Matters arising

If you haven't seen this playful 2022 documentary about a Scottish case from the '90s involving a truly bizarre deception, don't Google, just view-gle!

Same, worse, better, same

Is the Japanese poster for "The Last Starfighter" superior to the US original? That's a matter of opinion. It's certainly excellent in its way; focusing more on the aliens and spaceships than the unlikely human hero. Is the working title of the fillum - "Centauri's Recruit" - vastly inferior? Objectively, yes.

RS1 and I managed to meet up for an unprecedented second day of card slinging. We held our own "Spider-Man" prerelease, then "TMNT" prerelease, then "Secrets Of Strixhaven" prerelease, then a final showdown utilising decks constructed from all of those card pools combined. We each won two best-of-three matches, which was the right result, IMO. What a shame it'll be 2027 before we get to play junk-fuelled, geek-talkin', high-stakes*, kitchen-table "MTG" again.

*Nah, not really.