Playing a randomiser run of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and eating biscuits.

Never forget what they took from us, lads.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGCbvz6r6GY

My house needs a good clean this weekend. Been neglecting things a bit, loads of work stuff, and that.

>>466706
Biscuits, that's what I need. Culinary heroin, here I come.

Laid out the border planks marking where the garden path will be. I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to hire a sodcutter to make digging it out easier.
The plan is to take off the top 10cm, stake the borders in place, lay a membrane, 5cm sub-base 1 gone over with a compactor, 5cm whatever gravel or chippings are cheapest. There'll have to be a few steps in the slope at the end too. If anyone has any ideas how to reduce the amount of effort needed they'd be welcome.

RIP ARE SALMOND

>>466711

What the fuck was he doing in North Macedonia?

>>466712

Giving a speech.

I know longer risk legal repercussions for calling his a rapist.

>>466714
What, Cartoon Head?

You know what time it is? Yeah, you know what time it is...

>>466716

Time to keep on rollin' babbaaayyyy!!!

Move in-a move out, hands up-a hands down

Back up, back up, tell me what you gonna do now

>>466715
You know what I meant.

Also, is there anywhere to actually watch Ideal online or am I going to have to torrent it, like in the good old days?

>>466718
iPlayer actually has the whole thing.

>>466706
>>466709
Are you two working for Big Biscuit? I just got 3 packs from Morrisons and I never normally get them in.

Went for lemon puff, oats (for coffee) and ginger. I'll probably start on the ginger as the least likely to end up with me snaffling the whole pack.

>>466719
You lying bastard. I shalln't forget this. And as I'm a man who says "shalln't", you must understand that I'm very intimidating.

>>466720
Unfortunately I won't be getting paid for "culinary heroin" pushing. Plus my main I have given up food of the evening will be a bag of tortilla chips.

>>466718

Dailymotion can usually be relied upon to absolutely not give a fuck about copyright.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5x53wi

Two Pints got away with quite a bit of homophobic humour back in the day. Or maybe people were just less fussed.

Not saying minority jokes are ok, but I miss the edginess of comedy from the 2000s to early 2010s. In some ways, you can't help feeling like humour wise, the modern world is entirely antiseptic.

>>466720

Nah, I'm just gradually weaning myself off hard drugs and I'm consoling myself by scoffing entire packs of chocolate chip cookies instead. It does the trick, more or less, but I gather I will probably put on a few pounds. Which I could do with, in fairness.

I'm trying to get myself excited about food again, I've spent the last couple of years eating as cheaply as possible, and treating the entire process of cooking and feeding myself as a laborious chore. I reckon my mental health will benefit a lot from getting back into making more luxurious hearty food, steak dinners, big lasagnes, filthy enchiladas stuffed with a ton of cheese, that sort of thing.

>>466724
My concern is that a lot of people seem not to have ever understood what made offensive things offensive, so they have introduced weird rules that don't even relate to offensiveness. Any comedian who was told their old jokes were offensive and understood why, could have stopped telling those jokes and written new jokes that weren't offensive. But everyone panicked so much that now, most comedy has just been abandoned in case anyone takes a risk that offends someone. Many of those creative risks would never actually offend anybody, or nearly anybody, but because a lot of people don't get why the old jokes were offensive, they've just got rid of any similar jokes, offensive or not.

>>466724
>Not saying minority jokes are ok
Why not?

>>466728
I believe the proper term is "Xitter".

>>466726

>Many of those creative risks would never actually offend anybody

That's a good way to put it. Creative risks. Which entail the possibility that something will backfire, because otherwise there would be no risk.

Everything is streamlined, muted, and designed for inoffensive, vanilla mass compatibility. Which is another way of saying, all the edges get whittled down so three people won't start a twitter X shitstorm.

>>466726

More like there's just a lot of people who won't even look into the meaning and intention of a joke in order to examine if and if so why it was offensive, but they will just hear the fact that it mentions [group] and instantly take to twitter to decry how offensive and distasteful it is anyway. Just a rote reaction they have learned as an expected behaviour as much as anything, not because they actually felt anything.

On the other side of it you have stuff that actually is distasteful, for instance I watched a video by a certain youtuber who is normally on board with all the progressive stuff, not complete mindworms, but you know. They are a woman respecter and a trans rights sayer and an enemy of the chud. And yet, they saw nothing wrong with bookending a video about an examination of warcrimes portrayed in media, with a shameless plug to their other paid site, more or less pitching this "if you loved this content about war crimes, come vicariously enjoy even more war crimes on Spunktube, for only $5.99 a month!" or whatever it is.

I found that genuinely distasteful, just harvesting that topic to sell ther Content^TM, but I don't think the average person really genuinely has the principles to process that. They just know there's a list of things that if you say them you are bad person and you probably support Trump Man, whereas if you say other things you are good and you support Harris Lady.

Anyway.

>>466729
With the "X" pronounced as in Chinese.

>>466726
I wrote a joke this week and told my girlfriend.

"I was talking to the guy in charge of bombing Germany in WW2. He picked up a new phone, and said "What's that lens on the back?" And I said "it's a camera, Harris". A Japanese tourist walking past stopped and looked, then said "I cannot see the 2024 Democratic US presidential candidate, what are you talking about!?""

She said it was racist because it implies Japanese have issues with L's and R's which is a racist implication.

Just climbed into a big cool bed and realised why I love this time of year. You can't knock a good jumper either.

Biscuit update: I ate all the lemon puffs. In fairness it's probably still better for me than if I'd bought a big bag of sweets and it's not like I'll be wearing a bikini anytime soon.

>>466725
Don't forget pies. If you're lazy then Lidl have brought back their steak and blue stilton pies, that and plenty of mash with gravy and runner beans is a fucking treat let me tell you.

>>466724
Didn't you watch it a few months back?

>>466733

Did you tell your girlfriend that Japanese people are the white people of Asia and they did an imperialism so you can't be racist to them?

I was expecting this to be the biennial discussion of whether "sweating like a black man on a rape charge" is racist or not, before I opened the thread.

>>466718>>466722
Otherlad is half right. It's coming back to iPlayer soon, but I don't know exactly when.

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159689045321991&id=647886990

>>466724
I caught a bit of Two Pints last night while I was looking for something to watch. It was a lot worse than I remembered.

>did an imperialism

>>466705
>Ideal
This one always passed me as a overly dull and dirty sitcom that I never bothered getting in to, and as such I keep skipping the weekend thread thinking it's one of those clubs that isn't for me, like watches and investments.

For a while I'd been thinking about trying to write a sitcom around a tallented trainee chef who sold drugs from his flat, much the same as Ideal appears to be. The programme would have had decent cooking sections where the protagonist would be video reccording their own recipes, when inevitably they'd be interrupted by customers and antics. I wasn't sure if the chef should be cooking pot noodle with added peas, something fancy or somewhere inbetween, like student (or viewer demographic) appropriate.

I'd never have actually made it, just liked the idea and thought it could have worked at some point.

Talking of which, do people do Drama skits on Youtube? I've seen no end of comedy, but straying from that seems a death sentence for any channel.

