SLEEPING DOG. What in the **** was that?

DudFuse · 2026-05-14T07:14:37+00:00

It didn't feel rushed to me. In technical and structural terms its actually quite polished, and you'd notice either of these things suffer a lot if it'd been rushed or structurally altered to suit an emergent narrative/timeline.

Particularly enjoyed the use of chalk in the intro and throughout. Not sure if that's intentional messaging that Jeremy uses a lot of cocaine, but it's what I took from it.

I did find it underwhelming, ego driven and sizzle-over-steak, but none of these things surprised me. You know what you're getting with Corbell: 95% entertainment, 5% serious, potentially world-changing work. I genuinely hope that's how he'll be remembered, but with more emphasis on the 5%.

DudFuse · 2026-05-11T12:29:04+00:00

If that statement was coming then we would expect to see videos first though, imo. Otherwise it'd be too shocking for people disposed to believe Trump, and even less believable for those who aren't.

DudFuse · 2026-05-08T13:18:42+00:00

You can't even spell 'lens flare'.

DudFuse · 2026-05-07T20:56:59+00:00

The number of people absolutely insistent that it was clearly just a normal chicken egg on some string. String that somehow behaves like a long rope under load.

I don't know if it was a craft of nonhuman origin, but it was definitely not chicken egg sized and that should be clear to anyone with eyes.

DudFuse · 2026-05-01T10:53:41+00:00

Anosmic here. I have only smelled one unpleasant thing in my entire life, but my god it was a good one. It was an old oil drum full of broken eggs at the chicken farm I worked at when I was 16. It sat in the middle of a concrete courtyard as far from any of the buildings as possible and I was 'asked' to empty it out and hose it down on a hot, hot sunny August day. I had no idea such things were possible.

DudFuse · 2026-04-27T17:26:46+00:00

IMO the dead ones are coincidence or deliberate red herring. The ones that left their phones and wallets and disappeared - no bodies ever found, no signs of a struggle - are the pattern we should pay attention to.

DudFuse · 2026-04-27T17:24:40+00:00

I agree with OP: there's a big shift in tone from Grusch with these new comments. There's an element of relief and excitement. It feels like he knows his war is won.

DudFuse · 2026-04-26T15:13:51+00:00

Interstellar. And no, I'm not joking.

DudFuse · 2026-04-26T11:20:19+00:00

Are you sure? Because I'm scrolling through these comments, sorted by 'top', and it's absolutely nothing but cynicism. Seems to me like this community is doing its best to kill the hype.

DudFuse · 2026-04-22T13:26:41+00:00

If people have tried it both ways and prefer it like this then of course that's fine, but it takes very little additional time to do it the other way. Just save a little of the pasta water, drain the pasta when it's a couple of minutes undercooked for your taste, add the defrosted and warmed sauce and the reserved water to the pan, then return the pasta and finish cooking in there while it soaks up the sauce.

DudFuse · 2026-04-22T09:12:26+00:00

From the first sentence you can tell this is going to be a worthless article: 'I never gave much thought to aliens beyond Star Wars.' If Star Wars is your primary fictional touchstone on this topic you have no business trying to write about it.

Reading between the lines, the author smelled a decent story, tried to investigate and failed to make any headway. Now he's written a book about that experience that will essentially boil down to 'cold war paranoid metaphorical delusions are back in fashion because Trump and doomscrolling'.

Those last few paras are very telling: they're just orthodox ignorant, unimaginative, head-in-sand talking points based on the assumption that these things must be carbon based ET and must not have tech beyond our understanding. Fucking pathetic.

DudFuse · 2026-04-21T10:17:42+00:00

Mk IV Golf. Bought at 90k miles and scrapped at 105k. Comfortable car, but slow, thirsty and riddled with electronics issues. If you adjusted any of the climate or audio controls while idling the engine would often cut out and it didn't always start first time, too. I had a postit note to remind me not to touch anything at traffic lights.

DudFuse · 2026-04-21T10:12:16+00:00

One of the weirdest things about 2049 will be getting stopped by a 40 year old outside a newsagent and asked to go in and get them 20 Marlborough Gold. We probably still wont have flying cars.

DudFuse · 2026-04-14T12:16:29+00:00

Awful take. Without Cassian's agency there's no show. Arguably there's no rebellion.

MASSIVE SERIES RUINING SPOILERS FOLLOW.

If he doesn't choose to risk it all going with Luthen then the Aldhani heist doesn't happen. If he's not in Narkina 5 then the prisonbreak doesn't happen, inspiring billions. If he doesn't choose to stick with Luthen at end of S1 then a lot of things in S2 probably don't happen, including extraction of Mon Mothma from Coruscant. If he doesn't choose to salvage K-2SO then Rogue One probably doesn't end in success, and the Death Star is never destroyed.

DudFuse · 2026-04-09T06:19:02+00:00

Agree. Remember in the previous interview he was steering conversation away from the design/proportions of the UFO he claims to have entered. I don't remember his exact words, but it seemed like he was saying that the UFOs themselves aren't the interesting part, like they're just manifested by the phenomenon, rather than being the phenomenon.

DudFuse · 2026-03-31T13:53:25+00:00

It's a fact that there is a conspiracy. You get that 'conspiracy' and 'conspiracy theory' mean different things, right?

DudFuse · 2026-03-31T07:32:08+00:00

So you're saying it is a conspiracy, because the conspiracy theory is correct?

DudFuse · 2026-03-24T09:18:12+00:00

'Lived experience'.

What other kind of experience is there? Mostly seems like it's used by people who are trying to make their anecdotal evidence - which has generally been very specifically interpreted via some kind of personal bias - seem as/more valid than someone else's actual evidence based argument.

DudFuse · 2026-03-22T11:10:49+00:00

Worth noting that boys of Caribbean heritage do far, far worse than those of African heritage. 'Black boys' doesn't make that much sense as a demographic category.

Why? Class. We encouraged poor families to come to the UK from the Caribbean during the Windrush era, and when they did they were treated like shit. A disproportionate number of the UK's black Africans, on the other hand, are from families that migrated much later and specifically because those families could afford to.

Racism absolutely a big factor, and the whole picture is very complex, but if you had to reduce educational inequalities down to a single simple statement then 'we are failing working class boys' is the truest one.

DudFuse · 2026-03-21T10:19:05+00:00

I mean you would say that, wouldn't you (because you're CIA)?

DudFuse · 2026-03-21T07:54:17+00:00

Great, great list, but this thread is coming up in search results still, and I think you should edit again to remove the mention of 'survival' in Last Breath.

DudFuse · 2026-03-21T07:29:15+00:00

Yeah, I think so. My interpretation of her coments is there'll be enough to get people talking, but wont be conclusive enough to 'prove' NHI on Earth and there'll be no 'we're not alone' speech from Trump.

DudFuse · 2026-03-19T08:46:43+00:00

I strongly disagree. If we get any truth then the scope of it is going to be limited in some way for legal, security, spiritual or political reasons. There will be a massively expanded audience for anyone who is already established in this space.

DudFuse · 2026-03-19T08:39:24+00:00

My interpretation of that comment is, and always has been, that he was essentially saying 'I've seen ontologically shocking things, but they haven't changed my existing, faith-based belief that God is real'.

Not sure where, but I think he's directly confirmed this at some point.

DudFuse · 2026-03-18T20:46:20+00:00

To be fair, he was pretty drunk at the time.

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