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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.

io9 - How to make people fall in love with your ridiculously competent hero

He Never Died. A nice little twist of horror, drama and comedy wrapped up in a noirish bundle. Henry Rollins as 'Jack' a social outcast, living in a rut battling depression with a mysterious past and a slight supernatural twist. Until one day, a daughter he never knew about turns up on his door and is promptly kidnapped by some local organised crime element. Hard to describe without leaving spoilers, but it has a fairly strong supporting cast to that mix of blood splattering violence all done with that slightly surreal comedic edge.

It was good. Silly, but good. And the last episode was really well done.

Hm, I have to admit while I'm waiting to see how much this shapes up there are a few small irritations. Every time I log into RSI I have to request a new password, because it apparently forgets what my password is. Or rather it continuously tells me I'm using the wrong one. I reset it, it'll work for a day, and then the next day "this is not the correct password". Which is also annoying since I can't test out the Star Citizen launcher. It always tells me its an invalid login.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhCWw0E_mVY

I can't really get in the right frame of mood to play anything at the moment. I should have another poke at TOR, I just need to get the contacts from 18 to 20, so that's like a weeks worth of heroics to be done. And I have GTAV to complete at some point if I can carve some time to go through it.....

So obviously USA Today wanted to go with the nerdbaiting..

Abrams said in a recent interview that one of the things he most wanted about Kylo Ren was for him not to be a fully formed, complete Villain. But much more of a work in progress, someone who is still kind of using the training wheels and on the path to becoming a complete villain. So that there would be the potential of the new trilogy showing that growth as much as you see the heroic characters evolve. I guess in many ways it'll be hard to judge until you have all three to watch together, whether the complete trilogy will satisfy the potential flaws if this had just been a solo film meant to stand on its own merits rather than as just the first third of a story.