Yes, it made me think I'd already watched it and had forgotten about it...

I like the recent variant on websites and apps where a random neutral start position (about ten normal ply moves in) is used to reduce the effect of opening books.

The idea of these random openings (called XOT) has been around for at least 10 years. https://berg.earthlingz.de/xot/

It's turtles all the way down.

I always think about this when alien technology gets reverse-engineered in a remarkably short time in SF novels.

It makes the biggest dinosaurs (50-70 tons) gigafauna...

It would be funny to reverse generate Stratomatic card picks and dice rolls from the real data.

Here's one - happy to hear about the lots more:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dj1zlvxglo

Talk (with rubbish sound sorry) on how Ian Livingstone plotteed fighting fantasy gamebooks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNSL7zTAy44

Video of maths one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTAUsTZbiZk

It's scary how relevant a 1970's/80s comedy show is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgkUVIj3KWY (Salami tactics)

Incredibly good writing throughout... only Armando Ianucci gets close, IMO. Of course he leans a bit more heavily into straight up farce, which may not be to one's taste, but still...

I hope he does something like Death of Stalin again.