Yep, it's a Rhodes piano. Probably best known in recent years from the intro to Portishead's Roads. You might enjoy Miles Davis' landmark album In A Silent Way, which heavily features the Rhodes.

I used to leave GTA2 on the menu screen just to listen to that track. It is indeed funky as all shit.

You can get a reasonable approximation of it in most DAWs by putting some sort of generic hammond-style organ plugin through a fuzz and rolling off all the top end.

>>12191

I have listened to and loved this album before, though I didn't make the specific instrument connection. It's a beautiful bit of jazz, but the itch I'm trying to scratch with this thread is more like hip hop drums over simple samples.

Another example:

And just because Portishead was a great shout too:

Another pitch perfect example of what I mean:

looks more like something from a computer game than real life. why would the TLAs put the 8chan logo on there?

probably a halloween prank

don't get worried if you visited /hebe/

I did a google reverse image search and found a Deep Dot Web one which looks awfully similar and seems legit.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/07/deep-dot-web-arrests/

>>22526
>Pandemic

What are some good co-operative board games? I was thinking of getting Pandemic but wasn't sure what else to try.

>>22518

I've honestly thought about starting a board game thread here for the better part of a decade, so good on you. I've got maybe 80 of the bastards now.

Ticket to ride is such a beautiful in its simplicity game. But I've never had a game that didn't involve some level of verbal abuse. There is a perfect sweet spot for tension where some cunt builds the route someone else needs and has been planning for 10 turns (Usually I am that cunt).

>>22523

Oh man I like that game and I've had my copy for 10 years, but the flaw that Italy is obviously handicapped is obvious to everyone. By no means the best game ever if best even means anything in the capacity of having fun. It certainly isn't for everyone.

>>23125

The problem with co-op games I find is that they can easily lead to one player telling everyone else how to play. Which is a problem that mostly can't be solved. Hanabi is a cute game in terms of not outstanding its welcome, and not feeling tense. The 'Forbidden X' games are a good game for drumming up tension on quite a light rule set.

Played Robinson Crusoe the other week which is quite heave on the rules for a co op but is a rewarding puzzle to solve. And for the orientalism loving gamer>>22519 the co op game of choice is 'ghost stories'.

I remember this very fondly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_(game)

>>23126
> The problem with co-op games I find is that they can easily lead to one player telling everyone else how to play.

Indeed, Pandemic is particularly vulnerable to this if a more experienced player doesn't know how to keep their gob shut guide the game experience without being overbearing for the other players. Other than that it's pretty great.

>>23125
Eldritch Horror is also genuinely good fun if you use the companion app to take some of the faff away. The major sticking point is that each game takes 2h+ easily and while I find time flies while playing the duration alone may put some people off. If you're playing in a casual pub meet, you may also struggle to find a table large enough for both the game and everyone's pints to safely co-exist.

We gave the Fallout co-op game a shot, but it got really repetitive really quickly. Even if you like the Fallout series, I'd avoid it or buy it second hand.

Star Realms Frontiers is a co-op capable pack for Star Realms, a deck builder with oodles of intercompatible expansions. The base game is normally played 1v1 but the "Frontiers" version has rules and a set of missions for 1-4 player to take on cooperatively. If you've played a deck builder before you'll feel instantly at home, if not it won't take more than a few turns to get the basic hang of it. It's fast to setup and pack away and each game shouldn't take more than 20-30 minutes. While the expansions are technically intercompatible, if you play the missions using Command expansion decks you'll have basically no challenge.

Legendary Encounters: Aliens sorry, "Legendary Encounters - An ALIEN Deck Building Game" is a purely co-operative deck builder which commits strongly to its theme. You play through scenarios resembling the three original movies on a provided playing mat. It plays well and has a support mechanic where other players can help you with resources on your turn that helps to keep everyone engaged in their down time. Unless you're some kind of card savant or have a lot of practice, however, it's quite fiddly to setup particularly the first time you open the box. On the plus side, you can generally mix-and-match Legendary Encounters games and, true to theme, there are a special rules to combine this one with "Legendary Encounters: Predator". I'd generally only recommend this one if you think you'll play more than one game in a row, otherwise you'll spend near as much time setting up and packing up as you do playing.

