Month: December 2023

A little detail I’d missed…

So remember how, just a few weeks ago, Oolong was copping mockery for this glorious post? For some reason, it’s only just struck me now after looking at it again that it’s actually even stupider than I first thought.

An armoured personnel carrier from the future.

What “Bladerunner” would have driven.

But when did Blade Runner take place?

…OH.

Which was four years in the PAST when Oolong said Cybertruck(kk) was from the future.

I don’t know how I didn’t pick up on this at the time when this silliness started circulating, but goddamn I’m pleased that I’ve finally done so.

Once more with stealing

Needless to say Hbomberguy’s now-famous plagiarism video has provoked a lot of discourse on Youtube, some of which I’ve watched, but this particular example offers a different perspective on James Somerton: where Harris looked at Somerton’s plagiarism and Todd Nathanson looked at his misinformation and lies, Courtney and Royce look at, frankly, giving him money:

This video’s more about Somerton’s business practices with his production company Telos Pictures, which seem to have been as shitty as anything else. These creators have further particular beef with him over what they consider his poor showing when it came to asexual representation (I did rather enjoy the bit where she says how they gave him a bunch of potential resources and he never plagiarised any of it), but their more obvious problem is that, frankly, they put money into Telos, a fair bit thereof, and the return rhey got from doing so was… well, bugger all.

The more I hear about this character, the less I like him, and the detail about him literally calling the cops on some of his critics for “harrassment” makes me lose that rather pointless feeling of vague sympathy for him I had after watching Todd’s video. I can’t do it. He’s brought all this shit on himself and HE FUCKING DESERVES IT. And his Fandom page that I linked previously has been updated with some new bullshit, looks like he may have engaged in catfishing and some sort of scam on Patreon and he may never have got those business degrees he started out his career with (having sold himself as a media expert before YT). I’m kind of glad I never watched any of his stuff now…

The surface of… what?

Who even knew Jupiter *had* a surface?

I’m glad I snapped this cos I have a feeling Lawrence will soon get very tired of people pointing his error out to him and delete this. I did see him replying “typo” to a few of the commenters doing that, but, my brother in cosmology, a typo is when you go to write “Pluto” and it comes out as “Pulto” or something. When you go to write “Pluto” and it comes out as “Jupiter”, that’s… I don’t know what but I’m sure there’s a technical term for it, makes you look like a bit of a dickhead anyway…

Anyway, here’s the video he linked to:

Some prat responded to him by basically asking what purpose these photos serve and what do we learn from them. I mean… there’s a ton of stuff NASA learned from these pictures cos they’re professionals who know how to do that, but for the rest of us, isn’t it enough that the photos look amazing? That we can look at the surface of a (dwarf) planet whose very existence was only confirmed less than a century ago and that we can’t even see from here on Earth without considerable technological assistance? I find that head-spinning enough without considering the meteorology, geology, etc of the place; sometimes “beauty is truth” is indeed all ye need to know…

50 years of “Lavinia”!

So we were all excited by the 60th anniversary of some TV show or other recently, but today also marked the 50th anniversary of one of its most important casting changes:

Lis Sladen making her debut as Sarah Jane Smith (posing as her aunt to break into UNIT) in “The Time Warrior” on December 15, 1973. I always thought she got a pretty rum deal at the end of her time, just getting dropped off at the end of “Hand of Fear”, so I was pleased to see her getting a second chance on the revived show and with her own series. After all, if you were going to bring back a classic series companion, she was the obvious first choice.