In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
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It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
In a move which should probably have happened a long time ago, following the Apricot Hellbeast's latest control grab by evicting CNN, Politico and MS NOW from White House press briefings (for not saying only nice things about him), the White House television Press Pool suspended coverage of Trump.
It will probably annoy the Minister who requested it, a survey of youth mental health in the UK has identified that it's NOT young people being snowflakes, it IS a much tougher world to live in. Which I think many of us could have told them but it's good to see the the figures and analysis to back it up.
So I went to see a The Transformers: The Movie 40th Anniversary screening and, apart from a pretty damned ropey looking copy of the movie on our not terribly large cinema screen, the "Optimus Prime: Awakening" short afterwards was A) sparsely attended because the cinema put the lights up as soon as the movie credits started to role and half the audience walked out, B) beautiful to look at, and C) almost totally cryptic, but it was nice to see it was dedicated to Peter Cullen. (And for those looking for a more comprehensive history of the man, beyond "just" his role as Optimus Prime, Chris McFeely's excellent Transformers related YT series: "The Basics on..." has just released
a proper memorial piece.