Still card based but basically the opposite of a deck builder is the Dresden Files co-op card game. Each player picks a character (one player has to be Harry Dresden), draws their initial hand and then basically never draws again making cards valuable resources. The players are faced with two rows of cards rach consisting of enemies to fight, cases to solve, obstacles to overcome or advantages to take and have cards for dealing with each of those four things. Using a shared resource pool, players take turns either spend resource to use one of their cards or replenish the pool by discarding. The end goal is that they must have more solved cases than enemies remain alive once they run out of cards. There are some dice rolls during the game and a "show down" at the very end where dice rolls can help bring the players over the line if they didn't quite get there. The game doesn't take much space, is fairly quick to setup and consistently takes very close to 30 minutes. You don't need to know anything about the "Dresden Files" series to enjoy the game, but some familiarity adds more colour to the characters and their abilities.

>>23133
If you like co-operative games and can get a regular group together, it's also worth looking into "legacy" games. They turn into simple role playing games very quickly, but do require a group of 3-4 people that can commit to regular play at least once a week (otherwise we delve into D&D style want to but never get to).

Pandemic: Legacy requires 12-24 play sessions of ~1h each, and a couple of games of Pandemic to understand the premise to get started. It's shlock writing, but really fun to play through and leaves you with a playable board at the end if you ignore or peel of stickers. It's Pandemic with a story, basically.

Aeon's End: Legacy is a deck builder, but you get to evolve the cards you get to chose from as you progress through the story as well as building the characters you play. It has cosmetic issues if you made certain choices, so it's not perfect, but it's still very much worth playing through. It's also got decent rules for replaying scenarios as well as selling a "reset" pack that lets you start from scratch; but that pack is half the cost of the base game so yeesh.

Tales of Arabian Nights is technically competitive, but those mechanics seem perfunctory and it's more like co-op story telling with training wheels. It's like a giant choose-your-own-adventure book, and if you ditch the win conditions and instead set yourself a time limit you each get to build a character that goes on an adventure (and experiences various strokes of luck or misadventures). If your group is at all RP capable, it's really good fun.

>>431858
BUNDLE

I don't know why it was so funny, but one person would get slightly stuck in a doorway, or fall over, the word would be shouted and then a huge rolling maul would occur. I'm laughing just thinking about it, I don't know why - always funny.

Did you watch gayssaywhat last night?

>>431864
I was too busy doing updoc.

>>431881
What is updoc?

>>64233
HOW IS A GIRAFFE PISSING HERSELF DIFFERENT FROM PISSING NORMALLY?

Agreed, they're the Horse equivalent of wearing skintight chinos, a cardigan and loafers with no socks.

>>64238
It isn't intentional.

>>64240
BUT SHE HAS NO KNICKERS

>>64241
Red shoes, always the way.

I'd go in Baerbock with her, IYKWIM.

>>86049

Germans still flirt, they're just not vague about it.

>>86053

Is there such a thing as non-vague flirting?

>>86054

Yes, of course there is. "Nice cock, can I suck it?" is quite direct.

This woman is going to fuck Britain in the arse.

>>20549

You really won't let it lie will you. If it wasn't notable to you, you wouldn't never have noted it. But you did, so it was.

Either way, my point hardly hinged on you. Please go away.

>>20552

It's hard to take it when your carefully projected reality is questioned, I understand.

>>20553

Oh I get what's happening now. Never mind.

>>20554

You've come up with a new projection? Well done, only took most of a day.

>>20555

>only took most of a day.

I was on a 12 hour shift mate, didn't have time to check in here.

>>20301

Still nothing wrong with backing up your claim by showing the knife. You're already in for armed robbery anyway, regardless of whether or not you actually have a knife. I think there have been court cases where somebody got done for armed robbery just for poking his index finger through his coat pocket and saying he had a gun.

So why not present your weapon to the poor lad you're robbing so he'll at least know you're not a pretentious cunt.

And besides, why say you've got a knife. If you're bullshitting anyway, why not say you've got a gun in your coat pocket. Would convince me more than the prospect of getting grazed by an imaginary knife across the counter.

>A Russian man has launched a lawsuit against Apple, claiming an iPhone app turned him gay.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49933003

>>20364
> In a suit filed on 20 September, it is claimed a crypto-currency called "GayCoin" was delivered via a smartphone app, rather than the Bitcoin he had ordered.
> According to the complaint, the GayCoin crypto-currency arrived with a note saying: "Don't judge until you try".
> "I thought, in truth, how can I judge something without trying? I decided to try same-sex relationships," the complainant wrote.