>>466738

It's to mimic the wield infantile way shipping forecasting Twitter types often speak. Heckin wholsomerino pupper doggio. You know.

>>466739
You're missing out. It's very surreal to the level I've not really seen any other show get to and Jenny ends up as an example of an idiot character who ends up being written well and the audience has a moment of reflection.

>>466731
>I don't think the average person really genuinely has the principles to process that
Think rather highly of yourself, don't you?

I know they're excited, but the way SpaceX have all the staff counting down and cheering like dickheads for every launch is so naff and embarrassing.

>>466743

It's a remarkable achievement that SpaceX have made space travel boring. They send up several rockets per month, catch those rockets on the return journey with a drone ship and it's too uneventful for anyone to care. Boeing get the headlines by being quite shit at putting things in space.

Just got a few squirts of concentrated thick bleach in my eyes while trying to clean a cruddy surface in the garden. It really stung. Google said to rinse it with plenty of tap water and watch for redness, pain, swelling or loss of vision. I guess I was lucky because so far, 45 minutes later, all I've got is a bit of redness in the corner of my left eye.

Oh lads you've got to save me from the consequences of my own actions. Since winter kicked in a switch has been flipped in my brain and I've been eating rich, spicy foods and generally proper giving my delicate guts a good kicking. Absolutely pissing out my arse, getting heartburn and woke up dizzy today.

Tomorrow evening I'm taking someone out for a pizza date as well. It's one of those nice tiny establishments doing proper Italian pizza with only one basic shitter and if it goes too well I might even end up pebble-dashing my dates bathroom. Any tips on how I can survive this one? I'd rather not get kicked out from my favourite pizza place and end up starving to death.

>>466744
I don't think SpaceX have made space travel boring. What I think is Elon Musk makes anything within his proximity massively lame, and I don't think I'm out on a limb when I say Musk might be the most uncool person alive right now. He's also a colossal bullshit merchant, so when he's involved most people get a bit suspiscious no matter what the reality is. As far as I know his involvement at SpaceX is basically just being kept happy enough to keep the money coming so the scientists are able to real work, but you have to drill down at least a little bit to know this and many people are immediately put off by seeing the badly dressed silhouette of Elon Musk dumping around.

>>466755
Nah, not otherlad but it's obvious SpaceX has now done so many mental things that it's ended up feeling humdrum. NASA had this same problem with the space shuttle launches which is why they sent Homer Simpson into space.

If Alan Sugar was catching rockets in the air in the mid-00s between selling premium bonds then we'd have been dead impressed. Same with how quickly we've become accustomed to AI and whatever other wonders of the world that are not even on our radar at the moment. Technology is just like that, it starts with an initial wonder and then we quickly integrate it into our lives as the mundane.

>As far as I know his involvement at SpaceX is basically just being kept happy enough to keep the money coming so the scientists are able to real work, but you have to drill down at least a little bit to know this and many people are immediately put off by seeing the badly dressed silhouette of Elon Musk dumping around.

Feels like a cope to me. He can be mental AND have nearly lost everything on huge bets for the future, actually driven for something that wasn't even being thought about until we have Falcons proving it could be done, made EVs a thing etc. That's more or less the norm for this kind of person who ends up a CEO and pumps out start-ups - I'm not even trying to be a fanboy but there's a lot of criticism of him that feels more grasping than it should be, he's a billionaire that has both gone up his own arse and done too many drugs which should be the focus.

>>466756

I think far worse than just becoming mundane, many people are becoming very pessimistic about technology, in an almost reactionary way. AI is a very good example of that, and of course it's easy to understand why, there are a great many things to be concerned about with it. But it is still sad, to me, to see people not just being unexcited by new developments and technology that can do amazing things, but actively hostile towards it.

I think it really comes down to the people and companies who are pushing it, and the direction it's all moving in. I used to be a massive techy geek as a teenager, I was always reading magazines like T3 and what have you, I loved seeing things progress from cassette walkmans (walkmen?) to CD players to minidiscs to MP3. Digital cameras going from bricks to sexy compacts to ubiquitous on everyone's phone. But I think there was a distinct change once smartphones came about, and everything has been sort of souring ever since.

I remember in one of my early jobs as a tech support money for PCWorld/Curry's, I immediately came to loathe tablets and chromebooks and all that guff. They were supposed to be more user friendly and idiot proof but the reality is they ended up being much more awkward to do anything with because they restricted the user so much. I'd end up having a lot of conversations with customers where I basically had to tell them "sorry nah, you should have bought an actual computer, this piece of shit won't do what you're after because they haven't made a specific app to do it". And technology has only continued down that road ever since- It's a bit better nowadays because everything DOES have the specific app to do what people want with it, but it's still worse than what we had before for anybody who's remotely knowledgeable. This is why I have a computer hooked up to every TV in my home, fuck a Roku or a firestick or anything like that, an actual PC does everything they do, and more, and infinitely better.

We have VR tech that would have made my childhood self piss myself with excitement, but it's marketed by a soulless lizardman like Zuckerberg who just wants to use it to sell cheap shitty mobile gacha games to kids. We have made in credible advancements in possibilities, but what we actually do with it has all gone horribly wrong somewhere.

>>466747
>heartburn
I've been getting this a lot lately thanks to all the biscuits. You might try lining your stomach with Gavoscon or something similar, otherwise I've found mild foods to relieve heartburn effectively.

I saw an interview with Noam Chomsky recently and he looks almost exactly like King Theoden while under Saruman's thrall.

Can't have long left in him.

Having kids is weird. I now say "womp womp" far more than I ever thought I would.

>>466730

It's not like the jokes in most sitcoms were BRILLIANT or boundary pushing, they were just vanilla status quo slop too, it's just that the status quo back then was a little more casually discriminatory.

Personally I don't really give a fuck about "offensive" comedy, because making a joke about how your girlfriend is secretly a man and lied about it just isn't that funny to me. The people who say "you couldn't say that nowadays" are largely talking about very basic bland jokes that just happen to use race or gender as a starting point.

I don't think anyone would say you couldn't make brass eye today, despite it being BRILLIANT and offensive. I don't think people stop long enough to notice the difference.

>>466822

Brass Eye would have more ammunition than ever today, but I remember watching a great interview with Morris where he says that he considers all the crazy stuff we hear and see thanks to the internet today to be low hanging fruit. Back in the 90s/00s Brass Eye was on the fringe, it was ahead of its time, casting a perspective on things that you wouldn't get in the mainstream; but over the years time has caught up with it, to the point that today that kind of absurdist skeptical cycnicism has become the norm in many respects.

Anyone in need of an urn?

https://www.sportsdirect.com/studio-cremation-urn-720747

>>466822
>Personally I don't really give a fuck about "offensive" comedy, because making a joke about how your girlfriend is secretly a man and lied about it just isn't that funny to me.

Yeah, you just can't even suggest it though otherwise your entire career will be destroyed and you'll have bricks put through your windows. Thanks for telling us what is and isn't funny though, must be a full-time job.

>>466824
Why does Sports Direct illustrate its browser tabs with a Russian flag?

