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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Alternatively, if you're more a fan of 1990s real-time strategy games... Me, when I'm asked if I find the first campaign in Warzone 2100 easy:

A screencap from the TV series Interview with the Vampire, season 1 episode 6. Three vampires - Claudia, Louis and Lestat - are sat together on a public bench; Lestat is saying, "Oh, of course I do. This is the new paradigm."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Me, when I'm asked if I like the redesigned Daleks in Doctor Who series 5 episode 3:

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Hey! Who took out my eyes? Hey! Who took out my eyes? Hey! Who took out my eyes? Hey!..."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Me, when my wizard has at least one spell of every element type in the game:

A screencap from the movie Rocky III. Before Rocky's fight with Thunderlips, Mickey compares his giant opponent to a dinosaur, adding, "They can cause a variety of damage!"

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wasn't expecting a Canoness from the Adepta Sororitas to show up in an episode of As Time Goes By - but now that I think about it, I'm convinced that every sitcom should try it at least once.

A screenshot from the TV show As Time Goes By, series 7 episode 6. After giving the main characters some advice regarding an imminent party they're about to throw, Phylis Loader adds, "Any trouble, use the flame-thrower."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't know what shape I am, but these games are definitely to blame for moulding me into it.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Badnik from the Green Hill Zone: Man, isn't working for Doctor Robotnik so much fun?! Badnik from the Scrap Brain Zone:

A screencap from the TV series Ludvig, series 2 episode 5. After Lucy Betts-Taylor asks whether the police station they're inside has alternative exits, Russell Carter replies sarcastically, "No, we work in a giant steel deathtrap."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's taken me a while to finally watch the Creed movies, but ... well, I always knew I'd like them.

A screencap from the 2023 movie Creed 3. Adonis Creed (wearing what looks like a Yoshi onesie) is sat at a tea party with his young daughter and her toys, asking, "Would you like some more tea, princess?"

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

First Star Wars: Zero Company, now Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave ... my turn-based heart hasn't been this excited since the reviews for Baldur's Gate 3 started pouring in.

A promotional image for the 2026 video game Star Wars: Zero Company, showing the main characters assembled on the edge of a platform.

A promotional image for the 2026 video game Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, showing the main characters in a range of poses and expressions.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Me, looking at the news headlines these days:

A screencap from the 1978 movie Superman. Jor-El, portrayed by Marlon Brando, is saying, "Has it now become a crime to cherish life?"

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Heh, that does look funny, and slightly familiar too ... OH SHI-

An image from the 2020 video game Final Fantasy 7 Remake, showing Cloud and Aerith as they confront the final boss of the Wall Market arena: the Hell House (which currently looks like a perfectly normal cottage).

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Before we got "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain", we had to make do with:

A screencap from the 2002 movie Spider-Man. The Green Goblin is telling Spider-Man, "I choose my path. You chose the way of the hero."

A screencap from the 2002 movie Spider-Man. The Green Goblin is telling Spider-Man, "But the one thing they love more than a hero..."

A screencap from the 2002 movie Spider-Man. The Green Goblin is telling Spider-Man, "...is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying."

A screencap from the 2002 movie Spider-Man. The Green Goblin is telling Spider-Man, "Eventually they will hate you."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Nick Fury, setting up the Avenger Initiative: I need files on all the most avengeful people on Earth. Nick Fury, after reading Tony Stark's file: ...No that's too avengeful.

An image from the animated TV series "The Simpsons". In a scene parodying the 1963 movie "The Birds", where birds started attacking humans, the elderly Hans Moleman hides inside a telephone booth and makes a phone call.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Your last saved image is your current mental state. ...And for once, mine is actually spot-on.

