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I've watched it out of dogged loyalty if nothing else, but I'd struggle to say I've enjoyed it. Like Rogue One, it feels to me by turns to be either Star Wars for people who are ashamed to like Star Wars or a tribute to other 70's sci fi but dressed in Imperial uniforms. Thankfully it's jettisoned Rogue One's constant barrage of 'Look! It's THAT GUY' Easter Eggs though.

I'm aware I'm very much an outlier but yeah, so far it's left me cold. 

3 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Just wait until 'lifelong' Spurs fan Mike Ashley sees all those Keith Houchen/Gary Mabbutt photos hanging up!!!

Mike Ashley went to great lengths to dispute the idea that he was a Spurs fan, whilst being the owner of Newcastle. Who did Mike support? Chelsea.

8 minutes ago, mrtrickio said:

Surprised by how little this is being talked about

People would rather talk about the scuttlebutt leaked from Punk in response.

Fucking Taven! When you're the shit one in a team with Mike Bennett in it you know you're fucking terrible.

25 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

 

And I bet that bakery got fuck all upturn in business. 

 

Punk as Fuck Phil wasn't exactly promoting a Mom 'n' Pop shop in the first  place! Mindy's is run by Mindy Segal, winner of the James Beard Award for America's Best Pastry Chef and owner of a thriving edibles company on top.

2 hours ago, FUM said:

Wrestlings biggest boom period was everyone calling each other pieces of shit.

Yeah, but it wasn't a case of 'Steve Austin couldn't lace up Hillbilly Jim's boots' was it?

WWE has had this problem for years, you'd hope that it went out the door with Vince, but maybe not.

On 10/5/2022 at 12:10 PM, Mr_Danger said:

 

I jumped ahead on The Old Man. Jeff Bridges the younger is a great Jeff Bridges, those flashbacks are fantastic. The fight at the end of episode 1 was brilliant. I noticed Jon Watt directed those first two episodes, it’s time he took a step away from Marvel I think.

Not Jon Lithgow is also a tremendous Jon Lithgow! I just watched the first four episodes in a row and I'm properly loving it. 

1 hour ago, Joe Blog said:

I bloody love this show. 
 

love that the wee hobbit girl is off on an adventure with a kindly old wizard, almost like it is foreshadowing future events. 

Thank Christ, I was beginning to think I was the only one!

It was obvious where it was going beforehand but everything from 'Call it a gift' was delicious. 

Despite the fucking hideous discourse around it, I've properly loved the last few episodes and genuinely can't wait for season 2.

1 minute ago, Ironic Indie Lad said:

Mental.

I couldn't understand how or why this was embraced by the NME at the time considering the sort of stuff they were pushing in the 00s.

I just took it as they saw them as almost like a British version of Andrew WK who they seemed to love for ironic reasons.

I look at The Darkness as sort of a rock version of Al Murray's Pub Landlord. Some young people liked them because they were a seemingly ironic pastiche of Queen and stuff that your dad liked. Your dad liked it 'cos he didn't realise they were taking the piss.

I was never a fan but bizarrely can watch Justin Hawkins' YouTube channel for a surprising amount of time.

The problem with bands like Hundred Reasons for me was that bands like Cave-In and Thursday were doing more exciting stuff around the same time. Also wherever there was a Hundred Reasons there also seemed to be the execrable Million Dead. 

The good thing about Million Dead is that they at least had the good grace to disappear. The bad thing is that they left behind their singer to annoy us with his weird culty fans and posh boy does Billy Bragg cosplay act.

1 hour ago, King Mal the Glorious said:

How long until he shifts all the blame onto the fans?

I mean he'd already had a moan about those nasty Newcastle fans, in an interview last weekend, so I fully expect it to be our fault by this afternoon but hey ho, never mind. I'm too busy watching 'That fella that got Bournemouth relegated' work wonders with 'Players who aren't good enough for the Premier League'!

2 hours ago, Onyx2 said:

Played Hand to Hand Wombat (from the Exploding Kittens guys) which is a silly blindfolded-build-hanoi-towers-but-one-of-you-us-a-traitor, you know the sort of thing. It's great silly fun as a break between other games with Among Us style voting. 

Plus a few rounds of Dice Throne which is a dice 'em up with a snifter of deck building. Thought I would hate it but I want to buy all of the expansions right now. Lots of strategy but lots of luck in playing cards at just the right time if only the fucking dice would go your way. 

Also, from what I can see they're being much more fair minded in their pricing. The Marvel sets cost the same as the regular sets. Unlike Unmatched where the Marvel tax is very much in effect. Heard Dice Throne described as Advanced King of Tokyo, which sounds fun to be fair.

