real things from fake worlds

Hiraikotsu – the giant boomerang from Inuyasha – ACTUALLY WORKS WHAT:

"Real Flying Hiraikotsu!" (Watch on YouTube)

This isn’t as crazy as the actual working Nausicaä glider, but it’s up there.

Also, if this isn’t the most Fallout 4 thing you’ve seen this week outside of the game, you have to tell me what is because damn:

Probably Brotherhood of Steel, could be supermutants

That’s from a book that’s just out, Abandoned in Place, about early space programme architecture that was, as per the title, abandoned in place when it got outdated or put out of use for good. All the photos in the preview are good, but I’d wondered where some of the source for Commonwealth tech came from, and I guess now we know.

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i should've realised this immediately but did not

Those pledges to support any nominee (Trump, really) at the end of the Republican debate last night? Those were about supporting whoever comes out of the convention, no matter how many rules got changed or broken to arrange it.

In other words, it's it's part of the groundwork for getting the rank-and-file to accept a rules-suspended brokered national convention arranged to defeat Mr. Trump. Of course. That shouldn't've taken me so long, I should've realised that immediately.

eta: Oh ho and ho. Guess who the establishment wants to walk away from a brokered convention!

and there we go: we are (not) all SF

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a con we were going to appear at as Music GoH this autumn – We Are All SF Con, a first-year on the Washington State coast – just alerted its GoHs and attending pros via its Facebook group that 2016 is officially off. It won’t be there; we won’t be attending.

I had heard some things a few days ago that led me to believe this was pretty likely, so I am not surprised.

If you know you’re going to have to cancel an event, this far out is a much better time than closer in, so this is the smart thing to do. They’re talking about giving the con another go in 2017; hopefully it will be on the smaller scale that I advised when they were first starting to put this together. Also, I think they need more work on their intra-committee communication, but, hey, a year and a half isn’t out of the question. These are solvable problems.

Our condolences to the concom and staff who had been working hard on pulling off the always-difficult first-year fan-run convention. Better luck next time, everybody.

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