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Eh. I think its more **** will be ****, regardless of where you find them. I know a lot of fans who are totally "I'm okay, you're okay" and that to me is real fandom. And I've met a lot of fans who are totally about trying to prove they're more fan than you (or that their fandom is better than yours).

Space Cobra Episode XII: "Osorubeshi Saishūheiki" aka "The Dreadful Ultimate Weapon" When last we left Cobra, he was himself left flatfooted as he was outsmarted by Sandra, leader of the Snow Gorillas, to the Ultimate Weapon. "Shiny!" All in all, a pretty satisfactory opening adventure, IMO.

Curiosity. Mind you I'm of the opinion ST went downhill after Roddenberry got booted to the curb (to be fair, maybe a bit before it) and recognize that Paramount has a history of trusting people who hate the concept of Star Trek to run the show (whether the current creators fascination with Star Wars, not Trek, or the TNG show runners hating sci-fi and wishing they were making NYPD BLUE or something). But to be fair, I watched PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE for fun. Trashy stuff can be fun in the right mindset as long as it's not boring. To me Season 1 of Discovery wasn't awful. But full of missed opportunities.

Meanwhile, I finished season 1 of Discovery. They finally get around to trying to establish a connective tissue with the opening arc with the closing one, but it feels thinly drawn. Lorca was more interesting before he came to the mirror universe and became one dimensional. Sadly none of the mirror universe stuff was needed for the story; they could have ended the series without the diversion to the MU (just have Lorca be in the Georgiou position at the end since they posited him as being on the edge after losing his crew. They ultimately don't need the MU intel they get from the Emperor since Tyler is cooperative, so they really gain nothing from it but three extra episodes or so). Nice to see Clint Howard, though. First season MVPs are Saru, Stamets and Tilly. Culber doesn't get enough screen time, buyt I felt he worked in the thankless "objectionable doctor" role Burnham has some good moments, but I think the character's been weighed down with a cumbersome back story. Emperor Georgia needed a mustache to twirl and Lorca becomes uninteresting once revealed. Ash and L'Rell had interesting roles, even if I don't think they fully made sense of L'Rell's character really. And they never really justify the changes to the Klingons - it just seems to exist to tweak the nose of long term fans. It reminds me in this season a bit like Voyager - a lot of competing ideas thrown together that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

Oh. THAT episode is next. I remember that one. I might...um...skip rewatching it...

Okay, in the middle of watching TNG "Homeward" and I just have to say... WTF? Why would the ship doors open for someone who wasn't in the crew? And if it did, why couldn't they change it so it didn't? Why wouldn't they have security watching the door if they couldn't lock the doors? Ugh. Edit: ugh. Finished episode...did anyone working on this episode ever watch a star trek episode before?

I think WB is planning to release THE BATMAN to HBO Max 45 days after it starts its theatrical run. After the lawsuits around day and date releases, I suspect that the same will be true of the others.

I think what you'll find is in cases where there is a correlation between poverty and obesity, poverty leads to less choice in food options (resulting in choosing between various cheap, prepackaged or precooked, foods with loads of salt, sugar and fat), as opposed to poverty leading to a scarcity of food.

The book is about ... 641 pages long. <ba-dum-dum> Thank you, I'll be here all week... ... Seriously though, Michael Crichton's book is about a group of eco-terrorists trying to create a man made tsunami to publicize Climate Change through a faked natural even that they'd tie to Global Warming (and to be fair, many people saw it as a climate denial book and dismissed it). But what Crichton said he was trying to warn against was the politicization of science and conflicts of interest in scientific research that may encourage researchers to ignore data that doesn't support their hypothesis or a political agenda. Further to that, he talked when it came out about an example that already existed - in the 70s there was a big fear regarding an oncoming Ice Age that came about because some news outlets found a small research paper that drew a conclusion on data at the time indicating Earth was cooling and felt it was compelling enough to promote as a thing to fear so viewers would turn in to view the latest information about the disaster headed their way. So when I read an article about a scientist claiming (regardless of whether the claim is true or not) that they were pressured not to report that a variant was 'mild', the book pops in my head as it, as a concept at least, fits the idea of what Crichton feared - scientific data being selectively used to generate fear, and in that fear to generate action towards a theoretical planned goal.

I sometimes think of Michael Crichton's State of Fear when I read about some of the stuff going on today (and of course, I think State of Fear was misunderstood in its day and dismissed as a Climate Change denier book, when I don't think that was the point Crichton was trying to get at).

This hit me right in the "where's the green giant from the Planescape: Torment 98 promo trailer?" when I watched it.

I think for the other sports titles the extra characters were free updates.

Part of why I like Chrono Trigger is that game+ made it so replayable. I could pick it up and finish it in a weekend and hit some great story highlights, which I really couldn't do in FFIII or Shining Force or something.

Well if it's any consolation. She may still not make it in!

The doesn't necessarily mean she isn't in it, though. She could be a characteradded after launch, or a character who is still in development. 10 characters seem awfully small for a roster.

Is she not in it, or is she just not in the announcement footage? Mario Tennis Aces had 16 characters at launch (ending with 30) and Mario Golf Super Rush also launched with 16 (adding 6 so far). So I'd be surprised for Strikers to launch with less than 16. From the trailer for Strikers, I only see 9-10 characters on the field (Mario, Luigi, Peach, Rosalina, Donkey Kong, Toad, Yoshi, Wario, Waluigi. Boom Boom(?) I think is the goalie, who appears to be computer controlled so may not be a player option, hence the 9-10).

No I heard it before. Thankfully I'm a subscriber to 'the author is dead' line of thinking and thus what they discussed making the film or even what they intended is really irrelevant to me.

I liked it. It wasn't Chrono Trigger level of good, but I enjoyed the game a lot. But it was more about the journey than the destination I guess. I'm really excited to play it again and to play the alternate reality Radical Dreamers text game that was never released officially outside of a small Japanese language platform. ****** The Search for the Developer of Aquaventure Apparently the new Atari is trying to find out who, at old Atari, created the game. **** Edit - also from the Nintendo Direct:

Ghostbusters sales reel made especially for Showest:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/athribis-0016370

Its funny, until the internet, I always assumed that scene where Marion confronts Indy in the bar meant a late teen Marion (based on the actress's age) had a crush on Jones and he used her interest to get access to her dad and that's what their ultimate falling out was over, not that she was 12 and he was whatever and they had a sexual relationship. Then the internet happened.

I always find it positively fascinating that parents and politicians push for requirements to become a teacher (6 years of school, plus student teaching hours, plus certification, plus background check at least) but then will turn around and immediately follow the suggestions of people (often the same parents or politicans) who have none of those things over the suggestions of the people they've certified to teach. That's not to say that there are teachers with bad ideas, but there is usually a mechanism within the educational structure to deal with that. The general wholesale "when in doubt, throw educators under the bus" strategy is positively baffling.