Raithe

For the random "science" element...

Caught Ghosted on Apple TV. It's, hmm, an odd one. On a lot of levels it works, its a servicable popcorn blend of awkward comedy and action with Chris Evans slightly needy joe normal who has a spectacular one day date with Ana de Armas enigmatic "book curator", decides to travel to London for a surprise romantic moment only to get kidnapped and the reveal she's actually a spy. Throw in a bout of confused identities where all the bad guys think he's actually her infamous spy rep and it spirals along. A little silly, a little entertaining. Full of surprise little cameos and faces you know, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, John Cho, Ryan Reynolds, among others. But oddly let down by a lack of chemistry between Chris and Ana. They work it, but you don't seem to have that magic sparkle.

Quite often copy the links. They used to last and then I noted the last month it suddenly seems to keep stopping after a few days. Since the forum's have been behaving a little odd of late I wasn't sure if it was just one of those quirks for my viewing or something else.

Hm, is it just my browser or do most of my amusing links of late suddenly stop working about 2-3 days after I post them?

Variety - Roger Corman dead, Pionering independent producer and king of B-Movies

Realised Hackers was now free on Prime, and idle watched it for the nostalgia hit. That sweet joy of mid 90's view of techno fashion and concepts of the hacking culture and the before-internet Plus Angelina Jolie and Johnny Lee Miller looking so damn young.

The lore tends to be a mix of contradictory on purpose at times, because they like to throw in the unreliable narrator of Imperial History as controlled, redacted, and redefined by various parts of the bureaucracy.

No mods at all. A completely clean install of the game with all the DLC content. I'm only getting that message crop up when I'm on a tactical map doing a mission. But as I said, 3 missions and 18 crashes and restarts. It's making me wary of investing any more time on the game

Having a poke on my Steam Library and realised I hadn't actually gotten around to trying XCOM 2. So installed it, started it up. And found I get fairly continuous "pure virtual function being called while application was running (gisrunning == 1)" errors that crash me out. I've barely got into the third mission and I've had to restart the game about 18 times. No real solutions appear online after all these years, just that some magical combination no-one could ever confirm might possibly have an effect on some people... Apparently the Omnissiah is needed.

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947 "Don't Be A Sucker" - A 1947 short film made by the US Army, in an attempt to teach US Citizens how to avoid falling for a certain type of people....

Dead Boy Detectives is fairly entertaining for what it is. A fairly decent adaption of Neil Gaiman's work, but you can tell the influence some of the scriptwriters had with a CW background.