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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:40:24 AMThe Inspector Wears Skirts
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:33:08 AM
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Entertainment / Re: What Video Game are You Pl...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:20:27 AMBriefly semi-obsessed with Dominion, the video game adaptation of the card game, which is free to play. One fascinating thing is that the AI opponents have become much better thanks to neural networks: I'd say the medium strength AI is as good as a human player, and I have yet to beat it. Can't imagine how good the hard AI is, but I imagine it must make the optimal play every single turn--a good thing to study for when I play head-to-head games with real humans.
#4
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:13:56 AM^Agreed on Iron Lung.
STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR (2025): This RHPS documentary includes interviews with all the main surviving cast and just about anyone associated with the picture. Divided roughly into thirds covering the genesis and original stage show, the movie production, and the film's afterlife as a cult phenomenon, it's pretty much the definitive celebration of this strange cultural phenomenon. 3/5.
STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR (2025): This RHPS documentary includes interviews with all the main surviving cast and just about anyone associated with the picture. Divided roughly into thirds covering the genesis and original stage show, the movie production, and the film's afterlife as a cult phenomenon, it's pretty much the definitive celebration of this strange cultural phenomenon. 3/5.
#6
Off Topic Discussion / Re: How's the weather?
Last post by Trevor - Today at 05:22:16 AMFreezing here, we also had some rain yesterday 🥶🥶
#7
Off Topic Discussion / Re: How's the weather?
Last post by claws - Today at 04:28:20 AMI've been complaining about the heatwave we're having in Germany, and honestly, it still feels surreal.
Germany was never known for being hot. When I grew up, summers were mild, winters were properly cold, and "heatwave" was something you heard about happening in Spain or Italy, not Bavaria or Franconia.
But these new heatwaves? They feel wrong on a fundamental level. There is nothing Mediterranean about Germany. Not the landscapes, not the architecture, not the people. Nothing here says "Come to Germany and enjoy the heat!" It's like the climate is trying on a costume that doesn't fit.
And to put it into perspective, here are a few heat‑related facts about Germany that show just how strange this all is:
Germany's average summer temperature used to hover around 20–24°C, depending on the region. Now, 30°C+ days are becoming normal in June.
The country's all‑time heat record (41.2°C) was only set in 2019, a sign of how recent extreme heat actually is.
Most German homes were built to retain heat, not escape it. Thick insulation, small windows, no AC. Great in winter, miserable in a heatwave.
Urban areas like Frankfurt, Cologne, and Berlin can run 5–10°C hotter than surrounding countryside due to heat‑trapping architecture.
Forests are struggling too, drought stress, bark beetles, and fire risk have all spiked in the last decade.
So when a heatwave rolls in, it doesn't just feel uncomfortable, it feels out of character for the entire country. Like Germany is glitching.
Germany was never known for being hot. When I grew up, summers were mild, winters were properly cold, and "heatwave" was something you heard about happening in Spain or Italy, not Bavaria or Franconia.
But these new heatwaves? They feel wrong on a fundamental level. There is nothing Mediterranean about Germany. Not the landscapes, not the architecture, not the people. Nothing here says "Come to Germany and enjoy the heat!" It's like the climate is trying on a costume that doesn't fit.
And to put it into perspective, here are a few heat‑related facts about Germany that show just how strange this all is:
Germany's average summer temperature used to hover around 20–24°C, depending on the region. Now, 30°C+ days are becoming normal in June.
The country's all‑time heat record (41.2°C) was only set in 2019, a sign of how recent extreme heat actually is.
Most German homes were built to retain heat, not escape it. Thick insulation, small windows, no AC. Great in winter, miserable in a heatwave.
Urban areas like Frankfurt, Cologne, and Berlin can run 5–10°C hotter than surrounding countryside due to heat‑trapping architecture.
Forests are struggling too, drought stress, bark beetles, and fire risk have all spiked in the last decade.
So when a heatwave rolls in, it doesn't just feel uncomfortable, it feels out of character for the entire country. Like Germany is glitching.
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 01:42:26 AMQuote from: M.10rda on June 21, 2026, 05:56:03 PMMy theatre company supported the development of ARCHDUKE, a play by Rajiv Joseph, who has written a few pretty successful plays and one or two movies. ARCHDUKE is about the assassination of AFF, and at least in the play, the Black Hand are a bunch of inept, bumbling patsies. Pretty funny to think of them as inspiring Italian thrillers many decades later!
I suppose the suggestion was that the original Black Hand had manipulated the Great Powers into starting WW I and that they were now trying to bring about WW III. But again, everything remains very vague.
#10
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Wordl Cup?
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 01:29:32 AMNot really following it. Things are pretty muted over here. There have been times when the national team was seriously hyped up, only to disappoint. With two draws so far (against Egypt and Iran), things aren't looking too good this time around as well.