…and my Internet promptly crashed. I’m doing this off of a hotspot. Also fine, I can take a hint. Good night, folks.
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My PATREON! PATREON! So good, they named it “PATREON!”
I wonder what that’s originally from. I don’t think I’ve seen the ur-source: I remember Terry Pratchett doing it with ‘Ankh-Morpork,’ but I think he was pulling it from something else. So much of culture is like that, really: scrap-memes, glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate…
Continue reading My PATREON! PATREON! So good, they named it “PATREON!”Weird posting because of event.
Our SCA event autocrat took sick today – cold, not COVID, but it’s apparently quite nasty – so I got distracted for a bit, and so on, and so forth. Weird posting until Sunday.
Patreon Microfiction: Fighting Like Cats and Dogs.
Tweet of the Day, TREE LAW edition.
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.
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.