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I'm Between mid pc and Gen7

I first started playing on the pc my dad built me when i was little. It had a CD reader and a floppy disk reader.

On the floppy disks there were drawings to color on Paint, and random old games that i don't remember much about them apart a sidescroller with Aladdin. i think it was win 2000 installed on it

There was also italian small games that i played that were gifted inside kids "merendine", small sweet treats there were popular when i grew up.

Then the next console i had was a portable one. the Nintendo Gameboy Advance Sp. The gray one.

then i just continued with nintendo consoles. the DS, the Wii, the Switch... (i skipped a few)

So my first home, not-portable console, was the wii.

also pls tag the first game you remember playing

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Just wanted to fact check to say that this was true but the block lasted 1 month or so, maybe even less if I remember. So no Italy it's not the free-ai-haven that seemed to be with this post.

anyway in case you don’t know it yet

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kids deserve so much more respect and it turns out that saying that is a great way to locate the horrible people in any community <3

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Also no promotion what's so ever. I got told it was available by chance by some fans online.

Fans doing more promotion than the actual company.

netflix: here's the movie you've been waiting 5 years for but just wait a second sorry we're going to end it on a massive cliffhanger with all the main characters separated and set up for torture and permanent death and no sorry we haven't announced a sequel i know a lot of you were waiting to see the announcement in the post credits but we might do it we might not we'll see!

also netflix:

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Every 2 months a new audio comes out. So next one is due in September

Is there anymore big finish episodes with 13 and Yaz

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Taskmaster is legitimately the best show ever like. Five comedians compete for zero money and minimal prestige, which means they're all there to have fun and cause chaos and you can tell that theyre all enjoying it. The two hosts have a weird psychosocial bdsm dynamic and they make it everyone's problem and they both actively consent to it and enjoy it. They have fancy chairs and a house on a golf course that get destroyed regularly. Everyone embarrasses themselves and has a great time doing it. The host whos the "sub" and regularly gets verbally and at times physically abused by every single person on the show organizes everything including a large portion of the abuse. They put every single episode for free on youtube along with lots of bonus content so that every single person can watch it. They have a ton of memes and references and Easter eggs hidden all around but it doesnt limit your enjoyment if you miss something. You find yourself rooting for a special little guy but its equally fun when your special little guy looses. You can pop it on in the background and tune in when you see something funny and laugh but it also makes great background noise. They even have a cow.

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Again I must reiterate that this is a real, officially licensed magazine

(Doctor Who Magazine No 268, August 1998)

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Behind the Scenes of The Day of the Doctor

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Series 19 GOAT 🏆

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I'm watching the 13th doctors season of dr who (because I've finally allowed myself to get over 12s regeneration (I miss him already)) and something I have to note is HAS THERE EVER BEEN A REGENERATION OF THE MASTER THAT ISNT HOT????

SEND HELP

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Oh my god I just discovered it was you!!!! The art style was familiar... Congrats 🎉

At the beginning of this year I had the honor to illustrate for Doctor Who!! It was a dream come true!! I couldn't be happier and I'm so excited for everyone to finally see the full cover reveal next week 😭💙💚🧡

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i'd say interstellar song contest falls somewhere in between the zygon inversion and kerblam on similarly iffy politics.

actually let's compare this in more depth. because both the zygon inversion and kerblam feature revolutionaries who are presented as extremists who have "gone too far". but i still love the former story and hate the latter.

kerblam has charlie. inversion has bonnie. both are explicitly framed as rebels who want to overturn what they perceive as oppression. and both are framed as extremists whose ideologies are quickly dismissed as irrational and dangerous.

neither story meaningfully explores the root cause of rebellion. charlie’s automation-focused ideology is undercut while bonnie’s grievances are left vague or incoherent (treated like cattle how, bonnie? the story doesn't care enough to ask).

kerblam ends with vague reforms and no structural change. judy may propose the organisation becomes majority-organics, but there’s no guarantee anyone will listen. all of the worker characters die. the two bosses survive.

