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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.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

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.

Florida's new detainment centre, nicknamed "Alligator Alctraz" has been ordered closed by a Federal Judge after action by the Miccosukee Nation and environmental groups costing the State $218M without any actual return.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds gave us "Four and a Half Vulcans" a decidedly weird episode which managed to to be stunningly racist and, bizarrely, only a couple of episodes after one where Spock confessing how he was so traumatised by his Vulcan peers mocking him over his human heritage that he self-harmed, has the pseudo-Vulcan crewmembers give him the same treatment, and it's played for laughs. Managed to hit a great many wrong notes and very few right ones, IMHO.

In my attempt to catch up on movies, I've watched both "The Wild Robot" which was perhaps predictable, but beautiful to look at and thoroughly enjoyable (though I've never read the original books so wonder if they pulled a "How to Train Your Dragon" with it) and "Flow" which was breathtaking (Some bits did look rather like levels of a video game but I was literally entranced throughout)