>>466826

As a mark of respect for their spiritual home.

>>466826
Russia does not own the bastardised tri colore.

Can somebody get me some dirty pictures of Ash Sarkar, thanks.

>>466829

No.

>>466829

Find someone decent to wank over.

>>466829

Marxists aren't sexy.

Can you lads go five minutes without being so thirsty?

>>466833
I can, but only because I'm fairly confident I've already fumbled the woman I was supposed to marry so seeing photos of Ash Sarkar eating an ice cream in the sun feels like being kicked in the knee.

>>466830
>>466831
>>466832

You're quite right, I don't know what I was thinking, but it definitely had nothing to do with her riding my face.

Made a minestrone tonight with some leftover fresh vegetables and broken up spaghetti noodles. Only thing I had left in the fridge.

Went a bit crazy with the homegrown chili pepper I've put in it, but I've got a good spicy food tolerance.

You know how after the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia was so desperate for cash that they let tourists go on the Mir space station and sold off fighter jets to mad American billionaires, yeah? Do you reckon if the Chinese economy collapses they might let me fuck a panda?

>>466841
Fucking Keith Lard over here thinking he can get his end away by using legal chicanery.
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/pandas-dogs-painted-chinese-zoo-b2542801.html

>>466825

>Thanks for telling us what is and isn't funny though, must be a full-time job.

I believe I said "it just isn't that funny to me"

Do you need me to explain what that bit at the end means for you?

I was serving cunt someone in the shop today and she had one earphone in and one out. I could hear a static-like sound that I thought was the hardest hardcore band over absolutely going for it, but just as I was about to ask who she was listening to she put her phone on the counter for a moment and I realised she was watching a video of someone sandblasting a wall.

>>466965

Reminds me of this funny meme format. You can change the genre to something else and then insert your own joke about something silly that it sounds like. I have seen the movie and in this part he is doing the funny head grooving movements because he's really into it, so in the context of the meme that makes it funny because it's just noise. That's the joke, you see.

>>466966
I think we should see other people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv0KhW-c3Nk

>>466970
Striking while the iron's hot, I see.

Fucking mad how stagnant British culture feels, in some respects. The kidnapping happened sixteen years ago. Were people in 2006 going on about stuff from 1990, or does the internet just make it harder to move on? It makes ceaselessly bringing up Raoul Moat for over a decade seem positively timely. It's also bizarre to me how much of a, for want of a better word, fascination there is over paedo-ing in this country. People just bring it up apropos of nothing, like it was football or the weather. I only make this latter point because the top rated comment is by "SirJimmySavileOBEKCSG", who appears to run a sort of ironic Jimmy Savile stan account. The "musical" itself does it too, albeit with slightly more justification.

I realise now it's not impossible you posted this because you were involved it somehow. However, if you make shit, someone's going to complain about the smell.

>>466971
It's by Kunt and the Gang. They ran out of good ideas about 10 years ago, with Shannon Matthews the Musical originally released in 2010. I'm not sure why they've decided to revive it as a film now, unless it is to do with them running out of new ideas.

>>466972
Blimey, it's not exactly "Men With Beards". Kunt and the Gang have always been the embodiment of "hit or miss", but if you can't think of new materiel for your daft songs when daft stuff hasn't stopped happening for the past half a decade I don't know what to tell you; quit the day job? Again? Especially when if you want to, literally, get technical about it there's no good reason for parts of even the trailer to look and sound like shit. Students on no budget know how to do colour grading and get consistent audio, if you're not able to do those things after crowdfunding a project and making videos since phones had actual buttons then you're just a sweary ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.

>it's by Kunt and the Gang

>Happened sixteen years ago

I feel like you have now got your answer given the name is a reference to a band that was relevant over 40 years ago.

>>466973

>ThatGuyWithTheGlasses

He has gotten a lot of hatred in the last few years where as the angry video game nerd has gotten a lot of reverence and I'm not entirely sure of the difference probably their emotional sincerity, Doug's delivery is stale, the current crop of internet film critics will look just as stale in 10 years I'm sure

Lindsay Elis saw the writing on the wall of the toxicity of her attack methodology when it was turned against her which is why she has largely bugged out.

I think the hatred for Doug comes from because he represents a fantasy we had as teenagers that we had to grow out of, of making films with mates sleeping on couches and roughing it and he just carried on for a decade without any advance. The red letter media boys strike me as not actually being able to make anything better, the way they talked about space cop literally after they just made it leads me to believe there is a level of ego defense that they are afraid to try sincerely.

Is it better to never try and avoid embarrassment and embrace the mediocrity of being middle aged denying you had dreams. bug out when you get a moment of self reflection Or to do what you love with seemingly in defiance of all criticism? I think I admire Doug Walker more than I should.

>>466974
Right, I didn't know it was Kunt and the Gang though, did I? Because honestly it seemed too shit to be something he'd done.

I also don't "hate" ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. He's shit, he's boring and he hasn't improved basically any of his skills ever. The workings of cameras, microphones and lighting set-ups are not arcane knowledge locked behind impossibly high barriers to entry, you can find this stuff out yourself. Indeed, you should find this stuff out yourself if you want to film stuff. Overlooking it is daft, not least because the embarrassment of being Doug Walker isn't that he's making videos, it's that he does so in such shoddy fashion. It's not embarrassing to play a guitar in your forties, but it would be embarrassing to be showing up at open mics still not knowing how to tune it. I don't think it's admirable to seemingly not give a shit about getting the basics right, that should be what you realise in any moments of self-reflection.

>>466974
I can't remember anything embarassing AVGN or Cinemassacre have done. When people found Mike Matei's comics that wasn't great, but it wasn't a big splash.

TGWTG have a 73 page document compiled by previous contributors about failings in the company. Allegations of sexual assault, bullying. Then you've got the Linkara's sissy eating shit fantasy, Spoony's entire existence, the flop of Demo Reel and the game shows. 3.5 hour long movies that were masturbatory in nature.

I think Doug did a good job getting where he did, but he's had a lot more controversy's than good guy James Rolfe.

>>466976
Sorry for the bad grammar with "controversy's" when it should be "controversies".

>>466974

>Lindsay Elis saw the writing on the wall of the toxicity of her attack methodology when it was turned against her which is why she has largely bugged out.

I still remember predicting this years before it happened, and saying so on this very website, to the derision of fisherlad and his allies. I am still smug about it.

I think the thing with Doug Walker is that he was good in like, the 2006-2012 era of the internet when we were all about roughly on that level of maturity ourselves. We didn't realise how undercooked his "takes" were, a lot of people took his critiques seriously, even if we knew they were also intended in a kind of juvenile way. But you couldn't take him seriously like that anymore, after the The Wall thing.

I think the one to look at is Yahtzee, from Zero Punctuation. I've been watching his videos pretty much week in, week out, every Wednesday since mid 2007. It's a ritual, and a very comforting one which brings me a great sense of stability. I can sense the ways in which he has changed. I know I have changed. But Zero Punctuation is still Zero Punctuation (even if it's now called Fully Ramblomatic). He's the kind of guy who knew that if it ain't broke, don't fix it; people first started watching him for snarky deadpan game reviews and they keep watching him for snarky deadpan game reviews. He has done other things, he's written books and podcasts and all that sort of wank, but I can tell he knows, those are all just vanity projects, and that really he'd be nowhere without the snarky deadpan videogame reviews. So that's why he has kept doing them, almost entirely unchanged.