>>20365
The truth is, he must have already taken it up the arse many times whilst in prison. Straight blokes s rayona don't receive donations in gay coins.
Once a petooh, always a petooh.

>A man has been fined for being drunk and disorderly in Workington.

>Troy Berwick, of Thwaite Bank, Northside, admitted the offence, which took place on October 6 at Washington Street. West Cumbria Magistrates Court was told that Berwick had been part of a group of males shouting in the street at around 4am. When approached by police, Berwick began flexing his muscles and shouting, "I'm a big lad". He was unsteady on his feet and continued shouting when asked to quieten down. Berwick told police, "you won't arrest me" but was then arrested for being drunk and disorderly.

>He told magistrates: "I've stopped drinking now. I'm getting into bad habits." Berwick was fined £280 and must also pay £85 costs and a £32 surcharge to fund victim services.
https://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/18001080.drunk-man-told-police-im-big-lad/

Sends a shiver down my spine just thinking about all the biglads flexing on our streets.

To take this immediately into the weeb-zone, N-qia make the perfect albums for long train journeys. I've spent many hours staring out of train windows over the past 10 years to this:

>>12204
I still do but it depends on what you're doing. I like to listen to albums when I'm working or travelling which I think really give you an experience that is missing from flicking around tracks.

>>12203

Well, I'm officially old. I don't think I recognised more than handful of albums off that list and I've not listened to a single one (except perhaps Lady Gaga via simple osmosis).

The only album I really remember liking from the last 10 years was Chase and Status' "No more idols", and I guess the second La Roux album was alright, sort of.

Most of the music I've discovered since '09 has been older 2000-2009 era stuff that was either a genre I wasn't interested in at the time or so obscure that no one my peer circle had discovered it.

If it's true that people forever listen to the music of their youth, then my youth ended in 2009. RIP.

>>12206
There's only a few on that list I know I've definitely listened to: PJ Harvey, Daft Punk, Todd Terje, Courtney Barnett, Grimes only Visions as everything after that hasn't been to my taste and Fiona Apple.

I haven't discovered much new music in the past fifteen years or so. That said, this came straight to mind for best albums of the past decade; there will be more but for the rest I'd have to check when they were actually released.

>>15107
They rank Good Kid, M.A.A.D City below To Pimp a Butterfly, so it's not like the list has a shred of credibility.

I'll tell you in 20 years. Right now, I'd probably say Stretch Music by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Your Queen is a Reptile by Sons of Kemet, Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides by SOPHIE and Racine Carrée by Stromae, but I'll probably disagree with myself shortly. If I can slip in an EP, I'll add search result by umru.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6uyslsVGFsHKzdGUosFwBM

https://open.spotify.com/album/0QImn8JzTpAMxhGdKWzJCk

>>13099
I'm still alive and my arse is behaving. I am immune!

This must be what being a superhero feels like.

Getting a bit late in the year but wish me luck chums.

>>13130
There are some good groups on the social network where you can post ones you're not sure about and they'll help ID them.

>>13131
What's a social network?

>>13132

They're going 24/7

>>15108
The ones where the two people who (sometimes, not that often) maintain the code come from.

>>15109
Wrong.

>>15112
Nah, the other was never me. It was for the lad who had a TV career.

>>15113
Ah....

I remember the numbers being mentioned a while back, could've been years, but it was around 100 then so that sounds about right. Tried to post this in London the other night btw but someone's been playing silly buggers and the IP was banned.

>>24279

Well good for you mate. In 99% of cases it's going to be a waste of time though.

On a good day walking around a big town you might be able to hand out 30 CVs. On the internet you can put in probably a hundred applications in the same amount of time.

If you need a job and you need one sooner rather than later, it's simply not an efficient investment of effort to waste an afternoon giving your CVs to people who are going to put them straight in the bin. It's actively harmful to your prospects, like a hunter wasting more energy chasing his prey than he will gain from catching it.

Last time I was on the dole they told us to do it, and I almost got kicked out for arguing the toss with the Karen looking bint running the course.

