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So...you gave your rainspout an enema. 😄 I had to cart a small desk and three chairs 4 city blocks this morning, and even though it was super hot, I did it because its supposed to be hotter the next few days.

I also watched this film at the cinema, but without acid. That was also a terrible mistake.

Man, RIP. Liked a lot of her work that I've heard. Didn't know she'd subbed for Cindy Wilson in the B-52's, though.

‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works from ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary

Discovery of second repeating fast radio burst raises new questions

In the One Ring's defense, the odds of ANOTHER Hobbit getting the ring when the first Hobbit who had lost it a hole underneath the Misty Mountains which was now home to a Goblin town in the Great Goblin's cavern was probably pretty low.

I haven't seen the last Predator film yet (its on my to-do list), but so far the only ones I really disliked were the AVP films, particularly the 2nd one, which managed to be both poor Alien and poor Predator films. Edit:

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587, according to the same site the poster used. That said, it could just be that Titanic and Avatar fans are posting their fanfics to the listed site. 🤷‍♂️

I'm assuming you're making a joke. But I'll leave this here, anyhow...

If you'd told me in the 80s that Nuklon, Black Adam, Hawkman and Dr. Fate were going to be in a big budget action effects film, I'd have thought you were crazy. Ditto in the 1990s when Nuklon changed his gimmick to become Atom Smasher. I'd probably have been more sympathetic by the time Cyclone came around in 2006 that it was possible and you weren't cray-cray. Pretty much all 'woke outrage' is unnecessary. I'm almost tempted to say all outrage excepting that over grievous miscarriages of justice or similar serious topics. But being mad about the lead of a film? Silly.

Weird complaint*, I'm pretty sure that most major cultures had warrior women examples even if, as is typical around the world, they were not the norm in their respective societies. Bíawacheeitchish of the Crow, Pi'tamaka of the Piikáni Piegan, Buffalo Calf Road Woman of the Northern Cheyenne, Dahteste of the Chocen Apache are some women who engaged in battle, at least, if not hunting in the Americas that I've heard of. I believe the film Prey characters are Comanche and while I can't think of warrior or hunter woman from that culture, that doesn't mean they didn't exist (i'm no expert) or that it would have been impossible either, just like it wasn't impossible for any other culture where we can name warrior women from. *Then again, this is the internet.

They are poor adaptions of the game, but as an excuse for Milla Jovovich to kill zombies in increasing improbable situations with a generally likeable cast of zombie-fodder surrounding her, its a pretty fun series.

Its on my list, but I'm woefully behind on everything. A volume of Junji Ito stories, Kazuo Umezz's Orochi, and a few others. I think I may be a volume behind on Glepnir. Going to try to priortize getting to it - I've wanted to read it for years but never have gotten to it.

Will it be as good though (I still haven't started reading the series yet...)

Enterprise: Strange New World Another solid episode, if you get past the rather cavalier attitude the Captain and crew display to the dangers of space travel. While not a great fan of post TOS Vulcans-just-suppress-emotions-rather-than-not-have-them, I greatly enjoyed T'Pol's barely concealed contempt for the dumb human antics. Quibble - they stayed behind to monitor nocturnal apes. So where were they? Why did they feel safe enough to not set a watch given there was clearly wildlife? And why did nobody spot the giant destructive weather system?

The Klingons weren't in the Federation when they were a stand-in for Russia, though. Non Federation worlds are fair game to have the failings of modern man. And I still disagree that the Federation would colonize worlds in dispute enough to lose, and I dispute that Federation people who'd been freed from want would be so possessive of material things not to be willing to move even if the first part had happened.

In TOS, the people of the Federation had eliminated the darker side of humanity (I can't remember the exact quote, but after the Eugenics war humanity had pulled together eliminated materialism etc) TNG would have me believe that the people of the Federation would want to settle planets that were part of the Cardassian empire (why?) and that after doing so they wouldn't want to give them up. That doesn't sound like members of a better society that no longer is materialistic and driven by their baser wants. The maquis stuff is very much using the Federation to talk about Earth in the 1990s, not about the future Roddenberry envisioned.

Majestic, you make plenty of fine points about Picard, as I said I understand why people hated it. Re: the Federation as Trumps America in Picard, all I can say is that nobody past Roddenberry has seemed to want to work in the better tomorrow he created. The Federation as Roddenberry envisioned it would have never had the Maquis exist within it, much less be a major faction. So that bugbear is a something I've had to live with, but it grates (and should for ST fans). But I've begrudgingly accepted that fact that is where the series is so Picard didn't bother me in that respect as it just furthers this discontinuity with TOS. My problem with this episode is somewhat rooted in my feelings that Troi didn't work as a character as conceived because TOS had already established counseling as a part of Life Sciences, so there's no reason for her character to exist outside of the normal command structure. But for Troi to take bridge officer training in season 7 means that I have to believe that Starfleet knowingly gave her an equivalent rank in Starfleet that could put her in command of the ship (as happened in Season 5's episode 'Disaster') without offering her any training to be in command of the ship. And since they'd established that she wasn't a part of the normal structure (hence the equivalent rank rather than a real rank) unlike TOS, it further makes no sense she'd be eligible to take bridge training for a promotion since she wasn't an actual member of the crew in a structural sense.

My understanding is that the elements don't exist because DS9 wasn't shot the old way TNG was. So it's possible but would be more expensive than TNG, which as Bartimaeus points out was already expensive. That said I suspect it will happen at some point, if nothing else so they can stream it in HD and make it a selling point for P+