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Not even close. Elite Dangerous is a space sim, a reimagining of the granddaddy of space sims Elite. It supports a wide variety of activities, including combat-focused ones like piracy and bounty hunting, but also others like trading, courier missions, passenger transport and asteroid mining...

Yeah, I'm just getting a handle on that, exploring my first couple of planets. So far only bacteria, which seems both less lucrative and harder to track down than other forms, will be looking for something more interesting next time.

I'm giving Elite Dangerous another try after almost seven years away from it. Currently doing some exploration outside settled space and getting used to the features introduced since I last played, the game's non-combat gameplay loops are very zen, good to listen to podcasts to.

The novel is a lot to pack into one movie, but I'll be interested to see what they pull off.

I thought Partagaz listening to Nemik's manifesto and noting that it had spread unstoppably across the galaxy conveyed that message.

Now I'm picturing a French-produced Western about a town where the law doesn't show its face anymore, called Sans Sheriff.

It's a pretty different situation too, the Cardassians were never seen as a legitimate government and their oppression was more overt, so there was no real need to foment pockets of rebellion.

Fair enough, they've thoroughly learned their lesson about releasing a product before it's ready, and at least they don't have a lot riding on this one.

Applicable? I'm not sure anything that requires an infinitely-powerful pump and infinitely-strong materials could be called "applicable".

Since when do barbarians need keys to open anything?

Meh, I never actually watch the videos anyway.

Who's talking about impossible? That's strawman talk. But tell me, if you saw two stories called Bram's Boys and Abraham's Sons, would you not consider one of them more likely to have biblical content than the other?

Which doesn't stop them from having taken on meaning and context since they were translated.

So, it'd be the last straw?

Well, that's one crossed off the summer blockbusters list at least. They really don't make them like they used to.

None of these seem reliably promising enough to get my vote. Mission Impossible comes closest on the strength of the franchise as a whole, but the last entry didn't impress me. Even if I were still a cinema-goer, most of these would be wait-for-streaming for me.

There are a lot of options, but the learning curve is reasonable and much of it will be very familiar if you've played D&D.

Yeah, I might do that. Currently mostly enjoying my playthrough, but really not liking the vehicular combat, which wasn't a thing last time I played. Getting to the point where I use the public transit fast-travel more than my car.

I know the feeling. Currently trying to get back into Cyberpunk 2077, weaning myself off my favoured hacker play style in favour of a more stealth / agility build. Just getting to the end of the prologue. At this point it's probably worth holding out for the enhanced edition in a couple of years.

But also a lot of parodies of that material. That ground's a lot more well-trodden than it was back then.