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tag at the top of your pageDo Gooder Press Comics, writing, and stuff at least one guy finds amusing. RSS HOME PS238 FULL FRONTAL NERDITY NODWICK USE SWORD ON MONSTER ABOUT STORE CONTACT Turkey Day… Marathon! by Aaron Williams on November 24, 2022 at 11:47 AM Posted In: Cineplexia , It’s got Robots and Lasers It’s that time of year again, when the Mystery Science Theater 3000 YouTube channel gives us their annual Turkey Day cavalcade of bad movie riffing! And if, when you see this, it’s no longer Thanksgiving but you’d still like to watch more MST3K , they’ve set up a site called Gizmoplex along with their 24/7 Twitch channel! If you are able to keep circulating the tapes, feel free to do that as well. Share this: Tweet Reddit Email Share on Tumblr 1 Comment A hot keyboard from 2015… by Aaron Williams on November 16, 2022 at 12:36 AM Posted In: From the Mouth of Madness , Science ahoy! I was recently clearing out an old cell phone when I found an interesting set of pictures of a computer keyboard. Riveting stuff, right? These were taken in 2015 with whatever primitive cell phone technology was available to me, and it was through a windshield with reflections in it, so the quality isn’t great. You can still see what sparked my interest, however, as the keyboard was having quite a cruel summer: I can only assume that this semi-liquefied peripheral achieved this state of gooiness thanks to ambient heat in the car. I looked it up, and this was apparently a Macally iKey keyboard, favored by many Apple users. The best photos I found were on Twitter, singing the praises of how long the keyboard had lasted and how indestructible they were. I think I’ve left keyboards in cars before, but none of them had the same semi-translucent casing that the iKey apparently had, so maybe it had a slightly lower melting point? Or maybe we need PSA’s about leaving your devices in cars unattended during the summer months? I may need to seek out some old-school computer wonks to know for certain, unless I accidentally leave a keyboard in my car and I come back to it having become a puddle with function keys. Share this: Tweet Reddit Email Share on Tumblr Comments Off on A hot keyboard from 2015… Remember when there was a Filmation animated Star Trek series? by Aaron Williams on June 13, 2022 at 2:11 AM Posted In: It’s got Robots and Lasers , Mystery Clip Theater , Sequential Artistry Just in from an alternate universe, here’s Star Trek: Voyager given the Filmation treatment: In a similar cartoon-nostalgia vein (though with less animation) from one Solid JJ,” we have… His 1960’s-style superhero cartoon voices are just spot on. His other videos are here. Share this: Tweet Reddit Email Share on Tumblr 1 Comment This hurts my brain, but I love the concept… by Aaron Williams on May 19, 2022 at 4:33 AM Posted In: The Internetonomicon , Video Gaming Much like how nanotech is a catch-all for a lot of sci-fi stories these days, higher dimensions are often used in a similar fashion both for science fiction as well as fantasy. A being that can access one more dimension than another can appear to do magic” by mucking about with bits of the universe their audience can’t even see, and it defies explanation (usually) because it’s a lot like trying to describe a new color. Anyway, that’s a preface as to why I’m posting this mind-bending concept for what’s basically a 4D version of Minecraft called, appropriately enough, 4D Miner : Brave souls can even try out a demo on Steam . I think if you do well you get a job offer from the SCP Foundation. Share this: Tweet Reddit Email Share on Tumblr 1 Comment Vorpal History on The Fantasy Network! by Aaron Williams on April 12, 2022 at 9:37 PM Posted In: From the Mouth of Madness , Stuff with magic and swords Fans of alternate history and very bad accents rejoice, for I have started a podcast called Vorpal History! It’s over on The Fantasy Network, which is home to loads of other great productions. They interviewed me about the project, and you can read all about it over here ! It’s letting me stretch that ol’ worldbuilding muscle, and I hope everyone enjoys it. I’m also learning far more about how Adobe Audition works than I ever thought I would, so I’m also growing as a person, right? Share this: Tweet Reddit Email Share on Tumblr Comments Off on Vorpal History on The Fantasy Network! I can’t believe I’ve never noticed this one… by Aaron Williams on March 19, 2022 at 1:03 AM Posted In: Cineplexia , From the Mouth of Madness , It’s got Robots and Lasers In-jokes in movies and TV are great fun to look out for, most notably the Wilhelm Scream . I recently found an old one that’s been in several productions I’ve nerdily consumed, but I only just now had it pointed out to me: The Oscillation Overthruster from the movie, Buckaroo Banzai. Just in case anyone hasn’t seen it, here’s the scene featuring the gizmo in question being installed by Buckaroo in his interdimensional Ford F350 pickup (slightly modified): Since that just showed the prop in question, here’s what happened when he activated it. Anyway, this prop has done some dimension-hopping all on its own, mostly in several Star Trek shows. It’s listed as a geological and medical instrument” (you’ll have to scroll down to the heading). What took me forever to find was an image of its appearance in a season 4 episode of Babylon 5 , Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?” This may be the only image of it on the internet, probably due to how many years it’s been since the show aired coupled with it being pretty hard to see: I ran across mention of JMS discussing a mysterious object called the prop” and this is the rabbit hole it led me down. I’m not even sure what I was looking for when this became a minor obsession that inspired me to dig out my old B5 DVDs. Thank you all for this opportunity to purge it… until I hear it’s appeared in anything else. Share this: Tweet Reddit Email Share on Tumblr 5 Comments Jetpacks and haunted game books… by Aaron Williams on November 1, 2021 at 10:56 PM Posted In: It’s got Robots and Lasers , Tabletop Gaming It’s been a while, and what better time to rise from a blogging coma than (just after) Halloween? In addition to everything else I’m up to, the past week was taken up by combining two chocolate milk mix containers, two old Tupperware bowls, a computer fan, and a lot of ribbon into a jetpack for my kid’s costume. I’d planned it for a while, but neglected to remember the deadline wasn’t Halloween per se, but the last school day before Halloween so he could wear it at school. Nothing eases last-minute costuming like willing spray paint to dry faster while not giving you brain damage from the fumes, am I right? In the end, it looked pretty nifty. We’re trying to promise ourselves we’ll get him to nail down what he wants to dress as before October so we can gather materials, let glue dry, get building permits, etc. He and I have also been playing first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons with some friends of mine and his kids recently. It’s been going pretty well, with me as a hapless good-aligned cleric who has fallen in with a party of neutral-to-evil characters. So far, there’s been no call for me to cast a detect evil spell or anything, so he hasn’t cottoned on to his fellows’ proclivities towards doing terrible things. Given that all adventurers basically sally forth to kill and loot, alignment really hasn’t been an issue yet, though I’m sure the DM has a plan to rectify that eventually. Even though I have the original sourcebooks on PDF, I pulled out some old copies of the Dungeon Master’s Guide and Player’s Handbook that I’d picked up at a yard sale a while ago. The previous owner had put those little file tabs on commonly referenced pages, so this became my for use” copies while the books I grew up with remain in their hallowed places in my Bookshelf of Wonders. While my son and I were referencing them, I noticed that the original owner’s name and address were...