That’s what big Australian bridges are for.

Fair enough, but the guys shouted me a few rounds.

For bragging rights at the pub, I’ll say yes for myself

Do any of us *really* know Ned Kelly?

On this basis, analytic philosophers assert the proposition than Pac-Man has consciousness, while others say this is only an epistemological seeming, but that he has no qualia, and is some sort of P-zombie.

~250 born a minute, so that’s baseline. Assuming he sticks to his usual techniques and hunting zones, that’s going to be impracticable unless you posit slasher numbers above critical threshold and some degree of targeting (wiping out healthcare globally, say).

Fascinating the way then-prescient thoughts circa 2009 become near-universally accepted wisdom here in 2025 - 16 years of echoing the analysis - and yet comics never really broke free of the gravity well you were staring into.

This from a diehard “why does the like button have to be a heart?” guy.

Hell of a thing, you’re making me all sentimental-like.

Would you say the vision of the thing you hope is made could be all-consuming, obsessive, even?

That flavour mix seems extremely you, for sure.

You can, nominally, if it’s a dude doing the psychopomp job that can be circumscribed or influenced or banished for a time. Which it almost sometimes kind of it except when it’s not.

It’s ways torn between “implacable inevitable natural process” and “invisible but anthropomorphised antagonist with opinions and rules it must obey”, and the swerves between make stakes… odd.

Starting with Candle in the Wind? Woof, I love it, but I don’t think that’s help you *now*. That’d be like starting Babylon 5 with the last season.

It is, I think, the best Arthur.