Charles EP Murphy

Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega’s consoles, has died | VGC Sato helmed design for consoles including Mega Drive, Saturn…

Hideki Sato, designer of virtually all of Sega’s consoles, has died.

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Gina Yashere being a main cast member under heavy prosthetics is still so weird to me though. For comparison for Americans, it's like if Wanda Sykes landed a regular role on Doctor Who as a Cyberman

adorable chubby kittens holding song books and crooning, art by Louis Wain

NOW THEY MEW WHAT THEY TOLD YA
NOW THEY MEW WHAT THEY TOLD YA
NOW THEY MEW WHAT THEY TOLD YA

I spent five minutes trying to figure out the joke here, because obviously "an 18-rated Stargate SG1 pilot" must be a joke and I'm missing something, and so I looked it up and that's how I learn you were not joking & my God does that sound silly.

tfw you see someone say "if only fans made--" and think of all the many, many, many stinkers in multiple franchises made by fans (sometimes _because_ someone was a fan and were too close to it)

it's like those episodes of Lower Decks that suddenly go "BOOM PROPER TREK STAKES AND PEOPLE GETTING SHOT AT" without warning, only able to go further, also some villains right out of Farscape

"How should we show this character is American, Chris Claremont?"

"Have them randomly say words in the foreign language that the audience all know are the foreign ones."

"Thanks, Chris!"

Final Quantum anthology on sale now, high street newsagents no longer most profitable route of sale It might be the end, but it’s going out with a bang!

Every so often you'll see arguments "comics should've stayed at newsagents/newsstands", "comics lost The Masses because they aren't at newsagents/newsstands", and yet time and again those markets are _slayers_ of comics, they are difficult and dangerous markets: downthetubes.net/final-quantu...

Gonna write on this in the newsletter tomorrow: the World Service being on the brink is revealing of a broader hole in the United Kingdom's foreign policy, which is this huge gap where 'what is our plan to, you know, *win*?' www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics

That is interesting, especially as Shin Ultraman is IIRC outright adapting entire episodes like an old-school "THE MOVIE" video edit and Kamen Rider had previously had a film adaptation following beats of the series.

How Russia is trying to win over the world beyond the West Over the past three years, Russian state-backed news channel RT has expanded its international presence.

In many ways, govt already accepted defeat to our enemies, as the BBC warned last yr:

"Two years ago, the BBC closed its Arabic radio service in favour of its digital-based service... That same year Russia's Sputnik started a 24-hour service in Lebanon, occupying the airwave vacated by BBC Arabic."

Someone sent back to 1910 is bewildered and irritated to see typhoid, "haven't they heard of inoculation--" before realising they won't have yet.

Imagine telling Rod Serling "so in 2026 a lot of people will deliberately refuse to know about inoculation and vaccines"

I think I like Ro-Busters better than ABC Warriors, has a fun hook and Ro-Jaws & early Hammerstein are a great double act

It would be ludicrous. What the hell are Nandy and Cooper doing?

Burgess Meredith was the Devil in a Twilight Zone S4, now Julie Newmar is the Devil in another, hoping for Cesar Romero and Frank Gorshin later for the whole set

The way they're talking about it sounds like voting is going to be this thing they're being coerced into doing or that will come upon them like a werewolf in the full moon, as opposed to an act they have to choose to do and choose who to do it for

My broad view is that fascism is the politics of nilhism and, well, these guys are proving that the case.

Like, I'm sure you have your struggles, but your life as an NHS manager is nowhere near bad enough that you simply have to consider the fascist party. If you wish to vote against the government there are plenty of non-fascist options available.

A picture of Worf from TNG with a canary’s head. There’s a space background.

Canary Worf.

the great and terrible dragon riding out to do hostile takeovers of weaker dragons' hordes

Kirk, Chekov and Uhura on a triangular fighting atea, facing off against various monsters are hot women.

A woman with green hair and green hair in a silver bikini, wielding a staff like weapon with metal stabbing bits on each end.

#TrekADay

If Tribbles is the favourite episode of people who just like Star Trek rather than being Star Trek Fans, Gamesters of Triskellion is the general public's platonic idea of the typical Trek episode.

Camp gladiatorial combat against women in sliver bikinis barely containing their boobs.

Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991)

I had the same thing with Citizen Kane, "Oh NOW I get it--", despite both films having multiple pastiches on children's cartoons long before I ever got to them, from Launchpad McQuack doing Rick's big speech twice to Tiny Toons doing a whole Kane episode

like, the example of "the dragon sitting on a horde of gold and turning up to attack--" being Capitalism means that capitalism has to go a _lot_ further back in human history for these old legends wot fantasy is borrowing to be allegories for capitalism. (Another is "LOTR is VS Capitalism", no?)

William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night

What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!

On House to Astonish, Daredevil Villains #72: Nuke.

The FT contest that challenged readers to redraw Europe’s borders The extraordinary story of when, two months into the bloody Great War, the newspaper launched an unusual competition

This is such a fascinating piece about a deeply surreal bit of history: the competition the FT ran *in 1914* inviting readers to speculate about what the map of Europe would look like after the First World War was over:

art by Paul Malone, badly dressed and outfitted soldiers on a phone to the Judges: "Justice Department is experiencing a higher than normal volume of calls. Please hold - your call is important to us. Your position in the queue is - eleven thousand, two hundred, and seventy-nine."

get the sixth issue of the Zarjaz fanzine to see me writing and Paul Malone drawing a very serious war story indeed: zarjazvol3.blogspot.com/p/buy-prog-6...

We've got multiple different nations reduced to "white culture", we've got the inadvertent support of creepy neo-Nazi obsession with made-up Norse Pagan Originalism, we've got all pre-Christian culture reduced to Pagan The Homogenous Mass... Woooof