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Wow, what an experience Godzilla Minus Zero was. I didn't expect them to go there with their choice of villain, but it was done really well. The stakes escalated, sneaky Americans with their nefarious scheme. The underlying theme about running/hiding front your trauma was there. These Godzilla movies are always about the emotions and feelings of the characters, and the monsters turn up and have a scrap. The professor's obsession with avenging Hiroshima, Noda and Aoyama wanting to make amends for their past failures. Noriko accepting herself after what she went through. Koichi right there by her side as they go through it all again. It's always the people's story, Godzilla and Co just happen to be there for the exciting monster fighting fun. I don't know where they'd go from here, or whether you would go somewhere from here. Some kind of 1950s or 60s American built Mecha-Godzilla? Biollante, as was teased for this one? Mothra? There are options. Cast somebody as an older Akiko? This iteration of Godzilla feels like it needs to be more than just "a monster has turned up, how do we send for Godzilla?" It's about Koichi, Noriko and Akiko and how Godillza etc impacts their lives. I guess you could do something about the fugitive lifestyle and how everybody around you just wants to use you, combined with having to step up and do your bit, but some of that would just reread this one. It works as a little two hander., and I don't think we need any more from here, especially since they've done pretty much everything that needs to be done in terms of Godzilla and enemies. Let this be its own cycle and leave it in its own bubble, like Shin Godzilla, and the other Godzilla eras before it. Sorry for the essay. Best movie I've seen at the cinema all year. How To Rob A Bank looked like it could be entertaining from its trailer. Not sure what to make of that Danny Boyle film about that shitty newspaper.

However else would you have a quattro formaggio?

It is a fun game. I'm at my first Magic The Gathering Prerelease in almost twenty years on Sunday with some friends who are also Magic/Star Trek fans. I'm usually dreadful at them, although during the first Mirrodin block there were some card mechanics and deck designs so simple I managed to win prizes back with them, but had no such luck during the following block: Time Spiral. I'm hoping against hope I manage to end up with the cards to assemble something resembling a Borg deck, as that feels like it could be useful. It's a question of seeing what multicoloured cards I get and hopefully being able to build something around them. Also I'd love if I got the Chief O'Brien card, even though I think I'd have to go white/blue if I was to do something with him outside of the prerelease. We'll see what happens. I'm sure it'll be fun regardless.

It's Psalm 23: The Lord Is My Shepherd. The Daily Telegraph, several Christian news sites and the Huffington Post are reporting it.

Wow. That's no age.

I heard that somewhere. I wonder whether Mike Read wrote it for him.

Was there another sex predator on trial at the same time? When those allegations surfaced after the Andrew Sachs thing he was on the right wing grifter train like a shot.

It's a very difficult act to follow.

Might finally find his favourite verse.

I'm seeing it on Saturday afternoon at my local Vue because Vicky gets a code for a free ticket there every month. Just got £7 in (self earned) club card vouchers as well which will more than cover some snacks and a drink.

One for the motorsports fans amongst us, but former F1 world champion Alan Jones has passed away. He was champion for Williams in 1980 Former F1 champion Jones dies aged 80 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/articles/cmd9345vdy8do

Oh I know, but your point is entirely valid.

@FLipsyou're absolutely right. The first one randomly played while I was watching and autoplaying fighting game videos on YouTube and it was fascinating, so has then found its way into my algorithm but that's no excuse. I find them interesting from a machine learning point of view, but again that shouldn't be any justification for watching these kinds of things.

Vicky has been enjoying that cranberry mayonnaise they've been selling in Aldi. She picked up quite a few bottles.

I have been watching a series where somebody has been getting ChapGPT playing the SNES version of Street Fighter 2 as each character. He gives it a little guide to how to do the moves, then runs it a couple of frames at a time so "Sol" as it's been named has chance to try and figure out what to do in the situation it finds itself in. It's been an interesting series. Struggles a lot figuring out where Vega (claw) is when he does the cage climb. Presumably as a little tribute to Justin Wong it won a lot of rounds as Chun Li by establishing a life lead then running down the timer. So far it's done the best as Guile, but Guile is arguably broken and the best character in original Street Fighter 2. The channel creator has said at some point they're going to try it with Super Turbo instead, which has super cheap input reading enemy behaviours.