Musings of Melis

In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

There's nothing quite like announcing that a firing squad execution will be televised, to cause a significant portion of the the world to surprise themselves and find they can LOWER their opinion of Pete Hegseth even further.

Over the weekend, in the midst of Trump selling out Ukraine to buy Russian diesel, and waffling on about how Ukraine should get a new President (after Zelenskyy dared to criticise him). Ukraine's missiles took out three facilities in Russia which are believed to house extremely prolific bot farms. Three weeks before the US Midterm elections, that may have done more to preserve democracy than anything else in YEARS.

In the UK, our latest PM has actually spoken the words that no one Prime Minister has dared utter since 2016, that maybe the UK should actively pursue closer ties to the EU (Starmer came close, but was very very cautious about it)

Knights of Guinevere has had a second episode released!

200Gb of files from classic Cartoon Network shows have leaked online.

Brian Blessed has just celebrated his 90th birthday.

My thanks to those who encouraged me to try more of "Widows Bay" but, alas still not getting into it. I did go down a rabbit hole of what qualifies as "cringe comedy", and I found that about 95% of the shows listed are ones which have had massive fanbases and which I have just never cared for at all, so I think it's a trend with me, not a one off. Oh well, live and learn.