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https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1204/1547118-watch-tcd-debuts-worlds-first-film-in-ancient-sumerian/

This one comes via John Scalzi:

I just learned about this this morning.

Cotton’s thoughts deserve expression too, you tissueist bigot.

Falling Angel, by William Hjortsberg, the basis for the movie Angel Heart. It’s 1959, and private eye Harry Angel is hired to find a jazz singer who dropped out of sight during World War II. Complications ensue. There’s black magic in the midst of things, and a revelation about why Angel is...

“In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only moi.”

Play at least once each month. Test out some of the solo games and supplements I haven’t yet but that look appealing and viable. Continue reading fiction and nonfiction that inspires gaming thoughts in me. Ditto for horror and sf fiction podcasts. Goal rather than resolution: based on all...

At least sometimes? The truth is that I have very little experience using them, so I’d listen to someone who has more.

There are at least two categories of situation where honest people of good will can’t just plan ahead avoid them. 1. Someone is stressed to the point of wanting to use an X, red card, etc, and genuinely didn’t know that kind of thing would hit them so hard. 2. Someone gets that sort of...

Yeah, that’s not something I’d do to anyone I liked, or might like. I myself like nearly all those movies you named…but none of them are guaranteed to please me at all times. My wants and my limits both shifted depending on what else is going on and how I feel. In experience, others are like...

I really enjoyed it. He uses the narrator’s voice as a much more active element than first-person stories usually do, especially at the end. The world-building is as satisfying as usual for me with Tchaikovsky, and the plot hangs together. Tchaikovsky at novella length has a distinctive vibe...

Fascinating stuff, @Alzrius !

A little something for the day after Thanksgiving.

I am asking for your opinion, but that doesn’t mean I wish for your answer. Here endeth the lesson.