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Aye, best of luck all. Me, I'm getting much more physical exercise in these days and meditating twice a day into the bargain.

Still having trouble processing the idea that fat has never been the cause of obesity. I mean I believe it, but I've been conditioned for decades to suppose otherwise. You'd think the clue was in the name.

And I see that Woolly has posted while I was writing this. Utterly amazing work. You just get better all the time.

[Oz]

I did like Day of Chaos a lot, but agree with IP - Mega City 1 lost one of its defining characteristics; i.e. the massive overcrowding.

I know this is partly nostalgia, but I was really, really invested in Chopper's journey back when Oz came out.  The wait between episodes was almost unbearable.  Also, sporting event aside, a lot of very important threads were established in Oz, and it was the first time Dredd's ageing had been addressed properly.  Also, it was a sort of halfway point for the comic's maturing, being a full-on action romp that was setting the stage for more adult themes of politics and age - pretty much where I was in life back then.  And the 'Chopper for Oz' slogan was so iconic that it spilled out of the comic and ended up on the Berlin Wall. 

So Oz for me.

[America]

I'm not really fussed as to the details of what makes an 'epic' - it's a lot easier to repeatedly type than 'long stories'.

Machine Law was great, but America was a game-changer. 

[The Dead Man]

Cal is one of the best bad guys ever, but there was a lot of silliness in TDTLD - Dredd snapping his metal chains, Dredd getting shot through the head by a sniper but getting back on his feet in no time, the Council dropping snooker balls in jars to announce their verdicts.  I mean, the Cursed Earth was silly too, but the epic worldbuilding made up for it.

The Dead Man is my choice - it was a combination of perfect scripting and perfectly-suited art, and the big reveal was absolutely mind-blowing (even though I experienced it through my brother saying, 'Guess [spoiler]who the Dead Man is?  Judge Dredd[/spoiler]').

Thank you, guys, and I'm glad to hear your good news too, Link.

My parents and my brother have been vaccinated now.  It kind of brings home to me the fact that this won't be forever - things are still shite, of course, but we've passed the halfway point in the woods.

That's awesome.  As scale-models go, it's a very good likeness of Harrison Ford, and makes me realise he would have been perfect as Sam Slade in his younger days.

My parents have had their first vaccination jab.  A massive weight off my mind there, I must say, and I'll soon be able to visit them again.

[Terror / Total War]

I'm not a huge fan of the 'quirky things in space' type of Dredd - the city's mad enough to do me.  So Terror / Total War for me.  Also it shows the Judges doing bastardly things again to counterbalance their acts of heroism; they've got a bit caring and sharing for me of late.

Fecking tribbles!  I do remember the Star Trek episodes in question, but I'm more familiar with them from a ridiculously difficult, if not impossible, room from Jet Set Willy 2.

That's brilliant.  Really love the clarity of the table and graph - looking forward to more.

I'm kind of fishing for good news here, but are the Republicans really in that bad a shape?   I'm pretty sure that if it hadn't been for the pandemic, Trump would have very comfortably bagged himself a second term.  Also, if anything should happen to Joe Biden, and of course I hope it doesn't, that puts Kamala Harris in the hotseat.  While it really shouldn't be an issue to vote a miced-race woman in, I think it probably would be.

Relevant XKCD

Ooh, now that's clever.  I thought about how it would need to continue to [spoiler] infinity to really work, then I clicked on the link.[/spoiler]

I think I can safely say, without a trace of irony, a fella who rides a horse dressed as a knight is exactly the type of person I want to be in charge of the House of Tharg (apart from Tharg, of course, who surely bestowed the knighthood on Sir Jason in the first place).

I haven't always been civil on this board either, but I swear to Grud remembering this cartoon has saved me a few times from losing the plot on other threads.  The difference for me is that I live alone, and as such am both voices.  Of course, sometimes the sillier me on the right wins.

I've just listened to today's The Daily podcast, and am absolutely horrified to see these voter suppression laws that Georgia has introduced now that it's getting way too purple for the Trump cult's* tastes.  Other former Republican stronghold states seem likely to follow suit.

My God, they are shameless, aren't they?  They don't even bother coming up with excuses any more for stopping minorities from voting. Democracy is dying, well, in darkness.

*Not a typo, though if it was, that would work too.