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Whenever they announce Dog of War 4

The most recent James Bond movie No Time To Die (2021).

The plot was like a Bond fanfic. Okay, great you got to do all the stuff to Bond that wouldn't fly in previous runs:

Now what? That pretty much ends the franchise, because they've written themselves into a corner, and there's pretty much nowhere to go without a reboot.

Re: Nosferatu

I also liked the Transylvania bits, the crumbling castle especially.

I enjoyed the physicality of Lily-Rose Depp's performance as not-Mina, although her overacting got on my nerves a bit.

So basically none of the parties with any power: Bezos, the Broccoli family, are desperate to make another Bond movie

I suppose it's impossible to entirely rule out contamination, but the scientists involved are trying their best, and science is always "as far as we're able to determine at this moment..." never "that's the truth, and that's that."

That thing's huge! That cylindrical thing at the back has to be the cable spool, and that's obviously an RPG payload in front.

Imagine the lifting power needed to keep both of those, plus the chassis, in the air...

They gave Haro a hip hop beanie that stops his top flaps from opening to extend his arms.

The flaps will probably just open enough for the arms to extend.

Good experience and a good test for the design and features, if the Taiwanese aren't already experts in building underground infrastructure to withstand bombardment.

There are actually quite a few casts of Rodin's famous The Thinker statue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Thinker_sculptures including Cleveland, Louisville, Detroit, NYC, Washington DC, and San Francisco.

A bunch more "later casts" further down the above wikipedia page.

There's probably one near you.

Other Rodin pieces usually accompany The Thinker in museums.

A paper notebook small enough to fit in my jacket pocket, and so that I can carry anywhere.

I can cross things out, I don't have to futz with software worrying about making it look pretty.

I can scrawl, and draw crudely the visions that I'm trying to capture, again without worrying about how exactly to use the software tools.

If I'm having trouble getting started, I start drawing circles on a page, anything to get my pen moving.

If I want to move a paragraph or sentence somewhere else, I circle it, and draw an arrow to where I want it to go.

Editing and putting it into a word processor comes later.

Just get the damned words out of my head.

I am using LibreOffice these days for a word processing.

Random shit that YT throws at me:

pinponpanpon by Maidnight Ravers

https://youtu.be/Hf5vwt2qQFg

"I can't do this powerful thing, or I'll never see master again"

It seems these lines are too easily crossed...

@[email protected]

Yeah, that looks incredibly protective... /s

For all the fan service and double entendres, this show does have some heart.