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@Fatty Facesitterreally great work. Good voice work, excellent audio levels and decent clips. Have you had any trouble with copyright claims? They are the bane of any doc I make for YouTube.

I see you keep your Community alive, though I will say some of it is complete gibberish to a non-train person like myself. 

I watched the Elizabeth Line 101 all the way through and it was good at what it set out to do. I can't say I was thrilled by every fact (as soon as car numbers are mentioned I'm out), but you wanted feedback from non core audience and that's me. I can't deny a few were interesting and the pacing was spot on. 

Don't worry about using Canva, it's perfect for this and your thumbnails look smart. You're playing the titles game and everyone has to. I think your videos are only going to gather momentum over time. 

Have a watch of this channel: he has great advice for shooting with a phone, and reviews phone lenses etc. 

What's key is that you enjoy doing it. Like you I love making videos but under no illusion it's going to make me rich, just keep making yourself happy. 

8 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Edie Falco puts in the performance of a lifetime in that episode doesn't she?

I CBA to check but I think Whitecaps won the series' first Emmys, for writing and Edie Falco. 

59 minutes ago, FUM said:

To be fair this post has you as more out of touch than it does WWE.

It's hardly biting critique, just taking the obvious joke that was right there. 

Agree with your review though, the first hour was great then dribbled on forever. 

"Well, I stand up next to a barm cake

And I chop it down with the edge of my hand." 

"We need music for our key TV show's anniversary video package, who's primary brand colour has always been red."

"What about Blue?"

"Perfect."

Re: Talking Sopranos podcast agree with the above. I listened to all of them and Schirrpa is... not good. He's amusing but comes across grouchy. Imperioli is just a cool motherfucker. Their black book is the selling point, bringing in just about everyone who worked on the show who are interesting in themselves. Quite a few surprised me, the odd casting director and producer who had incredible stories of blagging their way into TV and Meadow Soprano were highlights. But overall there is too much podcast. Each episode is at least 2 hours, the episode walk through (the good bit) about 45 minutes. A missed opportunity. 

6 hours ago, Carbomb said:

That's "Carbollocks" to you

If only neil could still edit names. 

Equivalent to "put it all on red." 

26, 27, 28, 29, 30.

Christ that is a pocket squeezing post. So brazenly a cash grab! Absolute bollocks. Still recycling 24 year old assets as well I assume. 

Not a single mention of gameplay there.

SOPRANOS WATCHALONG~! 

Only watched it again last September. But already up for it. 

@TildeGuy~! @SuperBaconyou might want to spoiler that in your posts. It is fair game for spoilers sure but we literally have someone going through it for the first time in this thread.

No one is innocent in Sopranos. Except maybe Beansie. 

I consider you a full Nintendo fanboy @FelatioLips(not an insult) so it's really surprising to hear you say you only experienced both of these in the past 20 years. I'm crusty enough to experience both of these first time around, waiting for Link to the Past because the magazine hype was off the charts. And what an experience. A good argument for best Zelda game, with perfect pacing, jolliest theme and excellent map. A true classic.

And then Metroid... Just incredible atmosphere. You feel so alone, so isolated and yet so empowered. The ambient music made such an impression on me it used to buzz around my head at school. And what fantastic use of Mode 7!

All you that post Simpsons gifs should love this: Conan O'Brian on writing Monorail! which just had it's thirtieth birthday. I enjoyed it too.

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/1/17/23558002/the-simpsons-marge-vs-the-monorail-conan-obrien

Pour yourself a drink and enjoy the replies to tone-deaf Zahawi wishing everyone a prosperous Chinese New year. It goes as well as you'd expect. 

We were ruined by memes being in Jan. Spectacular thread Devon. 

I was in abeyance for PS1 and while I've heard it talked about I can't find it. Can someone link it please? 

What a great pool of candidates to choose from. We're spoiled this year. FelatioLips just takes it for me this year, loads of fun, lots of different threads but particularly vidya game threads. 

I haven't listened to Wrestle Me since they "finished" WrestleMania. ("WrestleMania? Completed it mate"). What do they do now? I also felt like they were shilling for Paidos too much towards the end. I understand why but it does grate after a while. 

3 hours ago, Loki said:

I once connected some speakers to an amp with coat hangers to show some students how much bollocks audiophile cables are, over a meter distance none of them could distinguish between the cable and the hanger.

Gold-plated hangers I hope for maximum attenuation. 

One of my best mates growing up had a huge cupboard in his kitchen. It had a vented door and had been painted about 85 times so looked like absolute shit. Open it and it was floor to ceiling faux leather VHS cases, full of movies his parents had taped off the telly. Each volume had the little sticky numbers on the spine you used to get with a blank tape. Tucked in the back of the door was a small book which was the index to this magical library. "22 Citizen Kane. 81 Red Heat." that sort of thing. 

When he asked me one day to come up with a number at random we had a Maxell labelled simply "Thing". I assumed it was a mistake because what could be on this tape? 

What a great story economically told. Wound tighter than Piers Morgan at a liberal rally, packed with incredible effects as above, and Kurt Russell just being the boss he was in this era. A masterpiece in tension with every decision made the right one. Yes, it's John Carpenter's best film, but I'd take almost any of the others as fair game. 

The next video we watched was Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which wasn't quite the same. 

The pasta salad you've linked is great, there's a reason it blew up on tiktok. Feta works great in a salad with olives, parsley and red onion. Substitutes OK for paneer in curry recipes too. 

But you must try this Chef John recipe. It's incredible. 

32 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Didn’t know you were a Man Utd fan………

@Chest Rockwellcan you tell him. He's making football jokes (?) and it's not fair. 

On a train from Manchester to London. Sat behind a delegation from Pound Bakery (would the collective noun be a batch?), it's UKFF in the real world. Finally evidence of this fictitious bakery outside of the North. They all look like they eat pastry a lot. 

There have been excellent descriptions of products and profits which they really shouldn't do on a public train, especially with a gossipy type who works in a related industry sitting nearby. But I enjoyed this the most: they told a junior member that Greggs have been continually able to offer 4 sausage rolls for a £1 by reducing the size by 1/16th every year and now they cannot shrink them any more. 

That reminds me @Fatty Facesitterto link this stunning rebuttal.

3 hours ago, BomberPat said:

just too big lads

Yes they are too big aren't they? Spanish midgets is where it's at.

6 hours ago, FelatioLips said:

when Dr Melfi gets attacked we both wanted blood for it.

This is the genius isn't it? You're URGING Melfi to tell Tony, because you know he will fuck that guy up. But that's pure evil and not right... is it? What's justice? Superb writing and great restraint to not follow through with that arc.