the background worker characters get one month off but only paid for two weeks. and instead of the horrible minimum-wage jobs being automated, they'll just hire more human workers to inflict further misery upon.

meanwhile; inversion sees the doctor enforce a fragile truce that resets the same failed peace repeatedly. kate’s memory has apparently been wiped multiple times. people keep getting slaughtered. each time, the doctor resets it to more or less how it was at the start.

both feature climaxes with the doctor confronting the antagonist; in both, the terrorist gets an appeal to emotion and neither seriously proposes alternatives to the existing system. radicalism is treated as inherently flawed or harmful, not a potential source of systemic change.

so, where do they differ?

first of all: kerblam addresses real-world issues like amazon-style capitalism, automation, and labor exploitation head-on. inversion uses metaphor.

zygons can never truly be about isis or refugees or imperialist wars or dysphoria, but it can orbit that territory. which lends the story to ambiguity, multiple possible readings, and prioritising a more coherent moral purpose.

inversion follows a clear moral arc with bonnie’s redemption paralleling the doctor’s trauma. she’s equated with him in the time war, framing her feelings as valid. she just needs to find a non-lethal third way, which ends up being stepping into the role of the missing osgood.

charlie gets no such treatment. he is killed off with no emotional payoff, no redemption, and framed as a generational pariah. he’s radicalised by being a millennial.

kerblam is cynical. it lacks any emotional sincerity. it undermines its initial setup with a confused message. but inversion is constructed with nuance, ambiguity, and clear intent by harness and moffat the entire way through with a coherent, optimistic moral.

it also helps that inversion is a major narrative climax in series 9, led by capaldi and coleman, who are the two greatest lead actors in the history of the show. they both deliver all-time nuanced and emotionally devastating portrayals.

so; the main difference comes down to empathy. the zygon inversion has deep empathy for bonnie even if it doesn't have an interest in her specific motives. it has deep empathy for the issues it explores. it has deep empathy for its audience. moffat (+harness) prioritizes empathy.

kerblam has no empathy for charlie and randomly kills him off in a blaze of fire. it has no empathy for the issues it explores and actively inflicts further misery on even more workers. and chibnall (+ mctighe) seems to despise the disaffected youth that is its own audience.

so, where does the interstellar song contest land? well, sort of in between.

there's nothing as explicitly fascist as "the systems aren’t the problem", it does have empathy for the oppressed, and it does end its story with giving the group a voice at eurovision.

naturally; none of this is enough. the story is still about how one individual person of a genocided group went "too far for his good cause" instead of being a story about the oppression.

the doctor still tortures this "evil freedom fighter" but does nothing about the corporation that is behind their oppression (if he's even aware of it).

and the liberal solution to the problem doesn't imply that the material reality of their home planet has actually changed at all, so the killing will likely just continue.

it's a horrible move to write this sort of story in this current political climate. rtd's entire modern doctor who era is deeply cynical in how it tries to faux-appeal to its liberal audience.

but there's just enough wiggle room there that i think you can place it between the zygon inversion and kerblam on this specific axis. moffat's attempt isn't as leftist as it should be, but it's still the best shot so far. let's hope future doctor who stories do better.

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i got curious which members of the doctor who cast could sing and now i have a crush on a lot more of them. especially jodie. omg.

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Oh, is that who I am now? Well, it was never that far from the surface, mate.

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“Words matter. One death, one ripple. And history will change, in a blink. The future will not be the world you know. The world you came from, the world you were created in, will not exist. So neither will you. It’s not just his life at stake, it’s yours. Wanna sacrifice yourselves for this? Want me to sacrifice you? You wanna call it, do it now. All of you. Yeah. Cos sometimes this team structure isn’t flat. It’s mountainous. With me at the summit, in the stratosphere. Alone. Left to choose.”

JODIE WHITTAKER AS THE THIRTEENTH DOCTOR (2017-2022)