Abby cried real tears after killing the Mad Hermit's pet mountain lion and then wondering if it had cubs.
Abby cried real tears after killing the Mad Hermit's pet mountain lion and then wondering if it had cubs.
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Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
Open the pod bay doors, HAL. I'm at 2001, Coop and Mrs. G are at Jurassic World, and Abby is having a Marvel movie marathon with a friend. Movies movies movies.
Half Price Books graphic novel section ain't playing around.
Half Price Books graphic novel section ain't playing around.
Abby has a friend staying over this weekend who wants to learn to play D&D, so Coop is making his character.
Abby has a friend staying over this weekend who wants to learn to play D&D, so Coop is making his character.
The world is shit, so take a moment to recharge by watching this gif.
The world is shit, so take a moment to recharge by watching this gif.
Listening to Dune, and it's a full cast recording, great acting, Simon Vance narrating and he's the best.
Listening to Dune , and it's a full cast recording, great acting, Simon Vance narrating and he's the best. But geeze Dune has made up fantasy word diahhrea. My patience for that is very low these days.
Coop wanted to play a video game last night, but I was not in a Minecraft mood, so I introduced him to Portal 2.
Coop wanted to play a video game last night, but I was not in a Minecraft mood, so I introduced him to Portal 2. He says, "This is like the portal guns they have in this Minecraft mod I saw on YouTube." Kids these days. Anyway, Portal is as fun as ever.
Jenkins was stealing food, but I just gave him one lash as a lesson.
Jenkins was stealing food, but I just gave him one lash as a lesson. Then he did it again, and I stripped his back. But later he attempted a mutiny and I put a bullet in him. All before the Azores. Then, still 2000 miles from Nassau, we encountered a pirate warship and it sent my little brig and my crew to Davy Jones locker...
The Caribbean Sail
The Caribbean Sail Richard G I found this game on the Steam summer sale and it's amazing. Oregon Trail, but you're a sea captain in 1700. Most of my crew died of dysentery then the last guy mutinied and killed me in a duel. Barely got past the Azores.
Coopernomicon
Coopernomicon "It doesn't have blood on it's teeth because it never killed a single thing in it's whole life." He's up to 20 monsters. He says he's doing five dragons and five heroes, then maps of the different "biomes, dimensions, and castles."
Work has begun on the Coopernomicon.
Work has begun on the Coopernomicon . First monster is the Draguknight! Half dragon! Half knight!
Audiobook Roulette
Audiobook Roulette Two and a half hours of Jane Eyre left. Annihilation was checked out weeks ago and only has days until it is returned. Dune just automatically checked out... https://youtu.be/kJsYKhEV6o0
We have a new member of the family.
We have a new member of the family. This is Alice, an adorable tripod mutt. Maybe Dalmatian and beagle? 100% sweetheart.
I've heard Toto's Africa twice while waiting for this swim meet to start.
I've heard Toto's Africa twice while waiting for this swim meet to start. https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw
Godless was better in the first half of the first episode when I thought the women of the town had gone on a rampage...
Godless was better in the first half of the first episode when I thought the women of the town had gone on a rampage and bloodily murdered every man in the town, including the boys. But it's actually a "misfits vs. bandit army" story like the Magnificent Seven, or the Three Amigos. >:(
https://app.roll20.net/join/1716596/Uf06Tw
https://app.roll20.net/join/1716596/Uf06Tw events/chsajhbbiasmiaq4k31hhkmj7io?authkey=COrH27-2mMOhKA
Good old Ambrose.
Good old Ambrose. Originally shared by Piccolo Metafisico Edible (Ambrose Bierce) https://biblioklept.org/2017/04/20/edible-ambrose-bierce/
"But I would, even now, I would argue that the T. rex was at least an opportunist, and it wasn't a top predator."
"But I would, even now, I would argue that the T. rex was at least an opportunist, and it wasn't a top predator." Shut up, Jack Horner. http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/06/11/jurassic-park-dinosaurs?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180612
I think I'll back this. Orcs of New York makes Facebook worthwhile.
I think I'll back this. Orcs of New York makes Facebook worthwhile. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/25944318/orcs-of-new-york-the-series
The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar wintry sky; a muster of northern lights reared their...
