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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

..and there was only one choice for me: @Renergy: Not everybody embraces the art of chaos like I do, so I try and keep it tidy: plus stacked AOEs in a small area can be fun.

So, our grand finale: Overall: glitchy but I liked it.

Full trailer just dropped. Bowie! Tentacles! (careful now) Digital hairball / vomit noises that are so real, you'll sit bolt upright with carpet cleaner in your hand! Possible Disney crossover guest appearance/design recycling: miniature CyBugs from Wreck-It Ralph Taika Waititi is listed on IMDB as being in this, is joking about being the lead, and has played at least one insane dictator before... Zurg? ...or is it everyone's other favourite purple, monologue-addict galactic overlord, James Brolin? As an 80s' kid, the creepy Kitty Ruxpin toy/companion is on point (no, never had one, and even if we could have afforded one they still weirded me out at the time.) Still being slightly cagey about the plot, but given what we know about warp-speed slingshots around the sun and how well those usually go... ...it's gonna be whales.

Free bonus thing: James Gunn's Instagram has been 90% Cena playing piano for the last couple of days. And he ain't bad.

I've had fun rebuilding PowerStar as Energy/Martial/Elec rather than pure Energy/Energy/Energy over the last few weeks. Some tips from that experience so far: Sudden Acc KB>KD is your friend on powers like Explosive Blast... ...though I keep Torrent with KB increased as an "argh get away" / corner sweeping power. I also use the Devastation Hold proc on single-target attacks which helps keep things tidy. For any power without KD, consider adding the Overwhelming Force set too (they are Unique, useful, and if you've not got billions of Inf sitting around or Merits to blow, the Summer Blockbuster event is a quick and hilarious way to earn them. Plus many shiny badgies, and confusing other players by calling them Hardison.) Infiltration has been a fun recent addition - a little bit of speed, a little bit of jump, enough extra Stealth to get you through most missions more or less intact. For getting around I used temp jetpacks until I had a spare power slot for Fly. Embrace the chaos.