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Chris Farnell
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Excellent!
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Writer of Fermi's Progress, the Star Trek: Lower Decks Crew Handbook, the Doctor Who Jokebook, words for Spire: The City Must Fall, WhyNow Gaming, Den of Geek, the Radio Times and once quoted on Barbenheimer's Wikipedia page.
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Chris Farnell
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Excellent!
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Chris Farnell
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TV episodes that follow the Hangover/Dude, Where's My Car? format of characters trying to piece together events they don't remember from the night before. I can only think of Red Dwarf's "Thanks for the Memory" but there's got to be others, right?
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Chris Farnell
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This feels like it'd be a good trick for when the narrative's getting lost in the long grass. I'm going to give it a try.
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Chris Farnell
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Editors and other word pedants, help. If something belongs to a (singular) species, where do I put the apostrophe?
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Chris Farnell
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These days I am busy enough that the job bulletins I'm subscribed to are mostly just to give me something to delete from my inbox. Which is handy, because they're getting fucking depressing:
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Chris Farnell
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Wes Streeting is not the spokesperson for the Young Conservatives, and frankly he is tired to saying so.
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Chris Farnell
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Now, time to get back to complaining that girls in videogames look nothing like I imagine girls would look like if I knew any willing to get close enough for me to see facial details. Representation is important!
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Chris Farnell
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Read Alien Clay and it'll make everything much much worse!
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Chris Farnell
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A good partner for this is to watch Scavengers Reign on Netflix and then get in the shower and just scrub and scrub and scrub until you don't have any skin left.
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Chris Farnell
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(This tweet is going to age badly when I finish reading Eyes of the Void in a few days)
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Chris Farnell
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Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Need to take a break from reading Adrian for a bit- he's that dangerous combo of readable, good and prolific that is simply unfair to other writers. But this one is a great combo of revolution, alien mystery and outright body horror.
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Chris Farnell
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To be clear- no shade at Gatwa here. That guy is clearly absolutely ready to scary the shit out of you as soon as he is given the nod.
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Chris Farnell
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Make The Doctor Terrifying Again
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Chris Farnell
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I've not read that and now I'm afraid to.
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Chris Farnell
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Nah, when you're writing that sort of thing you can just make stuff up. The readers aren't as attentive and detail orientated as SFF genre fans.
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Chris Farnell
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I mean, this matches with my experience of healing classes in TTRPGs...
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Chris Farnell
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Pratchett deploys both of these at various times.
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Chris Farnell
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In the foreword to the map of Ankh Morpork, the writer tells a story about Pratchett saying the first question to ask when designing a fantasy city is "How does the clean water get in and sewage come out?" What I have since realised is this also applies to designing aliens and fantasy creatures.
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Chris Farnell
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Went out for lunch so missed Keir's first speech has PM, but I'm guessing he ripped his shirt open to reveal a Chez Guevara T-shirt, announced "That's it comrades, the Revolution is ON!" then tapped his earpiece to say "Come home Jezza - we're in."
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Chris Farnell
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Are any Americans still up? Do you say "gobbledegook"?
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Byron C Clark
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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes
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Chris Farnell
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I'm going to be honest. I might not have picked the right moment to call for the revival of a bunch of dusty old public school boys who think they're the natural born rulers of all creation.
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Andrew Blair
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Vote. Remember to take your voter id, voter ego and voter superego
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Chris Farnell
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Oh shit I put Labour when I meant to put Conservatives! If I go back do you think they'll let me change it?
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Chris Farnell
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Welp. I have taken my slice of the complicity pie for the next five years. Yay democracy.
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Shiv Ramdas
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I wish to apologise to Sir Keir Starmer for calling him a shaved stoat penis. I was wrong and most humbly beg his pardon. As the evidence below has clearly shown, this was a false allegation and he is not a stoat penis
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Chris Farnell
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At the end the test supervisors open the simulator and drag out the body, complaining that's the sixth one they've lost this week.
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Chris Farnell
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I mean, we usually make fun of the Americans on the day of their election, so this seems fair.
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Chris Farnell
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I get that the health concerns are real, and all the people calling for another candidate to step in. I just find it bizarre that there are people undecided between Trump and Biden that might be swayed because of this.
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Andrew Hickey
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www.attitude.co.uk/news/keir-st...
Good editorial from Attitude ahead of Starmer's mealy-mouthed nonsense
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Chris Farnell
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I know we've got our own problems in the UK today, but are there really any actual real life American voters who aren't sure whether vote Trump or Biden and are deciding to go for Trump because he seems more healthy? Is this a real dealbreaker for literally anyone?
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Ian Boudreau
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It's quite simple. We just need to find a very powerful wizard
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Chris Farnell
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A mandate implies voters' support for the polices and politics Labour, where polls of Labour voters point less towards that than "Anyone but the Tories fuck it you'll do."
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Chris Farnell
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I was thinking about having breakfast until I saw this trilogy of horrors.
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mang mang, my baby shot me down
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Chris Farnell
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btw, I've left juicy goss in your inbox at the other place...
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Aaaaand this is will be Chris' new author photo. 😁
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Just going to add that as the new blurb... 🤷♂️
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Chris Farnell
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Mining that moon to the point of self destruction was definitely a practical application of Klingon ideology and political theory.
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Chris Farnell
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It's an unreasonably metal name for someone who's usually making a case that echoes most news media and senior politicians.
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Chris Farnell
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It's hard to tell from the graph, the dip seems to match the dawn of nuclear weapons and the decline of the British empire (and then Vietnam, climate change, Watergate etc etc.) Is that blue dip showing a lack of foresight, or is it people starting to be critical of stuff they should be critical of?
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Chris Farnell
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If this was on Twitter it'd be going straight into my thread of "Anti-Labour propaganda from the right that Labour should absolutely make policy".
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Chris Farnell
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Just did a survey of the British public that shows that 98% of respondents hate lying to pollsters, actually.
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Chris Farnell
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Have you seen Supacell yet? Of course you have, you've had a whole 24 hours to watch the whole series. Well, I've been talking to the show's creator, Rapman, about the big reveal in the finale.
www.denofgeek.com/tv/rapman-ex...
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Chris Farnell
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Supacell is out today, and you should watch it!
Here's my review: www.denofgeek.com/tv/supacell-...
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Chris Farnell
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How old is your DVD collection? How long since you last watched something from it?
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Chris Farnell
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What would you rather tell people? That you lost a popularity contest with David Tennant, or that you lost a popularity contest with Keir Starmer?
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Chris Farnell
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It's me. I'm writer.
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Chris Farnell
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Is there anything quite so whiny, self-pitying and yet undeserving of sympathy as a writer who needs to write one story but finds it hard because they want to be writing another story? "Oh no! I'm stuck playing the wrong Let's Pretend!" Pathetic. Grow up.
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Chris Farnell
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Ugh, gross, okay just spotted the telltale typo only an image generator could make. Christ.
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