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Birthday chicken! Do you have any beer or wine to wash it down?

Happy birthday, @CaaC (John)

From recent ones, A Hidden Life. Went completely under radar.

I watched Sacred Games in Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi and Gujarati

In English.

Sorry, I read this early in the morning, then fell asleep again and forgot all about it Well... It's clearly not flawless Robert de Niro's face when he's "talking German" just looks plain weird, that jaw especially.. same with Nicholson in French, thought that also looked weird. Tom Cruise, on the other hand, looked very passable. I have no doubts they will improve the technology in the future, although I hope they don't as a) I prefer watching original facial expressions and hearing original language, and b) this is soooo going to be misused for all the wrong reasons. I fucking hate deepfakes, think we're stepping into a very dangerous zone here.

Apparently, two of the supervisory board members (including Bode) wanted him to continue, two wanted him gone (Zech and Krohne), and the remaining two were undecided. The undecisiveness is the main thing that really grinds my gears about the club's management... No surprises there, really. When you think about it, we have no money, and finding a new manager and building a new squad for 2. Liga is surely a priority now... In addition, the new supervisory board is supposed to be voted in September (if the member meeting can finally take place), so there will likely be more drastic changes incoming then (not necessary for the better, though).

Dinkci to Norwich?

None of them are out of contract, the club ensured that all player contracts are valid in 2. Liga, too, with their wages automatically decreasing by 40-60%. Many of them will be still too expensive though, and I wonder if we find buyers for some of those...

Stefan Leitl has refused to answer question regarding his future after Fürth's win today, is being linked with us.

Will be interesting to see how the squad looks in two months time when we play our first match of the new season. Definitely very different, that's for sure. Players likely to leave: Goal - Pavlenka Defenders - Gebre Selassie, Moisander, Friedl, Veljkovic, Toprak (?), Augustinsson Midfielders - M. Eggestein, Bittencourt Attackers - Rashica, Sargent, Selke, J. Eggestein (?), Osako What we're left with: Goal - Kapino, Zetterer, Plogmann (?), dos Santos Haesler Defenders - Agu, Groß, Nawrocki, Straudi, Park, Beste (?) Midfielders - Erras, Möhwald, Mbom, Schmid, Gruev, Bargfrede (?), Jacobsen, Rieckmann, Schmidt, Schönfelder, Mina, Badjie Attackers - Füllkrug, Dinkci, Woltemade, Osabutey (?), Goller, Philipp, Nankishi New signings? So far, we're being linked with Kevin Behrens. I hope Jojo returns from his loan and stays at the club; think he would be great in the 2. Liga. Defence will have to be rebuilt completely, most likely.

I'm serious... Will PM you tomorrow, currently out drinking. By the looks of it I will he moving around every 3 months or so in the near future, so if you're up for it, we could meet for a few beers in Madeira next...

Madeira in two months time?

Zhurong has descended onto the surface!

Yeah, the movie is definitely worth watching. I think it even won a few Oscars. Also if you haven't seen it, I'd strongly recommend Ex Machina.

Yeah I heard that too, but I think that's not that surprising, considering that his image created by the media before was that of "all American hero"... They might have gotten the family dynamic right (not that hard to imagine, given the levels of stress and dedication to work), but in terms of personality, they made a vegetable out of him, I thought. If you watch the old footage, the interviews and press conferences, he was a much more lively character with a witty sense of humour, so I thought the movie went a bit overboard in terms of that. As for The Right Stuff, have you seen the original movie from 1983? That one is great. I enjoyed the new series as well, would definitely recommend it if you're interested in the history of the space programme.

Or how he talked to his kids right before he left. Like having an interview I think it does a bit of disservice for him. Yeah, I thought the launch scenes were quite impressive, very intense. I have watched so many space movies/shows in the last year though that I'm getting a bit confused Especially since I binged The Right Stuff (the series) within a few days and then watched First Man directly after that...

I quite liked it, but think it was a bit cold, mechanical, and...kinda forgettable? Also they made Armstrong look like an emotionally crippled autistic zombie. 6/10

No, still there and has a contract until 2023. Another reason why I think it's unlikely.

Would be an interesting appointment, definitely one of the better suggestions so far, but I'm skeptical as he left both WAC and Burnley after a short time in charge because he got better financial offers elsewhere... Not sure if we're a serious option for him, based on that.

3 hours into Mass Effect. I'm thoroughly enjoying it, but I also just realised that it's pretty much a clone of KOTOR in a different universe. Shockingly similar to such a degree that I feel like I have already played the game... From characters to the setting to gameplay.

Schmid, Bargfrede, Friedl instead of Bittencourt, Mbom, Moisander

Got Mass Effect today! Wanted to buy the new Legendary Edition, but got shit internet connection at the hotel so it would take ages to download as the file size is massive... Therefore decided to get the original game for now (even that took me hours to download, and that was less than 7gb), and will look into the Legendary Edition again once I have a stable connection at home at some point in the future (hopefully). Only tried it for 20-30 minutes just now in order to see how it looks and what's the premise of the story, and I think I'm already hooked

First pics from Zhurong!

Say hello to my little friend