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Of course, as it's all "Back to School" for a lot of places....

For something.. extremely English: The Guardian - I crossed the Alps on a Space Hopper

I think in some ways Solo never really played as if Han was really that competent. He mostly bounces between bumbling luck and bumbling unluck with Han being mouthy and bragging regardless of the situation. Also for the whole "this is how he became a skillfull smuggler" backstory... There was very little element to him really learning the ropes or picking up skills, the skim over him being an Imperial Trainee and jump to infantry and then the rapid drop into heist crew.

Got around to watching Solo. Hm. Really not sure what to make of it. There were good bits but something didn't quite seem to gel for the whole thing.

Keannu McCloed of the Clan McCloed?

It wasn't intended as a "because of this, this game is craptastic". It was meant as a general comment in the vein of "I like the idea behind it, but I don't think it worked in execution."

I've been dabbling with Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It's fairly engaging so far and is has a nicely sprawling feel to it. There's an interesting option to turn off all English speaking, so npc's actually speak in their native language - supposedly done to increase your immersion if you want to. Which is a nice idea, but I feel it fails in that due to Lara only speaking English to them. They rattle off in the local dialect, subtitles tell you what it means, and Lara responds in English which they perfectly understand and reply back.. in their own tongue. So I think that falls under slight failure in execution.

Eh, I'm not mad per se, more the "Considering how many deaths following Hurricane Maria are apparently due to lack of good drinking water, this seems a rather critical failure at some point in the disaster relief efforts." Although the general irritation with Trump declaring it a success with how many died is a somewhat seperate issue. And I've got a fair few friends in the paths of the current crop of tropical storms, which leaves me wondering that if the worst happens for them... can they actually rely on much aid from their government. Which is not something you should expect from the great and glorious US of A.

As Trump's view of success in dealing with Hurricane disaster is the 3,000 dead in Puerto Rico, the current crop of potential hurricane issues might cause people to be a bit more nervous about Government response... Business Insider - Photo's show massive stockpile of bottled water left on a runway for a year after Hurricane Maria

PCGamer - Shadow of the Tomb Raider : If it was a really intense gap year, what would Lara's instagram look like?

Whether this one is more suited to politics...

To be fair, the French colony of Canada was formed in the 1500's some point. But yes, the federal dominion of Canada wasn't formed until about 1860-somewhen. Still, this is funny things that amuse, not historically accurate.

Film wise, theres six of them, with a few television and video games sprinkled on top. This particular movie was straight-to-video. Kevin Bacon was going to return to a new tv series following on from the first two films. But alas, apparently it got cancelled before they could really get the pilot going.