A screenshot from the movie Rocky 3, showing a victorious Ivan Drago giving a post-bout interview. The caption reads, "I cannot be defeated."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

To be honest, Revelation is probably my most anticipated game, too ... but it feels a bit silly to pick the same game, and there are lots of promising competitors, so let's go with another RPG instead:

A promotional image for the sci-fi video game Exodus, showing the armed and armoured protagonist and their two companions leaving a strange blue cavern on an alien world. In the sky above, a huge human-like face - a giant hologram, perhaps - looks down upon them.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

After looking at Letterboxd, I don't think I've seen many movies from 2020 (well, not many of the most popular, at least) ... and The Kid Detective WAS good, so yeah, it might actually be my favourite too!

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Charles Dickens, describing every king of England (except Alfred the Great):

A screengrab from The Rocky Horror Picture Show; addressing the camera directly, the Criminologist is gesturing to a mug shot of Eddie and saying, "He was a low-down cheap little punk."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I've been reading Charles Dicken's "A Child's History of England", and I was honestly expecting a fairly tame and patriotic account of his nation's history. So far, though, it has ... not been that.

A paragraph from Charles Dickens' book "A Child's History of England", concluding his chapter on 'England Under James the First'. It reads:

His Sowship’s eyes were getting red with eagerly looking for the money, when the end of a gluttonous life came upon him; and, after a fortnight’s illness, on Sunday the twenty-seventh of March, one thousand six hundred and twenty-five, he died. He had reigned twenty-two years, and was fifty-nine years old. I know of nothing more abominable in history than the adulation that was lavished on this King, and the vice and corruption that such a barefaced habit of lying produced in his court. It is much to be doubted whether one man of honour, and not utterly self-disgraced, kept his place near James the First. Lord Bacon, that able and wise philosopher, as the First Judge in the Kingdom in this reign, became a public spectacle of dishonesty and corruption; and in his base flattery of his Sowship, and in his crawling servility to his dog and slave, disgraced himself even more. But, a creature like his Sowship set upon a throne is like the Plague, and everybody receives infection from him.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Fun Fact 2: that 4.24-out-of-5 rating also puts it ahead of every other movie in the 60 Most Reviewed for 2021 … except for "Bo Burnham: Inside", which has the same score. If you leave a review for Marcel after watching it, you'd better give it a 4.5 or higher, or so help me…

A screencap from the website Letterboxd, showing the sixty most reviewed movies from the year 2021, starting with Dune and finishing with Belfast.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Confirmed. (The third one is admittedly a bit of a stretch, but the car IS used to carry some Marines into position during one mission, so I think it sort-of counts.)

A Raptor, a bipedal military mech from the video game G-Police: Weapons of Justice, strides down a tunnel.

A Corsair, a space-worthy aircraft from the video game G-Police: Weapons of Justice, flies over a road. A snippet of onscreen text from G-Police Control reads, "...syndicate base. Don't let those fighters get off the ground. Marine Corsair, do you copy?"

A Rhino, an armoured car from the video game G-Police: Weapons of Justice, drives along an elevated roadway.

The cover art for the video game G-Police, showing two Havok gunships flying through a sci-fi cityscape.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It (hopefully) isn't the end ... but the moment hasn't been prepared for.

A screencap from Doctor Who series 6 episode 10, The Girl Who Waited. Amy Pond is drawing an arrow on a pair of white doors, having already written "Doctor, I'm waiting" above.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I normally try to avoid the obviously-evil options in my first play-through of an RPG - but when the comedic timing is as perfect as this, I admit, it IS difficult.

A screencap from the video game Divinity: Original Sin 2. A ghostly figure known only as the Spirit of the Apprentice is talking to the protagonist, saying, "To consume a being's Source is to consume their memories, their loves, their essence ... all the echoes of themselves, gone. It is worse than death. It is oblivion." The protagonist has two possible responses: "Consume the spirit's Source" or "Take your leave."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I finally got around to watching A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, and three episodes in ... blimey, it's very Life-Is-Strange-y, isn't it? I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the LIS TV show offered Emma Myers the role of Max and she thought, "But I just did that!"

