Lexx

The point from Lexx about Raylan was that he liked the show because it shows Raylan shooting other people actually causes others around him to react to it and not just calling it a thuesday. The Rookie is a tv show in which the same 6 police officers heroically prevent crime every 5 minutes, which makes it feel like propaganda.

I'm not saying Justified is more "real" - it was referring more to the character of Raylan within the show. If I remember right, he is the only (or one of the only ones?) in the marshal service group who has killed someone.

This is what I like about Justified, by the way. The show looks like Raylan would constantly shoot people, but his actual body count is pretty low compared to other police shows. Also, whenever he actually shot someone, it had serious consequences with internal investigation and so on.

Yeah, I was thinking about that as well. But it's still such a crass dissonance. The tv show kinda presents a perfect world police where everyone is an expert and it's just so weird if you compare that to the stuff we constantly hear about. Maybe I should give The Shield a re-watch, for a taste of the other side of it.

I recently started watching The Rookie with Nathan Fillion. At first I thought it's actually pretty nice and even binged a couple episodes. But at around half of season 1, I suddenly started to realize that ... it is kinda meh. First there is always something big going on in every episode. Even when a woman cop goes to the hospital for a blood test, because she got accidentally stung with a heroin needle (of course), she goes to the bathroom and right away stumbles over a visitor trying to kill a patient. Like, there was no reason at all for this scene to exist, but here we are. It's like there can't be 10 minutes in the show without a police officer preventing some crime. However, what's the most wild about all of this is that ... they shoot so few people. Instead of just gunning criminals down, they run & tackle even criminals with a knife. This is probably what kills the show the most for me, especially since we have stories like this coming out of america pretty much every week. tl;dr - feels like a weakly written propaganda piece. No idea if I can keep watching that.

That would have been better writing than what they actually did with the Borg.

Can't wait for the RLM review.

More bomb traps: https://tsn.ua/en/ato/boobytrapped-milk-carton-primed-with-bomb-was-given-to-grandmother-by-russian-soldier-in-kherson-the-woman-miraculously-survived-photo-2048860.html

Well, it's playable since a few years now. Is it well playable? That's a different thing.

I've read that some Sims 4 stuff was banned in russia because it has the gay in it. Maybe they are making this guy look gay? Could also explain the weird green wig.

I thought the gas is already flowing again.

I'm still waiting for RLM to talk about it. Maybe they are waiting for the final episode?

Not exactly sure if this is funny or sad, tho.

Interesting, related tweet from 5 days ago:

For what it's worth, I'm glad that Macron has won, however, it's way, way too close for my liking. Almost the half of france doesn't seem to have issues with having a right wing, russian pupped as their fuhrer.

Meh, I don't agree. IF ukraine can get access back to the oil fields and the offshore stuff (crimea), we will likely pump lots of money into the country to get access to those resources for cheap prices.

I mean, germans are pretty much anti-war for the majority of the past 70 years. Every time a politician wanted to get into a war, it caused a major ****storm in the whole country. Most of what we have military-wise is intended for defense, and even in this area we are lacking a lot due to corruption and incompetence. Considering this, I don't think it's surprising that germany doesn't really have the military capacities.

I've read the issue with germany and sending heavy weapons is that ... we simply don't have any to spare. If we send our guns to ukraine, our military won't have any guns anymore for years(!) to come, which basically means that whole units will have to be disbanded, unless we keep training them like north korea - with imaginative weapons. The weapon / vehicle factories are also booked out for the next 10 or what years. It's simply impossible to produce more, faster right now.

I think it's cheaper to kill them like that. Also no need to show gore, etc. which gives a better age rating. Basically the bad guy just disappears and it's done.

I've heard there are already 5 high profile gazprom guys who, uh, did the suicide. Coincidence indeed. Just wondering if this really is a Putin purge like some assume, or if some other intelligence agencies are involved. Guess we will never really find out.

lol, I thought the news feeds are bombing me with the same "oligarch family suicide"-story since yesterday, but now I accidentally found out that there was a *second* family that "suicided" itself. Coincidentally both families are linked to gazprom. Surely we live in mysterious times.

And now nobody can do Z for Zorro anymore. Thanks russia.

Watched The Batman yesterday. Truth told, I'm not sure what to think of it. The style and atmosphere was pretty good, imo. I liked that a lot. But it also felt really long ... when I thought it is about to be done, suddenly it kept going for almost another hour. Also there is a bit of a weird dissonance in style, because on the one side they are trying to show a more "down to earth" Batman, who doesn't have the kind of super powers he has in other movies -- he doesn't fly around the city, he travels with a motorcycle and civilian clothes, his mask looks very self-made out of generic leather, etc. -- But then they keep blasting machine gun bursts into him and he doesn't even care about it (nor does the suit, there is never even a scratch in it). I'm also curious where the hell he has hidden his suit all the time. If he is in "civilian mode", he has a backpack, but I highly doubt he can store it in there ... also, how is he able to swap the clothes so fast? Doesn't look like one can jump in and out of the batsuit that quickly. Still, people were right when they said it does feel a lot like the old 90s cartoon. Even though I'm undecided about this movie, I wouldn't mind seeing a followup.

I'm actually surprised that the remnants in the steel factory still have (or had) food and water left after so much time. The way I understood it, there must be at least ~1k people. Try getting rations for so many people if you are surrounded.

In the beginning of the war they were showing russian tanks that had the explosives in the reactive armor removed. Basically it was just the empty shell, sometimes even only made out of cardboard box.