CrabAndBroom

I guarantee they're also adding AI slop trained on other people's work into their own content, while simultaneously suing anyone who does the same with theirs.

Fuck Disney

I imagine if you have a script deadline it's probably much faster and easier to write the latter one of those scenes than the former too lol.

I feel like the RTD2 era doesn't have as many "quiet" moments as RTD1. As an example, in David Tennant's final episode, they'd break up the action with little scenes like this where they'd just let the actors sit there and carry the scene themselves, and I don't really remember there being many of those in the recent finale. I wonder if maybe it's kind of a budget thing, where before they'd have to use CGI and big effects sparingly? In the new era, when they need to, say, have 15 travel from UNIT to where the bad guys are, instead of using that moment to take a breather and have the Doctor talk about the Rani or Omega or the implications of the Wish World or whatever, they just stick him on a CGI space scooter and make everything blow up instead.

It's a good spectacle and makes for higher production value, but I think it comes at the expense of letting the episodes breathe and the characters talk about things. There's no time to really process anything that happens because there's always something happening, if that makes sense.

Sounds like a good plan to me, especially since it seems like there won't be any new episodes for a while. Could be a nice way to fill the gap.

I'm currently playing:

• Star Citizen (I know I know. I paid like $40 into the Kickstarter years ago and I dip in about once a year or so.)
• Last of Us 2 (again)
• Schedule I on Steam Deck is pretty fun.

I'm also currently gearing up to get horrendously addicted to Rimworld again since there's apparently a new DLC on the way.

Since OP mentioned that they used Plasma in the past and don't like GNOME, it might be worth mentioning that KDE is developing their own OS which should be immutable.

Might have to wait for a little bit though.

This is broad, but internet culture seems to insist that everything has to be either the best thing ever, or the worst. Most things are actually pretty average - that’s why it’s called an average.

I've noticed a trend with online discussion about Doctor Who, which seems to be: The current showrunner is the worst ever and is killing the show, the previous showrunner (who was maligned at the time) is actually not so bad and under-appreciated, and the showrunner before that was the real genius behind it all.

I still maintain that Kill The Moon isn't necessarily a bad episode, it's just not especially deep. It seems like the whole idea was for everyone to take an already bonkers premise and just run as far as they could with it, and IMO it feel like everyone's having a blast with it. If you accept it as just that I think it's fine.

Also I'm sort of glad the Disney deal is probably over, I think Doctor Who functions best when it's a bit scrappy and under-funded. It's a show that lends itself to big ideas and it can pretty much be anything, but I think when it's given a huge budget it tends to get quite over-indulgent and messy.

I'd like there to just be a normal regeneration again TBH. The last time the Doctor just regenerated in a normal way (ie. no stunt casting or bi-generating) was Capaldi > Whittaker, which was Christmas 2017 so nearly a decade ago!

Actually by the time they get around to making more episodes and doing another regeneration it will probably be over a decade ago.

[SPOILERS FOR EVERYTHING BE WARNED]

Imagine if it was halfway through Chibnall's era and you posted "the next show runner will be Russell T. Davies, and the next Doctor will be David Tennant. His companion will be Donna, and instead of regenerating he splits in two and then just goes and sits in a garden presumably forever. We follow the Doctor who isn't David Tennant, and he regenerates into Billie Piper. Also it will be co produced by Disney."

You'd be legitimately chased off the internet I think lol.

Same here, but I also want to try and figure out how to get one anonymously. I'm not up to anything, I just want to play around with it, but I also don't want to end up on some list if and when they do get banned.

I had a phone that did that! The feature was called 'IR Blaster' IIRC, and there was an app that had all the frequencies for different brands of TV on it. I don't think they put those in smart phones anymore lol