Ewan Spence

COVIDEO Top 10 2024 – Lockdown Transmissions

If you are in need of some solid film recommendations…

The Sexism and Nerdiness Of Boston Legal, Season One | The-Solute

This started where I thought it would, and ended mostly where I thought it would, but I enjoyed the curiosity along the way m

Reactor (formlery Tor Publishing, in case you missed the name change) has put up PDFs and ePub files collecting the last twelve months of published stories. A fantastic download for the holidays.

While I still have Balatro as my Game of the Year, Elite Dangerous is “my "game of the forever” so it’s nice to read about another way of enjoying it and seeing the impact made.

Good for Balatro. Old fashioned “buy once for a tenner” pricing, indie developer (using Lua of all things) and now getting critical acclaim. If one of the AAA titles picks up game of the year instead of this, I will offer a Paddington Bear Hard Stare at the committee.

How the ladder the older artists used to create careers is being pulled and out of reach of the current generation because nobody understands how the Top Ten should work

Supercharge your Bluesky on-boarding with this handy list of media lists and starter packs

Is it the open internet when everyone goes through one filter which is beholden to shareholders?

Canada already set James Bond free (at least the books) from copyright. That said, anything that belongs to the film or EON is not available, yet this little collection of short stories sounds fun1

You can have a lot of stories in a baseball scorecard, one reason I love doing it. Anyway, feeling seen!

“When the Phils lost the NLCS last year, I wrote “I hate everything” in the notes section of my scorecard and then flipped back a few pages to bask in the warm embrace of a game in July where we hit a million home runs. It helped, a little.”

Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information - Aftermath

Bookmarking for myself!

Nine years is a long run, yet… ‘Some May Say’ that Oasis turning up to Edinburgh in August, taking all the hotel rooms, the lack of 'medium to big’ named stand-ups signed to TV deals, and the huge cost of putting on theatre might be a factor here.

Posted here for reference… given the writers called Nightsleeper out as “Nightsleeper looks set to have all the propulsive thrust of Line of Duty, all the tension of 24 and all the silliness of Speed” (It wasn’t…) I’ll take some of these descriptions with a pinch of salt, but a solid “what could we watch now” for the rest of the year.

The changing nature of fiction and how readers engage.

“fans raised on interactive media rather than the static printed page or celluloid reel of film invariably argue in their own heads with the official story lines they’re handed. And they sometimes write down their alternative takes on the stories–not just happy endings in place of tragedies, or attempts to fix what they perceive as broken plots or world building, but their own stories that try to make sense of the worlds of the imagination they’ve been presented with. Fans who write fanfic or play games from the original adversary’s point of view in hope of getting a happy ending are not fans who accept the author’s privileged position as narrator for granted.”

A friday morning bit of fun. I needed that chuckle.