ThaOGDreamWeaver

One odd thing here - as I've mentioned above, transferring from 2015 Mac Pro running Big Sur to 2021/2022 M1 running Monterey. I ran the Migration Assistant to transfer all of my old files to the new Mac. (Open your Launchpad, start typing Migration into the Search box, and run it. Stick new Mac next to old Mac, make sure they're on the same WiFi network, match the passcodes, and leave them to do their thang for about 90 minutes). Open up new Mac. Found the COH Launcher icon. Just on the off chance, ran it, didn't work. Installed Rosetta as per page 1. (Launchpad > Terminal > softwareupdate --install-rosetta ) Ran COH Launcher again. And lo, with a FREEM! and blasting light, COH lives again! ...or is it a Nemesis Plot? Is it going to unleash terrible tentacled wossnames from dimensions hoomans should not wot of - or worse, fry my new work Mac - if I just run the like for like copy instead of a clean install? Am I just paranoid? Cheers Em

Still gonna argue for a moon rather than free building. Because while the raw mass is out there, it needs refining into steel, cables, chips - and you have to expend fuel to go fetch it. Plus playing pool with asteroids and comets isn't easy - bosmang kapawu of a 'roid hunter seems simultaneously the dullest and most dangerous beltalowda gig I can think of. At least if you find a nice moon with a polar water supply (and potentially subterranean liquid lakes or oceans on the actual Moon), relatively stable geology, sources of power and light (the Moon has a liquid mantle, which could be accessible by drilling as little as 5km down - that's your uninterruptible power source right there), and which isn't regularly bathed by Spock-frying levels of radiation (sorry, Arthur C, Europa's not on the menu)... ...then you have a whole bunch of raw material in one place that you don't have to expend time and fuel to go fetch, room to spread out, and the convenience of gravity without a hefty gravity well. Oh, and apologies to Elon, but Mars is for suckers. At least if you want to wake up with the same number of arms in the morning, though they'll be useful for sweeping layers of corrosive dust off your solar panels.

TBH, I'd rather we didn't turn the one green place have lifeless to start with. Terraforming seems more practical than Dyson Shells or cylinders, or even large scale space stations, since you don't have to move millions of tons of mass into orbit (or, if you have fancy-schmancy energy-based replicator tech, spend power generating it.) But we might not need to. There are some very Earthlike planets starting to crop up now... if we can figure out how to take a trip out there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1e

Look, not all explorers try to impregnate everything. He's not Kirk, y'know.

Colbie Caillat - Bubbly See you guys after St Val's 💓

Dalida - Histoire d'un Amour

Count Basie - This Love Of Mine

Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours

Martin Courcy - To The Top Complete soundtrack is here - would quite like it if they released it as an album...

Dave Zabriskie - Theatre Of Magic (Complete Soundtrack)

(Seriously, I just got back into CoH just as my 2015-era Mac Pro is starting to bite the dust. I was most worried about the on-board GPU not being able to work with it, but now Monterey is having its own fun with apps old and new...)

Just to say: Yes to everything @Saikochoro / @DougGraves/ @Darmian said. If I had a third spot to offer, it would be a tie between Dr. Strange and Shang-Chi. Honourable mention to all the D+ series - and five out of seven series of Agents Of Shield - for astonishing levels of bravery with their properties. And of course, bringing us the Ship of Theseus beat, that song, Rogers:The Musical, Pizza Dog, trained commando ferrets, nonchalant Phil one-liners, EVIL FITZ, Morbius, Richard E Grant in a Kermit suit, Ultimate Strange and... SuperPeggy. Who we stan till death and will fight for. It doesn't all work all the time for everybody, natch, but it's great to watch them have the freedom to play. Still not wholly sure what all the Captain Marvel hate's about. Maybe it's because I'm an 80s kid and was getting all the references. OrI like watching Jude Law trying an "actually..." and getting punched into a mountain. Or I like playing chaotic blasters. Or that it shows the origin of the best-damn-hands-down-character in the whole MCU...

Life finds a way.

Just popping in to say thanks to the CoH community - looks like I can run CoH on a base model M1 without a discrete or branded GPU. Excellent. 2015-era Mac Pro is having severe battery issues and work were considering whether it needed refitting or getting a new unit.

Leaving first reply open: I dislike flashbacks because they disrupt the flow of a story, and at worst they fall prey to lazy writing - whenever you want to fill in someone's backstory, just warp back in time. BOBF was skating close to that sometimes, though it was mostly interesting stuff: as a show where Bob is reflecting on his life and slightly softening outlook on the worlds, it also kinda sorta makes sense. Just a lot of it. The worst recent offender being Witcher S1, which they had the good sense to nod at in S2 and promise to never do again. On with the wild speculation and whinging...

"...why do they always have to go bigger?" What we know so far:

TMBG - Science Is Real

Freezepop - Science Genius Girl

Animaniacs - The Presidents

Tom Lehrer - The Elements

Reply to m'learned coll Techwright:

Iron Maiden - Aces High

Pearl Jam - Given To Fly

Jeff & Mychael Danna - Sacrifice (Death Of A Pegasus) - Onward OST

Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner