Month: September 2017

Atari’s almost brutally hipster new console.

It’s pretty weird. Atari wants to turn your TV into a computer monitor:

Atari’s newest console is a modern take on the popular late 1970s console, the Atari 2600. Ataribox claims it will bring a “full PC experience for the TV,” and deliver home-focused features such as video streaming, social media, web browsing and music.

It’s gonna run Linux and cost up to three hundred bucks.  Oh, and you can support it early via Indegogo (the console comes out next year). This is causing some head-scratching, let me tell you.  What’s the point? Continue reading Atari’s almost brutally hipster new console.

Item seed: Roseate Boots of the Sauromatian Queen.

Blame this.

Roseate Boots of the Sauromatian Queen – Google Docs

 

Roseate Boots of the Sauromatian Queen

 

This particular artifact was first described by an obscure 19th Century German folklorist researching various equally obscure tribes in the Crimea.  He came across one such tribe who claimed to be descendants of the servants of an ancient royal family, who ruled far to the East. The folklorist wrote of them:

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Tweet of the Day, These Are Legit Life Skills edition.

Totally.

Full link here, and I plan to use some of these techniques the next time I’m at a county fair or whatnot.  Which should be more and more often, now that the children are older and can be cajoled into having a good time.  Being able to win at one or another of these games should prove useful when it comes to Dad Points.

Location Seed: Massacre Mirages.

Massacre Mirages – Google Docs

Massacre Mirages

 

Typically: deeds are evil, places are not. The distinction is important, even though the residue for extremely evil deeds can linger in a particular place for a long, long time.  Since evil is not an intrinsic feature of the landscape, it acts as an irritant on the universe itself.  Left untreated, the universe typically responds by trying to expel the evil somewhere else. Anywhere else; it doesn’t really matter.  Put more simply: places where Bad Things Happened make passageways in reality.  Passageways that others can use.

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Anybody see ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ yet?

Did it suck?  I am given to understand that Star Trek: Discovery is not even remotely canonical on a few key details. And the reviews that I’ve seen so far have been distressingly short in the “it had me at the edge of my seat” category.  But the world is full of poor reviews of stuff that I ended up liking.  I mean, if it kicks butt then that’s the important thing, right?

The ‘Early Man’ trailer.

Early Man is very… British.

It’s also very Wallace and Gromit, or at least very Nick Park.  From what I can tell, it’s about a bunch of Stone Age people having to deal with a bunch of snooty, egotistical, and decadent neighbors who have Bronze Age technology and French accents.  And soccer.  And toilet paper humor. And… look, this just looks kind of ridiculous, in the good way.

Early Man comes out February 18th.

Tweet of the Day, …Inconceivable*! edition.

I once woke my sister up from her nap just because the Inigo/Six-Fingered Man fight scene was coming up. She forgave me for it, of course. It was necessary.

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