

Mike Huberty
12.9K posts

@sunspotmike
Rocker with @sunspotmusic - Owner of haunted history tour company @AmericanWalks - professional profile at @IAmMikeHuberty




The Mask (1961) more people need to see this one. starring Paul Stevens as a psychiatrist who becomes obsessed with a mysterious Aztec mask that induces nightmarish hallucinations. In 3-D


I don't want to be mean but Juliana Bennett might be exactly the type of representative that the people of the east side of Madison deserve.

A Canticle For Leibowitz is a classic early (1959) post-apocalypse novel where an order of monks preserved the last remnants of learning (the memorabilia) after a nuclear exchange turned the remains of society into book and scientist burners. I first read it in the 80s as a mass market paperback that I somehow lost along the way. Other paperbacks from that time are yellow with age and getting brittle, but still readable. I read it again in the late 2000s on a first edition Kindle. I eventually migrated to iPads for Kindle reading, but every couple years I would come across an old Kindle in a drawer, charge it up, and check out what I had been reading on it. They eventually stopped working entirely. I’m just finishing reading a new Folio Society edition, printed on heavy, acid-free archival quality paper. If it doesn’t get soaked or burned, it could still be in good shape for centuries. The ephemeral nature of digital storage does give me some pause. We can still read Sumerian tablets full of administrative trivia from four thousand years ago, but there are no known copies of some important software products from just fifty years ago. I am a proud supporter of the Internet Archive!

The number one most famous mechanic in the Call of Cthulhu game is Sanity. There's a lot of details to it but ultimately what it means that you can see or hear or learn something so awful it hurts your mind. Now when I was first designing Call of Cthulhu, I wanted to make it as much like the stories as possible (that's always my first step in a game - to put theme first). And in Lovecraft's tales, the heroes would faint dead away, panic, go into hysterics, become lunatics, and so forth, so I wanted this in the game. It seemed like a good fit for a horror game. So I assigned the players a good amount of Sanity (typically 50+ points), and each monster could inflict a potential Sanity loss. In my naivete, I thought that this would just be an additional threat for a monster. You know - "A Dark Young can hit you with tentacles, cast spells, and also cost you up to 1d10 Sanity. Boo!" 1/3

@chirno_helmet In Wisconsin we are known for out Bratwurst, cheese and Beer.





STAR TREK: The great tragedy of Discovery is knowing that this single character could've carried the entire show through several seasons at least. If he were an "evil" Picard but extraordinarily sly about it, where the audience knew he was a malevolent actor but the crew being wholly unawares. And that going on for years as we watch his schemes unfold and see that he's both ruthlessly competent but fiercely devoted to humanity. A kind of In the Pale Moonlight as a series long arc. It'd be difficult to pull off and it's clear none of the Discovery writers had the chops... but I'm telling you a seed was there.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Ever kissed the Blarney Stone? I did… and it turned into one of the strangest “did that just happen?” moments of my life.


