Ah, the Crisis of the 3rd Century. One of the most interesting periods of Roman history, and certainly a period that I knew little about before getting into the History Of Rome podcast.

It’s a Simpsons reference.

I hope this leads at least some of those people to Ms Petri’s frequently very funny Washington Post columns.

The moral complexity only gets worse (better? more complex)

Ray Stubbs, who for a long time presented the BBC’s Saturday evening soccer results round-up Final Score, was a big fan of The Fall, and used Theme From Sparta FC as the title track. Anyway, one day, he got Mark E Smith to read out the results:

It’s A Right Royal Cockney Barrel Of Monkeys

The earliest example of alt-history speculation I know of, although not really a novel, is the Roman historian Livy, who wondered what would have happened if Alexander the Great had turned West and attacked Rome rather than East to attack the Persians. (Spoiler alert - he thinks Alexander was overrated and would have…

Great. Now I have “The Vengabus is coming” stuck in my head. Just when I’d managed to get that goddamn TUI advert cover of “Ain’t Nobody” out of it.

Equally it would be a bad idea to update it to be set in the modern day. Perhaps we should just declare that some series should be left alone as an artefact of its time, like a historic monument.

• Googles “GET OUT OF THE HINTERLANDS”
  

/waves tentacle-shaped American flag

Ah, here’s the WAYPTW comments! Accidentally posted this in the MK8 thread by spinning my scroll wheel too much. Kinja!!

In my continuing quest to catch up my backlog by playing games I bought a year ago that had been released two years before that, I have started Dragon Age:Inquisition. Just got past the prologue and started exploring the Hinterlands, and still struggling to get used to the controls. It feels like the whole interface…

Trump has also issued a writ of mandamus ordering the stable doors be closed, and is currently seeking the whereabouts of his horse.

Moffat’s concentration on the Doctor himself tends to crowd out non-Tardis crew characters. Mark Gatiss could have been left out of the episode entirely for all the impact he had on the plot, apart from the Christmas Truce bit (and it was a Truce, not an Armistice!)

I wouldn’t necessarily blame Moffat for the new Doctor’s first acts. When Ten regenerated into Eleven, and Moffat was taking over from Davies, the scene with Matt Smith was actually written by Moffat. So I would not be surprised if Chibnall wrote Whitaker’s first scene.

And a happy 5 Nivose 226, Citizen. Now get back to work!

And yet Kirsty MacColl never will. *sob*

I hated that Blood & Wine final battle, having loved the rest of it unconditionally. In the end I sought out a mod to help. I’m away from home so can’t tell you exactly which one it was but consider Health Regen Options. https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/955/?

George Bush is a g-g-g-g-g-ghost?? That explains everything!!