I sense RedLetterMedia have that same understanding. It's something I understand as a musician, even when I try to push my boundaries into doing something new, there's always still the type of music I'm really good at and comfortable making, that I settle back into. It might not be the exact music I want to make at that moment, I might really want to do something else, but fighting against it is always futile. Your comfort zone is there for a reason and I think it pays to be mindful of it.

Some of you lads are chronically online.

>>466979
I would be quite happy never talking about Doug Walker ever again in my life and never having to see otherlad be a being weird chronic masturbator about Linsay Ellis either. I just wanted slag off Kunt's bad audio and shitty lighting, like a normal person.

>>466979
>>466980

The important thing is... etc

You know really this is a very toxic attitude to have. Just a sneering derision for people expressing opinions. How about you fuck off outside then? Leave us terminally online autists to it if you don't want to take part.

>>466981
You're the one who started going off on his own Channel Awesome related tangent. I may have mentioned him first, but I clearly wasn't trying to start a debate about TGWTG. Not least of all because it's incredibly well covered ground at this point.

>>466983

No I'm not.

Shut up all of you! Only people who are chronically online even know what that means. We can't keep living like this, that teenager just started posting here so we have to set some kind of example.

Or not, whatever, I don't really care. What I was actually wondering is how weird is it to go to a gig alone? Is that normal? Will they laugh at me? Call me a freak? Will they check my shoes for mirrors? They should, I look like the type.

>>466983

No I was the one who went on a channel awesome related tangent because talking about the psyche of the rise and fall of people is more interesting Then I went away from the computer for a bit, sorry to interrupt your pedestrian observation that something looks a bit shit I didn't know you've already covered the ground of the frailty of the human condition before.

Not sure it is a particularly chronic masturbator take to note when you build your persona around being an over analysing cultural moral judge falling on your sword when you accidentally 'dogwhistle' about how slinty eyed Chinamen are on twitter is probably the best option, it is mostly an observation of facts that happened.

>>466985
>We can't keep living like this, that teenager just started posting here so we have to set some kind of example.

Teenlad knew full well what he was letting himself in for, joining a niche forum for shed and Carol Vorderman enthusiasts.

>>466985
>What I was actually wondering is how weird is it to go to a gig alone?
I don't really like live music and the one time I ever went to see a band I liked play live it was indie pinkos New Model Army, in Southampton in 2008, I went on my own and it was completely fine. Nobody cared. I felt a bit awkward being there on my own, and I'm sure the experience would have been a lot better with friends who liked the same music as me, but the other people there did not care at all.

>>466985

It depends how comfortable you are striking up smalltalk with strangers in the smoking area in between the support acts, otherwise you will have a lot of standing about awkwardly by yourself with a beer in your hand. But once the acts are playing it's not like you can hear anyone speak so it makes no difference.

Most of the gigs I have been to (which has been as a performer much more often than as audience member, albeit) are smaller scale local gigs and that's really most of the reason you want to be there, the bands are half of it but the other half is just to meet the people who are part of your "scene". If that's the sort of gig you go to nobody's going to find it particularly weird if you are on your own and tag onto their group for a chat.

>>466989
Her vanity is repulsive but there is something very attractive about her. I think the contrast between her good and terrible photos adds a lot to this. Also the captain hat triggers that newly wired cosplay circuit in my brain.

This evening, my hot lefty wank will be Grace Blakely. She's about my age and I imagine she'd let a working class lad like me give her a hard filthy rutting but she would never settle for me as a long term partner. She'd use me and then throw me away. Mmmfff.

>>466985
Some of the best nights of my life are when I went out on my own regardless of my friends. I've also discovered friends had shared tastes I didn't even know about by bumping into them at a gig.

It is a terrible crippling neurotic disease that we teach eachother that we can't risk going out by ourselves. Typically the people who make fun of someone for it are showing their true colours. There are others who will see it as a really amiable quality.

>>466995
She's very generic looking. I'm not saying she isn't fit, but you'll see at least one woman who looks like her wherever you go.

>>466997

Yes, but they're not a clever as she is are they. I think I might be what pretentious cunts call a "sapiosexual".

>>466995
She's no Ash Sarkar though is she? Dusky beauty Ash. Desi princess Ash. Grace is just a standard white woman. Not like exotic queen Ash.

I've not had a trick or treater in over 20 years but I still buy sweets every year on the off chance some children turn up. It's unfortunate that there's all these sweets and nobody but me to eat them. Very unfortunate indeed.

One bag has been snaffled already. I have a second for Thursday night.

>>466995
>my hot lefty wank

Do you use your left hand? That would be more interesting.

>>466999

What do you think I am, a racist? It's obviously the way she kept even Big Daddy Zizek on topic in an interview that got me going, not the colour of her skin.

^{... You reckon she's into that, though?}

>>466998

I know nothing about her but one looks at her bio lead me to a belief that she is of the Laurie Penny's school of left wing philosophy 'that is took good for the likes of the working class filth' you may correct me if I'm wrong but I would rather the other half didn't insist to me that we are all in this together.

My local Asda had a special offer on chestnuts tonight. £2.50 for a 400g net. Just put them in the oven. One of my favourite things about year-end season.

>>467003

Nah, she's not one of them. Laurie Penny is a posh bird with luxury beliefs who pretends to be a lefty. Grace Blakely is a democratic socialist who is mostly concerned with workers being enfranchised in the workplace.

Neither of them would consider the likes of us good enough, but that's more just a woman thing than a political thing. One wonders what traits women would use to evaluate their partner's value and compare status with their peers if we did live in a socialist utopia where everyone was equal.

>>467006

Instagram followers.

Eating one croissant feels like a cop out, eating two feels like self-abuse.

And don't be so bloody pessimistic, you lot could easily marry up. Well, if you'd stop being such miserable weirdos for five minutes you could.

>>467009
Depends on the size of the croissant.

>>467011
Not to me, I barely even like them. I should have done what I've been doing and carried on replacing every culinary vice I have with muesli, which while leaving me eating more like a medieval pauper than most, is probably still better overall than the modern equivalent.

>>467012
Have you tried a proper croissant? I find it isn't uncommon for people to say they dislike something only for it to turn out they've only ever had a cheap supermarket version and not the authentic thing.

I like them tesco croissants that are stuffed with chocolate.

If you look Indian and do a bit of standup, you could call your show 'Blunt Force Korma'. Saying that, can anyone think of other words that rhyme with 'trauma'?

>>467017
>can anyone think of other words that rhyme with 'trauma'?

Norma Former, lives in a dormer getting warmer by eating korma.

>>467017
Is "Stormer" a word?

>>467017

You'd have to cheat a bit and pronounce something with an A in the middle in a very posh RP kind of way. Like, pyjorma. Dali lorma. Barack Oborma.

