I've seen people call my dad a nepotism hire, and I've got to refute this - I auditioned many, many my dads before casting my dad as Jurgen Leitner, and he was simply the best fit.

Thanks! I AM okay!

Very excited!

Oooh, lovely stuff! For some reason as I was typing it out I did have the thought "I bet Wangleberry would get a kick out of this", so glad I was correct!

I believe at the exact moment I could be learning how a Victorian failure to understand Buddhism could supercharge my bank account, I will instead by watching Jed the dog begin his ghoulish transformation into the Thing. And that's Ok.

There's a part of me that would genuinely like to go, if only out of morbid curiosity, but unfortunately I'm going to be watching Horror movies for 24-hours straight when it happens, so ah well.

But my absolute favourite, the one that absolutely floored me, is a talk titled "Amplify Your Wealth: Releasing Money Blocks Through The Akashic Records" THE AKASHIC FUCKING RECORDS ARE GONNA MAKE ME RICH. I can't handle it. Sometimes it feels like everything on earth is a Prosperity Gospel grift.

There's obviously the classics: the whitest person in the world listed as a "Shamanic Shadow Reader"; the one practising "Quantum Healing and Past Life Regression"; the "Miracle Molecule" of Shungite; oh, and apparently we have "Angelic" Reiki now - didn't realise they'd dropped the new DLC.

Frank picked me up a flyer for a local Hallowe'en festival of new-agey, spiritually, woo stuff and... Goodness, it is something else. The word salad of of self-help, motivational speaking and occult terminology is so unhinged and the obvious grift is so potent that it's genuinely delightful to me.

Hey now, y'all know me - I'm a bit of a private hater, but rarely a public dunker. I take a "whatever floats your boat" attitude and with a lot of esoteric stuff I'm of the opinion that we don't know what we don't know and what is "mundane" or "scientific" is always changing. BUT.

Also when designers learn a few academic terms then start relentlessly misapplying them. It's like, I promise you, nobody's GMing style is "maladaptive".

I love TTRPGs, but nothing makes me respect them less as a medium than reading discourse about them. Every time people starts subtweeting about some take, I'll get to the bottom of it and it'll be the stupidest thing I've ever read. Like, not ever worth discussing levels of stupid.

Anyway this fuckin sucks.

PAC's look always made me imagine an episode of Flight of the Concords where he played the former third member who got kicked out years back and returned to challenge them to a fight. They're overconfident cause he was always notoriously weedy, then PAC takes off his shirt.

I think that's the old Hoover building out in Ealing. Used to pass it on the bus all the time - one of the best surviving bits of Art Deco out there.

Potatoes au Gratin, maybe?

That's fair - I've not read the books so I'm basing it entirely off Guiness' mannerisms and how Ann is deployed in the TV series. I will say I don't think superintelligence would be required, though, as that sort of cover marriage was not uncommon at the time, especially for upper class gay men.

For me its the one between Guinness and Terrance Rigby in the park