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The participation of women in the industry is not helped by overtly sexualized imagery produced by men, for men.  When women are producing art in to express their own sexuality they rarely paint women on their knees.

Accidentally clicked on a c*micsg*te video. Now an algorithm thinks I'm a racist flat Earther.

Strontium Dog day afternoon
The Mutants Christmas Carol
WALL-TER
Harvey (Rotten)
Munce 2 Society
the Dead Man Walking
Pendulum and the Pit
Eustace Fargo

I have never met an Irish person as interested in shamrocks as every Irish person who meets Trump appears to be.

It's "Bowie"... As in "Bowie".

So learned

But, in fact, Tharg.

Madness. But then I've always pronounced "cursed" as "cursed".

2070 spoilers...

Dredd...[spoiler]more set up, as Lamia gets back into action.  Lamia and Dredd are called to an emergency at the mystery ship, where a judge is attacked by a walking dead crew member, but kills it with fire.
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ABC Warriors...[spoiler]the gang spend 3 pages explaining to blackblood why they're about to shoot him. Then they shoot him[/spoiler]

BrassSun...[spoiler]Wren recaps on her time away. Its been years. She had a kid, who died, then her monk boyfriend left to go back to monkdom. [/spoiler]

Bad Company...[spoiler]war is bad. Danny is sad. Mac dies again[/spoiler]

Savage...[spoiler]everyone decides to not fight for reasons that make so little sense it actually makes me angry, but to allow the good guys to fly away.  Quartz uses mad scientists as a human shield, and the Pirates and Bill decide to respect that, rather than just shoot Quartz and the asshole scientists who built the killing machines to satisfy their own shitty curiosity. Quartz shoots at them with his massive phallic cannon. Volodina falls out of flying thing.  savage decides to go back for her, despite her being a terrible person he has no reason to care for.[/spoiler]

Quartz knows [spoiler]Bill will strike on this particular day, or has maybe just been sitting in traffic for days[/spoiler]

Volodina [spoiler]has allowed herself to be used as a weapon, but not to the extent of actually being effective[/spoiler]

Meanwhile, Bill[spoiler]has somehow managed to steal an Autobot, and discover the Quartz's secret plan, and discover a way to counter it.  Rather than just maybe nipping round Volodina's flat. [/spoiler]

All because of a stalemate [spoiler]caused by the Pirates, who we last saw being defeated by half a dozen conscripts, threatening to begin working on their own Stare, which the secret organization which runs the world decided was a big enough threat as to immediately abandon their key weapon.  Its a bit like a bunch of physics students threatening to come up with their own nuclear bomb, so every country in the world disarms straight away[/spoiler]

And the pirates are [spoiler]willing to help Bill and avoid killing any scientists, despite their whole thing being about how you should never trust people like Bill, and those scientists being responsible for countless deaths, because they sold out and put a system above innocent lives[/spoiler]

Aaarrrggghhh!

And all for Bill [spoiler]to not even bother checking Quartz was dead, and to fall in love with a woman whose only trait so far has been to betray absolutely everyone at some stage[/spoiler]

Just because I will promote this man's reviews at every opportunity...

I got into Stardew Valley after reading Paul Dean's review which compares the game's farming and building relationships with real world work, trying to become a writer, and how desperately sad life can be when the only entertainment in town is a pub.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/02/13/stardew-valley-marriage-work/

Judge Pigg needs to be an ongoing series. Conventions would fill up with bacon themed cosplayers.

Don't know if you chaps have noticed, but it's snowing.

I'm in the middle of a part of the country with a Red Warning in place, and it is bloody apocalyptic here.  It's -3, but the wind makes it much colder.  Snow's about a foot deep in places, making powdery dunes.

Warnings are in place telling people not to travel. Trains stopped running yesterday, the M80 is jammed with people who've been stuck in their cars overnight. Twitter is full of official warnings (and people complaining about how the SNP didn't give enough official warning. I saw one lady complain to the First Minister that the council hadnt collected her bins. Blitz spirit.)

If the worst of the weather is heading your way, don't underestimate it. I ran into a couple of american tourists the other day, who had decided to drive across the country and had broken down. No mobile, no toolkit, no map. They had to gut a tauntaun to keep warm.

I'm going outside now. I may be some time.

Arm them all, I say!  Every child, upon joining kindergarten shall be provided with a government sanctioned firearm, and taught to use it to defend themselves.  The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is forty dangerous first-graders. It says so right there in the constitution...

" the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

and since we've already established that life begins at conception, there's no way that "people" only refers to adults.  If you're old enough to pull a trigger, you're old enough to pretend you need it to conceal your fear.

If the US government believed that american gun owners would've in anyway effective in removing them from power, they wouldn't waste so much of their dignity on preserving the rights of american gun owners.  The idea that the slave owners who wrote and signed the constitution, and were eager for a bunch of people to be armed with muskets in case a King showed up and demanded they pay taxes and take their farms, is in any way comparible with the murder devices of the 21st century is laughable. Is it extendrs to an AR 15, why no surface to air missiles, or weaponized anthrax? The only reason anyone needs a gun is to hunt, to kill people, and because firing a gun makes them feel big and important.

It seems the audience is divided between:

a) the problem is too much Pat Mills
b) what we need here is more Pat Mills

I do think that we've hit a particularly poor patch in the last couple of months, but it wasn't that long ago that I was over the moon with Indigo Prime, Deadworld, Hope..., Absalom, The Alienist, Brink...

At the moment the only thing I can say I'm all that interested in is Brass Sun, but its glacial pace seems better suited to a collected trade than being told five pages at a time.