Went foraging for sweet chestnuts today. I think I've left it a little late this year and most of what was left was shite, so I've only ended up with about a dozen decent ones.

I think I may have told an autistic 15 year old with sensory issues to listen to The Prodigy today. It's probably fine.

>>467019
Yes, but "Blunt Force Stormer" sounds a bit to close to the knuckle for even the most "anti-woke" of comedy nights.

>>467023

Get them a MIDI keyboard and a trial copy of Ableton and you might have just inspired the next Aphex Twin. I think music is one of the better paths to set young people with autistic tendencies down, because it gives them a shot at getting laid instead of just turning out as an anime wierdo.

Worked for me anyway.

Watching the movie Sleepy Hollow in 5.1 surround at the moment. Ace.

I'm sort of tentatively in the market for a Denon 7.1 amp, mainly for its DAB functionality and better connectivity with modern media, but my 25 year old Onkyo 5.1 is well capable of delivering great sound.

>>467024
>Get them a MIDI keyboard and a trial copy of Ableton
I think it speaks to my own, lack of, maturity that I was thinking of doing exactly that for myself. Also I'm technically their superior at work so that might look like grooming/I'm not that generous.

Just got bot banned from the 2M-subscriber /r/justiceserved for having the temerity to post in a different 1.4M subscriber subrudgwicksteamshow.co.uk. Apparently the former has a blacklist of 175 subrudgwicksteamshow.co.uks they deem too accepting of right-wing rhetoric and views and will purge anyone and everyone for participating in wrongthink even if your posts there are unambiguously apolitical.

I read that if you want to be unbanned you have to bend the knee and promise to never even read the verboten subrudgwicksteamshow.co.uk again.

Totally bizarre behaviour by the jannies.

>>467086
I can barely contain my indifference.

>>467086
I could almost begin to sympathise until you said "jannies" and now I think you should have been killed instead!

>>467088
Sympathy isn't what I was going for. In thirteen years I've posted once in /r/JusticeServed and nine times in the other place. It's no loss for me; I was just taken aback by how seriously these self-righteous wankers take themselves.

>>467086
I think /r/adviceanimals is being astroturfed. Pretty much every post is anti-Trump, which is fair enough but it's so excessive it looks forced.

Either the Dems are so retarded they use 15+ year old meme formats to connect with younger voters; or the Reps are so clever that they make it look like Dems are so retarded they use 15+ year old meme formats to connect with younger voters in order to make the Dems look bad and actually convert voters to Reps.

Could be Russia or Israel or China too for their special reasons. Either way it doesn't seem realistic that this many people are engaging with Advice Animals.

>>467089
Okay. I still think you should be killed and then killed again for posting in the weekend thread on a Wednesday.

>>467088

>>467093

When did you realise Limmy hasn't made comedy for a decade and he's seeing how far he can push the totally mundane before his audience clocks on? This is just him doing a reading of erotica.

>>467096
That's from 2006, several years prior to Limmy's Show being broadcast, you daft sod. He's done plenty of comedy in the past decade, it's just been on lives streams and in books. His streams aren't really my thing, or rather live streams in general aren't my thing, but that's still "doing comedy".

>>467097
Sorry, I meant "well over a decade".

If you've not vaped for a week due to not going to the vape shop, and feel no physical ill effects, is it worth just not vaping forever?

>>467128
You will always be better off not putting crap in your lungs even if it is Minty. Take it as a positive you're not feeling any withdrawal and escape.

>>467128

>>467133

What do you mean "is it worth it"? You'll save money for a start, nevermind when it starts getting taxed to fuck, and not having an addictive habit is really the optimal state to be in no matter which way you look at it. I say that as a dedicated nicotine enjoyer myself.

Vaping is of negligible harm but really it's about the same as asking yourself "is it worth cutting down how much sugar I put in my brew" or "is it worth going for more walks". They're not going to make a life changing difference but the answer is always yes, and the only reason you wouldn't is if you really enjoy it. Which, clearly, you don't, or you wouldn't be asking.

>>467136
It kept my hands busy and I don't know what else I can do to keep my hands busy while walking around town that's socially acceptable.

I am going to tell you three things.

Firstly, my £50,000 in premium bonds won a grand total of £25 this month.

Secondly, I've fucked up my poo clock. I used to do a big poo not long after waking up but now I do a little poo in an evening followed by whatever is left a couple of hours after waking up

Lastly, I went to a murder mystery meal last night and I may have seen the .gs dream woman there (not mine though). She was in her late 40s, wore a leopard print dress that her large bosom was nearly spilling out of and she was very drunk so she was cackling like a banshee and saying things like how she'd love to deep throat Cillian Murphy even though she isn't usually into that sort of thing.

Why doesn't the default MS caladar have any organisation functionality, it doesn't make sense. You can't even set a future reminder, for christs sake.

If you were given an unlimited budget to remake any movie, what would it be and what spin would you put on it?

No cop out "I'd make an original movie", I want to hear ideas to remake things in interesting ways.

>>467155
I'd pay someone to kill you for making me look at AI slop.

>>467156

I'm sorry your parents didn't love you, Anon.

>>467157
That's BRILLIANT. I can see why you need a rights-infringing, CSAM-funnel to think of your ideas for you.

Anecdotally most people seem to agree that generative AI is a load of shite. The only ones who don't seem to be tech hype-men, the middle aged and up who don't know any better and the scammers quietly using it to rip-off and trick the previous group. Maybe my exposure is biased because I mostly speak to people who have at least a modicum of respect and appriciation for human effort and creativity, not to mention the proper crediting of those things.

Even on a technical level the image you posted shows that it still can't make faces that don't look like shiny fashion model siblings, or avoid putting a Master Chief in the background for no reason. Another five internets worth of datasets ought to fix it.

>>467155
Let's go with Street Fighter. Everyone said it was shit, but I honestly like it. It's like Flash Gordon. You could make it with that self-aware hilarity but make it slightly more obvious, and everyone would realise how good the idea always was. This suggestion has the added bonus that it's guaranteed to lose money, so if you're trying to steal our ideas and pitch them as your own, good luck spending unlimited money on remaking fucking Street Fighter.

>>467158

Fucking christ mate, go the fuck outside. Talk to a person. Have a wank. It's a post on an imageboard with a silly picture attached. It's not ending the world. Why are you such a histrionic fucking dickhead.

>>467160
It's not "histrionic" to know something is shit. I don't like looking at it and just because you're an unthinking berk with no taste, doesn't mean I have to be.

Had some hot Gluhwein from Lidl yesterday. It's definitely nice, but I woke up with a splitting headache this morning after drinking about half of the one-litre bottle.

>>467155

Terry Gilliam's Brazil. It's such a strange and idiosyncratic film, so specifically bound to the auteur behind it and the culture that it came from. A remake might be terrible or brilliant, but it would undoubtedly be interesting.

>>467154

Because they want to sell you Outlook.

>>467161

Your first response to a picture on the internet was suggesting you would like to have someone killed. That's not at all proportionate. It is the very definition of histrionic.

