David Lynch. His death hit me like a punch to the heart.

Also Adam Yauch (MCA).

For some reason your link didn’t work for me - in case it helps anyone else, here’s the link again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Up_(ride)?wprov=sfla1

We had it, yes, but we lost it - I believe that many of the technical plans from Apollo have been lost over the years, so some of this is pretty much reinventing the wheel to get us back to where we were before.

Yeah, but the point is to test the technology which will eventually get people back onto the moon, set up permanent off-Earth habitation, etc. Which in turn will/could be part of future steps for further-reaching exploration. I still think it has value as a building block.

Vaffanculo

Definitely 😁👍

Ah, ok - thanks for sharing! Not heard of that before, will check it out 👍

Doesn’t sound exactly the same, but you may be thinking of Phase IV.

“Amaze Amaze Amaze!”

I loved that 😁

Fun mode: The Asterixiverse. If only for those amazingly delicious-looking wild boars.

Hard mode: The DavidLynchiverse.

They made a US version of Spaced?? This I have to see. It’s SO British in tone.

Found it!

https://youtu.be/J8UqYf6vqRs

Would depend who made it, both the producing company and the director.

If they tried to properly emulate the darkness of the show, and had something to actually say about society, then in the right hands it could be decent. As long as it wasn’t just the exact same plot, they’d need to have their own story to tell.

For example, I could imagine David Simon doing something interesting with it, relating to the corrosive nature of capitalism, media, etc.

But more likely the focus would be on the games and the gore and the lore of the Game itself, plus personal interactions between the contestants, love triangles, etc. Which IMO is less interesting.

Poor Susie…

My country did qualify (Scotland) so I’ll be up for a few VERY late sessions in the pub (our first game kicks off at 2am our time!) 😁🍻😴

Yep. And we’ve managed to draw 2 of the 3 teams we played in that tournament (Brazil and Morocco) - what are the chances?! 🙄

Yeah, agreed. The only thing that’d make me want to go is that Scotland have finally made it, 28 years since we last qualified. If it was somewhere else I’d probably try to go, at least to be in the area. But not in the States. I was hoping we might get drawn in Canada, but sadly not.

Like yourself, I’ll be in the pub - although our first game is at 2am UK time! 😁

Pretty good, even if that’s just the cheapest ones.

Amazing comparison in this BBC article - it seems that it would be cheaper to buy 5 match tickets at this lowest price than to pay for parking at MetLife stadium for a single match. Insane.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwyd0pzmv0jo

Ford Prefect: Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like guys, oh, but don’t eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting ‘Gotcha.’ It wouldn’t have made any difference if they hadn’t eaten it.

Arthur Dent: Why not?

Ford Prefect: Because if you’re dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won’t give up. They’ll get you in the end.

Interesting, thanks.

Addressed the first one on that other comment.

The second one just seems contradictory tbh, how can it be both?

The third one is interesting - but subjectively feeling like we have free will isn’t the same as objectively having it.

And if there was a god and he was allowing (in fact, causing) us to believe we had free will, when we actually didn’t, would just create the situation where god had misled us.

I think the best way out is that we do have free will, but god isn’t omniscient (if he exists at all).

It’s not a question of interfering or not though, it’s about foreknowledge.

Either god had foreknowledge of their choice, and therefore A&E couldn’t have made any other decision than they did, or they had genuine free will meaning he wasn’t omniscient.