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by streetad
2020-03-29 06:01am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: The Walls Come Down: No Travel Betwen US and Europe for 30 Days
Replies: 1779
Views: 504056

Re: The Walls Come Down: No Travel Betwen US and Europe for 30 Days

https://dash-coronavirus-2020.herokuapp.com This tracker has a few other features which the John Hopkins one doesn't including sorting by active cases, cumulative cases, alphabetical order and fatality rate. We can see which health systems are getting overwhelmed. https://i.ibb.co/B6h9kGg/29-march-...
by streetad
2020-02-03 05:27am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: BBC America Greenlights "CSI: Ankh-Morpork"
Replies: 57
Views: 61175

Re: BBC America Greenlights "CSI: Ankh-Morpork"

Possibly. There's a notable absence of any of the non-human Watch members in any of this pre-release stuff, which either points to budgetary issues (never mind the dwarfs, how do they portray a convincing Sgt Detritus, capable of emoting etc with a Doctor Who level budget?) or a lack of faith that t...
by streetad
2020-02-02 04:25pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: BBC America Greenlights "CSI: Ankh-Morpork"
Replies: 57
Views: 61175

Re: BBC America Greenlights "CSI: Ankh-Morpork"

It's not 'wokeness' per se, which I think most people would agree is a good thing, and which is already present in the original stories. Featuring a sub-plot about a female dwarf from a species where both males and females traditionally present the same way wants to explore human concepts of feminin...
by streetad
2020-01-15 09:41am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Buckingham Palace warns Harry and Meghan stepping back from life as senior royals 'will be complicated'.
Replies: 58
Views: 22501

Re: Buckingham Palace warns Harry and Meghan stepping back from life as senior royals 'will be complicated'.

The Royal family's relation with the more.. dubious elements of the British press is actually quite nuanced. The Palace's comms team, whoever they are, has the media on a pretty tight leash. An understanding exists that as long as they stay within certain boundaries (don't be ostentatious, don't get...
by streetad
2019-12-27 07:32am
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Rise of Skywalkers reviews (Spoilers in this thread)
Replies: 321
Views: 175469

Re: Rise of Skywalkers reviews (Spoilers in this thread)

And the explosion of the Death Star should have caused an Endor holocaust, but it didn't. What can ya do? Wait a few decades for this film to have the same nostalgia fuelled excuses for any perceived shortcomings? :P Oh I can't wait for the day to come when people are talking about how great the ST...
by streetad
2019-12-27 06:42am
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Rise of Skywalkers reviews (Spoilers in this thread)
Replies: 321
Views: 175469

Re: Rise of Skywalkers reviews (Spoilers in this thread)

I think the huge, huge failure of this Disney trilogy has been in world building. By some miracle in the space of three films they've managed to create a more incoherent, incomprehensible mess of a setting than the previous EU managed in dozens and dozens of mostly terrible books, comics and compute...
by streetad
2019-12-13 07:31am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Replies: 802
Views: 386859

Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II

Good times for Scottish independence I guess? It puts Sturgeon in a bit of a bind in the short term tbh. They don't have the numbers to be confident of winning a second independence referendum. Their strength is somewhat exaggerated by FPTP and Brexit confusion. 55% of Scotland still voted for Unio...
by streetad
2019-08-19 06:04am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Are people taking the wrong message from the failure of Game of Thrones' final season?
Replies: 63
Views: 49305

Re: Are people taking the wrong message from the failure of Game of Thrones' final season?

I am absolutely certain that certain things were in GRRM's notes regarding how the series ends. Bran being king, Dany reverting to type and unleashing 'fire and blood' on the realm, Jaimie rejecting the concept of redemption and going back to Cersei. The problem was, the show runners wanted to retai...
by streetad
2019-06-13 03:23pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: GOOD OMENS *potential spoilers*
Replies: 8
Views: 9992

Re: GOOD OMENS *potential spoilers*

I enjoyed it - Tennant and Sheen are excellent of course and I could watch them bicker like an old married couple forever. If I am picking holes I thought it didn't really do enough to get into Adam's head or explain the reasoning for his eventual decision (which should have been the dramatic moment...
by streetad
2019-05-24 03:39pm
Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
Topic: The Fall of 76
Replies: 17
Views: 17961

Re: The Fall of 76

Speaking as a fan of the original Fallout games, I was never going to buy this as I have no interest at all in online multiplayer; I have young kids and just can't manage a game that you can't pause. But it has just been fascinating watching the whole thing unfold like a slow motion car crash. Just ...
by streetad
2019-05-04 09:58am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!
Replies: 580
Views: 301603

Re: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!

I guess the best you could say for showDany is that she has immeasurably improved the lives of everyone in Essos by removing a large percentage of the Dothraki and getting them pointlessly killed against the NK. That alone should do a lot of damage to the slave trade.
by streetad
2019-05-04 08:36am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!
Replies: 580
Views: 301603

Re: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!

