King Mal the Glorious

3 hours ago, mim731 said:

Absolutely dismembered the last week of opponents. Great execution. 

Mbappe looked like he'd lost his head for sure.

I don't think we have European football thread, but fucking Hell.

Smashing PSG 4-1 in the first home Champions League game in 20 years is unreal. Half of the starting 11 were here when we were in the Championship and 2 local boys scored, couldn't be happier.

I'm the last week(ish) we've won 8-0, knocked City out of the cup (playing a weakened side) and stuffed PSG. Good times on Tyneside.

Was her car not straight?

Edit: is this a double post, or a reboot with new continuity?

5 hours ago, Dr. Alan Grant said:

How were you watching them? I’d love to see all of the Japanese Godzillas, but they don’t seem to be on any streaming service. 

I had to resort toa bit of downloading. As far as I can tell they mostly available on physical media, but I don't own anything capable of playing any.

38 Godzilla films, I started going through them all earlier this year but got side-tracked. There's some dross in there unsurprisingly.

Hardcore bands playing bigger metal festivals has been the norm for a while now. On a lower level (locally to me at least) there's a lot more mixing of the two too.

Anyone moaning about it these days needs to put down their Manowar LPs and get over it.

23 hours ago, BomberPat said:

A ton of things. I can't really swim or ride a bike - like, if you put me in calm water I could probably just about doggy paddle back to shore, but anything more than that I can't do and have no interest in doing, I never enjoyed learning to swim, and don't like the sensation of being in or under water. Bike-riding I just never properly learned; my Dad did some pretty perfunctory "put the kid on a bike and give him a push" lessons, but when everyone else carried on riding I just wasn't interested. Again, I could probably do it now, but I'm hardly going to start trying on London roads. 

This is basically exactly what I was going to post. I'm sure I could do these things now, but I've no desire to embarrass myself trying in my mid 30s.

9 minutes ago, Loki said:

I was at a developer conference over a decade ago, and a guy from Ubisoft was proposing voice generation for large MMOs, based on a payment for usage of voice algorithm.  He was also proposing a similar system but for music composition - something that went down VERY badly with the professional composers in the audience!

I work for Ubisoft and it's still a thing they're heavily looking into, though the specifics of it are all very hush-hush.

The way I've understood it/seen it written about is that this will be his last full time year and he'll be more of a "special attraction" after that.

Bryan Danielson is the best wrestler ever.

Outstanding show, I even enjoyed a Ruby Soho match! No CM Punk chants but a variety of MEAT chants? Bravo.

44 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

a pleasingly literal interpretation of the topic title

Wait until the sex scene is confirmed.

I was really hoping there were going to be some Greggs muffins at the press conference.

2 hours ago, WyattSheepMask said:

Deer? Reindeer? Antlers? I’ve honestly not got a  Scooby.

Its a Deer seen from the side, which would give you Deicide, but that’s as good as I’ve got and no doubt way off

I should have gone for a more Pale, Folkloreish deer. It'd look nice above The Mantle.

4 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

John Haughm just have been forgiven for being an anti-Semitic cunt, then?

Black metal innit.

FWIW he apologised about it and it does seem to be more of an edgelord comment than a lot of what you'd get from that scene: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/agallochs-john-haughm-apologizes-for-anti-semitic-remark/

I'll be getting my ticket on pay day, went this year and it was excellent. I know who the (unannounced) headliners are, tickets will absolutely fly out when it's revealed.

Milds and bitters are making a comeback, a few if the craft bars up here always have some in now.

Saying that, I went to Dundee last weekend and every pub served the exact same shite bitters and milds. It was like stepping back to the 70s.

Statlander has been quite prominent on the posters etc, maybe she'll have a match announced on Rampage/Collision?

I recently had the Vault City "Buckfast" sour, that was 11ish too I think. Tasted more like Vimto than Bucky but was still lovely and dangerously drinkable for the percentage.

Sours are my go-to these days too. I do find a lot of them aren't actually "sour" though and just taste like fruit juice.

A couple of mates of mine saw them in London the other day and a bunch of people fainted there too, I assumed it was just from the heat!

I can't imagine those are going to be well attended

3 minutes ago, gmoney said:

Nigel had an excellent line in the Luchasaurus v Brock Anderson match. "They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree... must have been a strong wind that day." 

Best part of that match was a very clear "...the fuck was that, dude?" from Luchasaurus after Brock botched taking a suplex.

Can we end the league now please?