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Thanks! Yes, this is the image I was half-remembering:

Oh also Janeway and the rest of the crews are monsters, obviously. Tuvok and Neelix knowingly took up posts which came with the prospect of accidental death; Tuvix was executed for no crime other than being alive.

Am I misremembering, or is there a TNG episode where someone is terrified of transporters for this reason, and it ends with them trying to transport him and he resists it & dies? I have a vague image of him pushing against the edges of the transporter beams and someone shouting "No, don't resist it!" just before he gets obliterated.

I suppose a massive bombastic celebratory ceremony would have been in quite poor taste though, wouldn't it?

Contacts is apparently very good, I've bought it but haven't got around to reading it yet. Said this a few pages ago but I thoroughly recommend Tim Key's book about lockdown. It's incredible. I know what you mean about the earlier ones being mild - going back and watching the first set it's markedly different to how it is now. I think the editing is a lot less tight so it has a much more leisurely pace.

Controversial finish to this week's game. Not sure how the fans in the stands are going to react to this.

Yeah I'm not a fan when it's the star of the show but the tiniest echo of nutmeg elevates creamed spinach so much. A pinch of a pinch. A homeopathic micron.

Great choices! Really good creamed spinach with a hint of nutmeg is a thing of beauty. Have you ever had squid and black pudding? I had that in a pintxos place in Barcelona and it's definitely the best tapas/pintxos I've ever eaten. And @K you can't just drive-by post and not give us your menu

They're great! Really good cast and tasks again. (episode 2 spoiler)

Hadn't seen this before. It's quite something!

My account, which I set up to install Half Life 2 on release day.

Truly bizarre. Somehow they've managed to make them taste of absolutely nothing at all. All there is to them is dust and heat

If they made one they'd definitely lock it down as an Xbox, rather than as a PC with full Windows access, don't you think?

What I like is the implications for 'our' Loki in the next set of movies. I was expecting they'd ruin or regress the characterisation work they did for him in Ragnarok but they've actually improved on it, by now making him someone with genuinely good intentions who everybody else will still think is a scheming little shit. I think it'll be really entertaining seeing him try to convince the superheroes that the multiverse threat is real, and not something he's cooked up to become King of the Universe or whatever.

If I pop the 512GB one in my Wishlist will someone get it for me in this year's Steam Secret Santa?