"Blinky" is uncannily close to a retelling of "Medea", but with robots.
By Ruairi Robinson; more here.
[tags]blinky, robot, Ruairi Robinson, short film, don’t forget those three laws of robotics, and don’t taunt happy fun ball[/tags]
A new page has been published in the story The Lair of the Clockwork Book, at Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual.You can read it here.
You know, imperial troopers just haven’t been as sinister since they abolished the minimum wage. There’s more here.
A new page has been published in the story The Lair of the Clockwork Book, at Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual.You can read it here.
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Today, your friends at the Retropolis Transit Authority* present you with four answers to that eternal question: is the glass half empty, or is it half full?
These four bits of wisdom have been carefully devised to apply, in evenly divided quarters, to the entire human population. So there’s that sorted out, then.
Whether you’re a spaceman who’s grateful that his glass is 50% atmosphere, or an engineer who realizes that the specifications for the glass included too much overage, or a demented subatomic physicist who knows that the glass itself is mainly empty space, or – finally – if you’re that guy who makes sure nothing gets wasted at the bar (excepting himself), well, there’s a T-shirt here for you, bub. Or bubette.
Now, on to glasses with a variable fill rate… for the glass harmonica!
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*Me.
If you’ve ever wondered exactly what quasi-victorian interplanetary conflicts you needed one of Doctor Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators for, well, one click will show you everything you need to know.
This short animation from Weta Workshop could even be a teaser for a new project (collectible tanks!) but whether or not that’s true it’s an inspiring view of what all that Aetheric Oscillation is needed for, apparently on Venus.
via i09.
A new page has been published in the story The Lair of the Clockwork Book, at Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual.You can read it here.
This shocking picture proves – definitively! – that Futurama’s Bender Bending Rodriguez once traveled to the 1940’s, where he worked as a comic book cover model. Or was photographed during a heist. Or something.
He’s clearly inviting his pursuer to bite his shiny metal ass; also, note the somewhat enhanced size of his antenna. Does this show excitement? Or is it some sinister modification? And are those interesting tubes that lead to his head part of a primitive beer hat?
We have to thank Mister Door Tree’s Golden Age Comic Book Stories for this tantalizing glimpse into the time-traveling adventures of one of our favorite robots.
The noisemakers and trumpets in the Secret Laboratory are making as much noise as you’d hear at a Retropolitan chess tournament because this morning I finished the first draft for Part Two of The Toaster With TWO BRAINS.
It’s just five pages (or "nodes") short of Part One, in length, but when I’m done it’ll probably be just about exactly the same. The story is following that different interactive structure I described earlier with story branches that are longer, but narrower, and I figure I’ll be adding a small number of very minor alternate nodes to fill it out a bit.
Also I haven’t done a lot with new inventory items, and I may want to review that, too. But it’s a pretty reliable first draft and with that, anyway, I’m pretty happy.
I got a little bit stuck as I tried to start the final section. I cleared my mental palate by working for a few days on a new set of T-shirt designs. (They’re not up yet: there will be four – or possibly five – in the set, and I’ve only done three so far.)
Once I’d reset my brain by doing those the rest of the TWO BRAINS script came together pretty quickly.
Of course I need to go over it and make a lot of changes. That ought to be all done well before April 4th, which my calendar tells me is the day when I have to switch back over to the next illustrations for The Lair of the Clockwork Book. In fact I wouldn’t mind having some TWO BRAINS illustrations done by then, too. But we’ll just see.
I’m glad to see that the page updates feed worked properly yesterday – I’m not sure what went wrong in the first place so I can’t be sure that it’s fixed, either, but we look good so far.
A new page has been published in the story The Lair of the Clockwork Book, at Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual.You can read it here.
