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What with the Hurricane damage, I thought I'd start the rumor we're giving Texas back to Mexico, and make them pay for the repairs (scampers for the door).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IfmiKnZi3E

So another late 80's film gets its reboot, this time as a current tv show to be released next year... Am I really looking forward to Heathers TV show? (Includes the teaser-trailer they've released for it)

For something I threw on the funny things thead, that took a lot of people seriously apparently...

From an American relation of mine : "Could we be the only country dumb enough to start a second civil war because we're offended by the first one?"

*does that innocent whistle thing*

Terry Pratchett's unpublished work crushed by steamroller

You know how you can get yourself back into the zone of accomplishing things? I had done that, I'd picked up an exercise bike, started using it regularly to go with door gym and general exercise. Making myself sit down down to juggle admin and prep stuff for return to university in September, some research stuff for some consultants I know, that kick on organising various things around the house... I'd got there, then somehow broke a toe. Which disrupts the return to exercise, and then of course its all the having to keep your foot elevated. Now I'm all procrastination city on even paperwork and some research elements. I keep sliding into the "I'll sort that out later" and get distracted with various sci-fi / fantasy authors via kindle unlimited and suddenly the day is gone.

Sometimes, you have to put politics in the funny thread. Otherwise you might end up crying. On that slight edge of politics but not quite.. Gone with the Wind removed from theater due to racial sensitivity

Sometimes, you need a little whimsy... How to build an epic blanket fort

So with all the scandinavians we have on the boards.. just how true is this?

A bloke walks into a brothel and says:- "I'm a bit kinky, how much for total humiliation?" The madam replies: "£60". "Wow, what do I get for that?" he says. She says: "A season ticket at Highbury Stadium , and an Arsenal shirt "

The Hitman's Bodyguard. A great film about romance. Plus a few amusing banter points between Ryan Reynolds as the Bodyguard and Samuel L Jackson as the Hitman whose tried to kill him 28 times, as they road trip their way from Coventry to Hague to get to the ICC while being hunted by a lot of people.

Of course, they'd likely say "but you could switch profiles and change all three powers with the press of a button once you set the profile"... Which on a certain principle made an interesting idea, but limiting you to three powers and your gun at a single time was.. unwieldy. Especially since you no longer had direct control over what your companions were doing. Which made setting up combos much more of a random element than a strategic one.

Hm, I do wonder if you could pull off a decent version of Count of Monte Cristo as a game. That would take a dose of heavy rpg, a way to handle gameplay set across several years for the training, the financial management and spymaster / information gathering / detective build up to engaging in sprawling revenge plans. The trouble with the idea of taking a book and turning it into a game is that book plots rarely work well as a direct transfer. You tend to need it to be more a "book universe" and a seperate story that works with the flow. Hm, Honor Harrington universe has been mentioned for tactical / strategy gaming - technically, you could also use it for FPS, Manticoran Marines doing boarding duties or..hm that action/rpg of captured Navy officer doing an escape. Heh, if zombie apocalypse wasn't being played to death so much of late I'd consider John Ringo's Black Tide series as a universe to do a mix of game genres in. Rather than name a specific book, there is that whole genre of "guy from modern day world gets dumped in a fantasy / medieaval anologue world and uses his engineering / science skills to build ****, win wars, get the girl, repeat." That could make an interesting rpg / tactical mix, designing a character and establishing what modern day knowledge they have and then how it would interact with things in the new world. From expected practicalities of basic engineering and knowing sanitation and plumbing, to things like computer programming skills enabling you to use magic in a way no-ones seen before. A modern day doctor with some practical chemistry skills being able to become a mythical healer and such. Using some basic chemistry and understanding of economics to kick start a pseudo-industrial revolution with the introduction of lamp oil, ether, franchises and banking... Although that would be an utter bastard to design in practical gaming I imagine.

Prisoners hang themselves at Sherrif Joe Arpaios jails at a rate that dwarfs other county lockups