Old Man

New book smell

Justice

and Justice, Inc.

3 hours ago, Pariah said:

I, too, love Cookie Monster.

As well as enchiladas, eclairs, and empanadas.

Brownies (although they also make me gain weight)

King Charles III diagnosed with cancer

No word on type or stage.

You!

J/k.  Youtube ads

You would think, but Boeing hasn't been profitable since 2018 so all the MBAing is costing Boeing both REP and cash.

Violence

It makes me want to break something

Hong Kong financial worker gives away US$25M after video call with live deepfake of CFO

People who hate the Olsen twins

Also, politics and politicians

Google Bard is now capable of image generation, but my initial experiments show that it's way behind Midjourney.

3 hours ago, tkdguy said:

 

I watched a video where a few content creators got together for a chat about rpgs. The youngest one looked shocked when she found out about level drain in old-school D&D.

Yes, old school D&D, where characters' lives were nasty, brutish, and short. 

The way it should be. 

Thunderball (1965).  I can see why this film did well when it came out, and I can see why the director would have wanted to put all that underwater footage on screen.  I also have to respect the fact that they had to build all that gear--especially the subs and the separating hydrofoil Disco Volante.  In the end, though, the film has not aged all that well.  It's too long, too slow, and Bond is too SA-ey.  It was okay, though I nodded off once or twice.

Skipped YOL2x and DAF because Prime implemented ads.

Live and Let Die (1973).  The first Roger Moore film.  Moore is a pretty good Bond.  Paul McCartney makes a really good Bond theme.  Jane Seymour is an outstanding Bond girl.  We can see the silliness and comic-book physics start to creep into the franchise in this one, though Bond himself mostly avoids the comic relief.  It doesn't help that I watched this Caribbean-set film right after the Caribbean-set Thunderball, but it was definitely better than Thunderball.

Probably skipping TMWTGG because it's not free, plus I think I've seen it, so next up is TSWLM on Max.  I'm struggling with whether I should go back and pay Apple for YOL2x and DAF.  At least they're not Amazon.

Masters of the Air (2024).  This Apple TV+ original is the U.S. Army Air Corps counterpart to Band of Brothers and The Pacific.  Growing up in an Air Force household I'm pretty familiar with the exploits of the Bloody 100th in WWII.  Three episodes in I'm pretty happy with the accuracy of the story and portrayal, although I feel they're sanitizing the violence a little bit.  We don't see too much of what happens in the many, many, many B-17s that get shot up and shot down.  Any given bomber crewman in the 100th had a 25% chance of surviving their tour in 1943.  But we're only three episodes in and there are some more horrific missions coming up, so maybe I've spoken too soon.

6 hours ago, Ockham's Spoon said:

In my day ice axes hadn't been invented yet

Cancer (the disease), of course.

Xenobiologist

What happened at the Hugo Awards

Quote

Without answers from McCarty, many Hugo enthusiasts have coalesced around two theories: either the awards committee miscounted early-round votes and realized their mistake too late, or the ineligible writers were censored under pressure from the Chinese Communist Party.

Grand Duke

Zero City Games (World of Io, Spire: The City Must Fall)

Zoë Hill Design (Whispers of the End)

Zombie Orpheus Entertainment (Kult: Divinity Lost, Aftermath!)

Zweihänder Studio (Zweihänder Grim & Perilous)

Zephyr Brand Games: (Dragonlance Classics for 5e)

NT: Royal, theological, and occupational job titles, real or fictitious

Lewis is switching to Scuderia in 2025.

The sock goes in the mouth, then you tie the tie around the head to hold the sock in.

Ties >>>>> mailboxes

44 minutes ago, DShomshak said:

I will say, MAGA is so easily triggered, the Biden team should exploit this by copying Trump's own tactics: Keep tossing out shiny new outrages to chase, and so command the news cycle, pushing other subjects -- including their hero Trump -- off the front page. When they make everything a conspiracy tied to Biden, they implicitly declare that Biden is powerful, that he matters. While also reminding the non-insane portion of the electorate how crazy Trump and MAGA are.

 

Now, what would be some good new shiny outrages...?

Biden would look great in a tan suit.

I've gotten way worse gifts than socks.

33 minutes ago, wcw43921 said:

That time when the Boy Scouts Of America had their own action figures

You know I'd seen that ad a million times, but I never knew what the actual figures looked like.