>>21804
Must have been her first day.

I want to ask him if I can go and camp out with him. I never tried camping.

>>21814
He looks like the sort of person who sleeps in bivvie bags under a bush. It won't be glamping.

>>21815
>Glamping
Such a thing exists? I'm too poor for that sort of thing.

>>21816
Oh it really does. In a big way - it started out as a festival thing, but has spread and there are now many companies offering similar. Avoid. Lad in the OP has the right idea.

>>21807
No. Real life is black mirror now.

>>21807

Mate, it went to Netflix about 18 months back. Brice Dallas-Jones or whatever her name is was it in.

>>21808

Exactly, I needed something to lighten the mood until they invent a force feedback fleshlight to use with my occulus rift.

>>21809

That was the old one genius.

>>21807
The episode names were recently released. It looks like there's gonna be three American episodes and three British episodes, judging by the casting.

>>21552
Satire transcends finding a political solution and just helps us laugh at the absurdities of life. When South Park does get political however it's libertarian in outlook which doesn't need to justify itself so much as point out the solutions are all awful and poke fun at the kinds of people who want to impose their vision on others.

>>21554

Yeah, I know. I just find it rather vapid and pointless, and the satire's only going to make me laugh if it's actually funny.

A new trailer has been released for Discovery:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWnYtyNKPsA

At least they have distanced themselves from the godawful ship design.

>>21656

It's less dismal than the previous trailer, but I can't say that I'm particularly excited.

Also, have they rebooted the Klingons again? They must evolve faster than MRSA.

Orville didn't actually have that bad a first episode. I don't know how long this parody series can last but I think it captured some of the old magic of Star Trek and was played much straighter than the trailers showed.

At the very least they used science to defeat their enemy rather than punches. Maybe STD won't be so bad either.

inb4 Gendry spends the next 4 series digging himself out from under The Wall.

RIP the only good character in the show apart from that cheeky mercenary guy

Arya was Littlefinger all along. It's why his accent changed every five seconds. Also, are we meant overlook the fact the Knights of the Vale witnessed Sansa give him an alibi for her aunt's death?

>>21783
Haven't we had a cunt-off before about the relative sophistication of Medieval medicine?

>>21787
Presumably he has gone AWOL because Brienne told him too. She probably owes him a handjob so fair play.

>>21788
Better yet it transitions into a Dwarf Fortress tv series.

>>21772
It has always annoyed me too. Calling 4chan "the other place" has never been a rule. It is perhaps an allusion to the Commons referring to the Lords, perhaps. Or its just someone being a bit of a cock.

>>21773
>an allusion to the Commons referring to the Lords
That's what I thought it was, nothing pissy about it.

>>21774

I recall a thread in the shed years ago, complaining how britfa had lost its way from the lovely olden days because people were using the word "memes" ("We've always called them in-jokes!", except for all that time before they were being called that when we didn't) and freely discussing 4chan ("I've always thought of us as being a step above that, certainly not a chan.")

It's advisable to switch off from the mass media if you can. Dispassionately researching facts and drawing your own conclusions is the best you can do. You won't have an accurate perception of the world, but at least you won't be believing someone else's lie.

The real question is; what sort of information should I seek, ultimately, and what sort of information should I seek next in furtherance of that? How much detail do I need to know? How much time should I devote to learning one thing over another? It's a really puzzling question.

What we can say for certain is that of the information available, it's in our best interests to omit the set of information presented to us which is intended to control our behavior and so limit our pursuit of personally relevant information in our interests. Thus; cut out the mass media. The mass media is and always has been there to serve a political function; it was never meant to give people an accurate and relevant perception of the world and its goings on.

I think one of the most important things to remember is that these type of medias focus on issues happening in the Americas, not the UK (so much at least). It's easy to overlook this and make significantly paranoid and panic stricken changes to your lifes because you're worried about floride, food additives (or whatever). This isn't to say conspiracies don't happen here, but consider this; While you're investigating the corrupt goings on in a country on the other side of the globe, you're missing what's happening here, possibly on your doorstep. Distraction, you know?

>If people try to enter the system who don't have [the manufactured] point of view, they're likely to be excluded somewhere along the way. After all no institution is going to happily design a mechanism to self destruct. So they all work to exclude, marginalise or eliminate dissenting voices or alternative perspectives because they're disfuntional to the institution itself.

What I find interesting about this is there seems to be a split going on in America at the moment regarding 'alternate facts', race groups, etc. Who's behind this destabilisation of the status quo; could multiple parties be battling it out or is it all a ploy by those in power?

It's an interesting time to be alive.

I take it you lads are watching the new series? To me, it seems to have lost its edge.

>>21745
No, I think it's still great. I just think it got really popular and then everyone hyped it up and now they are whinging because it was never going to be good enough for them.

I'm actually feeling quite lucky to be the age I am and watching it, I'm as excited about it as I would be for early seasons of The Simpsons.

The problem is the longer it goes on the less impact the larger story arcs have. When the first season ended it felt like something real, but then it went on again. The Rick went to jail and it was framed as a really moving thing with a sense of finality but no, he just escapes by being overpowered and not really even a very clever sort of plot.

>>21745
Agree. Episodes have ranged from bad (2&3) to quite good - nothing on edge. Should have run for 2 seasons. No more.

Its not as good this season to be honest. Just feels like it's trying to be "rick and morty" instead of just being rick and morty.