A screencap from the video game Life Is Strange, episode 5, "Polarized." After repeatedly rewinding time, Max Caulfield is once again unable to stop Mark Jefferson from shooting and killing David Madsen; this time, after having done so, Jefferson mutters, "Déjà vu."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I've been informed that I am legally required to make one post about the UK heatwave, so ... I dunno, this is me right now, I guess:

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

One of these days, the video game industry will run out of other games to remake/remaster, and they'll HAVE to bring back the G-Police games. Until then, I bide my time...

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I must've been so young, so innocent when I first read and watched Pride and Prejudice. This time around, I couldn't help but think that somewhere out there, there are undoubtedly people who ship Elizabeth with Mr Collins.

A screencap from the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, showing Elizabeth (portrayed by Jennifer Ehle) sat at the dinner table beside Mr Collins (David Bamber).

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Social media sites don't even let you post any more, they just look at you like this:

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Wishing all my fellow voters a very happy election day.

A screencap from Doctor Who series 8 episode 12, Death in Heaven. The Doctor, portrayed by Peter Capaldi, is saying, "That's your answer for everything, isn't it? Vote for an idiot."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Same here, Old Rabbit ... same here.

A screencap from the video game Divinity: Original Sin 2. A text box shows an old rabbit saying, "My days of chasing does is long past me, of course. A shady grove and the occasional root vegetable is more than enough to keep me happy now."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I would wish my fellow Star Wars fans a happy May 4th, but ... well, I'm too annoyed that Vader and Maul had a fight and neither of them mentioned their previous encounter.

A screencap from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, showing a young Anakin Skywalker running away from a hoverbike-mounted Darth Maul.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Well, they're not "proper" memes, but I found these two in my Folder of Funny Screencaps...

A screencap from the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode, The Day of the Doctor. Clara Oswald (portrayed by Jenna Coleman) looks somewhat confused as she tries to threaten some people she cannot even see with her non-existent powers of witchcraft, saying, "...or I'll turn you all into frogs."

A screencap from the TV series Planet Earth III episode 8. An animal conservationist is saying, "I wish I had been born before the frog disease."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

"Hey Jin-Sim, what'd you do, get a haircut or somethin'?" "LOOK CLOSER, SEVN." "Oh, I know what it is. You're the biggest droideka in the galaxy now. And you're covered in gold!" "FOURTEEN-KARAT GOLD!"

A screencap from Star Wars: Visions season 3 episode 4. The protagonist, Sevn, has been knocked to the ground, whilst Jin-Sim looms over her in a giant gold-plated droideka mech-suit.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm head-canoning it that a Dalek saw Desperus and later came up with the idea for the Dalek Asylum.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm so glad that we finally get to see the footage of one of the all-time greatest line-flubs.

A screencap from the TV show Doctor Who, season 3 episode 12 (the third part of The Dalek's Master Plan), from 1965. The Doctor is saying, "The Daleks will stop at anything to prevent us", instead of the more common and appropriate saying, 'stop at nothing.'

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

...I think he's saying that the Daleks would never be the villains in an open-world video game.

A screencap from the TV show Doctor Who, season 3 episode 12 (the third part of The Dalek's Master Plan), from 1965. Steven is saying, "The Daleks aren't going to leave a tape around with their plans on it."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is the future that feminists want for us.

A screencap from the TV show Doctor Who, season 3 episode 10 (the first part of The Dalek's Master Plan), from 1965. Two Daleks meet in a jungle; the one of the left is saying, "One man remains. Find and destroy him!"

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I try to watch a range of movies every month, usually to mixed results - but looking back, I think this month might have been one of the best I've ever had.

The title card for the movie Hail the Conquering Hero.

A promotional image for the movie Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, showing the titular Marcel - a small shell with a googley-eye and two tiny shoes - standing on a computer keyboard.

A promotional image for the movie The Fabelmans, showing the silhouette of a man walking towards a wall made of four giant film reels, each showing images of his family.

