Malgas

Fun fact: While these are from the Roman period, they’ve mostly been found in what were then the provinces of Brittania and Gaul, and none have ever been found in Italy. Which tends to suggest that they’re Celtic or Romano-Celtic rather than Roman.

I once sat through an extended ad for some piece of audio equipment because it was presented by Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement and I thought it was a deadpan comedy sketch that just hadn’t got to the punchline yet.

That book drew on a different ephemeral island.

But what does any of this have to do with Mathilda from Léon: The Professional?

(Is the app I’m using showing the wrong image? That’s something that’s been known to happen occasionally.)

The first computer my dad bought, back in the late '80s, was mostly a DOS machine that also came with a mouse-driven GUI called GEM.

I don’t know if it ran on top of DOS, though. It booted directly from its own set of disks.

Then you get things like GTA or Saints Row, where whether I want to be using kb+m or controller changes based on whether I’m driving or on foot.

I’ve long thought that the ideal control scheme would somehow incorporate both a mouse for camera control, the sheer number of buttons you get from having your off-hand on a keyboard, and also analog inputs for things like movement/steering and vehicle throttle.