“I’m one of those evil racist sexist manbaby long-time Star Wars fans …”

I’m waiting for a future series of Doctor Who to reveal that the recent series of Doctor Who feature The Master in drag once again, but The Master has been pretending to be The Doctor this whole time.

As for The Doctor, he’s been busy hunting down a rogue feminist with near-immortality who absconded with a Tardis and one of his friends, and he’s not happy about having to come about this “the long way around”.

The inevitable confrontation between “The Doctor” in drag and the real Doctor not in drag is not to be missed, especially when both the Gallifreyan High Council and the Dalek High Command stop the feminist “wedding” that’s taking place.

How’s that for retconning an entire few years of POZ? 🙂

I agree that The Force Awakens is bad, but it’s more of a “this could have been so much better” bad, as opposed to “every single person involved in this should be hanged” bad like Last Jedi. I got caught up in the nostalgia like everyone else when it came out, but left the theater with more WTFs about the plot than joy. Also, Ma-Rey Sue is one of the worst fictional characters of all time.

The only decent Devil Mouse film is Rogue One, but even then I consider it a failure because it doesn’t work at all without having seen A New Hope. Also, every single leader in that movie, Vader included, is a complete idiot and does stupid things for no real reason.

A question that may seem flippant right now but isn’t: why hasn’t someone developed a hydraulic guillotine powered by an electrical generator?

The loud sounds of the electrical generator to power the guillotine would be enough to drown out any screams, something the designers may regard as a “positive” development.

If I’m any judge of such things, I suspect that LTC Tom Kratman would happily develop one – but he doesn’t have the time because of all of his writing commitments.

It’s a brilliant idea, though.

I honestly haven’t bothered with anything related to Devil Mouse Wars since I saw The Force Awakens, which I hated. I was very much at odds with my family at that time. Since then they’ve come around to realise that there are some serious problems with that movie. And I don’t think any of them enjoyed the next two movies.

I’m very much in the “a pox on Lucasfilm” camp at this point, and I want nothing more to do with them. My strong dislike of anything done since the New Jedi Order book series is due to the colossally stupid mistakes that the LucasArts and Lucas Books managers made with the games and the Expanded Universe media. But even someone as jaded as me can readily admit that seeing Luke Skywalker being an epic badass in The Mandalorian was a huge deal.

I also appreciate the political masterstroke that Favreau and Filoni pulled off with that five-minute clip. They took a big risk bringing Luke back while trying to keep things as consistent as possible between the Mando timeline and the Reyverse timeline. But they managed it. They recaptured the loyalty and faith of millions of fans, simply by treating them decently and giving them what they want. And they completely destroyed Queen Karen Kennedy’s power base in the space of a single episode.

That’s political genius at its best. I wouldn’t want to wrangle with Favreau – he appears to be VERY good at this political infighting thing now.

I’m a big believer in silent revolution, which mostly works against businesses, because you can vote with your wallet, but the government is a different matter.

It doesn’t take much. You don’t have to take to the streets to protest their stupidity, necessarily – you just need to reject the lies.

If they tell you to wear a mask everywhere – don’t. They don’t do a single damned thing.

If they tell you to stay at home all day unless you need to be out and about – find a good reason to be out and about.

Where I am right now, in PommieBastardLande, I can look out the window of my hotel room and see people walking around in the streets without masks. The tram that goes past my window also has people on it who don’t wear masks. And good for them. Things here aren’t quite as awful as they are in London, fortunately.

Also, do not underestimate Yandex and Bing as well. They might catch up if they play their cards well.

Yandex is getting better every day. I’m actually very impressed with what the Russkies are doing. I do believe that they can outcompete and outrun Google on any turf, and have already done so in Russia itself. They’ve gotten to the point where they are a complete replacement for the Goolag out there.

I do believe that SEO can be done cost-effectively and in a straightforward manner, but it is indeed a bitch to do consistently.

I was under the impression that the UK is now under management by Carrie the Usurper whose purse contains the withered remnants of Boris the Bodger’s cock and balls, and that she gets ruthlessly “prorogued” every night by a member of the British celebrity class.

Once you understand that the super spreader was Idris Elba and that’s how Justine Trudeau and her wife got The Big Bad Rona …

What? Prove me wrong! 🙂

“People are absolutely sick and tired of seeing their lives and jobs and peace of mind destroyed at the whims of arbitrary and useless government measures.”

