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Amazon is still proceeding with the tv adaption. The main screenwriter they have working on it keeps tweeting pictures of the scripts as he's making progress. The other week one of the things that came up was commentary on the difficulty on casting the various elements of WoT with specific ethnic groups so it's not all some blended mass, that the Sheinarans will be different from the Domani who will be different from the Andorans who will be different from the.... I guess we'll have to see how it all turns out in the end...

Eh, to be fair, I've known a few folks in the States who have developed long-term illnesses, and then get caught around the FMLA bureaucracy, loss of work, loss of medical insurance, increasing debts due to that, and the spiral it can induce. I just don't have the knack for eloquently writing it up and quoting the exact issues. So when something can catch the spirit of what they've gone through without me needing to struggle to describe it.. eh, I'll use it.

Well, this could have gone in politics but.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4sA_EwNPmY

Responses are pretty much exactly as expected We watched Ocean's 8 last night and it was better than I expected but my expectations were so low that it would have been hard not to meet them. That's not to say it was a good movie or anything either as it's probably the worst of the Ocean's movies. I can't believe it could be worse than Ocean's 12.

Okay, this one amused me...

This might be a rather common occurence for readers...

To jump away from that subject... Star Wars as 80's anime... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib_4A2CG2Ag

Oh sure, there's a level of "rule of cool", break from reality, it's just a movie thing going., suspension of disbelief.... But you'd like just a little effort and thought put in when it's a subject you know about and/or are interested in. Sure, it's a niche thing in many ways, but it can be like if you're really into x subject and it's in a film but totally wrong or done in a really stupid way after the characters involved are described as "experts" in the field. It's that "they keep telling me they're the pros from Dover and I want to believe it.. but they can't even name the game, let alone play it." Not serious, just irritating enough to zap that suspension of disbelief you so much want to engage.

It would be nice to see at least some passing nod to the concept of tactics and strategy in films these days. Not just "Hey, we're highly technologically advanced, we'll horde mob rush the enemy with no thought to cover, combined arms, or air support..."

Wasn't that the originator of the Crazy/Hot scale in pop culture?

Now that makes an interesting garden bench....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4

An idiot's guide to computer security

Well, there are a whole slew of pillars in line like that. So with drift, you just have to shift a few "corridors" over to have that same sort of line I imagine...