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Heh. I got an email with the "You have been selected to attend a pre-selection Interview", and I have to admit that there's something about that phrase that amuses me. Of course, the fun thing is that it included a "please bring all schooling qualification certificates with you." I'm like "okay, I know where my certificates from university are, but it's been nearly 20 years since my school GSCE's and then my college ones..." So I foresee some time digging around in vain hopes of figuring out just where those ones might be.

The first two episodes of the new season of Galavant. Cheerfully amusing , overblown, and somewhat like watching your very drunk friends singing at the karaoke bar. It's not going to win any awards, but they sell the performance so damn well. Getting trapped in "The Enchanted Forest" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBN7FB7PsGE&

One reason the learning styles myth persists

On that general interest.. io9 - Joss Whedon explains how the Marvel Cinematic Universe is more separate than you'd think

I think what is surprising me somewhat is the sudden spate of game editorials that relate to the whole "Fallout 4 reminds me that no crpg really has roleplaying, but the whole being able to engage some wild animals and run over there so that the raiders get into a fight with them, which causes the group of gunners over here to be involved is very roleplaying and combined with the environmental storytelling is amazingly roleplayerish." Or how while playing the game the fact that in their head they come up with a complete narrative of them shooting at Brotherhood of Steel because they know their character has a distrust of authority, and the way that they respond by shooting back and giving the editorial writer even more narrative creation in their head makes Fallout 4 a great game. A game that inspired imagination is good. A game that has no depth of storyline or characters on its own where you have to create everything in your head.. seems to me as not actually being that great.

Okay, this amused me..

Is that cat playing "The Floor is Lava!" ?

The Sherlock Christmas special was an interesting twist of why they had a Victorian episode...

For the #shotsfired on the internet..

Found myself dancing in my chair while I read, due to the Labyrinth soundtrack rolling on in the background and David Bowie singing. Is this a danger sign?

On the random Star Wars related trivia.. Star Destroyer CPU The link has a bunch more pictures of the whole thing in stages...

For a few of the gym heads on the forums... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1GUQVo1Lps

The rediscovery of some of Tesla's drawings and sketches: HigherPerspectives - Nikola Tesla Drawings Found

Having a slight play around with Starpoint Gemini 2. Enjoyable basics of starship wandering, trading and all. But some terrible, terrible voice acting.

A Not So Brief History of George Lucas Talking About Disney's Star Wars

Interesting question. I mean, if you seek out a supposedly-enlightened old master of mysterious space magic, you'd kind of expect there to be a pilgrimage involving unreasonably high stairs leading to a mountaintop and scenery porn galore, but I'm not sure Rey's companions would think of the tradition. Well, if you actually look at pictures of the Island, there's bugger all space to actually safely land the Falcon... It's a whole lot of slopes and gradients...

For another upcoming thing... Apparently Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie are going to be sharing screen time on a 6 part mini-series adaption of The Night Manager in the new year. Based on the book by John Le Carre (the man who gave us Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy among many others), so a post cold war espionage tale that gets described as more bromance than outright thriller..

The Revenant. Well made, good acting, great visuals of the landscape but it's.. hm. It's a very slow paced thing. Not to put a spoiler on it but the first hour sets up events, the 2nd hour is DeCaprio surviving, and then the last half an hour is the resolution.