Tom Murch

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You call Spider-Man: No Way Home "Marvel's The Day of the Doctor" because it has three incarnations of the protagonist meeting up.

I call Spider-Man: No Way Home "Marvel's The Day of the Doctor" because there's an ethical quandary over a magic box with a button on it.

Well, no prizes for guessing what I'll be telling my soon-to-be-3-years-old nephew the Power Rangers were...

A poster advertising When the Wind Blows, a cartoon that follows an elderly couple trying to survive a nuclear war. Three images show the two protagonists in different scenarios - on the left, standing on a pleasant green countryside; in the middle, standing before a dark background dominated by a mushroom cloud; on the right, standing on a countryside with the same layout as the leftmost image, but now the greenery is replaced with a smoking and barren wasteland.

Well, that was just as bleakly depressing as I'd expected.

Perhaps I should end the day with a nice cartoon?

A screencap of two shows on the BBC iPlayer, both showing the effects of a hypothetical nuclear war on the United Kingdom - The War Game, and Threads.

You know what? I think I've been having TOO MUCH fun, recently.

Ah well, my planned double-bill for today should help to balance things out.

...I'm going to start posting videos that just show peoples' hands whilst they're ironing their clothes, and THEN you'll be in trouble.

Vaan: "I'm Captain Basch!"

A screencap from the TV show There She Goes, series 1 episode 1. Simon Yates is sat on the sofa, whilst his wife Emily and son Ben play Talisman on the living room floor.

I thought I might be looking too much into this one throwaway line, but a few minutes later they're playing Talisman!

Looks like I'll be watching everything Shaun Pye writes so that I can spot more sneaky nerd-references (and also because he's pretty good).

A screencap from the TV show There She Goes, series 1 episode 1. Simon Yates is talking to his wife Rosie Ann Yates, with the subtitles reading, "without the creature of havoc" - a possible reference to the twenty-fourth Fighting Fantasy gamebook, Creature of Havoc.

A professional reviewer: There She Goes is a beautiful, cathartic show ... a taboo-breaking comedy about parenting a child with disabilities ... It’s sad, funny, lovely and tearjerking all at once.

Me: TSG has a Fighting Fantasy gamebook reference in its first episode.

I just listened to this episode this morning, and someone (Erika, I think) mentioned a book where religious rituals were needed to keep gravity working, so I had to ask ... was that entire story a set-up for a pun about Christians giving Mass?

"I know game developers who do location scouting, and they're all cowards."

SHEPARD: "Have you forgotten, Mr. Alenko, that onboard the Normandy only ONE game is permitted?"

KAIDAN: [sighs, closes the game, boots up Towers of Hanoi]

First frame is Tony Stark in The Avengers pointing and saying "that man is playing Galaga.", and the second frame is kaiden alenko in Mass Effect at his station with his hand on his head looking away

I made this and I hope it makes you chuckle if you're a Mass Effect fan

An image of James Spader playing Daniel Jackson in the 1994 movie Stargate.

Sitting down to watch the Stargate movie, I noticed James Spader's name in the opening credits; so I spent the next two hours trying to identify him, and failed miserably.

As in, "he was literally the main character" miserably.

hey do i know anyone out there who’s seen the new Superman movie a few times and remembers dialogue realllllly well?

i need to confirm some of it for a thing I’m doing but won’t be able to see it again for a while

A demotivational poster style of image; a spoof of the motivational poster format. The picture at the centre is an edited image from the video game Metal Gear Solid, showing one of the game's antagonists (Revolver Ocelot) and a caption showing both his name and his voice actor's name (which has been edited to Revolver Ocelot); on the black border surrounding this picture, his name is repeated three more times.

He actually went and did it...!

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Fun fact: I'm actually from the universe where Ubisoft made a franchise called Assassin Creed, which saw Apollo Creed's son joins the fight against the Templars.

Turns out, boxing is a LOT more tense when you've got hidden blades in the gloves...

How dare - how DARE The Chronicles of Riddick give me one of my favourite threats of all time.

"I upvote want I want! You have problem?!"

Sorry, but you DID ask a "Why...?" question about Metal Gear Rising, so you must've known someone would post this:

I remember trying a Street Fighter game during one of my sporadic flings with the fighting genre - and got utterly trounced.

Other games have an easy mode that I can just about handle with my crude button-mashing skills, but ... well, I too need to get good at Street Fighter.

I actually got this one right, for once!

I know the other three images all appeared on covers of White Dwarf issues from my first year or so in the hobby (which I reread a LOT in my youth), so I guessed that one must've come a little later.

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“I knew Sabrina before she blew up”, “I knew Chappell before she blew up” ... Okay, well guess who I knew before she blew up.

The bit near the end of The Burbs where a shell-shocked Hanks shuffles down some stairs nearly killed my Mum, she was laughing so much.

My family has to make sure she doesn't watch this film, Mouse Hunt and Home Alone 2 too close together, for her own safety.

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Sue Storm: We don't yet have a plan to stop Galactus - but I promise, I shall move Heaven and Earth to save my son.

Reed Richards:

If this president is actually a wasp PRETENDING to be a bee, I could finally use this "sting operation" pun I've been sitting on for years...

Just sayin'.

I really want to make a joke based on my favourite exchange from that movie (the "river of blood" bit); it feels like that should be ideally suited to a vampire movie, but somehow the inspiration just isn't striking.

A promotional image from the first Assassin's Creed video game, showing the protagonist poised to stab his Knight Templar enemy with a wrist-mounted hidden blade.

If I ever need to use one in real life, at least Ubisoft will have prepared me for the task.

A screencap from Red Dwarf, series 8 episode 7. Captain Hollister, his head largely covered in bandages, looks at his watch and says, "See you in ten minutes."

Me: [clicks on the "Remember me for 30 days" option]

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