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I LOVE Thunderbolts! I thought it was a really solid cast and pretty great movie. I'm actually kind of bummed they dropped the Thunderbolts branding because that's way better. I also REALLY dig the Fantastic Four movie. Big fan of the team and I like that they lean in on the pulp side.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 1h

Really sucks because he and Harrison Ford's Ross both feel wasted with a script that gives them nothing to work with. What's almost worse than wasting great characters and actors in something so atrocious as 'Love and Thunder' is dumping them in something as forgettable as 'Brand New World'

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 12h

One morbid side effect of having a bunch of friends die this year is my first thought looking at a nice picture my mom took of me is “oh nice, I hope they use this at the funeral”

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My son Cadien is eight months old, which means only 148 months left until he's old enough to watch Andor

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gently rebuffing my colleague as they try to goad me into a political debate

Mon Mothma in Andor: Perhaps you'd find my politics a bit strong for your taste

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tune in to Like It Or Not to see me get very mad about theatre etiquette and very quiet whenever the topic turns to sports because I don't know anything about them www.fox5dc.com/live

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was just remembering my Russian professor called me дурак (Durak), meaning "Fool". Her brother visited from St. Petersburg and when I gave him a tour he said "You should know, it's a term of endearment. She called me that growing up." "Aw, so she likes me?" "She is still calling you an idiot."

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also if you're like "Laurence Olivier's Richard looks awfully familiar" I'm about to blow your mind

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I can add colours to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down."

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also fun fact with this monologue, the first half is the "Now is our winter" monologue from the start of Richard III but halfway through it seamlessly splices in the fantastic monologue from Henry VI -- a great writing in an otherwise mediocre play liberated here.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Was talking Shakespeare with folks and it always turns into a rant about how much I love Richard III. Love all the plays with nuanced characters and moral complexity, but it's just so goddamn fun watching medieval Skeletor scheme and backstab his way to power like a cartoon villain.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now obviously Marc Gargan as Venom is great in the Warren Ellis Thunderbolts series during Dark Reign but that’s not really a Venom-heavy story

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Separation Anxiety can be a very difficult period” “Absolutely agreed. Honestly I think a lot of stuff after Lethal Protector is kind of a wash until you get to the Flash Thompson stuff…”

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time “separation anxiety” comes up in discussions at my kid’s Montessori school I nod sagely and fight to keep from being distracted thinking about the 1994 Venom series

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Then the first couple chapters are all vignettes in the early part of the main character's life and every one of them ends with him dying (plague, kicked by a horse, etc) with the implication that the demon intervened to keep him alive for his long-term plans.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very cool conceit at the start of a Warhammer book I'm reading. A demon intervenes to save the life of a Nostradamus-type from the Inquisition to find out more about someone he'll need to use years later as a pawn (the main character)...

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've been on a kick reading James Baldwin stuff. Watched his debate with William Buckley and it's just this

Hydrogen bomb Baldwin vs Coughing baby Buckley

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was ready to be like "that's crazy" but folks actually did raise a good point about them getting rid of the reflection of the fire in the water, which *does* make it look noticably worse

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm so sorry I thought it was randomized for different people! My bad!

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Introduce yourself with 4 mechs

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm thinking back to Alexandria's push a few years ago to address gaps in sidewalks around the city and the pushback that got from people. I remember interviewing people for the Polk Avenue one and saying to them "are you guys serious?"

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know this is going to sound very DC elitist but it's insane looking at streets like this, with a neighborhood on one side of the road, and a public park and library on the other, and there's not a single sidewalk or streetlight anywhere in sight. Absolutely insane.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Found out this morning that one of my friends was hit by a car while he was walking alongside a road and died. I was like "how could that happen" and then you Google Maps the spot and you're like "yeah, that looks like somewhere people die on the road"

Woodbourne Rd & Quincy Dr in Levittown, PA

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Playing a Warlock in Diablo IV and I love fantasy stuff where people are like "the other idiots tried to bind a demon and it killed them. Fools. Not me though, it'll work for me" [Found on corpse of warlock]

Diablo "others dead, I'll be the one to bind the demon" text

Arrested Development: "But it might work for us" meme

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ha, no, I've already got a copy and Alex should enjoy this one!

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reading James Baldwin and this passage was so moving

For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become. It will be hard, James, but you come from sturdy, peasant stock, men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads, and, in the teeth of the most terrifying odds, achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Halloween is my favorite holiday but this is the week I feel most represented

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That fold out map is so sick!

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That's been me recently with Tainted Grail. Happy there's a small sprouting of Skyrim-lites

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Someone in the elevator was wearing Commanders gear so I started small talk with "Shame about Jayden Daniels!" because I saw the Washington Post alert, but it made me feel like an alien pretending to be human

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My dad got Morrowind for free in a PC gaming magazine and had no interest in it so he let me have it. Changed my whole world. I'm still amazed looking back I was able to handle the archaic mechanics as a little kid, but I absolutely adored it and it shaped my interest in both gaming and fantasy.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just remembering that Star Trek Discovery has the brass-fucking-balls to name an episode 'Unification III' as a follow-up to the classic Next Generation two-parter. In NO way earned that shit but you kind of have to admire the unmitigated gall. It's like if I put out 'Les Misérables 2'

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Catching up on the ‘Krakoa Era’ of X-Men and it rules that they have a big crossover event that’s not a giant punch up, it’s a high-fashion soirée

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Really trying to enjoy “On Basilisk Station” because on paper it feels like everything I want in a book but the page after page of technobabble and exposition dumps are wearing my patience down.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Couple days ago started watching 'Ted' on a whim. Hadn't seen the movies but the show looked funny from clips and I had the NBC streaming free trial. Now I'm on the last episode and I'm so bummed because it got cancelled and I'm absolutely in love. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YDY...

youtube.com

My favorite scene from "Ted"

YouTube video by AlphaTheGodofDarkness

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All things considered Skyrim is a relatively tame M-rated game. There's no nudity. The violence isn't over-the-top IMO. It's not particularly vulgar in any way, I'd definitely trust it to a teen. Morrowind, on the other hand, has a strip-club in the game I discovered way too young.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My sister and I played a street racing game called Midnight Club but my mom made us turn off pedestrians so we didn't hit them. My parents were usually in lockstep on stuff but a rare exception was my dad getting me GTA IV in secret and I kind of treasure that memory.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have a very Icarian approach to modding. I’ll spend a week getting a stable modlist together and then right as everything’s fixed and ready to go I have this incurable itch to go “well maybe just one or two more…”

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Not to amp myself up but I’m very proud of my Fey Realm city in my D&D campaign. I’m sure these ideas are done elsewhere, but the only way to get there is to be lost and this city is filled with forgotten things like shipwrecks and ancient ruins. Occasionally it rains socks.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

To be honest, I think the LNN one fell off because it was a passing fancy for the higher up, it was an extra job for me (which I didn't mind, tbh, but I was juggling a bunch of stuff) and for colleagues dragged on it was more of an annoyance. I don't see any of those same problems here.

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