You an I… We are either going to form an unstoppable super team or… You ate going to end up as my nemesis.

No, not at all. In fact I am pretty good at being able to stay awake for rather long periods of time. I can comfortably go 48 hours without sleep.

If I could donate it I would happily do so.

I can fall asleep, near instantly, at will.

I call it my time machine function.

It is. And in the Independent newspaper which has editors that should have spotted a clanger like that.

Now, that would be more interesting and accurate.

Yeah, it is a financial success, but so was the emoji movie… Not sure that qualifies it as “culturally renowned”.

Conflating those ideas that money equals cultural impact is what leads us to an endless cycle of sequels and reboots that most people watch once and then forget.

Classic independent reporting “the movie whose cultural impact is renowned”.

Is it? There’s no proof that the movie is having a renowned cultural impact above any others and the link on their own site for that quote is talking, not about the movie, but Minecraft as a whole.

Meanwhile reporting on the BBC… A short segment that said “thousands” of people were protesting. Technically not a lie, but still.

Which bit of history does this represent?

At first I thought it might be the break up of the USSR, but that doesn’t really work here. So that leaves me at a loss.

I just can’t see how Gorbachev and Trump, or their actions, are similar.

Hello, I’m from Hell Recruiting. We just saw your comment and wondered if you’d be willing to consider a position in our ironic punishment department.

and recorded a video before returning to his boat

Did it for clout.

What a prick.

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I can’t imagine my experience wold have been better online. The third year was almost all lab work and practical.

But aside from that, one of the best things about my offline experience was getting to spend time with people from other disciplines and honestly, some 20-odd years later, that has been almost as valuable as my degree in my career as well as my understanding of the world.

Not a serious man, by his own admission.

First thing, no apologies needed friend… You really didn’t speak over me, and replies take as long as they take.

Second thing… I wish I had read more of his work when I met him. Instead we just chatted about the world. He has such a broad intelligence and he was very kind with it.

If you were ever setting up a pub quiz team, I’d highly recommend. * *

He’s a fellow northerner, and there’s something about his work that really speaks of that. There’s such a strange creative history up here that gets attention, but also seems to get subsumed. We chatted about that.

And for me, Alice in Sunderland is the one I give to other people, but Luther Arkwright is the one I’ll happily return to.

The only part that’s unique to gaming is that gamers are the most toxic community in the internet.

I wish this wasn’t as true as it is.

I don’t think this is a gaming problem.

It is a discourse problem.

People engage in absolutes. They either love a thing or hate a thing. There’s no nuance.

And it must be made to cater for them, there’s no expectation that it will contain choices they don’t approve of.

And this stance, this modern relationship with the world permeates everything, especially forms of media.

You see it in films and books… Fans and stans and folk trying to take it down. There is no nuance or middle ground.

People don’t accept that, perhaps, something isn’t just “not for them”. That’s why you get grown men complaining about the direction of children’s shows they used to watch.

And this is compounded with social media where polarisation, blunt takes and contradiction are the primary drivers of engagement.

Audience error.

Thanks, that guy.

That’s really not one conflict. Conflating them was what the US regime at the time tried to do to whitewash their decisions.

Also, at least you do know people who were completely cool when everyone just pulled out of Afghanistan leaving the folk that worked with them to suffer the reprisals of the Taliban, so ask them if it was worth it.

Nice listicle, but would have been better to write something inciteful as to why all these sequels failed so hard.

It wasn’t just the cash grab, but a fundamental misunderstanding of what made the previous film great.

Kids loved watching the original RoboCop because it was R rated. It was a comic book film with gore and guns. It was illicit.

Then they turned him into a cartoon character for kids.

Police academy became a paradox of itself. You could argue that the public perception of the police had changed significantly between the original and Mission to Moscow too. It was no longer funny to be entertained by the thought of inept police.

Anyway, that’s just off the top of my head.