ThaOGDreamWeaver

That was a happy memory: one of my godsons got into an argument with a Dalek in our local bookshop, completely failing to notice the bookshop manager with a throat mic who was trying his best not to break character or laugh...

I don't think The Boys has run out of steam just yet, though after S3... ...S4 might be a good place to put draw a veil over things, tie up loose ends and 'ave a well-earned brew. And to be honest, I'm not sure anything they could do is going to top the "Herogasm" episode. As for GV, it looks more 20% teen angst, 80% teen survival horror. Or as some of us called it, "high school". 😛

Final trailer for The Boys' college-era spinoff is out, and while there are a few plot similarities - like a competition to wind up as the top-ranked hero and all the glory that brings - Sky High it ain't... So, two obviously hypercompetitive superjocks with their own issues and agendas, some second tiers who are probably the heroes/leads/Final Girls, something called The Woods that shall not be discussed, a whole new range of fun powers (shrinking, blood magick, and... puppetry...?), and a bloody disgusting murder mystery. Cast: Golden Boy is Terminal List's Patrick Schwarzenegger (yes, one of Ahnold's kids), CAOSabrina's Roz (Jaz Sinclair) and Ambrose (Chance Perdomo) reuniting as very different students, guest shots from A-Train and other Boys regulars, and the ever-wonderful Clancy Brown as a suitably avuncular and probably mildly evil chancellor. Jensen Ackles is also rumoured to show up, though listed only as "Ben", not Soldier Boy, and that ref is not on IMDB. Drops on Prime September 29. Do we think it's gonna make the grade?

It's probably best explained through the medium of song.

I for one am looking forward to having a powered exo-suit instead of a mobility scooter when I get old (or possibly a combination of the two. I'd need it in red and gold though - I am Iron Gran...) https://hackaday.com/2020/10/21/exoskeleton-muscles-powered-by-hydrogen/ There's also a full size actual Gundam animatronic, though thankfully it can't move around yet... https://thegaijinghost.com/blog/japan-life-sized-gundam-through-years And it's nice to know that the Terminators will flee when confronted with the average New Yorker. https://www.wired.com/story/nypd-spot-boston-dynamics-robot-dog/

Thoughts...

Jimmy Buffett feat. Paul McCartney - Bubbles Up (Radio Margaritaville preview play, September 2nd 2023)

Quick thread rez spell:

Thought on your thought:

Alan Cumming - Trouble

Regarding the guy in the helmet:

And Thrawn would have got away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling Rebels kids...

Come Monday - Jimmy Buffett 🦜😿

So, in the absence of m'learned coll (and having finally chewed through sixty pages of due diligence research in the real world), time to catch up with our new favourite Jedi... One other thing: has any Deep Nerd tried to translate any of the notes and directions of the credit maps?

*starts checking costume options for platypus-related facial features*

It depends on the build. I do have one 50 that still uses temp jetpacks to get around, but I've lately fallen in love a lot with Spring Attack for melee toons. (My latest Brute Barbierienne had that, plus Shield Charge, plus all the Axe attacks, so a lot of crowd-control options. And looked great.) For non-melee toons, it's worth remembering most enemies don't think or fight 3 dimensionally... so going up is one way out of embarrassing one-shot melee kills.

We can segue that back to generational humour, mind... I’m a disappointed idealist. I think of myself as a skeptic, a realist. I think the cynics are the people who left the gas tank on the Ford Pinto, companies that kill people and just cross them out because they can’t afford to retool. That’s a cynical position. But the saying goes, if you scratch a cynic, you find a disappointed idealist, and that’s what’s going on with me. Down deep and underneath, the flame still flickers. I wish for an idealist, utopian world but the realist in me says it’s never gonna happen because of the way they’ve structured power and money and control and the hierarchies they’ve established. -- George Carlin ...okay, no laughs for that? Tough crowd. Try this instead. There's a lot of good stuff in it (and if you enjoyed this post, please donate to St. Anthony's Home For The Visually Unpleasant if you can spare a buck or two). But definitely clock in from 10:30 for George on the (ab)use of language.

Okay, being a Brit (if well-travelled enough to know Canadian humour, eh), here's a bit from The Goodies... Then, of course, if you're a Brit of a certain age, there was your big moral choice. Were you a Swap Shop kid... or a Tiswas kid?

And there's a teaser too. Clearly S1 attracted a lot of good buzz. Because, quite rightly, they have two whole title cards showing off the cape and cartoon royalty joining JK and co this season: Hamill himself, Grey, Zazie, Clancy, Kari, LaMarrrrrr, KMR, Zach Quinto, Chloe Bennet, Tatiana, Diggs... and Flockhart? I'll allow it, but no dancing babies plz. That'd be just too weird and meta even for this show.

DragonForce - The Last Dragonborn

Rush - Leave That Thing Alone

Thoughts...

I think I may be from the previous generation, eh.

"Oh, yes. We’re the only ones who know how to make things work. You see, the only thing the good people are good at is overthrowing the bad people. And you’re good at that, I’ll grant you. But the trouble is that it’s the only thing you’re good at. One day it’s the ringing of the bells and the casting down of the evil tyrant, and the next it’s everyone sitting around complaining that ever since the tyrant was overthrown no one’s been taking out the trash. Because the bad people know how to plan. It’s part of the specification, you might say. Every evil tyrant has a plan to rule the world. Good people don’t seem to have the knack." --Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!