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- The Patron special offer has ended. Those of you who are eligible will be receiving emails soon (-ish) asking you to choose your prizes and let me know how to get them to you.
- GenCon is way closer than I thought, so I need to get to work making a few tweaks to the Cinemechanix combat rules. Fortunately they're fairly minor and I'm reasonably sure how they'll all work.
- I've been working on and researching the Guardians of Aetheria (Heavy Metal He-Man), and it's starting to come together quite nicely. You can find out more in this week's game blog.
- Leighton and Josh are going to be doing a Dungeon Crawl Classics version of Leopard Women of Venus soon. They'll have preview booklets at GenCon for anyone who's there, and I'll post the link to the Kickstarter once it goes online.
- Watching the Robert E. Howard (sort of) biopic a few weeks ago inspired me to pick up the book of Kull stories that I bought a while back and read several more stories. I wish I could figure out exactly what it is about the pulp fantasy stories that make them work so well (the best description I can come up with is something like "a sense of weird mystery"), because it's exactly what I want most fantasy games I write or run to feel like.
- I also started reading Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber yesterday and am already almost halfway through. Not sure how much most people would enjoy it, but I find it fascinating.
- You already know this, the new season of Stranger Things was once again great fun and chock full of memberberries.
- The new Spider-Man movie took longer than I'd like to really get moving, but once the plot picked up it was excellent. Tom Holland was almost single-handedly responsible for making everyone feel the emotional punch at the end of Endgame (and Infinity War, for that matter; he's kind of the Willow of the MCU at this point), so it was nice to see him back to the less heavy work of just being your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
- I watched the first two seasons of the Netflix She-Ra series (purely for research purposes, of course). Several people who I trust had told me it was good, but I still wasn't prepared for it being as good as it is. The only thing that could make it better is more Sea Hawk.
Word of the Week
Brainfart Press will eventually release a dictionary of words nobody particularly needs to know, tentatively titled (with apologies to Ambrose Bierce) "The Dumbass Dictionary." Here's one of those words:
Tai-kong suo-yo duh shing-chiouh doh sai-jin wuh duh pee-goo:
Chinese curse used in the Firefly television series that purportedly translates to “everything in space is stuffed up my ass.”
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