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Derfel Cadarn

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  1. 8 hours ago, Argonath Diver said:

    Counterpoint: If 1989 Road House sucks ass, 1989 Batman does too.

    Yeah. People remember it as being dark, as for most, their prior Batman experience was the TV show.

    Wat ch ing it now expecting a dark film, only to see the Joker and his (matching outfit) goons prancing around a museum while Prince blasts out of a ghetto blaster one of them is carrying.

    Also weird how old Bruce is. It’s been 30 years since his parents’ murder (which has been forgotten by the city pretty much), so he must be in his late 30’s at the youngest.

  2. Just now, Heartofice said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68625344

     

    It's fine to blame the Tories for stuff, but leaving out the clear context doesn't seem especially fair.

    Really? EDF customers in the UK saw a massive price hike - EDI customers in France had it capped. 

    British Gas making massive, increasing profits while charging customers more for energy.

    We generate energy but get little benefit because its sold on thr market which we then have to buy back.

    Which party privatised energy, and also which party did very little when the prices shot up?

  3. 9 minutes ago, Zorral said:

    Unsurprisingly, considering the depths of my ignorance concerning the military campaigns of WWII, I'd never known this.  On the other hand, the information about the Ghost Army remained classified until 1996, so maybe not so surprising.

    ‘Ghost Army’ that fooled Hitler will receive Congress’s highest honor

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/03/18/ghost-army-wwii-congressional-gold-medal/

     

    “It’s working, we’re luring large elements of the German Army away from our advancing units!”

    ”Great, where are they going?”

    ”…Um … here …?”

     

  4. 3 hours ago, Durckad said:

    I dunno, Denis turned one half of Dune, which was mostly people talking and thinking in caves, into a 2 and a half hour movie that was very, very good and very not boring so I think there's enough meat on the Messiah's bone to make a full movie. Much like Dune Part Two, it probably won't be entirely faithful to the source material, but as Dune Part Two largely, IMO, benefited from the changes, I could certainly see movie of Messiah being quite engrossing.

    The Sci-fi TV version 20 years ago was pretty good, better than their Dune adaptation (which was faithful). They made Messiah part 1 of the 3 part Children of Dune.

  5. 8 minutes ago, Heartofice said:

    There has to be a reason why we haven’t had Kate talk straight to camera ‘yeah don’t worry, it’s all cool, I’m fine, these rumours are nuts’

    It would be so easy to do, that not doing it seems utterly suspect.

    Yeah. At the moment, people are half-expecting them to pull a Weekend at Bernies.

    We have an heir who people are speculating(wildly) killed a man and may have killed/seriously injured his wife … and it’s not looking totally far-fetched.

    Wlso speculation thst Rose Hanbury is being soft-launched due to that Independent profile - though I suspect that was maybe thr paper trolling William.

  6. 10 minutes ago, Heartofice said:

    Total speculation, but if for instance Williams childhood had in fact totally messed him up and he was actually a wreck of a human being, who cheated on his wife ( like his dad did), and was mentally scarred by his mums breakdown and subsequent death… then what hope would George have, if he’s growing up in an environment that is just as bad. 
     

    Right now I don’t believe any of it, but if it was true, yeah, it could be really bad for the Royals.

    Yeah, probably isn’t true. But the speculation is growing, and becoming more mainstream.

    David Icke must be champing at the bit to bring back his “royal family alien lizard people” theory. At the moment, the RF PR team is so shit, they’d announce something that made it seem likely

  7. I think the RF is fucked. William was supposed to be the fsce of a modern RF,  some saying (before the queen died) that Charles shoukd have declined it in William’s favour.

    The queen was respected by most people, even a lot not in fsvour of a monarchy. The whoke recent furore has turned William into a joke. Conspiracy theories are entering the mainstream, and the RF are doing nothing to quosh them. 
     

    If George becomes king, it will be a much smaller working RF imho. If.

  8. It probably is just a case of several photos being taken and merged into thr ‘best’, but when you’re trying to kill runours of a cover-up, releasing an edited photo is pouring petrol, not water, on the flames.

    Read on Twitter that apparently there will be a live appearance latrr, with cameras invited to film. So expect plenty of Weekend at Bernies memes.

    edit: Kare’s now claiming she was the one who edited.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68534359

  9. 3 hours ago, Werthead said:

    I could be wrong but I think the board might have had some, "wow, George is taking a long time with these books, huh?" discussions before. Possibly thousands of times since around 2002.

    Also worth noting that while it looked like he wrote the first three books really quickly, he was already writing A Storm of Swords when A Game of Thrones was published.

  10. I’ve just bought The Will of the Many, by James Islington. Mainly because Dark Academia is pooular with publishers, so I’ve just started planning a gothic Dark Academia fantasy, to start once my WIP is finished this summer (ok, autumn).

    So I shoukd read something recent in the genre. It’s first person present tense, which will take some getting used to, but the reviews seem good.

  11. 12 hours ago, Werthead said:

    Excellent video on the OG Dune.

    I forgot this was never released on GoG. I still have my old CD-ROM and, bizarrely, it still works fine.

     

    I loved Dune 2 (a RTS) on the Amiga. I played Harkonnen and woukd send a mass of tanks to flank the enemy base, sacrificing them to breach the enemy base defences. Then a second wave, once ready, woukd finish them off

  12. 27 minutes ago, kissdbyfire said:

    Didn’t he threaten that as a way to twist Ukraine’s arm into “finding” dirt on Biden? Weren’t there 2 charges, abuse of power and something else?

    If I remember, Trump wanted Zelenskyy to announce they were investigating Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine. Not sure if he cared whether any investigation took llace, just wanted thr ‘smoke’

  13. So NanoWrimo is in meltdown.

    There have been issues for years, conplaints that they were affiliating with predatory vanity presses.

    Last year things came to a head when there were complaints of grooming in Junior Nano forums, and of no action being taken. Thise in charge of Nano shut the forums.

    Now they’ve released new rules, including a new agreement for thr ML’s (municipal liaisons). The ML’s arent hally because this new agreement leaves then potentially liable for all sorts of stuff. I’ll paste some examples below:

    • “Mandated ID verification and background checks, but only with one US-based company with many accusations of a bad track record with data protection.
    • Taking on all legal liability for anything that happens at any point anywhere associated with our region.
    • Age-verifying every member ourselves to ensure no minors take part in our activities.
    • Filing a report for every instance of profanity???
    • Getting permission each time we want to talk to another ML.
    • Communicating with the region solely through the site (which means no Discord).
    • Following HQ’s decisions on public health policies, rather than the government’s.“

    So the upshot is, Nano regions all around the world are breaking away from nano and acting as their own communities via discord etc, including the many of the Scotland ones.

    I’m not sure how Nano as an organisation can survive this shitshow

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