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Fourteen Days at Sea

Last weekend I got off the cruise ship Iona, having spent 14-days on a cruise down to the Canary Islands and back. This is...
Ian O'Rourke
6 min read

What The Actual Fuck!

This week has been a hard week. I’m not talking officially depressed hard, but it’s been challenging. I was ill at the start of...
Ian O'Rourke
5 min read

Gaming Group: RIP

After 2-3 years of the pandemic everyone’s lives have changed as everyone had plenty of time to re-evaluate their lives and make changes. A...
Ian O'Rourke
5 min read

Critical Role is Scripted?

And here we are again with people insisting Critical Role is scripted. This says less about Critical Role and more about the style and...
Ian O'Rourke
5 min read

The Religion of Fandoms

The discussions around Rings of Power. Where do I even start? Let’s face it, it’s not about Rings of Power specifically, it’s just the...
Ian O'Rourke
5 min read

A Star Trek Moment

As you read this the conservative leadership election is complete and the winner is announced tomorrow. This is after five weeks that felt like...
Ian O'Rourke
5 min read

Aliens Among Us

In the early hours of June 24th 2016, my life changed. I was going to say significantly, but I’m not sure that is an...
Ian O'Rourke
4 min read

A Cruise in 2022

I went on a cruise at the tail end of June which also happened to be the first time I’d left the shores of...
Ian O'Rourke
5 min read

MCU’s Lack of Focus

I’m a big fan of Thor: Ragnarok, despite this I chose not to bother watching Love and Thunder at the cinema. There are numerous...
Ian O'Rourke
5 min read

The Comfort Crisis

One of the five books I read over the seven days of my cruise was The Comfort Crisis. I wasn’t sure about it. I...
Ian O'Rourke
5 min read