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Brian May, Steve Vai & Joe Satriani - Tie Your Mother Down

Picking up on Techwright's point, in a non-spoilery way... Maybe a more accurate title for BoBF would be Tales Of The Underworlds or something like that. Except: (a) it doesn't tag viewers who didn't stick around for that Mando tailgag in (b) doesn't sound quite as Western (c) by law, anything with that title has to have Kate Beckinsale wandering around in impractical latex corsetry ...not that that's a bad thing, you understand, but does it work in context?

Jean Michelle Jarre - Stardust (Live From VR Nôtre-Dame)

That is indeed a fine Jam song. Not-quite spoilery thing: this being a Western show, and noting Filoni and Favreau's Western obsession... ...or am I seeing too much here?

Jabba wasn't that smart, though his mind was powerful enough to defeat mind tricks. They get filled out a lot more in Clone Wars (a Filoni joint, natch), and there's a lot of scheming going on. https://www.starwars.com/databank/hutt-clan They're cunning, but very straight-line cunning - they're so wrapped up in and smug about their own prowess they often don't see anyone else's scam or counter-scam coming. Sounds familiar. We have a similar slug-like, parasitic alien species with a penchant for scams and a weakness for their own hubris in Britain, called Etonians. And for some reason we keep electing them.

Bet it was a Thursday.

Francis Cabrel - La Cabane du Pêcheur

EON - Fear Is The Mindkiller (Original Mix... With Bats)

My random, unfounded speculation is yet another Western trope: the Hutts are playing both sides. Set up both enemies with lies, false flags and gifts. Then sit back with the popcorn lizards and watch one big, powerful enemy and one smol-but-fierce one tear each other to shreds, then move back in and hoover up what's left over. Maybe run a book on it on the side. It's what I'd do.* ...of course, this strategem depends on neither or both sides figuring that out before they're easily beaten. That doesn't work out well. *Barring the lizards. January diet, y'know.

*bump* ...came here to ask this, as the Mac is starting to nudge me a lot about Monterey and I'd prefer it didn't frag anything.

Had this on a lowbie toon, doing some light buffage on a fire farm a few days ago... ...got yelled at because I didn't wait for Vengeance to be up 😛

...so I'm wandering around with a mid-level blaster last night and got an interesting drop: an Experienced Marksman recipe from the Sniper PVP set. Oooh, nice. So I take a look through the complete set, and in there is a Recipe for Range/Fast Snipe: promising to make all your Sniper moves instant cast. Fun... Maybe I should have looked it up on the Forums first, but I blew 100 Reward Merits on it and then a bunch of inf on the parts. Took my first snipe with it, and... ...hey, where's my Sniper Shot bonus message? Oh. After a trip to Icon for a pair of donkey's ears, I then blew another 150k on an Unslotter and sold it on. Hopefully whoever bought it knows what they're about, but I basically spent a ton of merits and inf nerfing my own build. What other bad, dumb, horrible, no-good, 0 stars would not recommend purchases have you made and wanted your cash back - or want to warn others about?

Favreau and Filoni, other than epic SW nerds, are massive Western fans (whereas Lucas liked his war movies - particularly 633 Squadron, Dambusters, Bridges At Toko-Ri) and samurai movies (Hidden Fortress, natch, but also Yojimbo and Seven Samurai.) The big Western trope I get from BoBF is Unforgiven: the tired old gunfighter who wants to retire, though even Clint Eastwood never went through the guts of a galactic-sized Venus Flytrap. So the setup is Boba reflecting on his life, trying to adapt, and getting pulled into that Last Big Fight he doesn't want. For which we have two episodes left and our first two allies, plus the Gamorreans and the Mods. Then again, Boba's motivation for retiring is very far from reforming himself - he's just hacked off with bounty hunting for a series of useless, treacherous bosses, thinks he can do better, and wants to give it a try. I can very much relate.

From the website and vids, a lot looks oddly familiar (logos, character creation screens, certain in-world buildings and objects). And it looks like a lot of love has gone into the design of some of the new bits of the city. Can't say the same about the textures, animation or UI just yet. They don't quite hold up compared to final-issue COH, let alone modern titles, but that's all fixable over time. For a purely amateur effort, it's impressive, and I'd probably give it a whirl when/if it launches.

Loved it. Also love that it's stuffed with a bunch of extras, in-jokes and cameos...

Following up on Techwright's spoiler... the answer is we don't know, and quite possibly neither does he. And that's great. As I've wittered about before, the MCU is by canon its' own little Universe. And D+ writers have freedom to riff on and magpie-borrow from anything they like, but the brief is to write a story that works on film/TV. Comics are different with their own beats and ranges, not to mention info sidebars, captions and breakouts that wouldn't make sense much. (Ang Lee gave it a go.) I have a feeling from a storytelling point of view they're going to drop viewers - both those who've read the books and who are completely new - in at the deep end, which works alongside Steven's own confusion at discovering his alters. Compartmentalisation is a thing in DID, and while "alters" aren't usually completely unaware of what the others do or their existence, if it's something that would emotionally or morally conflict with that alter's values, it can get safely tucked away so as not to cause distress.

Still haven't watched it and trying to avoid spoiling myself online, but I heard that leitmotif at the end of Ep4, so I come pre-cheering for it.

The Teskey Brothers - Hold Me

Just an occasional dump box/drop thread for nerdcore funny stuff, because sweet Freya in Asgard knows we could all use a laugh. Oh, and we work clean in this club, kids. No, not the one about Riker running Slaver Queens of Orion on the holodeck, however funny you think it is. I don't even see how the trombone fit in there. From Alexrjpaterson on Twitter: last week, a Roomba escaped from a budget hotel for two days. Wonder what it got up to?

Just to be clear, that pun was (c) Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis, who nicknamed themselves that on set. One of the great things about working with Brits on a Whollyodd production is that they don't take anything seriously except the work, least of all themselves. (It's also occasionally a pain in the ass). For reference: As to the movie... that's an interesting theory. Doom might just be smart and sneaky enough to get past T'Challa's defences, which could make this a revenge movie. Another theory - if you want to play Chad's death a little straighter - is that the Heart Herb may give great power, but could also wear out the body a lot faster. Heroics = sacrifice trope.

Charles Perry - Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat ...was just playing this through, and Molls charged in purring for attention...😻

Paul Williams - Surf Music

The Wiggles - Elephant (Tame Impala cover)

Aquabats - Pool Party

Screaming Blue Messiahs - Bikini Red