>>24280
Yeah, but handing in CVs you could get an interview for a job that hasn't been advertised or at least one that hasn't been advertised some place where candidates are machine gunning in applications. The competition would be much less stiff.

If you're sending 100 applications a day there's a very good chance you're doing it wrong anyway.

>>24282

Nah, that's very much doing it right; at least for entry level jobs, which sounds like the sort of advice this thread pertains to. Usually a job that hasn't been advertised is something much more specialised, so while there might be less competition it's less likely you'd actually be qualified for it. That's not just a needle in a haystack, it's a diamond ring of exactly your size in a cornfield.

There's a myth about copy/pasting applications meaning you'll get binned every time. It's got a grain of truth to it, but not quite. Nowadays, applications are scanned by software multiple times before they even make it to a person; if you have the right keywords and structure in there that the software looks for you've won half the battle.

Wasting your time writing up a fresh application from scratch for every shite call centre job is a waste of time thanks to the same principle as the hunter analogy.

>>24280
Not him, but if I got handed a paper CV that someone had brought in in person I'd pay it much more attention that the dozens of electronic applications I had to process that day. You're probably right about the numbers game but I think you hit a point where you've applied to all the potential jobs you can online - pounding the pavements is a perfectly good decision at some stage. Not least to get you out the house for a bit.

>>24284
I think if you have a confident personality, and can pitch yourself well in a couple of sentences, turning up in person like that can really work. Most people (particularly those who are jobless) don't have that kind of personality though.

Assetto Corsa is only £13 on Steam, with all the DLC, right now. It's easily the most entertaining driving sim I've played and there are seemingly endless amounts of DLC for it, I can't recommend it enough.

>>23129
I meant to say "endless amounts of mods for it", as you can see the DLC is definitively finite.

>>23129
Interesting - I like a driving SIM and have seen the reviews of I and considered it in the past. I have a Logitech wheel/pedals and one of those driving seats to go with.

Why is it so good? I like Project Cars very much indeed, but with the wheel it's almost too easy once you've practiced enough.

>>23129
A couple of years ago I bought a wheel and pedals and thought I'd get into multiplayer racing in Assetto Corsa. Played it for maybe 15 hours total but eventually got bored of it and realised I'm not really into racing sims. I played the shit out of the old GT and Forza games but I was never one to autistically shave milliseconds off my laptimes or engage in the tedium of going around the same track over and over to learn the best racing lines, which is a necessity if you want to be competitive online.

I ended up selling the wheel and pedals, bought an old MS Sidewinder joystick because force feedback in joysticks went the way of the dodo for some reason, and had a blast blasting people in Il-2. Going pew-pew in the air or in space is a more fun thing to simulate than driving around a race track.

>>23131
The variety of tracks and the range of cars to drive is what I like most about it. It's definitely more of a sim than Project Cars, although the graphics aren't quite up to the same level. As I, eventually, mentioned it has a modding scene that's second to none. If you have a "local" racetrack that you've always thought "damn, I wish that was in a game for once", someone's probably at least working on adding it. Not that the base game's barren or anything, especially with all the DLC, there's just loads going on beyond that.

>>23134
>but I was never one to autistically shave milliseconds off my laptimes or engage in the tedium of going around the same track over and over to learn the best racing lines
Oh. Okay.

Il-2's ace too though. I've never managed to get a Sturmovik into space, but maybe I never tried hard enough.

I kindof liked that film. It has some funny parts, despite itself. Wasn't it the college project of a now famous director?

>filename

Ten points to Gryffindor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pipg2h0yBM

hot chips dipped in chocolate spread

>>13126
Mate. I'm going to blow your mind.

>>13125
Never had gammon with pineapple, but it must be the original root cause of the pizza topping, and so therefore delicious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssON1FgQ7yY

All of his punctuation errors are a bit upsetting but anyway.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_shm7bKtKUw

https://vimeo.com/59218902

The official video is Vimeo only and it was a pretty innovative stop-motion one.

Its a long shot but does anyone remember a track that had a british and an american MC, it was called hospitality

cant remember either of their names and searching channel u hospitality comes up blank.

G K Chestertons The Man Who Was Thursaday might be worth a read. It sounds essentially the same but the ending - more a mystery around who's undercover and who's not, and a bit of talk about anarchy. It's pretty short. Might be helpful.

