I have a set of stacking plastic drawers whose purpose is to hold the strange and forgotten Twilight Cables which bloomed for a time and were gone. I have never failed to find the cable I needed in there. There is also a Protoss Zealot in one of the drawers, it's been in this thing since ninety-eight or so, and every time I see it I get sad because I spelled Aiur wrong in a post once and person mailed me to say that I wasn't a real gamer and I should kill myself. That's just in case you were wondering what having a good memory is like. It sucks!

Ordinary people, what you might call Human Beings, are under constant assault by wires and their various genitalia. This was a significant issue once when Apple stopped including chargers with something I'd got for Brenna as a present, so for a time it was the very expensive idea of a watch while not actually being very watchy in the slightest. I did try to comfort her; the EU is telling Apple they need to standardize on modern shit, for example. But I had an opportunity to tell her about how crazy stuff used to get back in the day, when mostly weirdos were into technology. I told her about Sony handhelds that were essentially just a vessel for as many as three proprietary plugs, sticks, and assorted etcetera. It was a wild fucking ride.  It seems like USB-C is going to save us, but...  I remember reading about how we were going to build the internals of a PC entirely using high-speed USB around '96 or so, and that didn't happen exactly, but if you haven't built one in a while you would be shocked at how fast they come together. Then again, you aren't installing a floppy drive anymore, or a CD-ROM, or a hard drive. Most of the work is just… gone. Now all you have to do is afford a video card, which nobody can do.

I haven't harangued you about the Kickstarter lately, so let me execute harang.exe: having funded our initial ten episode run, and lured Mike Krahulik back into the studio as Jim Darkmagic, we're creeping up on the 300k stretch goal that puts Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford - the DM Amalgam known as Jerris Crawkins - at the table as players, along with Mike and I, to be goaded and tormented by Jasmine Bhullar behind the screen as DM for a bonus episode. That sounds pretty fun to me. There is also a selection of treasures that can now be selected a la carte if you so desire, along with a kick-ass preview of the exclusive pin with a devilish and twisty surprise.

Okay! I think I'm gonna head over to Mike's and do some streaming this afternoon!

(CW)TB out.