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Hmm... there's To Kill a Mockingbird and The Jury what else am I missing? Inherit the Wind takes place in Tennessee (the movie apparently does not even mention that state, the play though is placed in Tennessee). There is also The Chamber - I am sure I have seen that movie but I don't remember it (and the Rotten Tomatoes score is very much on the "rotten" side).

In 2023 I almost exclusively played stuff on Game Pass. Game Pass does not give you a list per year (of what you played for how long), but you can at least see for single games the total number of hours spent on it. So here is my list (sorted by hours): Chained Echoes (55 h) Phoenix Wright Trilogy (55 h) Loop Hero (36 h) Age of Empires IV (33 h) Formula 1 Manager 2023 (30 h) Ori and the Will of the Wisp (20 h) Ori and the Blind Forest (for whatever reason Game Pass does not list the time spent, but I think it was about the same as for the second Ori game) Persona 5 Tactica (11 h) Humankind (11 h) Fuga (10 h) The last three games I somewhat bounced off from. There were also a couple of games that I played less than two hours, also some games (e.g. Vampire Survivors and Flight Simulator) that I played in 2023, but played already a lot in earlier years, so I don't know how much I actually played them last year. I would guess both in the 20-30 h ballpark. I bought a PS5 shortly before Christmas, so this year will be way less Game Pass-centered, I would think.

Well, Hercules is the Roman name of a figure of Greek mythology. So they were more Greco-Roman than simply Roman.

I played Against the Storm a bit since it got to 1.00 and became available on Game Pass. Sadly that game fights with the Game Pass cloud save and I just lost about 10 hours or so of progress. I will wait until the issues are fixed before touching the game again (the developer puts the blame on Microsoft and reading a bit on their technical explanation, I tend to agree with that assessment).

Do they need a third season? The second season was already very uneven and pretty uninspired. They probably should have stopped with just doing the book.

Hmm... I think the "who's on first" bit would be even more confusing in Finnish because AFAIR, there is no special intonation for questions in Finnish, am I right @Shartnado?

There are ways for JT, ever heard of time dilation? He just needs a space ship to fly a couple of years close to the speed-of-light, and voilà.

The Steiners run was in 95 when they were mostly with NJPW - in between WWF and WCW runs, similar for Hawk (and Animal never wrestled in ECW, he was sitting out his LLoyd's of London deal at that point).

Congrats to John Oliver to get a full bingo card.

Random thought: how often has the sentence "You are not wrong Corny, you are just an asshole." been said?

Can someone make the case for Ishii over literally anyone else on the Japanese ballot?

Congrats to John Oliver. https://www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/bird-century-winner-announced-puteketeke-pandemonium-prevails

Jesus, I am sure there have been corpses that sounded more lively than that interviewer. I guess that's what those Hogan-era WWF taping marathons would have been like without drugs.

From Have a Nice Day:

One of the biggest WTF moments I ever had was finding out that William Moody was a real life mortician. I mean it's not that they had Paul Bearer and were looking for a guy to manage, no, it was the other way around (if I am not completely wrong), and lo, there was a wrestling manager who just happened to be a mortician.

The Producers really was more documentary than satire, I guess.

I think it's something like 15 years since I've last seen Enterprise but back then I thought it got panned undeservedly. It was definitely not perfect, some of the minor characters were either completly forgettable (e.g. if I had to name the main crew I definitely would have skipped Travis Mayweather) or underused. Also the main plot with the temporal cold war did not hit as much as the showrunners probably thought it would. But there was a lot to enjoy there, the early episodes really hit the tone of entering the big, strange, unknown universe quite well, seldom did humans feel so small, the universe so casually dangerous in Star Trek. The Vulcan/Andorian storyline was probably my favorite of the series, Vulcans were never that interesting to me than here. In the last season, they had a bunch of great multi-partes IIRC.

Weird posting this directly after a couple of posts on Star Citizen. Apros pos Star Citizen: I don't follow that drama at all but I think it's funny that the director of that game is Chris Roberts who was the director of Strike Commander, the first vaporware game where I actively followed the drama. Though back then vaporware meant a two year delay.

I don't know what it says about me that I immediately recognized the name "Nick Locarno". I guess I remembered it because I don't think there are any other Star Trek characters named after a Swiss town - BTW weird that Robert Duncan McNeill's both Star Trek characters are named after European cities (okay, Paris could obviously also be a reference to the Illiad, plus it's a real first and surname, but you get what I am trying to say). And that New Axton B-plot had to be a rip on Star Wars, including weird aliens in a run-down bar (on what looks to be a desert planet run by Empire officers lookalikes) and accusing one of them as being a (literal) puppet plus a stranger in a helmet that he never takes off. Also the way that Klingon dressed in the A-plot I first thought that was an Ewok.

Last time I watched WWE with German commentary (like 20+ years ago), they translated a lot of names, like "das Unternehmen" instead of "the Corporation" or "der tollwütige Vielfraß" instead of "rabid wolverine". When they still had international announcers at ringside and gave them the word for some seconds at the beginning of the shows, I also remember them translating stuff like "Elimination Chambers" into "Ausscheidungskammern". (the Elimination Chambers PPV name was replaced in Germany by No Way Out because of the fear that connotations to the Holocaust are drawn)

I thought that the third season was the best so far. It's amazing how well Selena Gomez works as straight woman for Martin Short's and Steve Martin's humor. Meryl Streep delivers big in a couple of scenes and the musical stuff they did is pretty catchy and pretty well integrated into the story. And having a Mel Brooks cameo is definitely not a negative either.

Probably not the correct thread (if there is one), but I just discovered that Raspberry Pi 5 is coming out at the end of the month. The specs look really nice (4x2.4 GHz ARM CPU, 800 MHz Broadcom GPU, 4 or 8 GByte RAM, integrated power button ...). For Retropie people, this should advance the possibilities by a generation. N64 seems to run almost smoothly for some people hacking around with non optimized emulators, for example. GameCube should also be feasible.

I don't know who came up with the idea, but according to a Jim Cornette story, the reason why the thing was dropped was that Stu Hart did not like the portrayal of his daughter on TV:

He might be okay as Michael Hayes, but he would be great as Steve Keirn or Stan Lane.

I love that Stephen Colbert is back and the first couple of guests he's got are (I guess due to the SAG-AFTRA strike) all showbusiness friends (Neil deGrasse Tyson (if you can call him being in showbusiness), John Oliver and Anderson Cooper; I guess Jon Stewart and Steve Carell were unavailable).