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How exactly is a democratic form of government supposed to survive when a significant fraction of the population now abhors it, and wants to purge anyone who believes in it? And when a significant fraction of the population wants to imprison, exile, enslave and/or execute all others? The central te...

Season 3 really won me over after what I considered an absolutely horrendous first two seasons. They finally made the show that had been waiting in the wings this whole time and wrapped it all up in glorious, copious fan-servicey fun. No, the Titan being rechristened the Enterprise doesn't make a li...

Well, he's convinced himself and his legion of followers that he is an engineer with no relevant qualifications. So why not being an expert at law as well? I declare myself an expert on surgery because I once went to a hospital. "BREAKING: Elon Musk creates 150 million jobs by ignoring reality...

Eternal_Freedom wrote: ↑2022-07-22 01:27pm That's almost more depressing.

On the bright side, it's always been that depressing!

Boris Johnson wins a confidence vote by Tory MPs 211 to 148. It means he will stay in his job as prime minister. The result was announced by chairman of the 1922 Committee Sir Graham Brady. Fuck. Best result I could've hoped for. Now he gets to spend at least a few more months, probably a couple of...

I often find Snyder's work to feel desperately self-important and melodramatic, but I really quite enjoyed this despite these traits threatening to overtake the movie at times. I never watched the stunted 2017 version since BvS all but killed my enthusiasm for the DCEU, but having watched a few clip...

Policing Bill that will increase restrictions on protests: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/16/bill-that-curtails-ability-to-protest-in-uk-passes-its-second-reading And the testing of one of the key component surveillance technologies of the Snooper's Charter: https://www.wired.co.uk/art...

Enjoying it so far, though I can't help but think Legion did the reality-warping weirdness better a few years earlier (also they went ALL IN with it rather than a few episodes). I'm just glad Vision is back in some for or another. Though I could've done with Darcy staying in 2013...

So, as I understand it, the Burn was caused by a sad Kelpien who had a psychic link to some dilithium (somehow) and accidentally resonated with it which caused a shockwave which destroyed all dilithium in the galaxy? Haven't seen the episode but that seems to be gist of it. Am I broadly correct? In ...

Pennsylvania and Georgia have both been narrowly flipped, with very few votes left to be counted. This is so close to being over.

Borgholio wrote: ↑2020-11-05 07:17pm Just listened to Trump's statement on the current status of the election. I think it gave me cancer.

For me it was sweet, sweet nectar. Fuck it, even if he somehow wins the sheer level of anemic wheedling will sustain me for quite a long time. What a singularly pathetic man.

They sound fucking ridiculous. So no. Have you, y'know, watched the episodes before passing judgement? The Mortis arc is considered among the best of the Clone Wars storylines and added a lot of lore to the nature of the force. Personally if they'd allowed Filoni and Co to handle the sequel trilogy...

Cannot wait for Peace Talks to come out, I haven't been hyped for a book release since I read the story of another wizard named Harry when I was a wee lad. My girlfriend also just finished the audiobook of Storm Front (she was a massive Buffy fan and James Marsters was her first celeb crush which he...

I'm floored and fascinated at how wrong-headed this looks. The actual style and wardrobe, whilst odd, wouldn't necessarily kill it for me - I love me a shakeup of period setting a la Sherlock now and then - but the bastardisation of the source material and cringeworthy wokeness of it all is bloody a...

Disney be like https://i.giphy.com/media/R470aQOjC0T6M/giphy.webp More seriously, I just lost my grandmother and she was a massive LOTR fan and worshipped Tolkien. She was also a huge fan of the films and often remarked about how strongly she disagreed with Christopher Tolkien's dim view of them. De...

Loved it, the freshest thing I've seen from Star Wars for a long while. I kept my expectations tempered but I was pleasantly surprised at such a strong opener. Looking forward to more and I'm even up for learning more about Yoda's species, which I've always been curious about.

Rey's Theme is the only track from the Sequel Trilogy that I can distinctly remember and enjoyed hearing at the time. I feel the rest blurred into the background as generic Star Warsy muzak that never made much of an impact. Nothing has come close to The Asteroid Chase, The Imperial March or indeed ...

Stargate is an example of a franchise that was able to successfully expand well beyond the scope of its genesis - SG1 introduced several new races and factions who weighed in on the original humans vs Goa-uld (who weren't even named in the original movie) conflict. But the difference was the movie a...

Looking forward to pirating this. Fuck the "every studio having a separate streaming service" business model. I did hear tell that it won't actually be a reboot, but exist within the nuBSG continuity which I have more truck with. I really need to finish the series actually, I was enjoying ...

Gandalf wrote: ↑2019-08-18 06:34pm Also, what's an evolved taste in this context?

Something something KOTOR, I'd wager.

I literally ploughed through all 15 (audio)books nonstop starting last year for the first time and I can't imagine waiting years on end for the next one to be published - but I guess after I devour this one I'll be in the same boat as the rest of you sorry gits! I absolutely adore this series and it...

A seven-year mega necro is fine as long as there's new relevant content right? :lol: Anyhow, in the past few years my gadgetry has somewhat improved - I now have a Mate 20 Pro and have been hugely enjoying upping my astrophotography game. All images were captured using Mate 20 Pro and lightly edited...

Just get hold of your supplier and ask for a replacement SIM (no, the number won't change long as you specify it's for your number). I work in a phone shop and you'd be surprised by the amount of issues that fixes. Once you've cleaned the SIM and put it back in and it still doesn't work, that's the ...

Fido, His Breath Heavy cracked me up

Really curious about this show, hope it does the character justice. I know Stewart will be excellent as always at least.

Jesus Christ, we're like 3 years into climate change just doing a quick warm up (pun slightly intended) before it screws on its Split-o-matic 5000 dildo and guts us like the increasingly suffocated salmon we're responsible for. How much higher does it have to go before shit just starts to fall apart...