Remember, the red god demands sacrifices, and Stannis was perfectly happy to burn his brother in law, and his child, when he was losing. I doubt Dany will do so, but if guaranteed miracles, like victory against her enemies, when she is especially desperate, will she pursue them? She sacrificed her ...
by streetad
2019-05-03 12:27pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Game of Thrones season eight force additions (MAJOR SPOILERS).
Replies: 23
Views: 12276

Re: Game of Thrones season eight force additions (MAJOR SPOILERS).

Gandalf is extremely difficult to put into other scenarios, given that he is hinted at having enormous demigod tier power but choosing not to/being forbidden from using them, preferring to work though and inspire others. In Middle-Earth, he is working within limits put upon him by the gods of that s...
by streetad
2019-04-30 01:59pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)
Replies: 349
Views: 184523

Re: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)

Yeah, Zola was openly operating in Shield Operation Paperclip style. Presumably recruited for his knowledge of the Tesseract specifically.

Thanos was yelling about wrecking Earth just out of spite by that point. He's definitely not picking up Mjolnir.
by streetad
2019-04-30 12:43pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Game of Thrones season eight force additions (MAJOR SPOILERS).
Replies: 23
Views: 12276

Re: Game of Thrones season eight force additions (MAJOR SPOILERS).

I think Buffy (or Spike) stands as good a chance as anyone of taking out the Night's King if they can get close enough to him. The White Walkers in general and the NK in particular seem to enjoy duelling human champions as long as they are sure they have the upper hand, using Buffy as a bodyguard to...
by streetad
2019-04-30 08:06am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!
Replies: 580
Views: 301603

Re: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!

True. The Dothraki are not the most trustworthy of soldiers to put it mildly

The unutterably depressing thought that we aren't getting anything more substantial about the White Walkers because they are saving it for their spin-off set during the Long Night has just occurred to me.
by streetad
2019-04-30 05:03am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!
Replies: 580
Views: 301603

Re: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!

With regards to the people in the crypts, wouldn't it have made more sense to evacuate all the non-combatants to, say, White Harbour as soon as the plan to bait the NK to Winterfell came about? If nothing else so they don't have to feed them. With the benefit of hindsight, escorting them there would...
by streetad
2019-04-29 10:45am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!
Replies: 580
Views: 301603

Re: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!

We're told their motivations, what's the issue? Also, how does the battle getting resolved in the last season but not say the last episode carry any sort of implications for what the 'real battle' was all along? You're allowed to battle the end of the world, win, and then deal with the aftermath. I...
by streetad
2019-04-29 03:57am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!
Replies: 580
Views: 301603

Re: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!

And you know what - I don't even blame the writers.

This is such a dick move that it has GRRM all over it.
by streetad
2019-04-29 03:45am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!
Replies: 580
Views: 301603

Re: Game Of Thrones: Final Season --SPOILERS!

Well, that was immeasurably disappointing. After six seasons of buildup, the white walkers/night's king were just a bit of a shaggy dog story all along? They come through the wall, are defeated after one battle with no one important dying and we don't even really find out all that much about the...
by streetad
2019-04-27 02:43am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)
Replies: 349
Views: 184523

Re: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)

The part with all the women together was super jarring and on the nose to the point of irritation. That part irritated me too but not necessarily because of all the women grouping together but because of the logical inconsistency of it. Captain Marvel had just singlehandedly taken out Thanos’s flag...
by streetad
2019-04-26 04:36pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)
Replies: 349
Views: 184523

Re: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)

I enjoyed it - as mentioned the time travel was a mess but I can forgive it. Not undoing the five year time jump was surprising. Won't half of Peter's high school class have long graduated by now? I assume all of the important characters (Flash, MJ etc) all got snapped if it is ever even mentioned. ...
by streetad
2019-03-05 11:48am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: [A Song Of Ice And Fire] Robb Stark's mistakes
Replies: 14
Views: 10760

Re: [A Song Of Ice And Fire] Robb Stark's mistakes

Robb's single biggest strategic mistake I don't think has even been mentioned yet. It was letting his Bannermen pressure him into declaring the North independent. Whilst it makes for a stirring scene, it put him into an unwinnable war and burned his bridges with any of the potential contenders for t...
by streetad
2018-08-16 02:44pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Ant Man and the Wasp (spoilers)
Replies: 25
Views: 16818

Re: Ant Man and the Wasp (spoilers)

With regards to the ending, remember even Nick Fury barely knew what was going on by the end of Infinity War and was still running around trying to get a handle on the situation. The Pyms and Scott Laing are totally out of the loop unless someone comes to fetch them specifically. The events of infin...
by streetad
2018-07-11 01:32pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Old TV Show: Babylon 5 Now on Prime
Replies: 39
Views: 23429

Re: Old TV Show: Babylon 5 Now on Prime

Loved Babylon 5, for all its flaws.

I occasionally think that it would be ripe for a big prestige remake, BSG style. But then I also think that the ropey effects and 'unusual' acting choices were often part of the charm...