No Man’s Sky, but without any other players. More or less how I play it anyway 😁

Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition on the MegaDrive

Red Dead Redemption 2

EA FC/FIFA/whatever

Tetris

First thing I’d do is mourn my now-never-conceived kid. Then… dunno… Have a nap, maybe.

Ha, true. Having never seen any of it, it was nice to no longer feel I was missing out.

26 characters? Perfect!

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz it is! And I’ll use it for everything!

Counter counterpoint: The Wire, season 4

Not heard that in YEARS. What a great track 👍

You’re using all 3 of the shells, right?

Yep, it was 😁

I had that stuck to my desk at work for years. And I haven’t even opened the link yet to see if it’s the one I think it is.

True, but they can’t literally stop a law happening until it is written to suit them. Figuratively, maybe through influence, pressure, money, etc - but not as an official, formal thing.

I never realised that this version was a remix, it works so well. Great tune.

Given the way the US has been recently, I’m willing to admit that there may be some benefit to having a leader in some position of power that had been there a long time, and has, more or less, been training for the responsibly since birth.

That’s an argument I’ve often heard, in favour of monarchy - “Would you prefer a President Blair/Johnson/Farage?”

It’s a fair point, but they never have an answer for what would happen with a King Blair/Johnson/Farage.

With a president (or any other democratic system) you can, at least in theory, have a say in who represents the country. As it is we in the UK are stuck with a mind-meltingly wealthy, influential and unaccountable family who have extremely questionable members and histories.

They influence laws to benefit their own ends, they shield abusive behaviour and individuals, and they do it all in the name of maintaining a tradition that fundamentally says that some people are simply “better” than others.

Monarchy is just repugnant to me - and not just the British Monarchy, the whole concept.

That’s brilliant. New head marketing located.

Agreed - it’s hard to ever feel any empathy with him, and so missions as him are much less enjoyable IMO. He’s a horrible person doing horrible things with no greater cause to even try to justify it.

like Kanye’s Heil Hitler

Wait, what??? I thought this was a joke, so I just looked it up. I have no words…

suddenly find Aragorn a heartless wannabe totalitarian ruler in the middle of a bitter divorce with Arwen. There would also be silly gags where he drunkenly shatters Andúril trying to cut a melon or something, and the kids absolutely loathe him because dysfunctional interpersonal drama is trendy.

This is hilariously horrifying to imagine! 😁

I guess we’ll see how well Reform do in the next few votes here - there’s the Hamilton by-election next month, hopefully they get the kicking they deserve. But if they do well, it might suggest that Scotland is on much the same path as the rest of the UK.

Agreed on Starmer, what the fuck was that about? Utter madness.

Quite a few MST3K films have a decent premise IMO, but lacked either the budget or the talent to make enough of them.

Eg Time Chasers (which isn’t really all that bad), The Skydivers, Moon Zero Two, Rocket Attack USA, Stranded in Space, and perhaps even Manos: The Hands of Fate.

With the right people, I think those and others could have been very decent movies.

I love Rian Johnson’s other work, especially Brick and Knifes Out.

I also love Star Wars.

I thought TLJ was dreadful though. He was just a really bad fit for it IMO. Has nothing to do with not being open to change, but it has to be the right change. “Can you hear me now?” gags and Luke casually tossing away an item that had been set up as important in the previous film were not the right changes.

Agreed, it was a big letdown unfortunately, compared to any of the other versions (including the text adventure!)

Shame, because Martin Freeman was perfect for Arthur, and Stephen Fry as the voice of the Guide was a great choice too. Though Mos Def was ok as Ford, although not on a par with David Dickson (TV) or Geoffrey McGivern (radio).

Zaphod and Trillian weren’t right at all though IMO.