Weekly Update Oct 2 2014

[Jaymz]

Another week another commentary my fellow Palladiumites.

As usual, if you take issue with my criticisms and what I say in these commentaries, then do not read them.

www.palladiumbooks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=743:palladium-booksr-weekly-update-october-2-2014&catid=52:weekly-updates&Itemid=183

"The hectic and productive pace at Palladium picked up this week "

This seems to be the case in perpetuity there. Glad it's busy. Hopefully that means tangible progress.

"We have also made good progress on the Dead Reign™ Sourcebook: Graveyard Earth™, quite possibly the best zombie sourcebook since Civilization Gone™ and Dark Places™"

Apparently, as seems to be usual, this book is better than all before it. Okay. I'll let the Zombie people decide on that as I am not a Zombie person

"Robotech® RPG Tactics™"

Glad to see this finally going into shipping mode for real. I'll get my stuff sooner rather than later. Excellent.

"HELP Wanted: A few good volunteers"

Not for nothing but I really am uncomfortable with have "volunteers" pulling orders and such.

"UPDATE: Dead Reign™ – Graveyard Earth™ Sourcebook - It is almost finished and will be sent to the printer next week in time for a Halloween release."

Wasn't it supposed to go to printers by this week? I'll have to go back and check

"UPDATE: Palladium Fantasy RPG®: Bizantium and the Northern Islands™"
"UPDATE: Robotech®: Expeditionary Force Marines Sourcebook One"

Still fall/2014 releases...I hope so. I don't expect it to be so.

"PDATE: 2015 Open House – May 14-17, 2015"

Day trip still planned

"NEW! Dead Reign™ Sourcebook 5: Graveyard Earth™ – Ships October 24"

DUDE! It isn't even at the printer yet! sighs.........

"NEW! The Rifter® #68 – November"

So much for being October.....

"Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Box Set – Cat. No. 55100 - Retail Release Date: In stores September, 2014."


Ahem....I pointed this out last week. How has this NOT been caught. DUDE! IT'S OCTOBER! You'll be lucky to go to retail by November.


That's it, see you next week.

[MacrossMike]

Oct 3, 2014 3:07:24 GMT Jaymz said:

"The hectic and productive pace at Palladium picked up this week "

Translation from Kevinspeak™: "Someone kicked me in the ass and told me to focus on actual work instead of the weather or the birds or whatever's got my goat this week."

Oct 3, 2014 3:07:24 GMT Jaymz said:

This seems to be the case in perpetuity there. Glad it's busy. Hopefully that means tangible progress.

Poor time management skills mean every time is crunch time!  You hope in vain, I'm afraid.

Oct 3, 2014 3:07:24 GMT Jaymz said:

"We have also made good progress on the Dead Reign™ Sourcebook: Graveyard Earth™, quite possibly the best zombie sourcebook since Civilization Gone™ and Dark Places™"

Translation from Kevinspeak™: "I heard an unconfirmed anecdote that someone at the office did some actual work on a zombie book... which we'll celebrate even though it's the kind of lowest-common-denominator bullshit that even the most blindingly incompetent writer is going to be able to shit out over a single, hectic lunch break.  The contents will be the usual formulaic, paint-by-numbers zombie bullshit-a-thon seen in everything 'zombie' for the last fifteen years, because that's easier than doing real work.  The best part is that since all zombie movies and comics and games are all generic, interchangeable, bland messes, there's no way anyone could ever sue us for copyright infringement!"

Oct 3, 2014 3:07:24 GMT Jaymz said:

Apparently, as seems to be usual, this book is better than all before it. Okay. I'll let the Zombie people decide on that as I am not a Zombie person

Clearly.  I mean, I haven't once seen you shamble about moaning "braiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiins".

Oct 3, 2014 3:07:24 GMT Jaymz said:

"Robotech® RPG Tactics™"

Glad to see this finally going into shipping mode for real. I'll get my stuff sooner rather than later. Excellent.

Let the festivities commence... and then abruptly stop again when reality kicks in and Palladium realizes that everyone who was going to buy this awkward mess has already got it via Kickstarter, and that the Robotech "brand" is about as welcome in the gaming industry as it was in the anime industry (meaning "as welcome and wanted as a National Socialist party outing to a Holocaust museum").

Oct 3, 2014 3:07:24 GMT Jaymz said:

Not for nothing but I really am uncomfortable with have "volunteers" pulling orders and such.

Nonsense.  Unless the volunteers are dredged up from some nursing home-slash-sweatshop labor house ala Happy Gilmore or are doped up on valium, there's every chance they'll speed the blow considerably with no significant increase in the number of packing errors vs what the minimal Palladium staff doing the work is achieving.

Oct 3, 2014 3:07:24 GMT Jaymz said:

"UPDATE: Robotech®: Expeditionary Force Marines Sourcebook One"

Still fall/2014 releases...I hope so. I don't expect it to be so.

It won't be so.

Harmony Gold is probably hoping the book is delayed until next year, so they can pretend that mess was always meant to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Robotech "original" series.  We all know they won't have a new series to show for it, or even a new direct-to-video OVA like Shadow Chronicles.

Where Robotech is concerned, it seems like the best advice for fans to take comes from quotes in Warhammer 40,000.  In this case, that quote happens to be:

"HOPE IS THE FIRST STEP ON THE ROAD TO DISAPPOINTMENT."


Also broadly applicable are:

• Hope is the beginning of unhappiness.
• Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.
• Be strong in your ignorance.
• An empty mind is a loyal mind.
• A small mind is easily filled with faith.

And my personal favorite, which explains why nobody except Harmony Gold bothers to try to acknowledge Robotech's "anniversary" events:

"SUCCESS IS COMMEMORATED; FAILURE MERELY REMEMBERED."