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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.

NASA has released a taster image from their first output from the James Webb Space Telescope which will be being properly released today. To say it's breathtakingly beautiful is woefully inadequate. As described (and this is why poets in the sciences are important) the first image is a patch of sky the size of a grain of sand, held at arms length. on the ground, and yet the image captures CLUSTERS of galaxies.

Speaking of incredibly distant and ancient balls of gas, anyone watching the amateur hour reboot of the Benny Hill show which is the UK political situation may well be baffled by the goings on, to which I reply... Join the club! Cabinet Ministers resigning like lemmings off a cliff due to suddenly rediscovered "moral convictions". Uh-huh. (This is as accurate, if profanity laden, a summary as you'll probably find). And now the combination of Musical Chairs/Game of Thrones which is "Finding a new leader of the Conservative Party" gets underway. A fun summerlong event for ~~all~~ none of the family.

Globally famous athlete Sir Mo Farah has revealed that he was illegallly trafficked into the UK as a child to work as a domestic servant and that Mo Farah is not, in fact, his birth name.

The UK, especially the South, is facing temperatures of over 32 C for the next several days (and likely higher this weekend), which may not even be as hot at the norm for some members (a friend in Arizona is dealing with 47 C at the moment, which is INSANE), but is waaaay more than we're used to and dangerous for those not used to it.

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" closed it's first season with an elegant little story that was both a tribute to a much respected TOS episode "Balance of Terror" with a touch of "Yesterday's Enterprise" (except this was more like "Tomorrow's Enterprise"). This has been my favourite new Trek in quite some time (not that the other's are bad, but this one manages such a nice balance of a classic feel whilst updating things, and honestly Pike is a brilliant Captain in his own right. You can believe people would be fighting for a posting on the Enterprise because of him... I mean not only a tactcian, but a diplomat, a captain who listens to his crew when they have ideas, he COOKS, his hair is frequently hilarious and his first horse was called "Sir Neighs-a-lot". What's not to love?)

So this is being posted a little earlier tha usual both because I hardly slept last night with the heat, and because I have a meeting to head out to.

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From:

thezmage

So I tested positive for Covid this weekend. On account of being vaccinated and boosted it’s pretty much manifested as just a runny nose, a headache, and a general inability to get comfortable. I may also have a fever or it may just be that the whole damn hemisphere is just really hot

Decided to take this time to rewatch GI Joe: Renegades. This series is a lot more Snake-Eyes obsessed than I recalled. I guess that makes sense considering his whole character is to be inscrutable and badass but still. Interesting to go back to now that I’m so much more knowledgeable about the franchise. In particular their take on Dr Mindbender is a little more grating because he’d be a PERFECT modern take on Dr Venom

I’m up to date on Only Murders in the Building, including today’s episode. Still don’t have any theories as to who did it other than that the one person we’re meant to suspect is far too obvious

Been listening to an actual play podcast of Brindlewood Bay called Roll to Meddle. Brindlewood Bay is a ttrpg that can basically be summed up as “Cthulhu She Wrote,” or Murder She Wrote by way of eldritch horror, has all the players as meddling old ladies solving crimes who eventually start to realize something deeper and darker is going on. The stand out Mystery so far is Long Dark Teatime of the Soulless which takes a character we’ve never met before and has us grieving their death within the hour.

And then they recorded an in character add for Manscaped that I was not prepared for

Ended up binging the recently returned webcomic Basic Instructions earlier when looking for a single joke. It’s good stuff, you should check it out (basicinstructions.net)

I’ve dropped a recommendation here periodically to check out the podcast Eidolon Playtest where they play a TTRPG based on Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and Persona, but they’re currently doing a four part miniseries based on the music of They Might Be Giants using their new tarot-based resolution system that is so good and so funny. It’s only four episodes (only one of which is available on the free feed and two for Patreon subscribers) so why not check it out?

Seconding that Strange New Worlds recommendation. Also you get to see Spock and his fiancé T’Pring have the sort of relationship disputes that only Vulcans could have. It’s amazing.

Edited Date: 2022-07-12 07:00 am (UTC)

From:

lissa_quon

Oooh I've beend ebating about getting and running Brindlewood Bay. I'kll have to check that podcast out.

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