I think chart music is shit, because it is, but I'm not declaring The Great Whale Hunt on the lads talking about their favourite female singers.

>>467163

I think the era it was made in complemented the atmosphere perfectly due to the state of special effects at the time. All the props and miniature effects add to the surrealism, I think some of that would be lost with the inevitable CGI in a remake.

>>467163
Oh man, Brazil is enough as it is.It took me a week just to get over the ending. Maybe that angel fight dream sequence could be better, but over all it's a great film.

>>467163

I need to watch that again, at the time either I just didn't really get it or I wasn't in the right frame of mind, but it seemed like quite a directionless film with a plot that kind of goes nowhere. Coming to it after Twelve Monkeys, which I think is probably one of my favourite films of all time, and where the surreality and the plot come together much more coherently, it was a bit of a let down.

That's actually one of the things that got me thinking about this in the first place. Twelve Monkeys can loosely be called a remake of La Jetée, a French art film from the 1960s. Scarface is a remake, The Thing, The Fly, Apocalypse Now... All remakes. Some of the best films ever made, are in fact remakes, yet today, remake is a byword for shite.

I kind of want to try and shag a feminine bloke. I'm not gay, I just want to see what it's like, you know? That and going for women isn't really working out...

>>467169

It's not easy sadly mate. It's even harder than shagging lasses if anything. A good femboy has the market absolutely cornered.

>>467168

It's difficult, but the directionlessness is really the point. It's a portrait of a society that has descended into complete dysfunction for no appreciable reason. The awful things that happen are almost entirely pointless, they're just the machinations of a broken system. I think that's why it'd be so interesting to re-make. It's a film that looks very dated and idiosyncratic, but the themes are incredibly pertinent to today - it's Broken Britain taken to the nth degree.

At the back of my mind, I'm thinking of Alfonso Cuarón's adaptation of Children of Men. The film bears almost no resemblance to the P.D. James novel it was ostensibly based on, but does something far more interesting and more relevant with the core theme.

Along similar lines, I think a decent director could do something incredible with Vittoria De Sica's Bicycle Thieves.

>>467172

I think that's part of what stopped me getting into it, it's a very relatable kind of dystopia, but the aesthetics are all very much those of an era I have no real reference point to.

A modern update where the protagonist works in a sprawling open plan office and gets arrested for not enabling 2FA which then doesn't work because you need to change your password but it won't let you into the password change screen because that also needs a confirmation code but it gets sent to your other email and then tried and found guilty by a social media algorithm would make a good episode of Black Mirror, perhaps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Z8oovH6lo

She's slipping a bit.

I found out last night that I live much closer than I thought to a branch of John Lewis. I hate shopping online, so this was excellent news for buying top-quality expensive versions of household items that are only available in shitty Chinese quality from more local retailers like B&M. At last, I have a really nice knife and fork, and a new oven glove to replace my old one which has a hole in it and also appears to be growing mould on one side.

One of the first things I saw when I went in there was a duvet that cost £700. I very nearly panicked and left again when I saw that. They also sell wall clocks, which reminded me that I wanted a digital wall clock so I can see the time at a glance when I get up for a piss in the middle of the night. Did you know that it's impossible to buy a battery-powered digital wall clock? You can't get one anywhere. Not just John Lewis; nowhere on the planet sells them. You can get drop-shipped Chinese ones off eBay and Amazon because I've been looking for the past two hours, but they're all the same two or three made by reputable Oriental manufacturers such as AGSIVO and Digoo, and those three clocks need to be plugged in. Battery-powered digital LED wall clocks simply do not exist.

>>467177

You can get battery-powered LCD clocks, but LEDs use way too much power. Nobody wants a clock that burns through 4 AA batteries every week.

>>467178
Actually I love fires in recycling plants so I would love that.

I want to go get a big bar of chocolate and some pop but all the shops with automated checkouts are shut and I don't want to be judged by the 24 hour corner-shop blokes. Hopefully they'll just think I'm stoned instead of a bored fat twat.

Lily Allen selling feet pics on OnlyFans is the least surprising news of 2024.

This girl came up on my YouTube, in a video about The Wicker Man remake. Has someone posted about her in a guilty would thread or something. She seems prime britfa wank fodder.

>>467184
Her feet are quite pedestrian, no pun intended. They look clean and well looked after but they're not particularly visually appealing. Normies wouldn't be put off by her feet, but connoiseurs wouldn't be excited.

>>467186

I can't respect it at all. If you're a washed up ex-celeb hard up for cash, at least sell some proper fucking nudes. You're Lily Allen. Nobody is going to be either particularly shocked nor give two fucks to see you getting railed from both ends. You want the porn money without doing the porn, and it's a spit in the face of hard working OF thots everywhere.

>>467186
That's Maggie Mae Fish. I don't know anything more than her name.

Also, stop thinking about what .gs would like to wank to. That goes for me and otherlad too, let's knock this on the head right now. This is going to end up like some kind of parasocial Jez and Mark situation if we're not careful.

I, for one, think we should normalise talking about what we wank to more often.

This one came up on my YouTube, and I definitely thought, "Corr, I don't even like star trek, but she can beam me up any time she likes". I thought one of you has probably already called dibs on her though so I didn't have a wank to her.

(It's only weird if we're both wanking to the same one at the same time. So we're definitely going to have to scrap over Ash Sarkar at some point.)

>>467194

You could always arrange a rota.

I went alpaca trekking today, I'd highly recommend it.

>>467194
She was discussed here before, all I can remember is that she was compared unfavourably with Jenny Nicholson.

>>467194
>I, for one, think we should normalise talking about what we wank to more often.

90% of posts on this board are idiots boasting about wanking to incredibly average women off the internet or TV, isn't that good enough for you?

I remember as a teenager in the Internet Café where we'd all go to play CS and C&C Generals multi-player, there was this sad bald anorak who seemed old at the time but was probably early middle aged, he'd come in to sit in the corner browsing Geocities pages of TV presenter upskirts. I don't know what point I'm getting at here other than that some of you give off a similar vibe. Come on lads, you're better than that.

>>467207

>Come on lads, you're better than that.

Really?

>>467207

How old are you, out of curiosity?

I watched the first episode of My Wife, My Abuser on Netflix. It's about a guy who was domestically abused by his wife for 20 years, then at some point he started recording the abuse and ended up going to the police and she got arrested etc. She was pretty mean, she smashed wine glasses on his head and beat him all over with wine bottles and slashed his tyres etc. And she said really mean stuff to him. But they lived a normal upper middle class life, had kids.

She was, in her youth at least, rather pretty, and she was a Geordie. She was an alcoholic. Where am I going with this? Is being beaten up by a beautiful drunk Geordie every day for 20 years really so bad? (I know it is bad, domestic violence is bad, but who hasn't fantasised about being treated like shit by a woman like the one in the Peep Show ep where Jeremy is on jury duty?)

>>467274
I didn't think it was possible for this place to sink to a new low when it comes to women, yet here you are.

>>467274

Are you wealthy by any chance? I find it's always men with too much money who want women to treat them terribly. I can solve this problem for you by taking all of that money off your hands. I'll call you names too if you want.