The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar wintry sky; a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon. Throwing these into distance, rose, in the foreground, a head, a colossal head, inclined toward the iceberg, and resting against it. Two thin hands, joined under the forehead, and supporting it, drew up before the lower features a sable veil; a brow quite bloodless, white as bone, and an eye hollow and fixed, blank of meaning but for the glassiness of despair, alone were visible. Above the temples, amid wreathed turban folds of black drapery, vague in its character and consistency as cloud, gleamed a ring of white flame, gemmed with sparkles of a more lurid tinge. This pale crescent was the "Likeness of a Kingly Crown;" what it diademed was "the shape which shape had none." "Were you happy when you painted these pictures?" asked Mr. Rochester, presently. WTF. Amazing.
Casey reads Jane Eyre
Casey reads Jane Eyre I was not expecting so many references to the supernatural. During Jane’s first meeting with Rochester, I learned of the Gytrash. A ghostly Black Dog like the Grim or Hound of the Baskervilles. Then Jane and Rochester talk about the “men in green” which have to be elves or leprechauns I suppose. Going back to the beginning, Jane’s stay in the Red Room would make one think you were reading a straight-up ghost story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gytrash
PHB->MM->DMG
PHB->MM->DMG Technically does not conform to FM Geist 's rules, but imagine I dug out my encyclopedia of Greek myths. 1800 and the Mediterranean station goes weird. O'Brian meets Harryhausen.
I used the nose art from a B-25 to make a new emblem for my merc outfit and suddenly Battletech is even better.
I used the nose art from a B-25 to make a new emblem for my merc outfit and suddenly Battletech is even better.
Shar Banning we will always love Canada.
Shar Banning we will always love Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S00y75ebq8
Still improving myself through classic literature. Jane Eyre likes all the same parts of the bible I do.
Still improving myself through classic literature. Jane Eyre likes all the same parts of the bible I do.
Jay Exonauts it's no use trying to have a productive discussion with Gorgonmilk anymore.
Jay Exonauts it's no use trying to have a productive discussion with Gorgonmilk anymore. He's gone full alt-right, even if he doesn't think he has. I dropped him from my circles after his "poor nazis" blowup where he quit G+ for like two weeks. Greg C. has been a piece of shit for years.
I used my miniature terrain making skills to turn an ancient gaslight in my new front yard into a bird feeder.
I used my miniature terrain making skills to turn an ancient gaslight in my new front yard into a bird feeder. Also had a close encounter with a chipmunk stealing birdseed that I left in the yard last night.
Discovered there was an audiobook of the unfinished 21st Aubrey/Maturin novel.
Discovered there was an audiobook of the unfinished 21st Aubrey/Maturin novel. It’s very short, and obviously incomplete, but this passage, from about halfway through it, is maybe the best ending you could ask for. Jack and Stephen sailing forever, their adventures timeless and unending. Quietly indeed they sailed along, with gentle breezes that wafted them generally northwards at something in the nature of five miles in the hour, northwards to even warmer seas. Little activity was called for, apart from the nice adjustment of the sails, and although the exact routine of the ship was never relaxed nor her very strict rules of cleanliness, these long sunny days with a soldier’s wind seemed to many the ideal of a seaman's life – regular, steady, traditional meals with the exact allowance of grog; hornpipes in the last dogwatch, the deep melody of the Doctor’s cello from the cabin and the cheerful sound of the gunroom’s dinner; the future lost in a haze somewhere north of the equator.
Pokemon is more fun now that he can read the cards himself.
Pokemon is more fun now that he can read the cards himself.
I came downstairs and this was on the arm of my chair. An ill omen for the day.
I came downstairs and this was on the arm of my chair. An ill omen for the day.
Reading about Spinosaurus this morning made me think of this pic that I made after the quadrupedal reconstruction...
Reading about Spinosaurus this morning made me think of this pic that I made after the quadrupedal reconstruction was published.
Paleontologists found the toe bone of a baby spinosaurus that would have been the size of a dog.
Paleontologists found the toe bone of a baby spinosaurus that would have been the size of a dog. I bet it was adorable. More troubling is this size comparison that shows what a monster spinosaurus was. Literal water dragon. https://peerj.com/articles/4785/
A super-detailed post about how we know giant pterosaurs could fly and why they got so much bigger than birds.
A super-detailed post about how we know giant pterosaurs could fly and why they got so much bigger than birds. Also gameable. Add some verisimilitude to your giant fliers like dragons and wyverns. And just look at this Hatzegopteryx. http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-we-think-giant-pterosaurs-could-fly.html