Bolt shoud’ve been fired years ago but he’s one of the few people left at Sky/Murdoch that will so willingly debase themselves with stupid options & say such pathetic things to get a smidgen of views without demanding a better spot & higher pay.

They’re back… FOR REVENGE!!!

Keep the Nazis out. with flames and force is necessary. Both online & in real life.

This is a fantastic track from an amazing album. Highly recommend it if you love melodic funeral doom.

“Sir, how high are you?” “Yes.”

Fuck, I love that meme.

I know the issues, especially the issues with disability and mobility issues have with them, but my personal sense of nostalgia trumps all of that.

(obvious sarcasm is obvious)

Pity. I grew up with the classic ones. Wish they kept them around, even if just for the sake of tourism.

I miss those trams. They might still have them in Melbourne but I’m not down in Melbourne.

Tom Holt is much in a similar vein as Pratchett (even shared the same cover artist for a while) with his satirical takes on fantasy & fairy tale tropes.

Surprised no one has mentioned Robert Rankin, who has a darker view that Adams but is good at satirical takes, even though some of his works do feel dated since they were written for the contemporary audience of the publications time.

Diana Wynne Jones is also recommended, she was an influence on Pratchett to a degree. She picks apart a lot of fantasy tropes in her books. she was also a friend and teacher to Gaiman. Most people know her for the Ghibli adaptation of her book Howl’s Moving Castle.

Jasper Forrde has been described to me as like Adams but haven’t read his book yet.

and finally the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake, which was referenced a lot in the early Discworld novels.

Lemmy is god.

Metroid II: Samus Returns & Gargoyles Quest (such a bloody hard game) on the OG GameBoy were my favs. I played a lot of *Battletoads *on it too but that game was so bloody frustratingly difficult, especially for a kid, so played it mostly out of spite to get past the stupid brain ball chasing you level. Also loved Parodius (parody side scrolling SHUMP from Konami) but never owned it, so borrowed it from friends to play. Naturally I also played Tetris to the point that the music still haunts my dreams. There was also a pretty decent Spider-Man game for it, but can’t remember it’s name & it’s not showing up on lists.

The OG GB also had a lot of bog awful licensed property (movie/tv/cartoon) tie in games too, as well as generally terrible releases. To see them all, check this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_games

I unfortunately never owned an Advance, so only got into games on it later via official emulators (the Wii U control pad was the best GB Advance out there), so got to play Golden Sun later but enjoyed it as a fairly unique take on the J-RPG genre. The releases of Breath of Fire 1 & 2 on the Advance was also a great thing, since they were my favourite SNES games.

For GBA games, here’s a list but so many shitty licensed games there too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_Advance_games

It’s now all John Oliver as far as the eye can see.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

Don’t often finish games these days. Usually burn out on them.

Once sat in a club where a drunk friend tried to count how many times they said the line. He gave up and proclaimed that it was a lot.

I also got to them as an adult, having first seen the not very good Studio Ghibli film. It’s a series where, like so many of Ursula’s work, you have to completely break all preconceived notions of trope and action.

She undoes the macho power fantasy and presents empathy as the key to understanding and resolving so many issues in life.

highly recommend the series, more so since they have seen recent reprints.

The link took me to the main page for it but couldn’t follow it since it required a log in for that server. Will hopefully figure it out, this federated stuff confuses me a bit.

Very nice. Was thinking of doing the same. Now, just need to find out how to follow from another Instance.