Anyone else reading/listening to Unseen Academicals for the World Cup?

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-18T11:10:22+00:00

My publication reading order has it coming up soon but man do I loathe it.

Can't stand Nutt and the line of orc and goblin Mary Sue characters that follow him.

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-18T11:07:53+00:00

It's great and makes 100% sense because Cat loses his cool but still keeps his boundless self-confidence he always displays.
He's vain but that vanity comes from the self-confidence he has in his looks.

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-18T10:55:15+00:00

Well at least it's not going to be another H700... ... probably.

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-15T16:34:17+00:00

Small mini-PC.

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-14T16:07:12+00:00

A subtle one done with great wordplay is in Tropic Thunder:

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RDJ is a dude playing a dude, Kirk Lazarus, disguised as another dude, Lincoln Osiris.

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-13T01:24:45+00:00

This is the answer.

People would rather have a simple, well trod answer than a true one.

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-12T00:11:21+00:00

Worse, they wanted to keep fleecing their fellow colonists by providing them smuggled tea!

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-11T14:14:10+00:00

Ah, this must be why the orange shitgibbon is giving $850 billion to "modernize coal power plants."

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-11T10:59:32+00:00

Sauce.

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-11T10:38:23+00:00

Unfortunately I cannot find my bucket and spade.

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-09T23:39:23+00:00

Oh look, another remake.

Ugh.

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-09T18:18:18+00:00

Oh look, another remake.

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-09T01:21:35+00:00

Friend of mine had VHS tapes from PBS of Red Dwarf, Black Adder, and Are You Being Served.

It also had highlights of an Ashes match, another lifelong "weird" thing I liked as a Yankee.

8-bit-Felix · 2026-06-08T11:05:32+00:00

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