Monday, 14 February 2022
Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman, director of Ghostbusters, Dave and more as well as a producer for the likes of David Cronenberg, has died.
More Super Bowl trailers
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, The Rings Of Power, Nope, Moon Knight, nd a selection of the ads, at Empire.
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness trailer from the Super Bowl... a placing I’m sure Steve Ditko would not have expected.
Super Bowl adverts
Our annual peek into a parallel advertising universe. Some funny or baffling, some for online scams, and one for the robots that will hunt us after Judgment Day.
Sunday, 13 February 2022
Nocturne 1.15
Vampire: The Masquerade - Nocturne
1.15Tonight we had two non-hunting dice rolls, one to sing at the Prince’s New Year party and one not to laugh at a diss.
Saturday, 12 February 2022
Moon Knight
Moon Knight cover story at Empire preview. (Plus variant cover by Bill Sienkiewicz!)
The feature also confirms...
Friday, 11 February 2022
The end of the MCU Netflix
Daredevil and the rest of the Defenders are leaving Netflix on March 1st, shortly after a first appearance in the main MCU. And oh yes, none of the series ever came out completely on disc.
Thursday, 10 February 2022
Nathan Chen of the USS Olympic
As a break from figure skating vampires, gold medal winner Nathan Chen went with a classic Star Trek look (designed by Vera Wang) to perform to an Elton John medley centred on Rocket Man.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi
May the 25th be with you. The 45th anniversary of Star Wars premiering seems like a good day for it.
“The story begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith...”
Wednesday, 9 February 2022
The Book Of Boba Fett 1.07
The Book Of Boba Fett
1.07: In The Name Of Honor
The series has been kind of a mess, but an often fun kind of a mess, and the finale tied things together well, I think.
Paying off most of the side character business! Answering the question from last episode! Knee rockets! Smashing lots of things! Cad Bane being willing to start a war to get a slight advantage in a possible gunfight!
I did think that after last week introducing Cad Bane entirely by “he’s a bad gunslinger” style cues for people who haven’t watched the animated series, they still should have established he and Fett had history. But, smallish quibble.
I believe the mid-credits mini-scene shows...
Indie RPG Prompt Generator
Via David Prokopetz, a generator for concepts for settings and systems. RPGnet thread trying it out. Each table could also be a good prompt source for adventure ideas. Combining them is the tricky part...
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Larp Design
Larp Design, the Knudepunkt 2019 book, is now freely available in PDF, as reported here. Thanks to US_LRPer for the heads up.
John Williams at 90
John Williams celebrates his 90th birthday today. Nine pieces as examples, not including his themes for NBC News and the Olympic Games. Star Wars composers celebrate. The sound of my childhood and beyond.
Monsters On Ice
Winter Olympic sport most likely to be full of vampires: figure skating. Ironic as Buffy was into it.
Winter Olympic sport most likely to be full of other undead: Skeleton.
Must not start writing fanfic.
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Bat wins New Zealand Bird of the Year 2021
The Long-Tailed Bat is a fine bat, and has the attitude of an award winner, as Bird of the Year 2021.
Monday, 7 February 2022
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