hellspawn

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I don't think I stopped watching the new ones as they came out because of the storytelling - I mean, how would I know if I haven't seen them? But because 2020 happened, and we just stopped going to movies for a while, and everything was on Disney Plus for "when we got around to it" which we never seem to. Which is the case for most things in my life, not just MCU stuff. *shrug* A new MCU movie just wasn't An Event any more, like it used to be up through Endgame. And there are some I want to see but I feel like I have to do my homework first, like finishing Wandavision before seeing Multiverse of Madness, and watching Wakanda Forever before getting into Ironheart.

I do own almost all the ones that I've seen on DVD. I even have a DVD of Spider-Man: No Way Home that I haven't watched yet.

Since 1999 or so I had been maintaining a Perl script that would run every morning to download new images for as many as 20 different comic strips and combine them all into one daily digest web page. Over the years the strips have dropped off one by one, either because I lost interest or because I started following them on my DW reading page instead.

Inertia has kept that setup running for this long, but lately the old Mac mini that I was running the script on has been dropping off the network every few weeks, which means it will miss several days until I notice and reselect my network from the WiFi menu. (Not just that machine; I've also noticed these dropouts happening with the downstairs thermostat and the autonomous vacuum cleaner, which are even more annoying to reset. Maybe it's affecting devices that only use 802.11b?)

When I went to fix it again just now, I noticed that it was only successfully still keeping up with 3 comic strips, 2 of which I didn't really care about any more. I added the other to my DW list, and now I'm done. After 26 years.

The one I'm still keeping is Kevin & Kell, which turns 30 next month. Which means it started when I was 20. So, yeah.

After turning that job off, I realized I only had one other automated script still left running on that machine, which was backing up the DW wiki files once a week... the wiki that got retired last month because mark moved it to Github. So I turned that one off too.

I guess it's the end of an era.