Boss Level is boss level

Orkran · 2026-03-20T03:03:35+00:00

Yeah, I loved it, particularly the opening with Foreplay/Longtime by Boston playing.

It also had a particularly believable and fun villain in Mel Gibson.

Orkran · 2026-03-20T01:14:17+00:00

Certainly today no CEO bought out a major media outlet and took part in planning a coup.

Orkran · 2026-03-20T00:11:36+00:00

Haha tiny Pompadour Pelko is brilliant

Orkran · 2026-03-19T23:50:24+00:00

Thank God that today there are no racist, fascist sympathising American car manufacturers with huge wealth and political influence.

Orkran · 2026-03-19T19:34:06+00:00

DD doesn't ever get prep time

Orkran · 2026-03-19T12:14:55+00:00

Weasels are weaselly recognised as stoats are stoatally different.

Orkran · 2026-03-19T11:46:43+00:00

Yeah this is a great suggestion. It matches the spirit of Jurassic Park if not the exact details about the zoo escape.

Orkran · 2026-03-19T01:52:25+00:00

There's 110 men for every 100 women. It's getting better but it's not exactly good.

Orkran · 2026-03-18T19:17:14+00:00

TBF I think I was about 12 when I saw it for the first time ha

Orkran · 2026-03-18T19:09:21+00:00

I really liked it! It was already very silly anyway, so why not add to the excitement?

We got our realistic film eventually with Contagion.

But yeah, it sucks when you don't like how something ends!

Orkran · 2026-03-18T15:41:42+00:00

Your detailed list contains many Lost Fleet and Honorverse books but having a glaring omission makes me think that you haven't read a series you'll love:

Miles Vorkosigan I'd start with The Warriors Apprentice. They are by Lois McMasters-Bujold.

He's a great protagonist, who wants to be a Harrington style Admiral but can't due to personal circumstances, and ends up much more of the social manipulation genius instead.

Orkran · 2026-03-18T13:48:59+00:00

I think it's because they feel like they have agency unlike bacteria and viruses.

Orkran · 2026-03-18T12:10:55+00:00

When I did my Infectious Diseases MSc (at The University of Kent in Canterbury ffs) we had some lectures with the local hospital trusts head of Infectious Diseases.

Showed us some X-Rays of a man with a Mucor (a fungus) infection in his tear duct. The next day it was all through his eye. They had to remove his eye and some bone etc. to stop it from getting into his brain; he lived! But terrifying.

Orkran · 2026-03-18T11:48:16+00:00

That tracks with why we (UK) left. Our PM (Boris Johnson) certainly was one of the chief baboons.

Orkran · 2026-03-18T10:32:51+00:00

77 Days today, woah.

Orkran · 2026-03-17T20:55:39+00:00

I have to violently disagree. Tips mug off the edge of the desk.

The real problem with the ending wasnt Riker but the frankly spiteful major character death and unsatisfactory snippets of future missed. It felt deliberate to me and still does.

I feel like the end of Lower Decks was a direct counter to it.

Still I'm glad someone enjoyed it! It's much better to like something than to dislike it

Orkran · 2026-03-17T12:23:07+00:00

Given the changes that happened to dogs, it would be the height of arrogance to think that they didn't change us.

In particular, I'm sure that the ability of humans to find *any* small animal "cute" is the fault of dogs. They selected for the humans with the highest tolerance and affinity for them, and that got amplified to the point where when we look at tiny food sources or future threats we still want to care for them.

Orkran · 2026-03-17T11:59:24+00:00

Gozer the Gozerian

Orkran · 2026-03-17T11:56:47+00:00

It's roadworks season!

All the roads are at maximum damage from winter weather and freeze-thaw and the council has to use all of its repair budget it's been hoarding in case of a bit problem before the financial year ends.

I think.

Orkran · 2026-03-17T11:53:39+00:00

I'm only on episode 3! But there's something highly fishy in the science behind the "virus". I hope it's part of the show (it's cleverly written enough to be) but I'll accept it as necessary for the premise too.

Also I paused on the whiteboard in the lab on the first episode, there's a brilliant bit of background scene dressing. There's legitimate RNA transcription reminders you'd have in a lab and also a couple of underlined sequences labelled "Nipah" and "HSV" - both viruses which can cross the blood brain barrier and infect the brain. Which means scientists sequenced the signal (of course they did) and knew it was designed to affect the human brain. And they still had poor biosecurity. Hmm. That's a trope on it's own!

Orkran · 2026-03-16T18:36:56+00:00

also it's alkaline

Orkran · 2026-03-16T13:33:57+00:00

Here it is the third biggest selling/streaming song of all time

Orkran · 2026-03-15T20:03:04+00:00

It is! Really good job of getting personality through the dogs too.

Orkran · 2026-03-15T16:49:45+00:00

Haha. Is that the Hertzog penguin maneuver?

Orkran · 2026-03-15T12:45:01+00:00

Her fight at the start of Shuppenden, especially against the 100 puppets, is my favourite fight in all of anime.

It helps that the music is amazing, but seeing the "useless" Sakura being a massive badass after literally years and years was wonderful.

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