I've always wondered about writing; whether you should have something to say that your characters revolve around or if it should be nothing more than a story. I can see both aproaches being boring for a reader.

How well does screen writing theory translate through books? The anatomy of a story kind of thing?

>>7060
It's the same basic theory but the way most screenwriters phrase it all makes me cringe.

>>7060
I've never seen anybody reference Chesterton outside of the early Deus Ex fandom but I welcome it. It's like he stepped in from an alternate dimension where Arthur Conan Doyle wasn't insufferably dull.

>How well does screen writing theory translate through books? The anatomy of a story kind of thing?
Screen writing theory is (with the exception of modernist filmmakers - you know the ones) largely based on classic literary structure. Joseph Campbell constructed the model of the "monomyth" or "hero's journey" that has been so ubiquitous throughout the ages that it's difficult to shake it when watching film or engaging with formulaic prose once you're aware. That's not to say it's tacky or overdone, just overly reliant on plot linearity rather than individual character exposition to flesh out the book/film universe.

>>7061
You have to chat bare shit in the visual arts, it's the only way.

>>7062
> I've never seen anybody reference Chesterton outside of the early Deus Ex fandom
Not who you're responding to but DX was how I got exposed to Chesterton's work.
There's something else I'd read written by him, something that was quite profound and even more so given that it was written a hundred years ago. Can't fucking recall what.
Sage for veering off-topic.

>>13073
Sounds delicious - I like the roasted plum tomatoes.

>>13076
It turned out alright, I suppose. Less yield than I'd expected mostly due to not being able to liquefy it as much as I anticipated. Not sure if I just didn't add enough liquid or what.

Are you a hård man, OP?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npP2U_V5rv4

Bit late, but this guy has a lot of good guides to making chilli sauces. You might want to look at making a fermented sauce too. They're "easy" in one sense of the word, although you might face certain problems with that route.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofCJtEHc2P0

12x random chilli pepper I was sent. Look like Trinidad Scorpions but it's hard to be sure.
Half a mug of dried sichuan peppers
2x Garlic cloves
Roasted on a low temperature for a bit then took the sichuan peppers out when they started to smoke. Turned up the temperature and continued roasting until the chillies started to blacken a little.
.5 cup light soy sauce
1x cup of rice vinegar
1.5 shots of lime juice
1x teaspoon of cayenne pepper
.5 test tube of dried chipotle
1x teaspoon salt
1x tablespoon MSG
Peeled the now soft garlic & removed the chilli pepper stalks, blended all the ingredients together as homogeneously as possible. Brought to a boil then simmered for the remainder of 30 minutes while fairly constantly stirring.

It's cooling now. I can see subsidence is a problem as it keeps separating so will need shaking/stirring before serving but it's really delicious.

>>13105
>Burger King seem to have gone right downhill.
For me the end of Burger King as something I'd look forwards to as a treat was when they changed their fries. They used to be delicious and crunchy, now they're just the bog standard soggy, tasteless chips you'd get in any canteen in the land. I only eat one these days if I'm on the road and hungry enough not to wait to find something better. Once or twice a year, if that.

>Definitely not worth the £7.50 it cost.
The difference in price vs. McDonalds is quite pronounced these days. You don't get much change back from a tenner, which is enough to buy proper food from a pub.

>>13116
A Big Mac and fries is £1.99. If you're paying £7.50 for a meal in McDonalds you're a fucking mug.

>>13119
Yeah, but Big Macs are shite.

>>13119

>Big Mac and fries is £1.99

Is it? I thought a Big Mac was about three quid now?

>>13120

Incorrect. They're actually really nice.

>>13121

Well the power steering packed in on my way to work this morning. I know because of the little steering wheel on the dashboard, and suddenly having to wrestle the fucking thing around even the slightest bend.

Doesn't feel very safe anyway. How likely is it gonna cost me a fortune to get fixed?

>>4414
What car do you have?

>>4414
Might just be a belt snapped.

>>4415

2010 Fox.

>>4416

It works for a bit when I first start the engine, then dies when I start actually steering. Electronic problem maybe?

>>4416
looks like it's electric
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1722191

Taking the bumper off to get to it sounds like a bunch of no fun...
Still, £300 or so for a new pump is hopefully not a showstopper if jiggling the connectors doesn't fix it