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If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

“I’ll find you in the morning sun

And when the night is new

I’ll be looking at the moon

But I’ll be seeing you”

This isn’t the first song NASA sent Opportunity. They had a playlist:

https://www.space.com/41434-mars-rover-opportunity-wakeup-music-playlist.html?fbclid=IwAR3uL6q4tOmLQTIEhiwYegGc99nv4N01HQKItpCLQiQYIptBOevNN6uIyT8

It’s on Spotify, it’s called “Opportunity, wake up!“

This is what’s great about NASA and it’s what’s great about people. These are world-class engineers. When they sent a rover to another planet they could have easily looked at it as just another scientific tool. But people don’t do that. We can and will get emotionally attached to the most inanimate of objects. We can and will anthropomorphize anything. And frankly Opportunity’s camera mast looks like a little face with eyes and everything, so why not?

So they started calling it her.

They nicknamed her Oppy.

They told her to take a selfie not long ago.

After 15 years of Oppy flipping the double bird to her original 90 day life expectancy, when a planet-spanning dust storm finally knocked her out and she stopped responding to the engineer’s wake-up messages, they started playing music for her.

And after 8 months and almost 1000 unanswered wake-up messages, when it was finally clear that Oppy was never going to wake up, the last thing these world-class NASA engineers did for their little rover on another planet

A very important drawing.

Traced over his model for this experiment, complete with a full makeover. I should’t be allowed to do this. What have I done…

Do you like watching Anime? What about making fun of it? What about tossing ideas back and forth with your friends? Are you a desperately nerdy weeb? Look, I’m not much of an advertiser and literally no one is paying me for this, but I needed to share something here. Once upon a time there was a party game that was made called “Channel A”. It was a tabletop card game that functioned similar to Apple to Apples or the oft-loved (but very Crude) Cards Against Humanity and all its clones and inspirations in that all players have a hand of cards and take turns judging what gets laid down. But for Channel A the judge is now the Director of the Next Hottest Show on the Channel and they want to hear your pitch for what it should be. The Director lays down two cards to determine what genre all the creatives are going to come up with. Maybe it’s a Steampunk/Girl’s Love story. Maybe it’s Slice of Life with Giant Robots. Maybe it’s a Sentai/Spy Thriller. And you have to look at your hand and see what random words you can cobble together into the perfect title. And then, two minutes later (if you set a timer, anyway, and you might want to)  take turns offering your pitches. It’s a really fun party game even if you are an anxious mess like me who is doubly-bad at/stressed-out by  improv. Why is this important though? Why am I bringing it up? Criminally, it’s OUT OF PRINT. There are really only a couple thousand copies of in existence. And recently I’ve discovered  (and by ‘recently’ I mean TODAY 9/2/18 )it might get another chance at life. Kickstarter Projects aren’t as ubiquitous as they used to be and maybe don’t have the clout that they had before, but it might give Channel A a new life. Here is the Kickstarter. Here is an Article about the creator and how it was first made

If it sounds like fun maybe chip something in or pass the info along to other people who might also be interested. I know there aren’t a lot of neat backer goodie tiers like you might see for like a popular webcomic book print, but at least check it out. The Updates tab has a pdf for a mini print-and-play version if you want a preview/test run of the game yourself since it /is/ complete and not just a “we promise to make this game”. If you want an example of some of the weird and silly premises that you can get from this, I’ve included in the read more my own hand-written pitches from the one of the few times I have played. (I’m not saying they are quality by any stretch, a couple minutes doesn’t give you much time, but some still make me smile).

Decisions are hard and Pancake’s successor needs a name

FARMBOT GENESIS: This robot is changing farming as we know it

And the best part about this technology is that it’s open source, meaning you can build one yourself from the blueprints that are available for anyone to download.