>>467274
I would also assume that if you allow yourself to be treated like that, not on purpose but because you are being abused by a woman, you might well have the type of docile personality where absolutely everyone else you meet will walk all over you too. There comes a point where maybe it actually is okay to hit a woman, and these abusive relationships are doubly shameful for the victim because everyone else thinks you should just fight back. If you don’t, think about how you probably get treated at work, and by your friends. I am quite the doormat, but if I get violently assaulted by a woman, I’m definitely going to at least try to defend myself.

I'm just now hearing that this is the dumbest exchange in .gs history. Well done, everyone.

>>467277
If he fought back she'd scream out of the window "stop hitting me" and threaten to smash her head into a mirror to cut it up and say he beat her. Then she said she'd get a restraining order against him and he'll never see the kids again. Admittedly that sort of BPD mindgames abuse isn't as sexy as being beaten up.

Oh no, I vaguely recall someone paying £10 for a homeless lass to suck him off after he watched her playing piano in a train station. That was the low.

>>467281

Looks like I missed an opportunity when a drug addict lass begged me for a fiver a while ago outsisde that one Lidl.

Got my open fireplace going again tonight.

Nothing beats an open fire in the middle of your livingroom. A lot of people have had their fireplace dismantled nowadays, but I will keep mine just the way it is.

>>467294
Carcinogenic novelty item.

Once again today I told someone to check out It's Always Sunny without telling them to start on the third series. I've done this so many times I'm starting to think I owe Rob, Charlie and Glenn an apology.

>>467295

>Carcinogenic novelty item.

Virtually every fireplace used to be an open fireplace. You didn't hear people in the 1800s moan about particulate matter. And they worked in the coal mines every day.

I went out with an old mate I used to do drugs with when we were younger, had a few pints and shared a couple spliffs for old times sake but I'd not had one in years. Fucking whitied right away and threw up in the pub garden, sat out there for an hour and got a taxi home. Mixture of an empty stomach and smoking spliffs like they were ciggies.

Didn't think I'd grow up to still be a daft twat but here I am.

>>467297
And now they’re all dead.

>>467299
It might be a little hard for you to understand but people don't live to be 200 years old.

>>467299

They would have been anyway.

I'm all for saving the environment, but people have burned wood since the beginning of our species. It's going to have a bigger impact when eight billion of us do it versus the few million that lived in the Stone Age. But it's still a more environmentally friendly way of generating heat and energy than burning fossil fuels like oil or gas.

I know I'll keep my fireplace. A lot of people nowadays have had their old-style fireplace bricked up or dismantled, but to me it also means that a bit of culture and tradition is lost. And as an estate agent, I can tell you that a fireplace in working condition is still a plus for many people who are looking to buy a family home. Especially with our current energy crisis. It's become a bit of a rarity, and it doesn't go unnoticed by potential clients when you are selling a home that still has one.

A proper fireplace is a nice novelty in a pub on a cold December Sunday afternoon (after you've been for the walk and had the sunday roast, obvs). The problem with using them for home heating isn't the carbon impact, it's the air pollution. It's one of those things where you might think it's okay because you're one of the few people doing it, but that's a fundamentally self centred point of view. You have to think on the principle that everyone should be able to do it, and if so, what impact it'd have.

Air quality in our cities is bad enough, and it's one of those things a lot of people dismiss as woke nonsense or something, but I had asthma when I was a kid that I assumed had gone away as I got older. It wasn't until moving out and living in the city for a few years, it came back, and I would be woken in the night by athsma attacks pretty frequently. Since moving out of the city again, and I haven't had any issues at all for years.

Breathing all the pollution constantly when you live in a city is bad for you in exactly the same way as smoking. I don't know why people aren't more bothered about it.

>>467301
Don’t fireplaces make the room colder if there isn’t a fire them? Or do your customers not care about that?

>>467303

Most fireplaces have a damper, or at least it's a good idea to have a damper. It's basically a hatch at the top of the fireplace that can be closed off so that no cold air can flow down into the room from the flue. It can also keep small wildlife like birds or rodents from entering.

>>467303

Not that lad but I have watched enough daytime TV to know people pay daft money for "period features" like fireplaces and single glazed sash windows, even though they make the house colder, draughty and less heat efficient. The property market is often very illogical, largely because of the slant towards property as an investment asset and not a functional commodity.

>>467305

Also there's a prejudice against modern homes in this country, mostly as a legacy of the post-war housing crisis. We already had a housing shortage before the war, but it became incredibly acute due to the effects of area bombing, particularly in cities like Liverpool and Sheffield. Councils gave contracts to basically anyone who asked to throw up some flats or a load of prefabs and those contractors hired a lot of inexperienced workers.

We did fix the immediate crisis remarkably quickly, but we ended up with a lot of substandard housing that was supposed to be temporary but wasn't. The "sink estates" that became notorious in the 70s and 80s were mostly built in that post-war boom, but became dumping grounds for the poorest when their design flaws and construction faults started to drive out the more affluent tenants. We came to associate modern architecture and prefabrication with substandard quality and social decay, which has really hindered the modernisation of our housing stock in subsequent decades.

>>467306

I can confirm that postwar houses like that aren't always an easy sell when they go on the market. With the necessary means, it's just not most people's idea of a proper family home.

Even an underwhelming prefab house from that era has a fair price at which it will sell, even though in today's market, they are far from widely affordable. But the clientele you deal with as potential buyers for those houses usually come with financing that has little breathing room, i.e. they can just about afford a home like that. And so they're usually also the ones who will do the most nitpicking and haggling. Which is frustrating as an estate agent as well as for the seller. They are not your most desirable clients.

The easiest sells are modern, post-1980 or even post-1990s buy to let flats in good nick in a better part of town, as well as bespoke suburban four- or five-bedroom homes. Because usually, you're dealing with buyers who simply have that kind of money, in the case of buy to lets many of them have it in their bank account without a need to finance. And if you break down all your efforts which go into acquiring a client, listing their property and finding a good buyer, and then calculate from that an hourly pay, then nothing beats those suburban 4-bedroom-plus homes. Unless you are selling proper mansions. But because everybody knows that, that's also where you've got the biggest competition among agents. It's not a property you'll be selling every week or month unless you are a sizeable agency in your local area.

Warming by an open fire, beside your dog, is one of the comfiest homely things you can do. Our species has developed beside fire for arguably millennia; to scorn such a deep ancestral bond is simply retarded.

>>467305
Choosing single glazing is insane.

You know that thought experiment that goes "Try to imagine a new colour"? Well apparently some colours actually don't exist - they're psychological inferations. purple is, apparently, one of them. Weird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color

>>467313

Isn't that true of all colours?

>>467301
>But it's still a more environmentally friendly way of generating heat and energy than burning fossil fuels like oil or gas.

No it's fucking not. Did you sleep through all that bullshit with burning wood pellets for energy?

We know that a wood burner fills your room with carcinogens, we know it increase local as well as global air pollution and there are some significant questions on the supply chains for firewood.

>>467310
The red flower isn't your friend, lad. Don't listen to her lies.