>>21266

That was quite wonderfully Burroughsian. I applaud.

I can't work out whether I liked this or not.

It's not something I'd watch again in a hurry.

>>21268
What does that mean?

Treat yourself to Headhunters the film of the jonesbo book. Also I rarely enjoy horror films, but I liked REC.

>>21711
I started reading Headhunters and was bored stiff by the end of the first chapter. Something about the narrator being an arrogant prick art dealer is all I remember.

>>21648
Mental illness fundamentally affects how you interact with people though, I don't think it ever can be thought of in the same way. It's a part of your personality, to some degree inextricable.

>>21648
>mentally ill should be equivalent to saying I've got a cold, or the flu, or I sprained my ankle.

Not really, mental health has a stigma for a good reason because it can mean that you are a danger to yourself and to society at large. Obviously not all mental illnesses are the same but there is a reason we associate manics with violence, schizophrenics will paranoid destructive behavior, depressives with wallowing and self destruction, and autists with actually caring about doctor who canon.

I'm saying this as a person who has friends and family crippled by all of the above. In all seriousness I've had to deal with manics and depressives who have used being open about their problems as a way to absolve themselves of guilt for their shitty behavior and lack of self control, and people think they are helping by being 'understanding' and shifting the burned of their behavior on to everyone in their path, but this is tacit to abuse. Your cause is more short sighted than you think.

I agree an openness about depression for the introverted is a positive as it is for anxiety, and any learning disorder where people need to admit they fall short would be a benefit and there are plenty of milder cases where it would be relevant, but you can't treat all mental illnesses as being helped by people being accepting and open, and like it would always be of benefit to the problem, sometimes the best thing is for people to feel they should solider on and strive for a life of managing normality without drawing attention to themselves and people moving the bar to excusing their failures.

Why is the main discussion in a Dr Who thread about mental health?

>>21654
Too easy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LMA_AbDyBk

I spent an hours watching these last night and was late for work this morning.

Thank you for this.

>>21684
I have spent some time watching them too - they are brilliant. How do people find the time and energy (and space) to set this all up.

>>21687
By not being in Britain.

If this was just shown dry without the commentary and graphical overlays it would be interesting, but boring. The addition of commentary and narrative makes this weirdly compelling.

>Rakka
All respect to Ms. Weaver but watching Rakka feels like an episode-length Previously on...

>>21564

The conversation between Ripley and the Mad Bomber is awful, sound like it was written by an amateur.

>>21565
The fire base thing has great effects but also feels adolescent in terms of plot/back story.

>Tulip, Texas and Us
A girl falls for a tuba player. It has that style to it that you get in Wes Anderson films. Very enjoyable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56lIkBASYIY
(NSFW)

Tudor Pole doesn't like to even talk about it now. He was interviewed a while back and said he didn't really have much to say about what amounted to a few weeks' filming he did twenty odd years ago. He also rather snottily said "God didn't put me on this earth to be a gameshow host". Fuck him, he was never as good as Richard O'Brien

>>21586
>I might be having a moment but can anyone tell me why the answer to the riddle is 3 bananas?
2 peppers
3 aubergines
1 plum
4 cauliflowers

ba-na-nas = 3 syllables

>>21633

You fucking clever dick

>>21638
He's just outed himself as the sort of person that passes the GCHQ/MI5 recruitment tests.

>>21649

The test seems to mostly be about not being the sort of person who talks about even considering a job with them and what is on the test, which is why I failed before I even started.

>>21585>>21587

Now I understand this a lot better.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXfKVTq8i7k

The comments are definitely worth a gander.

>>21603

And I guess this was the genesis for Videogaiden.

I am learning so, so much right now.

>>21605

It really is a pitch-perfect pisstake.

While we're on an obscure late-night vibe, does anyone remember Gaytime TV? It's amazing how far we've come in twenty-odd years.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn14pbJSFVo

>>21609
The first five minutes talk about how this or that is the first ever such-and-such for gays and lesbians. I wonder if this is what they called the pink pound. "We've got a new perfume coming out, let's say it's the first one specifically for gays and it'll sell loads."

>>21610

>I wonder if this is what they called the pink pound.

Very much so, but it marked a really important change for gay and lesbian people.

Back in 1995, Section 28 was still in force, a law stating that no local authority may "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship". Homosexuality had been officially decriminalised in 1967, but gay men were still being arrested well into the 80s on charges of "outraging public decency". The age of consent wouldn't be equalised until 2000. The trauma of the AIDS epidemic was still very raw - just a few years previously, an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. A lot of people saw a lot of friends die, eaten away by tumours and infections and god knows what.

As laughable as it seems now, the idea of a gay advert or a gay perfume was genuinely thrilling. Those little tokens of acceptance really meant something. The attitude of "your money is as good as anyone else's" marked a real sea change. We weren't quite normal yet, but we weren't perverts or plague carriers any more.

>>21603
We need some GET STUFFED

>>21559
This seems to come up every couple of months or so.

The tl;dr version is that half the time it's generic production music because it's dirt cheap and suits programmes with no budget.

>>21559
Email them.

If it's a commercial release, then Shazam is remarkably accurate. As >>21560 says, a lot of incidental music in TV is licensed from music libraries rather than commercial releases, because the licensing is much cheaper and easier. It's also fairly common for a soundtrack to be specifically recorded - a composer on a modern digital workstation can knock out half an hour of original music in two days. If a composer was involved, they should be mentioned in the end credits.