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Messages - Angry Vince

#1
Film & TV / Re: Current TV Boxset Addiction
17 March, 2024, 05:51:55 PM
Quote from: GoGilesGo on 17 March, 2024, 08:39:43 AMThis is the best analysis I have read explaining why GoT tell off a cliff

Seasons 1-5 employed sociological storytelling then (coincidence that the source material dried up?) the writing became more psychological.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/


Well, shit, she's not wrong.

Also, apparently there is no point in going back in time and killing baby Hitler. There's my weekend plans ruined.
#2
Film & TV / Re: Current TV Boxset Addiction
16 March, 2024, 06:08:05 PM
Loving the new series of Shogun - amazing sets, great writing and more Toranaga-focused. When the episodes drop, I watch them in the evening with my son. (Don't tell him that I watch them earlier in the day and then tag them as unwatched.)
Struggling to get through Masters of the Air. Great aerial scenes, but it took me 4-5 episodes to work out who anyone was.
Rewatched Game of Thrones with the wife, final season is not as disappointing as I remember it (or the hype). Were people just pissed that Dani turned evil and John didn't become king? Oops spoilers...
#3
Games / Re: Last game played...
09 March, 2024, 01:05:12 AM
Currently playing Tunguska: The Visitation.
Small studio game, kind of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. if it was an isometric RPG. Difficult(ish), dangerous and fun.

#4
Music / Re: What's everyone listening to...?
08 February, 2024, 05:56:07 PM
A kiwi rock band I used to listen to about twenty years ago recently released a whole bunch of stuff online which their agent had held back for 'reasons' until their contract expired.

#5
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 21 January, 2024, 10:27:51 AM
Quote from: Angry Vince on 21 January, 2024, 10:04:49 AMHaving spent the year saving up for a holiday for the family. we all took off for Sydney for a long week of relaxation. Then the lot of us caught covid and I ended up in emergency.

If it makes you feel any better... for our twentieth wedding anniversary, I flew my wife and I first class to New York, booked four nights in a very fancy Manhattan hotel... and on the morning of our first full day there, just after breakfast, I said "Ooh. I don't feel so good..." and had to run to the loo in our hotel room, where I basically remained for two full days, barring the nights, when I had to sleep in the shower.

It was certainly a... memorable trip, albeit not necessarily for the reasons I'd hoped. :sick:

Sounds worse than my pre-honeymoon to Venice where I spent two days holding tight to the hotel toilet.

Anyway, I flew back home last night. Feeling better this morning and have just had a morning coffee and taken some flu medicine.
On closer inspection, I think I've picked from the wrong end of the Night and Day pack. Going to be an interesting day at work...
#6
Having spent the year saving up for a holiday for the family. we all took off for Sydney for a long week of relaxation. Then the lot of us caught covid and I ended up in emergency.

On the plus side, apparently my heart is in really good shape.

PS: on an unrelated(?) note, there are a metric crap load of bats in Sydney. Who knew?

PPS: The A&E I got taken to was St Vincent's - so apparently the Aussies have canonized me. Finally, some recognition!

Edits for PS & PPS as my brain catches up with events.
#7
Off Topic / Happy Holidays
23 December, 2023, 05:35:41 PM
It's Christmas Eve over in my side of the world. Knowing that many of you (like myself) had challenging years, I thought I'd take ten second to say Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, a great Hanukkah and every other sort of merriment that may apply to you.
Spend it with loved ones and come back for a better 2024.

AV.
#8
Have been using a VPN on my home computer, recently this has caused Google to think I'm a bot.
So then every time I search for something, I'd have to tick the 'not a robot' box* and then go through the 3x3 click on a bus/stairs/car/motorbike** nonsense repeatedly until it lets me through.
One time I counted thirty attempts at clicking on the stupid pictures and it still wouldn't let me through.
I fixed it by typing in 'bing.com' whenever it happened and using Bing*** instead.
After about a week, Google stopped asking for recaptchas.


*While hiding my avatar
**The drokking recapta pictures always give me existential nervousness - is the motorbike rider part of the motorbike? Is the shadow part of the bus? Only god and Google know and neither one is fracking telling.
***Bing is, for all intents and purposes, a complete dive bar toilet bowl of a search engine. Most times, I'd be better off asking my mum.
#9
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 06 November, 2023, 09:52:52 PMI'm some eejit.  I just heard Jim Moon discussing movie Easter eggs in his excellent Hypnogoria podcast, and it's just occurred to me that they're so-called because they're hidden and you have to search for them.  I just thought it was because they were nice things to have.  I know, I know- I'm not the quickest on the uptake.

Legend has it that during the filming of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cast had a literal Easter Egg hunt. Some eggs from that ended up being visible in the final cut. And there you have it, actual Easter eggs -

#10
Off Topic / Re: This is the News!
20 August, 2023, 07:36:39 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 20 August, 2023, 06:55:11 PMWhat the absolute fuck is that all about? Maths is now just a subjective opinion? Shit off.

I think I'll be talking to my bank manager about that. "My mortgage is $450,000? That's just, like, your opinion, man."
#11
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
16 July, 2023, 08:09:35 PM
Quote from: BadlyDrawnKano on 30 June, 2023, 05:12:26 AMOnce Upon A Time... In Hollywood - I was a big fan of Tarantino from Reservoir Dogs through to Kill Bill Vol. 1, but I struggled with Vol,2, and haven't enjoyed anything since. But I was intrigued by this, the performances are strong, the dialogue isn't deliberately convoluted speech, and it's very well shot. I've still a lot of questions about it, and what Tarantino was trying to do with the ending, but despite that it's his best film in  years for me.

I bailed on my first viewing of this - Quentin Tarantino's obsession with feet <shudders>
#12
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
22 April, 2023, 08:26:17 PM
#13
Off Topic / I haven't had enough coffee for this!
02 February, 2023, 06:23:11 PM
So, after 22 years (by my math), the 2000AD forum interface is updated.

That was a bit jarring to wake up to and completely unexpected*

*unless it was announced somewhere and I didn't bother to read it.**

Looks great BTW

**Yes, there was an announcement. Which I didn't read.
https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=49094.msg617609;boardseen#new

Now it's time for a big coffee to calm me down...
#14
Best of luck Sharky
#15
Off Topic / Re: This is the News!
19 January, 2023, 07:55:59 PM
I'd hardly call this 'falling headlong into populism' - Jacinda Ardern rode her party to power on the basis of 'Jacindamania' and had a doting press for the first three years of her government. With that popularity (I'll admit, justifiably earned on the basis of her handling of the Christchurch massacre, the White Island eruption and the first wave of Covid), her party achieved a majority government for the first time since the start of MMP nearly three decades ago.

Her preferred PM rating has been in the 40's and 50's up until about a year ago when the mania started wearing off and people have noticed that the Labour party failed to deliver on any of their policies (e.g. out of the 10,000 affordable homes they were building, only 500 have been made in 5 years. Inflation, unemployment, homelessness and crime are all up) and been beholden to fringe sections of her party. Her popularity is now in the 30's.

On the other side, Chris Luxon (leader of the National Party), has never had more than 20% of the preferred PM rating. He is seen by National voters as a competent manager, but a bit of a nobody. And after Jacinda Ardern and John Key before her, he certainly lacks a lot of charisma. Most people here are voting National to get the party in, but would prefer almost anyone else to be PM.

if anything, we are departing from populism and returning to party politics!  :-D