We all know that Sydney celebrates New Years really early, or maybe right on time if you live on that side of the International Date Line. But it feels early. Still, I’m happy to wish you all a Happy New Years Eve, and I hope to see you all doing well next year. No need to make any resolutions. Just be the same, fine, @&�%%& I remember and we’ll all be fine. 🙂
Thousands of years of human civilizations have looked up in the sky to see Luna in grey scale. It was a barren and airless landscape. Lifeless and desolate. It held no atmosphere or radiation fields to protect anything on the surface. Our first colonies were little better than space ships anchored to the surface, or tunnels bored into the ground. But everything changed after the Peloran made Contact. Their gravtech allowed Eagle City to turn the Sea of Tranquility into a true sea that we could see from Earth. I watched it happen with my own eyes. Night by night. Month by month. Year by year. I watched it grow in the sky above me, spreading out until it filled the entire Sea of Tranquility with water. Never underestimate how fundamentally that changed our worlds forever.
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The Nuremberg Code. “The protagonists of the practice of human experimentation justify their views on the basis that such experiments yield results for the good of society that are unprocurable by other methods or means of study. All agree, however, that certain basic principles must be observed in order to satisfy moral, ethical and legal concepts: 1) The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.”
I saw Free Guy this weekend. Yes, that’s two new-to-me movies in one weekend. Not counting all the Hallmark movies. Oh… so… many… Hallmark… movies. *shudders* Free Guy is not a Hallmark movie. For one, there is more language than I expected. Now it is Ryan Reynolds movie, so I should have. That is on me. But that language does not detract much from the fundamentally nice story. Guy is a Good Guy, and in a game where most people play Bad Guys, a Good Guy is a breath of fresh air and fundamentally changes how people see the game itself. It really is a fun movie and I greatly enjoyed it.
Longer review available at pryderock.substack.com
I saw the new Spiderman movie this weekend, and the very short version is that it is a good movie. It is a great movie in fact. I loved it. The super short non-spoiler review is that Spiderman asks for help from Doctor Strange, then proceeds to mess up the help by changing parameters in the middle of Strange’s spell, which causes it to go all crazy and pull villains in from other universes who know Spiderman. All of whom are played by the same actors who played them in the earlier movies. This causes hijinks both funny and dangerous, and sets the stage for what I think may be the best Spiderman film of my lifetime. Yes, it is that good, and I think you should watch it as soon as possible.
Longer review available at pryderock.substack.com
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