Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.

For those wanting an alternative to current news headlines, this "home invasion" story is pleasingy pastoral

I always love astronomy photo competitions. They make me think of Athena poster shops... (ask your parents) or the desktop wallpaper packs you used to get on the free floppy disc's (ask yourt parents) on the covers computer magazines (ask your par... never mind, you get the idea)

Catching up on my superhero movies again. This week was "Across the Spider-Verse" (eye popping and probably glad I didn't try to watch it in the cinema as I suspect headaches and eyestrain would have resulted) and "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" (A surprisingly entertaining ending to the trilogy, with a relatively low stakes villain who you could really LOATHE with a clear conscience, though I had completely forgotten about the return of a certain character back in Endgame)

They're showing Scooby Doo animated movies around the time I gt up at the moment, so I've found myself watching a couple of themm. Credit where it's due,'Big Top Scooby Doo' went HARD on it's opening theme by Andy Sturmer

Miraculous Ladybug also got into the multiverse, with 'Miraculous World - Paris' introducing the Earth-3 moral reversal dimension where the heroic Betterfly tries to bring hope and inspiration to a rotten world against the scheming machinations of Shadybug and Claw Noir. Full marks for the reworked opening titles too! :D

Forgot to mention that Doom Patrol's final episodes have started dropping.

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[zachbeacon]

Lost a lot of last week to apartment-related nonsense.

Back to the regularly scheduled healthcare and job headaches.

(Wow, putting my personal information out in more new places sure does lead to a lot more obvious scam emails/calls. I may not have any job offers yet but I certainly seem to be winning a lot of contests I didn’t enter.)

The only* thing I have to say about Marvel Snap this week is that I jumped through a bunch of hoops to get anniversary variants. One of them was a Hawkeye that required me to use a code to sign up for a free month of Discord Nitro so I could get a different code for the variant (they managed to find a redemption system worse than the Twitch drops). I cancelled immediately. I can think of nothing less valuable than paying** for a social media platform*** and I regularly comment here about the virtual trading cards I get from wasting hours a week playing a silly superhero game.

*Well, the one other thing is that I’m annoyed by the vote but I get why the pool 3 card won even if Shang-Chi is clearly a better card than Human Torch with better variant art. Mostly I’m surprised by how poorly Ghost Rider did; skeletons from Hell tend to do great in real life political elections.

**Okay, the 500mb file limit was briefly helpful over the weekend but certainly not ten bucks a month helpful.

***Seriously, don’t give Twitter your credit card info.

Anyway, that’s as good a segway as any to this; I have a few Blue Sky invites if anyone here is interested.


Amidst a sea of unwatched/half-watched shows on Hulu, I decided to finish Yashahime. I mostly liked it but there seemed to be some pretty wild shifts in villain motivations toward the end. Mostly I’m just happy to see the families together again. Shippo kind of annoyed me in the original series but he was fun here. For some reason I found it funny that they gave an in-universe reason for Kagome and Rin looking younger than they should be and meanwhile Miroku and Sango … just have good genes, I guess. I was half expecting a reveal that Kaede is alive in the present because Death is clearly afraid of her.

With my Netflix expiring tomorrow, I finally watched The Old Guard. It was okay. Really the most interesting thing to come from it is that I decided to listen to a spoiler-filled podcast from 2020 (peak pandemic) and some of the predictions for the state of the future of entertainment are tragically optimistic.

The last thing I did with Netflix was finish Castlevania. The show is a lot more enjoyable when watching multiple seasons at once because the two-season arcs are really frustrating if watched one season at a time…which is a roundabout way of saying that I haven’t started Nocturne.

Last week’s Loki seemed a lot more substantial than the other episodes this season. I might even remember some of the episode by the time I post this Tuesday.


This might fall under “things that are only amusing to me” but there’s been some recent discussion of people pirating the 3D print files for Gundam model kits and now I can’t stop thinking about those “you wouldn’t download a car” ads from two decades ago.

[cainofdreaming]

I'm pretty sure people have downloaded kit car blueprints.

[zachbeacon]

Modern cars ARE, like, half plastic.

[full_metal_ox]

Not only that! Taking advantage of the fact that eggs in Britain are sold at room temperature, some enterprising farmer pirated a duck of a proprietary royal breed:

https://orionsangel86.tumblr.com/post/706084310683369472/what-do-you-mean-you-hatched-an-egg-you-bought-at

[zachbeacon]

I've said this before with some "food hack" videos and I'll say it again now...

I think that's just regular farming. Congratulations on discovering agriculture.

(I wonder if that's the real reason American eggs are refrigerated. I know the official reason is that the shells' protective coating is washed away in cleaning)