alan2099

In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

Well, SCOTUS has ruled to protect mail-in voting, so that's a plus.

A bunch of AI execs are now suddenly deciding that things should slow down on the AI development front, including one of the founders of Anthropic, and that a kill-switch would be a good idea. Of course a certain world leader has decried such concerns as a hoax and that all that is required is a strong and smart US leader. Sigh... well, I for one welcome our new AI overlords because if that's all that's stopping them, we are pretty much screwed.

In the UK, two crypto bros gave the Reform UK party £36 million pounds each, the two largest donations ever given to any party in UK history. Both claim that they want absolutely nothing in return..... riiiiight.

Those attending the 40th Anniversary screenings of "The Transformers: The Movie" on the 17th, we wish you well, and do stay on for the post-credits addition: The Awakening

In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

In the same day POTUS47 managed to:

1) Unironically post AI generated images for Space Force uniforms clearly based on a LOT of the "Starship Troopers" movie. You know, the thinly veiled political satire where the Government and were full on fascist, with the military wearing a lot of black, grey, leather and greatcoats, and the Director had, I'm sure coincidentally, grown up in the Nazi occupied Netherlands.

2) Posted an AI video of himself as a Green Lantern... which I might actually make it's own post about since it's ON topic, or might decide I don't need to subject us to that level of crap...

Tireless feminist icon Gloria Steinem passed away at the age of 92. In the 60's and 70's in particular she was one of the most visible and audible proponents for women to be afforded the same rights and access as men, and she remained outspoken on the topic to the very end. 

Strange New Worlds made it's most recent themed episode a Trelane one, as he turned the Enterprise into an actual soap opera. Full marks to Anson Mount though, for making his arc a rather powerful one. (I also suspect one's perception of the impressiveness of the guest star they got is directly linked to how familiar you are with the world of American daytime soap operas)

Oh, and I believe today is also the 60th Anniversary of Star Trek first airing on TV! :)

In terms of movies I should have caught up with a long time back, I finally watched "The Marvels", which was a whole lot of fun, and the Robert Pattison Batman movie, which I liked more than I expected, but was yet another example of a basically silly vigilante superhero movie having to be "real" to the extent they seemed embarrassed they were making a superhero movie.