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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That's great! Since most of the people I play with are scattered geographically we play with the app and I actually learned via the app before getting a chance to play it on the table. It's definitely a game where a lot of thought has been put into the tutorials

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

According to some people on the fediverse, the Kagi forum thread that is linked in the toots I posted above and seemingly nowhere else.

From a non political standpoint: I tried Kagi last year and it was ok but I didn't get the big deal. And because I'm not in the US but the UK if you try searching where's my nearest garage or stay the nearest result came up as 150 miles away. So it's one of those things I'll maybe return to it once it's developed a bit more

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The definitive Doctor for me. Growing up during the wilderness years and VHS and UK Gold repeats were what we had to go on I loved both the earlier 'horror' seasons and the more humorous ones with the Romanas.

Wonderful actor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ace and the 7th Doctor were the first Doctor Who I saw - her beating up a Dalek with a baseball bat is my favourite companion moment ever from all of Who!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The sources I find are solely from mastodon threads, and date from this month and the Brave thing. This is the best thing I've found

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111707573907442638

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Find the nearest English Civil War reenactment and go watch it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Rick is just 12 having some downtime

 

RIP Captain Mike Yates

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

God's sake. I mean... At least he's apologising? I could imagine some of our recent lot doubling down on this and refusing to give in to wokeness blah blah blah...

But yeah. I'm really trying hard to be charitable cos it's Christmas and everything. That's not really pleasant stuff to hear from the guy who is in charge of the Police (over 1,100 under investigation for sexual assault or domestic violence atm)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It depends on the game, character etc. I mean I suppose it adds to the escapism slightly?

I play all sorts of different games though, some where you're not given the choice (Life Is Strange for example) and I don't feel like it's that big a deal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure that most Lemmy users have much to fear from Threads because it's a microblogging thing which Lemmy isn't. I

I'm on Kbin where there's slightly more of a concern in theory because Kbin has microblogging capabilities baked in but I don't think it's used very much (I have a separate Mastodon account anyway and that's where the real discussions about all this are happening understandably).

In practice I don't know, I have a strong feeling Meta aren't really interested in this corner of the fediverse right now, they want to be a Twitter-killer after all not a Reddit competitor. Which is why if you're interested in the subject most of the actual debate is going on Mastodon or equivalents.

None of this is going against your main point necessarily, Meta are obviously very shady. But also innocent until proven guilty, you know? Most instances have a pretty solid code of law.

Mods are going to be in for a bumpy ride though...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you Ian Levine?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I finished Consider Phlebas on my commute - I still don't rank it quite as highly as the others but it came to life more at the end. My favourite bit was when Horza was trapped on the cannibal cult island. Completely irrelevant to the plot but some excellent wtf storytelling!

 

New entry in my blog about media that shaped me growing up - my first memory of TV is the famous cliffhanger to part 1.

I'd maybe still rate it as the best Dalek story but I can't be objective about it really!

 

As sci-fi show’s 60th anniversary nears, a collector pleads for BBC to offer amnesty to those with recordings discarded by corporation

 

Well this could be very interesting indeed... Obviously the main question is how on earth can they cut anything from that story down to 75 minutes when it's already such a lean script with no padding at all?!?

I'm a huge Troughton fan though, and while I'm g glad there's been something of a First Doctor revival in the last few years it'd be great to see a colourised Mind Robber or something as well, not that it will happen...

 

It's nice to know that they're planning to do some more Hartnell animations. Although The Smugglers would seem like quite an odd choice

 

I finally finished this book this week (I took a year long break somewhere around page 400) and it's left an impression but I'm still not sure what I think.

It's a book set during the Third Reich told from the point of view of a cynical SS officer - but not so cynical he still doesn't think there's still some value in the work that he does. And his work takes us from the Einsatzgruppen Death Squads, Stalingrad, Auschwitz and explores other dark places, including his extremely disturbed personal life - it's not an easy read. He meets several real life characters, famous and obscure, notably Himmler, Eichmann and the commandant of Auschwitz, Hoss.

There's not much unreliable narrator stuff going on actually, because he's not particularly repentant about his crimes despite obviously being scarred by them - the narrative voice is more like one of the downtrodden private investigators you'd get in a detective novel. It's especially interesting to explore the Nazi mindset from a perspective from someone who's cultured, intelligent, and has decided to incorporate it into their worldview and can argue to himself, or for the reader's benefit or both - why what he's doing is the 'right' thing, or at least no less unacceptable than what is going on on the other sides in the war.

On the downside - this book feels far longer than it needed to be. It's nearly 1000 pages long and without spoiling too much I didn't feel like the relationship with the narrator's twin sister or how things resolved with his mother were necessary in an already packed book. They ultimately don't really go anywhere important and feel like filler.

I really liked the lack of sentimentality in the book though, there's no attempt to make the situation better than what it was. It's probably not something that anyone would want to go through without some interest in the Nazi period; that said given what's just happened to Israeli and Palestinian civilians it's a reminder that the potential is always there for people in organisations to treat life as a cheap thing to be dispensed with if that's what their leaders say

 

With every available Doctor Who episode and its wife coming to BBC iPlayer on November 1, how should you approach a Classic and NuWho rewatch? We have options...

 

Doctor Who fans can look forward to new interviews from Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall.

 

People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.

 

Morrissey must track down the missing sheet music for 'Suedehead'

 

The home secretary backed police and ordered a review of armed units after officers protested over a murder charge


Background on this for non-UK people -

  • Black guy shot by armed policeman whilst sitting in his own car.

  • Policeman arrested for murder, released on bail.

  • Last weekend armed police 'strike' by dropping their weapons because one of their own has been charged with murder

As per usual the victim is being forgotten in all of this while it turns into a massively corrupt political game.

 

Can you blame it?

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