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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
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In the search for non contentious news (because there's a lot of the alternative flying around) I did find this amazing story about a bucket. but not just ANY old bucket!
Sesame Street will be continuing on Netflix after PBS had it's funding cut
Despite being the nominally "silly" episode about a pastiche of the Eurovision Song Contest, Doctor Who had not one, but TWO major plot reveals, one of which was confirming a long-standing rumour about Mrs Flood, and the other was (for this spoiler-free viewer) breath-taking to see, and a pointed (and honestly rather disturbing) reminder that even this "Post-therapy" incarnation of the Doctor does not cope well with loss. A reminder of ROT13 for spoilers on this one please!
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 scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
In the search for non contentious news (because there's a lot of the alternative flying around) I did find this amazing story about a bucket. but not just ANY old bucket!
Sesame Street will be continuing on Netflix after PBS had it's funding cut
Despite being the nominally "silly" episode about a pastiche of the Eurovision Song Contest, Doctor Who had not one, but TWO major plot reveals, one of which was confirming a long-standing rumour about Mrs Flood, and the other was (for this spoiler-free viewer) breath-taking to see, and a pointed (and honestly rather disturbing) reminder that even this "Post-therapy" incarnation of the Doctor does not cope well with loss. A reminder of ROT13 for spoilers on this one please!
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Between the UK's ruling party drifting ever towards the right and all large tech companies drifting ever towards "we fucked up everything we do, but what are you gonna do, not use us?" I'm wondering if someone might one day write one of those high-falutin' Malcolm Gladwell type books that posits that large organisations are, by default, always doomed to degrade and fail. For some reason.
(Heck, I can't help but see the parallel with certain big comics decisions: One More Day/One Moment In Time was essentially the same logic. "Yes, we fucked over Spider-Man as badly as we possibly could. What are you gonna do, stop buying the comic? And ruin your legacy collection? C'mooon.")
Did a bit of an infodump to my patient spouse the other day on the tangled history of "Miracleman". Can't help but feel bad for anyone who's been a core fan of the book, waiting upwards of two decades for it to be finally published again only to find that the current writer is a sex pest and that it'll probably never be revived from the considerable stank he's brought to it.
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Over the weekend I noticed a gosling stuck in a grate and picked them to rescue them. I'll never know the full impact of that action. Maybe they got eaten by a fox the next day. Maybe they'll have 50 goslings of their own over the course of their life. Sometimes all you can do is a little something, and see what happens.
I'm growing potatoes in a big pot again. Dig for Victory.
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