A promotional image for the movie Blackberry, showing its two main characters - one with a light bulb drawn over his head, the other with devil horns drawn over his - and a pair of hands with a drawing of a Blackberry device in between them.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I think I might've already joked about how they would get along based solely on their having each died so many times ... but now that they both share memories from multiple timelines too? Yeah, Rory Williams and Chloe Price would be best mates.

A screencap from Doctor Who series 6 episode 2, The Day of the Moon. Rory Williams and the Eleventh Doctor are both sat in a dark room, talking about Rory's memories of his life as the Last Centurion.

A screencap from the video game Life Is Strange: Reunion. In Max Caulfield's apartment at Caledon University, she and Chloe Price discuss Chloe's recent nightmares, which are caused by memories from an alternate timeline created by the final choice in the first Life Is Strange game.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Me, starting an RPG: I'm going to play as a Monk; contemplative, serene, and kind. Me, every time an NPC insults one of my companions:

In an interview from 2015, Pope Francis said, “If Dr. Gasbarri, a great friend, says a swear word against my mother, then a punch awaits him.” This screencap from that interview shows the pope pretending to hit Gabbarri, along with the translation text "a punch awaits him."

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I'm a simply guy ... if your comment reminds me of Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2, I upvote it.

A behind-the-scenes shot from Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2- Yuri's Revenge, showing Udo Kier (playing as Yuri) and two brains in strange jars adorned with psychic technology.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The new Duff Dread model is worth its weight in gold ... 14-carat gold.

A screenshot from The Simpsons, season 3 episode 19. In a dream sequence, Homer imagines what he'd do if he won the lottery: the image shows a towering, gold-covered version of himself talking to Lenny in the cafeteria at work.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.

An image from Life Is Strange, showing Chloe glancing at Max whilst driving her through a wooded area. The golden sunlight shining through the trees is beautiful enough to make me weep.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"Hey, Sephiroth? Your mom's on the phone. It's Jen-over for you."

A picture of Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil Requiem, looking slightly smug.

A screencap from Final Fantasy VII, showing a bloodied Sephiroth.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"Let Meryl go, and you can keep your Metal Gear wrecks."

A screencap from Metal Gear Solid, showing Solid Snake and Liquid Snake in an unarmed fight atop the head of Metal Gear REX, whilst an unconscious Meryl lies next to a time bomb in the background.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I'm a lucky guy ... how many Doctor Who fans do I follow online? And I didn't see ONE of them spoil the ending of Stranger Things for me with a "If I had a nickel for every time..." joke.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I've made a few jokes about the similarities between the Legacy of Kain franchise and Life Is Strange over the years, and now they're both releasing games that each have their two iconic characters playable - IN THE SAME MONTH. Fingers crossed for them both being great...

An advert for the video game Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered, showing dual protagonists Raziel and Kain bearing their respective Soul Reaver blades, with Janos Audron behind them.

A screencap from Soul Reaver 2, showing Raziel approach Kain with his spectral Soul Reaver blade drawn.

An advert for the video game Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered, showing dual protagonists Max Caulfield and Chloe Price, with Caledon University behind them.

A screencap from Life Is Strange, showing Chloe glancing towards Max whilst driving her truck home. Golden sunlight spills through the trees in the background.

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Tom Murch @thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

So, you waited for 10 years to see what my brother and I thought of Stranger Things before deciding if you'd watch it yourself? Very wise! We both enjoyed it. I could point out some flaws, but there aren't many modern shows that have given us so many entertaining characters.

Two characters from Stranger Things - Eleven and Max - standing in a doorway.

Four characters from Stranger Things - Dustin, Robin, Erica and Steve - walking down a corridor.

Three characters from Stranger Things - Joyce, Jim and Murray - looming over the camera in Soviet Union uniforms.

A character from Stranger Things - Ted Wheeler - snoozing on his armchair with a bowl full of popcorn.

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