. It’s a GM tool, not a worldbook or adventure. Still, Christopher is an all right dude, and… despite what feels like SJG’s best efforts sometimes, I’m still a gearhead GURPSer at heart. Check it out.

The “I am mildly professionally miffed” ALIEN: ROMULUS trailer.

It’s not about ALIEN: ROMULUS the movie, which looks like it’s going to be a ‘unprepared young adults meet aliens and die horribly’ horror flick. That’s fine. We do those flicks all the time.

No, what bothers me is the blithe assumption that the megacorporation that spent all that time and money to put things in space is going to just chuckle vaguely when some alien monstrosity starts squatting in them. And eating people. Do you have any idea how long it takes to properly train somebody for space-related jobs? Here’s a hint: it costs more than effective body armor, accurate firearms, and armor-piercing rounds. Two weeks of training a year would make the difference between a functional research lab, and an acid-sodden wreck.

Dear Lord, now there’s a movie concept: a claims adjuster specializing in Xenomorph attacks. Because even if the megacorps somehow don’t care, you can bet the insurance agencies will…

07/01/2024 Snippet, BAKER’S DOZEN.

This is set in the same universe as GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND. I don’t know if I’m going to develop it right now, though. I put this down to keep myself writing, frankly. I never want to, the first day of the month.

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Don’t come to get me. That’s an order. Unless you outrank me. In that case: don’t come to get me, you damned fool. Yeah, that’s right. Leave the insubordinate officer to die. Whatever works, right?

I won’t bother repeating what you already saw in the footage — and if you’re just reading the transcript, don’t look at the footage. You don’t need that in your head. God knows I don’t want any of this in my head, either, except nobody asked me what I wanted…

Right. I need to concentrate. Give you things that you can use. Okay, first off, the only good news: we got inside. Those key fobs the AI fabbed out for us? They really do work. Nothing tried to shut down the cutter when we matched orbits with the alien ship. I’m feeling pretty mixed emotions about that right now, if you can’t tell.

#commissionearned

Looking for good examples of author/TTRPG Discords.

I’ve enlisted the services of somebody who knows more about Discord than I do, the better to muck about with my Discord channel. Part of his immediate assessment was to have me tell him what I wanted my Discord to do… which is a really good question, isn’t it*? Some back and forth later, we got the basics down (letting people keep track of my books, getting an audience for them, and so forth); now I have to go find some Discord channels that are doing what I’m doing, and point them out to him so that he can do a proper layout**.

So if you have good examples of a Discord channel that seems to do a good job at maintaining and encouraging reader interest, by all means: let me know what it is.

Moe Lane

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Tweet of the Day, Not Gonna Lie… edition.

…this makes me just a little less suspicious of GLADIATOR 2. Although they still should have gotten that insane script about Maximus being immortal and linked up with Jesus somehow? That would have been amazing. And, again, insane.

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I’m thinking about what to do with the world book GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND is based off of.

This is not a 2024 project; for that matter, it’s not likely to be a 2025 project, unless the cash flow increases around here. But GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND is based off of my Unfiltered setting, and I could do something with it. Specifically, I could easily adapt it to the GUMSHOE ASHEN STARS system, which is pretty much the game system I had in the back of my head to begin with. I’d split any revenues with Pelgrane, under their Community Content program, but that’s not actually a hardship.

Hrm. It might not actually cost that much to do. Will have to think about it more.

#commissionearned