So it makes sense to spend $50 a year on some pictures of those things that are already photographed?

I’m not sure how many times the things you’re taking a picture of has been photographed matters even slightly.

It’s an installer for an app on android. Android has been around for half of my lifetime at this point. Not know that is like not knowing what an exe is on a PC.

First of all, you said time or inclination, the latter is caused by the ads, the former wasn’t really an issue as I’ve already said. Now you don’t know what APKs are? YouTube won’t stop with the ads. You either find an alternative, whether it’s Newpipe or just abandoning YouTube entirely, or you put up with them and stop bitching.

You can’t sit in the middle throwing your own shit at one side because “people will whine and then use it anyway” and then also at the other side because “it’s too hard to install a different app and don’t know what APKs are!”

What the hell are you talking about? I download an apk, I install it, I’m done. How many ads will you sit through before you’ve wasted the whole minute it would’ve taken to do?

Becoming a trend? This has been a regular frustration in gaming since the PS3 generation.

That’s weird, I could.

Rayman? Owned by Ubi right? Why does it need kick-starting?

It’s not a news piece.

But there’s already so much facial porn!

I’m sure there’s more ads further down the page and now I won’t be opening any more links to their site.

Built in browsers in apps don’t have them.

Two popups before I can read an article means you don’t get read. Bye.

Not overusing screens was a constant when I was a kid decades ago and it doesn’t take a genius or even paying much attention to notice the effect it and social media has on kids.

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As if fifteen year olds are buying phones themselves. Discussing this was a waste of time even before you consider that parents need to do some parenting and social networks need some regulation.

Yeah I got rid of Signal when they got rid of SMS because literally nobody I’ve ever met uses it and they’re not gonna switch.

Ha, bias. You don’t need to be biased to dislike Tucker Carlson, you just need to be unbiased.

You clearly don’t have even a single idea what’s going on here.

I think you’re thinking of that show, Whose Line is it Lemmyway?

Oh I see, no I’m happy with that.

I mention the comparisons to other media because that media did it well and Flux didn’t. You see the flux a handful of times but in the end it’s just something happening on the background whilst these immensely unoriginal and boring supervillains wander around being similarly uninteresting. Even on a more basic level, it’s yet another antagonist destroying the entire universe. Doctor gets between universes again, just gets jerked around constantly and only ever reacting to things because even she doesn’t know what is happening. And people get teleported around constantly, often as the means it escape from danger which is unspeakably cheap, a man who has barely seen a lightbulb steps inside the TARDIS and is only mildly surprised by how completely impossible everything he’s seeing is. Episode ending cliffhangers not resolved but subverted within a minute of the beginning of the next episode.

In what world is it too early to “jump” to immortal god, considering that’s basically what they said in the show? Thousands of lives, she doesn’t die she regenerates indefinitely forever. She IS immortal and that’s the power of a god. Previously there have been references to the doctor appearing godlike due to the basically magic-seeming TARDIS, her tech, being benevolent, helping out everywhere and then disappearing. Well now it’s not a naive, yet charming notion from a lifeform that’s not advanced enough to understand. She IS one. She is no longer the roguish timelord objector going on adventures, which is the dynamic I liked.

Future huge story reveals will be about her past, and it’ll just be unknowable, impossible to empathise with things like “oh it turns out I’m an ancient god” or “it turns out I’m the last of a different and even more powerful race now” which I think would actually be worse, imagine wading through all this shite just for it to basically be the same as before.

I like the traveller encountering problems and fixing them setup, I don’t really like the “person showing up to a random problem happens to be the most important person that’s related to that problem and also in the universe” really, especially when she’s a god. You say you won’t mind unless the doctor gets superpowers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if something similar turned up. I bet there’s a thing the doctor will have to do because they’re a powerful ancient race, the only that race could withstand it.

On the other hand I didn’t hate the Christmas special, so we will see. At least the butcher that wrote the flux is gone.

See it didn’t feel briskly paced to me, it felt pretty slow because I never knew what was happening up until the end of the episode, then it’d go into high gear for five minutes to setup a cliffhanger, often doing so in a cheap way as well. And what was happening wasn’t really interesting. It’s a cloud destroying the universe, it’s the Nothing from Neverending Story, meh. And the villains seemed like they were taken out of Destiny, yet more noble-ish scifi superbeings.

Maybe it if it was well written I’d like it more, but it’s poor and the way characters act is absurd even for Doctor Who. I mean, Yas can just walk onto an alien ship - one she’s never seen before - and knows how to use its systems. Nobody reacts to things they should find unbelievable to the point of freaking out beyond a sentence saying “what was that?” These issues pop up in the preceding few seasons, but Flux is just poorly written throughout, so maybe that’s why such a massive change is such an issue.

Maybe it’s because what was once a rogue timelord skipping about time and space and doing good, having adventures, and saving people is actually another superbeing that is the means through which the timelords were created, an immortal being of incredible power. It just changes the context, well-meaning roguish timelord versus immortal god.

There are brighter spots. I actually liked the dog alien guy, I thought that was going to be bad when it revealed what was going on but I turned out to quite like him. Of course he was paired with John Bishop who I just don’t think could pull off the role, which is a shame as I like John Bishop.

What other changes did 13 bring to the show?