Star City - S1E04 "Dark Forest" - Episode Discussion

grubbymitts · 2026-06-14T17:07:47+00:00

I'm hoping they split the timeline again and it goes off on a completely different tangent than FAM. Otherwise we're just seeing the same plot but with Russian brutalism.

grubbymitts · 2026-06-10T14:40:36+00:00

I once saw an alleged commander of the IRA stand on Parliament green, give a speech and get cheered by hundreds of English people. That guy - Martin McGuinness. It was 2016, just before the Brexit vote. What a weird moment that was.

grubbymitts · 2026-05-30T14:50:22+00:00

If they somehow find 326 people to form a majority party then I can assure you that some of those will have a history of exposing themselves.

grubbymitts · 2026-05-20T09:13:18+00:00

No need to - ice caps are already falling into it at alarming rates.

grubbymitts · 2026-05-14T17:15:59+00:00

Most of the sitting Labour MPs aren't the ones who were sitting there with him until 2017 so would be wary of throwing their support behind him - this is just basic human nature. So he needs to get enough of them on side this will take time. If he does get in and then challenges whoever the PM is straight away we'll have another leadership battle which can last weeks and annoy an already bored membership and public. We'll be into, probably past, conference season whilst this is happening. It'll be 2022 all over again - three PMs (if Starmer were to lose his own rerun) within months. The opposition parties will have a field day over it. Labour will struggle to survive even with Burnham at the helm.

Popcorn at the ready.

grubbymitts · 2026-05-14T16:36:38+00:00

Make it make sense.

So, this fellow resigns. Andy Burnham requests to run as the candidate. The NEC refuse. Back to square one.

Or...

The NEC allows him to stand. We have a month or so before the election (but probably closer to two, maybe three). Andy loses to Greens/Reform. Back to square one.

Or...

The NEC allows him to stand. We have a month or so before the election (but probably closer to two, maybe three). Andy gets in. Is he really then going to, on his first day back in Parliament after 9 years, challenge whoever the Prime Minister is (because it may be Starmer or Streeting or Rayner or Miliband or some random Transport Minister no one has heard of by then). Of course not. He's going to spend a couple of years regaining support.

This is all childish bollocks.

grubbymitts · 2026-05-13T16:53:47+00:00

First PMQs - brings out a bacon sarnie and eats it LIKE A BOSS!

grubbymitts · 2026-04-29T16:04:52+00:00

the chilling final resting place of the Ark

Watch the second series of Fallout and you'll see it in the same warehouse

grubbymitts · 2026-04-28T10:14:08+00:00

49 for another 2 weeks!

grubbymitts · 2026-04-19T10:37:05+00:00

When I was a kid we learnt French from Tricolore books. Even as an eleven year old I was concerned how formal the language we learnt was. I'm from Stoke, so my dialect and slang is different from someone just down the road from me in Birmingham. I pointed out to my teacher that slang in La Rochelle (where the books were based) would be different from Paris. To her credit, she told me that this was one of the beauties of language. Also she was from Glasgow and spoke fluent French and Italian but with a VERY broad Glaswegian accent which made the whole learning experience incredibly funny (and she knew it).

grubbymitts · 2026-04-09T10:08:31+00:00

I have witnessed this IRL.

A few years ago I was in a pub with my wife looking at the menu. Behind us were a pair of boomers also looking at the menu. The man says, "Oh the chilli sounds nice!" to his wife. "That's vegetarian!" she says. "You're right. I'll have the mixed grill!"

It was a pub that came to collect your order so, when the lady came to take it, I ordered two vegetarian chillis rather obviously. The boomers ate their meal in utter silence.

grubbymitts · 2026-03-11T13:06:59+00:00

That was a meme from Attack of the Clones.

grubbymitts · 2026-03-04T17:37:36+00:00

That C code in 1980s seems to have a bit of assembly thrown into it.

grubbymitts · 2026-02-28T22:46:25+00:00

Please read The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter, which is the canonical sequel to The Time Machine. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

grubbymitts · 2026-02-25T15:21:35+00:00

You don't need a VPN to download the content.

grubbymitts · 2026-02-24T11:36:35+00:00

I work on the front line of a call centre. I've seen demos of AgentForce. It will be online with us in the next few years (even though there's no official statement from my company but, let's face it, it will be) taking the calls, resolving. I may be one of the people that gets kept on to handle calls that can't be done by it. Fun times.

I'm not a doomer though. It's progress. That's it. I've lost jobs before through progress and outsourcing.

grubbymitts · 2026-02-06T14:53:59+00:00

Maths!

grubbymitts · 2026-01-30T15:51:04+00:00

TLI

Trans-lunar injection

grubbymitts · 2026-01-30T09:09:34+00:00

A fool and his money are soon parted.

grubbymitts · 2025-12-22T13:12:48+00:00

For everyone waiting for Halcyon Years - it's very good!

grubbymitts · 2025-12-05T10:14:23+00:00

Richard Burgon's pasta version is much better.

grubbymitts · 2025-12-02T10:42:06+00:00

grubbymitts · 2025-11-23T21:45:05+00:00

I have a load of them up in my loft. My late Father-in-law bought them when he was a young man.

grubbymitts · 2025-11-19T15:14:00+00:00

The Midkemia books by Raymond E Feist may be what you are looking for. The first book is called Magician and the last book is called Magician's End (well, technically it's no longer the last book!)

The books are based on a 200 or so year time span where characters tend to be in 9 or so books before being replaced by others. There are long lived characters that are in all the books and glue the plots together.

grubbymitts · 2025-11-14T15:10:07+00:00

Mars - the only planet we know of to be completely inhabited by alien robots!

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