Classic Doctor Who :: [an aside (Season 1)]
hmm, thinking about The Reign of Terror again.... maybe I should downgrade it from "Watch" to "Maybe"
It wasn't bad, I'm just not sure that people would enjoy it enough to keep watching through it
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → The Ice Warriors]
(Spoilers below)
Episode 3 cliffhanger:
The Ice Warriors are aiming a gun at Victoria
Ice Warrior 1: we are ready to fire
Episode 4 begins:
Ice Warrior 1: we are ready to fire
Ice Warrior 2: ... not yet.
Wow. What a great cliffhanger. Thanks. /sarcasm
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → The Ice Warriors]
ok, this is getting really obnoxious.
I'm all for not blindly trusting computers, but at one point the Doctor does some maths on some pieces of paper, and is offended that they would double-check his results with a computer.
That's exactly the situation the doctor SHOULD be ok with – because if there's a descrepancy, then we know that either the original maths was wrong, or the computer was wrong, and from there we can fix things.
blog, "regarding why software is so bad"
i wrote up some feels about software as a craft and why it's so awful right now
> Only together can we seize the craft from the industry. Only together can we demand and develop the high ethical standards that public infrastructure requires. We are not scabs or mercenaries. We are craftspeople, and we will do our craft justice.
accessability in games
this is a cool video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrqdU4cZaLw
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → The Ice Warriors]
There are quite a few early Doctor Who stories that are anti-computer, and I'm not entirely sure where that sentiment comes from
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → The Abominable Snowmen]
I finished The Abominable Snowmen. Surprising no-one, my recommendation is "Don't Watch"
Next is The Ice Warriors.
Petty complaint: "Ice Warriors" and "Abominable Snowmen" are concepts that are too close together, mentally, and I keep having to take a moment to figure out which one I'm watching.
Australian Politics summary
Peter Dutton is currently under investigation from the solicitor general, because his wife gets money from a government run childcare service, and it's suspected he was involved in some kind of fraud thing.
Peter Dutton is currently leading the opposition to Turnbull.
So in the next 24 hours: our prime minister could be forced to resign, followed by the person who was forcing him to resign in the first place
Australian Politics summary
So Australian Politics is messed up at the moment - the current prime minister, Malculm Turnbull, just had to cancel a meeting of parliment because a whole bunch of his party members resigned in the middle of it.
Tomorrow there will be a meeting, to see whether Turnbull will remain Prime Minister. It doesn't seem likely, given that he has very little support from his party
If he loses his position, then either Peter Dutton or Scott Morrison will replace him... EXCEPT
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → The Abominable Snowmen]
wait hold on, I just remembered that there were 2 spheres:
the one that the great intelligence lost in step 4, and one that Jamie stole (unintentinally) at some point.
But the one that was stolen was left in the monastery, why not just get the monk who follows orders to bring it back too?
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → The Abominable Snowmen]
4. Intentionally send a yeti towards the monestary for no reason, causing you to lose one of the required items.
5. Send more yetis later to get it back
6. THEN send the person at the monestary with the final item.
What???
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → The Abominable Snowmen]
This.… doesn't make sense?
The yeti are being controlled by The Great Intelligence, which has this really complicated plan:
1. Have the 5 items required to complete the plan.
2. Give one of them to the monestary for safekeeping
3. Set everything else up over centuries, until finally ready for the item from the monestary.
ok, makes sense so far? And they have someone at the monestary who is following their commands, so it should be easy
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