Sounds awesome, I love his writing.

Side note: If it could not involve any helmets like the one pictured which some lights into the eyes of the occupant that would be great! One of my constant irritations when I’m watching sci fi.

I tried watching the first 10 minutes on my phone, it’s all black, I can’t see a thing. Presuming some fighting is happening from the squelching noises.

In the UK we still use Tories as a nickname for the conservative party, one of the two main parties in our political system and a kind of pound store republican party. They do indeed still feign royalism when it suits their purposes, some things never change.

If it turns out in a few years time that Russia leant on Iran to lean on various Middle East actors to stir up trouble at that exact point to distract from Ukraine, you can colour me unsurprised.

A team of section 31 assassins armed with katanas are beamed aboard the enemy starship with orders to take out the top leadership?

“yes, it really hurt”

Let’s change to the acknowledged worst voting system in the world! That will bring voters the stability they are looking for.

Funnily enough I was talking to my teenagers on this exact subject last night. At a basic level, nms appears to have what Minecraft does, plus spaceships. Why doesn’t it work the same?

For us, we decided that nothing in Minecraft is difficult to get at the level you need it. Wood is easy, always there. When you learn that you need coal for torches, it’s just in that rocky outcrop. Start digging, here’s some iron for you.

In Minecraft you don’t need to understand anything complex, until you’re ready to understand something complex. And if you want to spend a week running around on the surface and collecting chickens, you can do that too.

I restarted a nms game the other day and remembered that constant “warning, warning” as the planet inevitably tries to kill me. It was disheartening.

I feel like there is a window that moves with you as you age. At 47 I find women attractive up to their early 50s, and down into their 30s.

I mean dating attractive here. I’m not going to try and claim that a hot twenty something on the telly does nothing for me

Yeah, I think mistborn has some amazing ideas but it’s clearly an early series from him, the writing improves as he goes and takes a leap forward in the Stormlight Archives.

Nope. I don’t think the way my mind works would ever have led me there!

I would go for BG3 if it’s on offer

Game of thrones series is good, I can’t remember it’s actual name.

The old Lionhead game, Black and White, had a gesture system which was similar. Didn’t work very well, but the thought was there.

I look at the car market like this: imagine you’re a bright young thing, just graduating car engineering university and setting off for the bright lights of car maker boulevard.

You get 2 job offers, one is to work on cars which most governments around the world are going to ban from sale in 7-12 years time, which is about one fifth of your career. The other offer is to work on the cars which will take over from those.

Which job do you take?

Sure, the internal combustion cars will get people working on them, but not the best people, they will go elsewhere.

Scientists invent Double Beef Stroganoff. More on this story at 11.