I have one of those pointless and confounding hangovers that's far too severe for the actual quantity of alcohol consumed and which has rendered the entire morning as little more than a wearying exercise in existential dread.
Spending St. George’s day aggressively policing anyone celebrating; it’s illegal, and I’ll make damn sure you go to jail just for being English.
In the era of "we must exclude trans people from playing sport, for Fairness" it's actually quite sickening for various media outlets to be all "check out out, a ROBOT won a marathon!"
I think context is critical for all the MCU stuff. That was by design but it means that excised from that context the films feel drab. Even if you weren't a slavish fan the other bits of MCU media surrounding each film coloured the response at the time. Now that context is gone they struggle.
Last night I dreamed that a rogue state launched an attack on Cambridge using small mass drivers launched from satellites no bigger than a fridge. I refuse to look into how possible that is.
It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly
Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
PANEL ONE: The shouting mouth of Judge Dredd. "You're under ARREST!" PANEL TWO: A Mephistophelian figure with an outstretched hand, its eyes glowing. "Yeah yeah, you know how this goes, Judge! Better take a couple steps back unless you're after a wicked tan!" PANEL THREE: A deluge of flame with two glowing eyes within it. PANEL FOUR: An explosion, HBWOOOOSHH!, with a silhouette of Dredd in deep shadow against it. PANEL FIVE: A fried skull with a glowing eye. "Catch ya later!" PANEL SIX: Judge Dredd, his face distorted in disgust. "Hrmph."
PANEL ONE: Judge Dredd is patrolling a Mega-City One street. He hears TUNK TUNK TUNK TUNK emanating from a window of a dark high-rise. "Dredd to Control. Suspicious disturbance in a condemned high-rise on the edge of sector 228. Going in to investigate." PANEL TWO: Dredd's finger pressing an elevator button. BLIP! PANEL THREE: The PING of the elevator door. PANEL FOUR: Dredd's boot marching out of the elevator. PANEL FIVE: Dark hallway reflected in Dredd's visor. Only one door is open and light is spilling out of it, as is the sound of TUNK TUNK TUNK. PANEL SIX: Dredd's silhouette. "Dredd to Control. I've located the source of the disturbance." PANEL SEVEN: Dredd's snarling mouth. "Hrmph." PANEL EIGHT: Dredd in the doorway, looking at a machine labeled Suspicious Disturber 3000. The machine is hammering itself, producing the sound TUNK TUNK TUNK TUNK TUNK TUNK.
PANEL ONE: Judge Dredd is pursuing a perp down the elevated highway. In the corner of the image a flying delivery drone approaches the road. "Customer detected." PANEL TWO: Dredd in hot pursuit. "This is Dredd to Control. I'm in pursuit of a perp down the L-level of the 2-95. The suspect is moving at high speed. I'll need approximately two minutes to catch up with him." PANEL THREE: Dredd's determined face. PANEL FOUR: The drone has reached the fleeing perp. "Greetings, customer. Your product is here along with a complimentary bag of snacks, for later." PANEL FIVE: The perp's featureless mask. "Dock and fire." PANEL SIX: The drone docking on the back of the perp's bike. "Firing in 03, 02, 01..." PANEL SEVEN: Dredd's curling lips. "Drokk it!" PANEL EIGHT: A flash of light accompanied by a ZZZIP! PANEL NINE: The perp is roaring down the road, leaving Dredd way behind. "Hrmph."
Just gonna collect all these Dredd one-pagers here for ease of access
Eating leftover curry and foolishly ate a whole pepper that was so spicy that I had to get up from the table to walk it off like a footballer who has just been on the wrong end of a nasty tackle.
And it's not even true because the second your business becomes reliant on these robot peddling ghouls they'll start jacking the prices up into the stratosphere.
Disgusted to discover Bluesky is now working again.
18th anniversary of getting together with my future husband after a game of Call of Cthulhlu. Classic nerds the pair of us.
A good action RPG should leave you feeling tired and empty, like you're wasting your precious time on this earth, like the forces of nature hate you personally, like you're working a second job that only pays you in self-loathing and ennui. Diablo 2 is the greatest ARPG of all time.
Death is a corgi in a hat
John 15:18 - "If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you." Also a bonus fave; Luke 1:38 "And Mary said 'Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word...'" Jesus showing us solidarity and Mary showing us joy in service.
Just spent ages waiting for the kettle to boil only to eventually realise I hadn't turned it on so a nuclear war looking like a good outcome for me right now.
Wrote four and a half thousand words about a twenty minute episode of Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog this afternoon. I'm genuinely hoping the episodes get less interesting to write about at some point because otherwise this whole deep dive is going to wind up being over 175,000 words.
oh Captain my captain.
Copy of Ice-Breaker by John Gardner. The cover boldly proclaims "Ian Fleming's masterspy James Bond is back in John Gardner's Ice-Breaker". The cover is black with a gleaming skull that for unclear reasons has a pair of tired looking green eyes. The title is slightly embossed in metallic blue. It is from 1983
Found in a local book exchange. They don't make covers like that any more. I don't even care whether the book is good.
Just realised I'm the exact opposite with wrestling. Fucking love wrestling, often watch it when I'm low, but have zero interest in wrestling video games.
I hate golf on an atavistic level in real life but weirdly when I'm stressed I get the urge to go pretend golfing with Mario. I suppose it's the same as the urge to do pretend murders in video games. It's a safe space to do something terrible.
Macha Ma’am Sandy Ravage would be a good drag name.
Possibly the greatest arcade beat 'em up side scroller of all time? I got badly obsessed with The Simpsons but Capcom AvP might be even better.
In 5 days, the crew will be further away from Elon Musk than anyone else has ever been.
Goosebumps!
I have a portrait in the attic and let me tell you that guy looks in amazing shape.
the objectively funniest period in history was just after the fall of the soviet union because neoliberal academics all got so tremendously fucking high that they wrote shit like "history is over" or "it is physically impossible for two countries to go to war if both have a McDonald's"
wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it
Peter Pan is my favorite story about how running away from all your problems will allow you to remain youthful and to possibly fly someday
I should be allowed a podcast where I interview MPs and former MPs and we should do it in person in an abandoned warehouse and [REDACTED]
Just thrashed a stroke victim at gin rummy. Not sure how I feel about that.
