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Aug. 14th, 2018
Mod Post! Off-Topic Tuesday
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icon_ukIn 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 amongst yourselves.
There has been an incident at Westmister in London this morning, involving a car driving into a security barrier. It may be terrorist related, but it's not clear as yet. No deaths, but some injuries amongst a group of cyclists who were also in the drivers path. The driver has been arrested and investigations continue.
In sad news for Star Trek fans, Nichelle Nichols (recently honoured by San Dieo Comic Convention with a Lifetime Achievement Award) has been diagnosed with dementia. We wish this most gracious of ladies such peace for the future as is possible and hope she always remembers how much she is loved and respected.
In other, happier, Trek news Sir Patrick Stewart announced he would return as Jean Luc Picard for a new Star Trek series. Given the man hasn't seemignly physically aged since the mid 1980's this should come as no surprise.
Tokyo Medical University is embroiled in scandal following the revelation that it had systematically and deliberately been lowering the grades of female applicants in order to bar women from entering the field of medicine. This may lead to a wider assessment of gendre discrimination in Japan
Chris Hardwick has had his name returned to the website nerdist.com, and has returned as a presenter of the Talking Dead podcast. he had been rmeoved from both following allegations of abuse by his ex girlfriend Chloe Dykstra (Who did not name him specifically, but it was clear who was refered to). Nerdist issued a statement;
"Last week, our parent company completed its investigation into the allegations against Chris Hardwick and issued a statement on our site that reinstated a mention of Hardwick as the founder of Nerdist, which is factually true. This statement is not intended to imply any change in our ongoing support of women and victims, nor does it change our business relationship with Hardwick, which concluded in 2017.
Our shows and stories are created by a team of people dedicated to making nerd culture and the internet a more positive, inclusive, and thoughtful place. We hope to continue to embody that mission with our content, our community, and most importantly, our actions."
A female executive and several female staff members have resigned in protest at this action.
I'm not going to report on anything White House related this week (I have my limits), but will note that more than 100 newspapers will be publishing editorials opposing Trump's constant "the press are the enemy of the people" rhetoric on Thursday 16th August.
New surveys now show that over 100 seats that voted for Brexit, would now vote Remain. So a brief gasp of sanity there then... whether it will do any good is less certain.
To the surprise of absolutely no-one, newly fired Minister Boris johnson is now lobbing controversial soundbites to appeal to the more extreme right wing with depressing regularity. The fact Steve Bannon (yes him) appears to be advising him should be cause for concern, but no surprise.
Vienna has been named the best place to live in the world, supplanting last years winner, Melbourne.
In Sweden, a strange spate of car burnings by young people would sound like the start of a dystopian novel were it not so disturbing. Even the Prime Ministers repsonse was a fairly directl "What the hell are you doing?"
Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 7 dropped on Netflix and reaction to major character development has been somewhat divided. The creators have confirmed that Shiro is gay, but the way the flashback to his relationship with his partner Adam (in events prior to the start of the series) was shown was, at best, diluted, and subsequent events do seem to fulfil the "Kill your gays" trope.
On the one hand I'm old enough that the fact we get gay characters in Americna broadcast cartoons is still fairly novel, but in a world where Steven Universe exists, I can understand those who feel that Netflix of all places could and should have been a little braver in their depiction.
Leaving that to one side, it was an fairly intense season as the team try to return to Earth before the Galra can reach them... wanna bet how well THAT goes? And the finale involving the Atlas is too nuts to spoil for those who haven't reached it yet!
The latest episode of Duck Tales was, not to put too fine a point on it, extraordinary! Funny, tragic, dramatic and unexpected as certain plot points were finally revealed and backstory was filled in. Season finale next week I think!
There has been an incident at Westmister in London this morning, involving a car driving into a security barrier. It may be terrorist related, but it's not clear as yet. No deaths, but some injuries amongst a group of cyclists who were also in the drivers path. The driver has been arrested and investigations continue.
In sad news for Star Trek fans, Nichelle Nichols (recently honoured by San Dieo Comic Convention with a Lifetime Achievement Award) has been diagnosed with dementia. We wish this most gracious of ladies such peace for the future as is possible and hope she always remembers how much she is loved and respected.
In other, happier, Trek news Sir Patrick Stewart announced he would return as Jean Luc Picard for a new Star Trek series. Given the man hasn't seemignly physically aged since the mid 1980's this should come as no surprise.
Tokyo Medical University is embroiled in scandal following the revelation that it had systematically and deliberately been lowering the grades of female applicants in order to bar women from entering the field of medicine. This may lead to a wider assessment of gendre discrimination in Japan
Chris Hardwick has had his name returned to the website nerdist.com, and has returned as a presenter of the Talking Dead podcast. he had been rmeoved from both following allegations of abuse by his ex girlfriend Chloe Dykstra (Who did not name him specifically, but it was clear who was refered to). Nerdist issued a statement;
"Last week, our parent company completed its investigation into the allegations against Chris Hardwick and issued a statement on our site that reinstated a mention of Hardwick as the founder of Nerdist, which is factually true. This statement is not intended to imply any change in our ongoing support of women and victims, nor does it change our business relationship with Hardwick, which concluded in 2017.
Our shows and stories are created by a team of people dedicated to making nerd culture and the internet a more positive, inclusive, and thoughtful place. We hope to continue to embody that mission with our content, our community, and most importantly, our actions."
A female executive and several female staff members have resigned in protest at this action.
I'm not going to report on anything White House related this week (I have my limits), but will note that more than 100 newspapers will be publishing editorials opposing Trump's constant "the press are the enemy of the people" rhetoric on Thursday 16th August.
New surveys now show that over 100 seats that voted for Brexit, would now vote Remain. So a brief gasp of sanity there then... whether it will do any good is less certain.
To the surprise of absolutely no-one, newly fired Minister Boris johnson is now lobbing controversial soundbites to appeal to the more extreme right wing with depressing regularity. The fact Steve Bannon (yes him) appears to be advising him should be cause for concern, but no surprise.
Vienna has been named the best place to live in the world, supplanting last years winner, Melbourne.
In Sweden, a strange spate of car burnings by young people would sound like the start of a dystopian novel were it not so disturbing. Even the Prime Ministers repsonse was a fairly directl "What the hell are you doing?"
Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 7 dropped on Netflix and reaction to major character development has been somewhat divided. The creators have confirmed that Shiro is gay, but the way the flashback to his relationship with his partner Adam (in events prior to the start of the series) was shown was, at best, diluted, and subsequent events do seem to fulfil the "Kill your gays" trope.
On the one hand I'm old enough that the fact we get gay characters in Americna broadcast cartoons is still fairly novel, but in a world where Steven Universe exists, I can understand those who feel that Netflix of all places could and should have been a little braver in their depiction.
Leaving that to one side, it was an fairly intense season as the team try to return to Earth before the Galra can reach them... wanna bet how well THAT goes? And the finale involving the Atlas is too nuts to spoil for those who haven't reached it yet!
The latest episode of Duck Tales was, not to put too fine a point on it, extraordinary! Funny, tragic, dramatic and unexpected as certain plot points were finally revealed and backstory was filled in. Season finale next week I think!
thanekosThey'd done it with Adam Osidis' help.
He went along with them as they took the King off to the end they had planned for him.
One night, playing cards, one of them avowed himself a killer of those who'd listened to the King.
( That provoked Adam. )
He went along with them as they took the King off to the end they had planned for him.
One night, playing cards, one of them avowed himself a killer of those who'd listened to the King.
( That provoked Adam. )