We’ve moved from a formerly comfortable urban existence near the heart of Miami, and we’re now dealing with a house under contract in a Florida county whose sheriff has indicated that neither he nor any of his deputies will ever enforce such things as “mandatory curfews” and “mandatory vaccinations”.

A wise older man who understands how many deer rifles and ex-forces people there are in the area, no doubt.

But it’s right out of the Georgio Agamben “states of exception” play book: exploit a crisis so that a temporary exception can be turned into a permanent state of affairs.

Random big box retailers in this area have already taken down the “mask required” signs in defiance of their corporate head offices, and only the obviously fragile OAPs are wearing masks now.

But back to Boris the Bodger: the problem with the UK government and especially the not-so-civil service is that most of it’s made up by overly eager schoolboys and schoolgirls (the latter primarily of the suffragette bluestocking variety) who enjoy playing at government without actually functioning like one.

That the United States tries to emulate this model only shows how weakened the “Ulcered Sphincter of Arserica” has become and that someone should shove some tea bags up their emergent socialist collective …

[saves the rest of my Louis Prothero rant for the television show] 🙂

A question that may seem flippant right now but isn’t: why hasn’t someone developed a hydraulic guillotine powered by an electrical generator?

The loud sounds of the electrical generator to power the guillotine would be enough to drown out any screams, something the designers may regard as a “positive” development.

File under: political restoration devices, microwaves that seat thirty, etc.

I watched The Mandalorian thanks to a relative sharing their account, and I really like it. Disney will never get an “all is forgiven” from me as long as the sequel trilogy remains canon, but Mando is many, many steps in the right direction. It’s emotionally manipulative, overly fanservice-y, and extremely crowd-pleasing, but those last two things are exactly what Star Wars needs right now after a half decade of Lucasfilm toadies spitting in their faces and mocking them for not loving the dog’s breakfast that they were served. I’m more worried than excited about the explosion of Mandalorian spinoffs, but I can’t deny the future looks bright if Miss Kathy is no longer calling the shots at Lucasfilm.

When it comes to not rising up to the stupidity of the government, I’m guilty of that as well. When you see evil around you, the theory behind starting a protest is to get others who are scared to take the first step as well. A few months ago, someone in my country organized a protest through Facebook and got arrested before he even got out. It was right after the first lockdowns were rolled out. The most I would have done is get people to flood the politicians with letters of complaints if I even knew how to get people fired up. I’m a big believer in silent revolution, which mostly works against businesses, because you can vote with your wallet, but the government is a different matter.

As far as the SEO part, Google actually has a good algorithm, but not when it comes to politics. Yes they purposefully rank and shadow ban right wing politics, but as far as every other niche out there, all those Penguin, Panda, etc. updates put a huge barrier in front of link spammers. Also, do not underestimate Yandex and Bing as well. They might catch up if they play their cards well. By now, each country should have had its own search engine, but Google has perfected promotion better than everyone else, so being vague about how search engine algorithms work is only going to delay competition. Building back links is a bitch, but the strong will prevail and the cheap link spammers will fall to obscurity.

Yes, SEO is a grind, and Goolag’s approach to its Mighty Algorithm doesn’t make life any better. The “Don’t Be Evil” people have a very great deal to answer for, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see Google broken up for its extreme monopolistic practices within ten years.

When I was little, I used to wonder endlessly how empires fell so violently and of course the teachers never explained to us why. Now I know much more and I still have to pinch myself knowing that I’m part of the generation that will witness the downfall of many countries and fight for a new future.

Yes. Gibbon argued that the Roman Empire fell in part because of the loss of martial spirit and moral vigour among the Roman citizenry. Living through the Commiepox lockdowns and associated stupidity, I cannot help but agree. Russians reacted to the whole thing with typical Slavic stoicism and simply got on with things. The Brits, by contrast, who supposedly have the “Spirit of the Blitz” in them, STILL haven’t risen up and marched upon their leaders in Westminster – the majority of them appear to be cowed and terrified by a bug that really isn’t quite that dangerous.

I also agree with the memes about 2021.I have a feeling we are in for a shit storm, especially when you consider the sea of money being printed. Coronachan is tiny next to that.

When I was little, I used to wonder endlessly how empires fell so violently and of course the teachers never explained to us why. Now I know much more and I still have to pinch myself knowing that I’m part of the generation that will witness the downfall of many countries and fight for a new future.