A funny/poignant reference to Alphaville is pretty prominent in Haruki Murakami's novel "After Dark". I've always meant to watch it, somehow never got around to it before.
Good novel too. It's one of his shorter novels, very accessible to newcomers to his brand of weirdness.
Theft rates where I live. You can have all the expensive locks you want, if you leave your bike out of eyeshot for more than a few minutes you'll never see it again.
Main is often closed as a joke. CTH should be closed as a joke.
Sterling Archer, age 50.
How does one manually add hexbear to login? I can't seem to figure that out.
Update, eh, nevermind. The default selection of servers is incredibly sus. Lots of servers we've defederated from for very good reasons. I'll just skip this app and keep using the website. It works perfectly on Firefox on Android anyway.
The two factions of the british conservatives are locked in a battle for the future of the conservative movement. One faction seeks to preserve the tory party while the other seeks to have it collapse, forcing the conservative movement to merge into the Reform party where Farage will be leader.
I don't have much familiarity with British politics beyond what I read on this site, but this sounds similar to the "unite the right" machinations of a few decades back in Canada. The result was a purge of any remaining red tories in the party.
Am I the only one who just doesn't get the Rogue One love? It felt like a whole lot of unoriginal nostalgia, and not in the fun and silly "Trials and Tribble-ations" way. It was just character after character in monochromatic outfits with names I couldn't be bothered to remember, and a plan that I couldn't care about worrying over because we know how it ends and there was nothing dramatically interesting in the execution of that plan.
It should have been more of an Ocean's Eleven thing. A fun heist movie where the Rebel Alliance hatches a crazy scheme to hire a couple of thieves-with-hearts-of-gold to steal the Death Star plans. Make it clear from the start that the tone is "This plan is crazy, we are crazy, I can't believe we're actually getting away with it!" Like on a solid Farscape episode.
There's a fantastic built-in-dramatic-tension thing you could do with a mix of Alliance partisans and the hired thieves in one crew. Who will betray who? Who's going to turn out to be surprisingly trustworthy and honourable? Who might even end up joining the Alliance after the experience of doing the right thing? The actual heist isn't nearly as important as the tension between the characters. And when you already know the outcome of a heist, the fun part is bouncing characters off each other. An over-the-top heist movie with fun banter is way better suited to the Star Wars universe than any other genre because that's what most of the original trilogy was. And it worked.
But I guess Darth Vader and laser gun battles and spaceship battles do more for the dopamine levels of some.
GIMP's dev team are the living embodiment of "not invented here". Whether code, suggestions, or basic public relations concepts like not using a slur for their software's name, they are among the most stubborn and most close-minded people in the entire free software/open source world.
That looks pleasantly expensive to fix.
We're always watching.
But what if they're an exhibitionist?
Welcome to the Canadian housing market. Seriously.