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If nothing else it’ll make a decent bit of filler before something better like Firefly Season 2 comes out!

You sound like a hoopy frood that knows where his towel is

Ahh, old hanging balls, gotchya xD

Yeah the medium of text can be tricky to convey meaning sometimes, I’m a pretty sarcastic person (gotta love using humour to cope with every situation, so healthy…) with a very deadpan kinda delivery on a lot of it, so I often find myself wondering if my intent came across well over text. Tricky indeed.

Anyway you’re cool, and thanks for taking the time to reply so thoughtfully :-)

Now, I’m going to go back to being drenched in a cold sweat! It seems that’s today’s COVID symptom roulette wheel choice! 💦☉_☉💦

This is such a David thing to say, ho ho, you japester!

Good point, it’s hard to build up a media presence and an audience when you’re such a short little one and done thing.

So lovely though :-) I might try to get my friends to watch it with me this spooky season

Oh yeah, forgot about those! I enjoyed the boys and invincible a lot, I never got around to watching wheel of time, I will eventually, but I’ve heard nothing particularly good (or that it’s middling at best) so I’ve shoved it to the back of my to watch list.

Oooh so there’s actually much more to it than meets the eye! Damn. Thanks for taking the time to explain :-)

I bet this information will be mixed with my COVID fever dreams and is going to remain lodged in my brain as core knowledge somehow forever :P

Bangers and splash is a good guess! I suppose we may never know 😁

I know it’s just me being thick, but what’s the play on words here? Sausage and mash on a flood… Bangers and mash on a wet motorway…

I’m missing the gag xD

That show was great, I know it wasn’t exactly the next Gravity Falls or whatever but did it not have at least a decent pile of fans?

Given how good it was, I can only imagine it’s because most people don’t know it exists.

American Gods, Rings of Power, Good Omens, the Expanse, Man in the high castle, the Last of us, etc etc.

It’s not always as good of a selection as other services, but it’s got a fair few gems on there and a good amount of back catalogue films and tv shows that are fab :-)

And the fact that they collect so much stuff that would otherwise not be available at all (usually because its only on some random foreign streaming service and refuses to work with netflix) is where they really shine.

That said, I immediately stopped using it when they brought adverts in to the paid subscription. I’m not paying to watch adverts, sorry, no.

Check out Ludwig on iPlayer it’s a good watch! David Mitchell in some light, witty modern day Poirot detectiveing.

Just out of curiosity, what kind spices you go for? :-)

Haha yeah that stuff is great :-) Bonding at its finest!

Not quite the same thing but reminds me of how my father would always tell me I have hollow legs, on account of the huge amounts I’d eat whilst remaining skinny. I mean, I’d have a proper big evening dinner, then a bit later a microwave lasagne, then another microwave meal, and maybe a bar or two of fruit and nut chocolate, and never put any fat on xD

Growing teenagers for ya :P

I’ve been binge watching the fever dreams (⊙ᴗ⊙)

I’m mostly worried about my mother, I caught it from my father (somehow, after seeing him like once last week in passing) and even though he isolated from her once he knew he had it, she tested positive yesterday too, …and she’s due to go on her first big trip abroad in her ENTIRE LIFE in like 4 days to Paris (we’re a bit lower class haha), supposed to be a big special once in a lifetime treat from her daughter, planned it for a year now :-(

First time any of us have caught it too, my father is in the high risk category (twice over) so we’ve generally been careful this whole time, and we’ve been getting the boosters (ironically this year’s booster became available TODAY) but ya know it was going to happen eventually…

But enough of my story of extremely bad timing, glad to hear you recovered without and lasting negative effects :-)

It’s good to have a positive outlook, but it’s also important to be realistic, and know when to move your energies elsewhere, I think.

I could set my mind to becoming a good orchestral composer, but all I’d be doing is wasting years of my life and a lot of money and effort, because I know I’m not at all creative in that way. My creative strengths lie elsewhere.

I could stick with it, and become at best a very derivative boring composer, but I wouldn’t reach my dream or being a good one.

And I’d miss out on other dreams I could have been following that were more realistic and would bring me more happiness in the end, you know?

But yeah, you also have to weigh that against pushing yourself past your limits, because maybe you’ll be great at something you wouldn’t have expected!

I think in the end as with most things in life, it’s about finding a balance between idealism and realism that works best for you :-)

I had no idea Twix used to be called Raider, I’ve learned something new!

Snickers used to be called Marathon, I know that one :-)

It’s still a win thankfully as you say, especially given that for me at least we’d be meeting in a European court.

Though in general I hope I never have to take valve to court, period. Honestly if that happens something REALLY bad must have gone down haha.

Like a steam deck checking its phone while driving and running over my kids or something.

When I was 15 that would have been the coolest shit!

Not to say it’s not still cool, my capacity for joy and wonder at the novelty of crossovers has just faded over time is all.

It sounds a little novel if nothing else, I hope it picks up :-)

Man, all business/capitalism/personality-politics stuff aside, it must suck to be a developer, artist, writer, actor etc on something for years, pour your heart into it for a solid percentage chunk of your remaining lifespan on this Earth, and then have it fall flat.

Especially if it’s not so much the thing you made, but stuff outside of your control that’s holding it back. Lacklustre marketing for example - I hadn’t even heard of this.