Sphinx

I turned down watching Limp Bizkit there because the memories of watching my first gig of theirs ten years before was so strong that I didn't want to tarnish it, and I assumed Halifax would be a half-full gig in a small venue on their tour. Thinking maybe I made the wrong decision now.

Really enjoyed that, thanks for the effort and bringing back good memories. Still barely played Red Dead 2 and am currently on the third disc of FFVII having never got that far as a kid so looking forward to those. Already feel I could play FFVII again to make sure I get certain materia and limit breaks.

1 hour ago, WyattSheepMask said:

Thanks for the suggestions a couple of weeks ago guys.

After a lot of reading about turntables that won’t break the bank but are generally considered very good for beginners I think I’ve settled on what I’m going g to get, that being a Fluance RT81+ (sometimes called the 81 Elite), which comes with a built in pre-amp, and going to get some Q Acoustics M20 (Powered) Speakers. That should be enough for what I’m wanting to do right now, but I can add to it overtime if I decide to.
Just got to get saving now and focus on getting that first rather than looking on eBay for vinyl first 🤦🏻‍♂️ 

Interested to hear how you get on with that as I've had the thought of a record player in the back of my mind for a while. I've got the M20 speakers and think they're decent. I use them for my TV too which has been great for films.

I got the speakers off eBay and saved about £100-£150 off the price and they were in mint condition so may be worth having a check there if you don't mind buying second hand.

Another Prince demo that's a good 'un.

37 minutes ago, Sphinx said:

FLips makes a good point - if you've seen one Sami Zayn match, you've seen them all.

Just had the image of a giant spring-loaded hand slapping me in the face.

I've been ill the last few days so am almost certainly more grouchy anyway, but I watched this on demand and thought it was mostly naff.

My friend had suggested inviting non-wrestling fan friends round mine to watch Mania live and I'm glad I didn't. From Becky's shite 3D overlay book intro, to her book themed attire, to Rhea Ripley's shite band, to twenty minutes of nothing until the first match begins, to that god awful comedy attempt for the intro to the ladder match by the two guys English guys, to a load of scrubs coming out for that match (including DIY doing a DX tribute act?), the first hour alone would have been painful.

It didn't feel that big as a spectacle visually to me either. The rampway was short and nothing to it, the crowd were in the dark for most of it so you couldn't get a feel for how big it was (which may be unavoidable, I dunno, but didn't help) and obviously the weather can't have helped with the crowd either.

FLips makes a good point - if you've seen one Sami Zayn match, you've seen them all. It was fine. It did the job. Nothing more, nothing less.

Highlights were R Truth and the main event (where I felt a gulf in class, though I think it went too long).

It's better that he's a heel so he can work slower and pretty much do similar to that beatdown and lessen his bumps. I think he'll be fine.

There's the Y2K fashion trend and music of that era having a bit of a resurgence in influencing today's music. It's pretty common to see house DJs play remixes of late 90s/early 00s pop songs at the moment. I've not seen it but Saltburn was pretty popular and seemed to be set in the early 00s and Murder On The Dancefloor was everywhere at one point.

It's maybe not as prominent as other revivals and it's definitely harder to pinpoint years and decades now, but there's still some later nostalgia happening.

The charts has generally shifted away from bands too, maybe because it's easier and more profitable to tour and promote solo artists, so that might be a factor in standard pub bands playing the same songs.

11 hours ago, Carbomb said:

At one point, they had Adam Page, Ethan Page and Diamond Dallas Page on the roster.

Think there was talk on here about a Pages vs. Cages match.

Saraya, previously Paige too.

Lance thought he was nailed on to go up til the new guy told him It's Gonna Be Me.

Saw this last night and thought it was ok. I think knowing the story already hindered my enjoyment of it. As mentioned, it showed it as a work at parts and portrayed as real at others which I thought would be confusing for a non-fan. Having said that, I watched with a few non-fans and they seemed to enjoy the film more than I did. One was confused by how much of wrestling is fake/real after though.

The attention to detail at parts appealed to me. Obviously they didn't include Chris, but I do kind of get that it'd be tough to include another death in the film.

I'm going back and forwards on this, but I feel like it undersold how big the Von Erichs were too. I guess the focus isn't so much on how famous they were, but it does add to the story of the pressures they were facing and help build their characters in your eyes. The part with Tom Sawyer helped with that and was great.

Though there's enough of the story to elaborate on to have another hour, I don't think I'd be up for that as it would be a long descent of tragedy after tragedy. The idea mentioned earlier of it as a TV series would have been interesting though.

3 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

Exit light

Enter slime

Salt in hand

We're off to never-never land

Brilliant 😆

21 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Disappointed in my 2003 self for buying her calendar. Think I got it in the New Year Calendar Club sale though, so not too disappointed.

Imagine how my ex must feel after having a Kanye West poster on her wall.

If someone's said 'who thought this was a good idea?', the person with the opposing viewpoint can decide to chirp up (still generating discussion) or leave it. Doesn't need another party to go 'look at these lot who thought it was'.

Why quote them? If they want to chat about their views let them do that themselves rather than bringing them into it.

41 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

Not a specific name, but I noticed a lot of mid-00s band names seemed very formulaic - take a negative word, stick it with a positive one, to imply some sort of macabre observation, and that's it.

Bullet For My Valentine

Funeral For A Friend

My Chemical Romance

Panic At The Disco

 

Not a comment on the quality of the bands in themselves (I haven't properly listened to them enough, although what I've heard of Panic was not impressive), though.

I listened to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for the first time the other day and the first song is called Funeral For A Friend, so I assumed they were named after that. A quick search disappointed me; they're named after some other metal/emo song.

Yourcodenameis:milo.

Yourbandnameis:shit.

I had a 'nice to e-meet you' recently.

You could easily time it so you're on the apron/turnbuckle for a pose by the time of the climax.

Not sure which thread to put this in but hoping someone with more knowledge may be able to help.

I'd like to make a donation to help provide aid to Gaza, but know that aid is being blocked. This may sound like a silly question but is donating to provide aid futile at the moment or is it still beneficial?

Thanks

Re-watching as this thread inspired me. Seasons 1-2 are pretty reliably good, but Season 3 so far has really taken a turn. The humour's more silly and unbelievable and I'm finding scenes end on flat jokes. Joey's become a full-on cartoon idiot rather than someone who has charm but might not be the brightest.

Edit: S3's been getting better after the first 6 episodes or so. There might be a correlation between Joey sorting his hair out and episodes getting better.

1 minute ago, mim731 said:

It also featured prominently on one of the most commercially successful video games this century, but whether pretending to play a plastic guitar is more or less embarassing than watching lads in pants playfighting is debatable I suppose. 

I thought you were talking about San Andreas at first, which it was also on.

Arrived today, looking forward to reading.

When I started uni we had a lecturer who'd end sentences with 'in those kind of ways' a lot. I didn't know anyone at the time but thought to myself that I couldn't be the only one who noticed how often he used it. I was proven right when in the following lectures he'd say it and then I'd hear several pens click straight after each time. You could see it put him off his tracks too, poor sod.