>>467315

>No it's fucking not. Did you sleep through all that bullshit with burning wood pellets for energy?


Sounds like you haven't slept at all.

Easy, lad. The world isn't going to end just because some people keep their old fireplace.

As I said, when I am showing a house that has a working fireplace to somebody, a lot of times they ask, "Oh, can it actually still be used?". I've found that a lot of people see it as kind of a guilty pleasure, they know it's not the best way to heat a room or a house, but they definitely like the idea of being able to light up their fireplace on a cold winter night. And some people are even disappointed when a house has a decommissioned fireplace, e.g. when it's bricked up and inoperable but the mantle is still there, and they'll ask if it can be put back into use.

I guess my point is, people aren't going to be politically correct or environmentally conscious 100% of the time. And that's ok.

>>467313

Bit to do with language and consensus n' all.


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

>>467343
A few times during that video the subtitles and narration don't match, but the subtitles make far more sense than what the narrator says. Cheap content-farm stuff.

>>467314
>>467343


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU

>>467310
>Warming by an open fire, beside your dog, is one of the comfiest homely things you can do
Not having a dog, I enjoy the effect putting the wood burner on has on the cat - going from sitting about glaring at me to a semi-liquid thing stretched asleep before the hearth, he gets to rediscover over and over the reason his entire species domesticated itself and puts up with us.

I need to write an essay on a game. It must cover the cultural, communicative, and aesthetic elements of the game. It must also include at least one from ethical, global, or sustainable standpoints, which can be standalone or can be linked to the chosen game.

It must also have academic writing about it, or relating to it. So if I did Fortnite, I could use academic writing about TPS games, or live service games, or monetisation as well as any Fortnite specific articles.

I'm not worried about the writing of the essay, I just want to pick a game that's interesting to research.

My favourite games aren't very good for essay writing. Any suggestions?

>>467345

Is this an inferior version of Brown World from the Saturday Night Armistice (5:00 onwards)?

...on rewatching this I've just realised it would get done for blackface today.


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

>>467378

It's a 20 minute lecture on how brown doesn't actually exist. It's not a conspiracy theory, there really is no such thing as brown.

>>467379

>It's not a conspiracy theory, there really is no such thing as brown


That's just what Big Colour want you to think.

>>467377
How about Portal? I’m not a big gamer but that’s one of the most recent games I have played, and I absolutely believe it was brilliant in every way. It had a big cultural impact, it was innovative in terms of gameplay, GLaDoS was a memorable communicator, and there must be academic writing about the game. If there isn’t, you can always dig out the academic writing that inspired the Weighted Companion Cube.

>>467377
Sim City as zoning law propaganda? It's trite but sourcing arguments will be easy.
China: Mao's legacy as an example of political storytelling in action.

I don't know, what does the person who will be marking it like?

>>467384
IIRC Portal was used as a tool for physics education, so there should be some literature on its pedagogical applications too.

I've been playing more Geoguessr. If you stick to the UK maps then I'd say at least a quarter of the time the location will be in and around Cambridge.

What I've really noticed from it is how run down this country really is. So many houses look tired and past their best. So many roads are in need of resurfacing. It's just grim.

Just popped on the Tyson fight. Saw a clip of Tyson interviewing with a child who asked about his legacy, to which he spent about a minute talking about how legacy is nothing, we're all gonna be dead soon, nothing's gonna matter, we're just dust.

And he comes out into the ring looking defeated already. I don't know how clear it, or how biased I am knowing the result, but he just looks done already. During the ref brief he's just looking off to the side.

Man made bank I guess, and that's probably what's best for him.

>>467394

I've got really mixed feelings about the fight. It was a sad spectacle, but I'm pleased for Tyson. He always hated the person he became in the ring, but that person just isn't there any more. He's old and slow, but he also lacks the psychotic hatred that made him such a ferocious boxer. He looked like a bit of a fool for eight rounds and now his kids are set for life. The fact that he can do that without having a complete meltdown represents tremendous personal growth.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but fair play to Jake Paul. He played the role of the heel very well in the pre-fight hype, but he was ultimately respectful and graceful. I don't think this event was good for the sport of boxing, but I'm pretty sure it was good for Tyson.

>>467395
I didn't watch the fight, but it sounds like there was a contract clause that they wouldn't knock each other out, to make sure the fight went the full distance. I've seen multiple posts on 4chan (although they might all have been the same person) pointing out that Mike Tyson landed a few extremely hard blows in the opening rounds, and got worried that he might knock Jake Paul out. He stuck to body blows after that, and Jake Paul was still out of his depth, so Mike Tyson just completely stopped punching. Meanwhile, Jake Paul had the agility of youth behind him, so he was dancing around Mike Tyson and landing some punches, but none had any force. So perhaps Jake Paul is a weakling, but also, it does sound like a very fake fight. Especially since it would have been guaranteed to give Jake Paul the win, which I was always very confident was going to happen.

Hiring a cleaner feels awful. This young lad has worked well over his time to make the place shine and I only wanted him to whip round and make it reasonably clean. I know that I'm paying him but still, I'm just sitting here like an arsehole while he works.

I've been here since half-one, I'm starting to think that he's taking the piss.

>>467397
I don't think I'd be comfortable with a male cleaner.

Wtf. They've made a second Annie Mac.

>>467397
>>467398
Two Corrigans, forever in battle.

>>467398
I thought he'd be better at cleaning up guy things. I think he's done his best with the wall underneath the computer desk without me needing to prompt him whereas an Eastern European teenager might need a bit of direction ''ey lass, you ever hear of bukkake? Well let's say I had a party and didn't put a plastic sheet down'.

Oh my god he's started mopping!

He keeps saying no extra charge. I want to go get a pizza for fucks sake.

>>467401
Ask him if he wants anything, you tight bastard.

>>467401
Maybe he wants to give you a sponge bath.

>>467397
When the money isn't worth it - and it rarely is when you're a cleaner - all you have left is pride in your work. I forget if I posted here about my work's cleaner, the woman with the most depressing life I have ever encountered, and when I paid her to clean my house so she might have a couple of days where she isn't completely broke. She has various mental health issues where she will sometimes just sit and rock back and forth for an hour, so rather than pay her for three hours of cleaning, say, I offered her £50 to clean my house and told her to take as long as she wanted. Again, I wound up paying her more than that because she spent three days scrubbing my bathroom. I'm not even exaggerating. Probably over ten hours in total, and she didn't even go in half the rooms in my house. She just went full OCD on the bathroom floor and insisted on coming back until it was fully clean. It's a weird lumpy non-slip floor, and I thought she might know a trick to get it spotless in 20 minutes. She didn't, so she just scrubbed on her hands and knees from Wednesday till Friday in one room so that she could be proud of her achievement.

She also put my bog roll in my bedroom for some reason. The bathroom didn't look tidy enough with a pack of bog roll on the floor, so she hid it.

>>467401

He's waiting for you to ask him for a blowie you daft arse. Get your keks off and let him nosh you off for an extra 40 quid. Otherwise you'll wake up tomorrow and he'll still be there.