Speaking of King of Tokyo, I was at Tabletop Gaming Live a few weeks ago (Lot of fun. Will go again!), and saw they were demoing King of Monster Island, a kind of co-op pseudo sequel. Didn't get the chance to play it but it looks lovely on the table and has gone right onto the Christmas list.

Also, as loathe as I am to siphon money into the pocket of Mike Ashley, the Game website was selling some stuff for ridiculous prices a couple weeks ago. Might be worth a look for a couple of bargains.

It's being reported that Sara Lee, who won the Tough Enough that featured Mandy Rose, Sonya Deville et al has passed away.

She had 3 kids with Wesley Blake and was only 30. 

Fucking Rough.

3 hours ago, Lorne Malvo said:

I decided to buy an original Xbox over the weekend. It's one console I never had growing up. What would you recommend?

It came with a decent batch of games already;

  Reveal hidden contents

Fifa 2003 & 2004

Fifa Street 2

Rallisport Challenge

Conflict: Global Storm

Mercenaries

Fire Blade

Return To Castle Wolfenstein

Project Gotham Racing 1 & 2

Juiced

XIII

Splinter Cell & SC: Pandora Tomorrow

Gun

Sid Meiers Pirates

Rainbow Six: Black Arrow & Rainbow Six: Lockdown

Black

Vexxx

LMA Manager 2005

Forza Motorsport

Tony Hawks Undergound

Full Spectrum Warrior

There's a few there that I remember loving on the PS2, especially THUG, Black and Mercenaries, so I'm looking forwards to getting stuck into them. But are there any lessor-known games I should seek out?

Crimson Skies.

Amped 2. 

Quantum Redshift

Fable.

The Microsoft Sports stuff was all really good at the time, I think it transitioned to being 2k. 3rd party wise Burnout 2 is one of my favourite games ever as is Beyond Good and Evil.

I'm not saying that this week's Rings of Power will address everyone's concerns, the show is what it is, but fuck me if that wasn't one of my favourite hours (and a bit) of TV in a very long time.

No complaints about pace this week. No sir, none.  

Properly excellent.

When Cole was working on Network stuff he was ace. The first UK tournament he was a proper breath of fresh air. Really enthusiastic, really sharp on the call, actually able to concentrate. I mean they stuck him with Nigel McGuinness which didn't help, but Cole delivered his part admirably.

23 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

Everyone loves to slag off the Game of Thrones writers after the rubbish ending but I think between this, House of the Dragon and Wheel Of Time it's pretty clear that they actually in reality had a pretty good grasp on how to write fantasy so it's not just dour, charmless, overly serious, dull and silly.

There's a very real cut off point with GOT where the writing especially for Tyrion and Varys becomes atrocious and it's basically when they go past the books and aren't able to directly lift Martin's dialogue anymore.

They're damned either way with this, purely because Tolkien's dialogue in his own work is pretty much atrocious and as such any attempts to add fizz to this would feel inauthentic.

18 minutes ago, 69MeDon said:

I think this is in fact Punk's POV. I don't remember which news site reported it, but they said they heard from people on Punk's side that he felt he was about to get a 3-on-1 beatdown so came out swinging.

And then he saw the 2 heads of HR and the head of legal, who is also ostensibly the VP of the company and realised he was on for a 6-on-1 beat down and just decided to go full Butch and Sundance!

Get to fuck. Absolute weak sauce.

28 minutes ago, Thunderplex said:

What an excellent dad.  Enjoy.

It actually went really well! We had a Klask tournament, a teams game of Drop it! (very good family game, bit Tetrissy) and Touch It (Kids card game, where you blind guess animals on cards using touch, funnily enough). What also down went really well was Don't Get Got which is kind of a secret missions game that you play over the course of a party/evening. Naturally they were all super subtle and stealthy and a complex game of cat and mouse ensued. Did it fuck! They just straight up asked each other to do what they needed on their cards. They had fun though, so job done.

I can heartily recommend Good Time Games in West Didsbury for this sort of thing.

Have just bought the Animal Adventures 5E kit for my daughter's birthday. Never actually ran a game before so even though it's for kids I may have made a rod for me own back here.

Speaking of which I'm about to take 6 eight year olds to a board game cafe for 3 hours. Pray for me.

They better not have jibbed off the coverage of the Diamond League final! I'll be fucking livid.

I've just finished work and there were old people crying when I left the pub. I'm not even that good a barman.

Potter traveling to London as we speak according to Sky Sports.

Mental.

2 hours ago, TheDude said:

Well SRS does, Meltzer lost that ages ago, but you know

Sapp's done interviews on Fightful in kayfabe with wrestlers doing full gimmick, he's as much Apter as he is anything else.

1 hour ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

 I just don’t know what to believe anymore. 

Isn't that supposed to be the point?

In my head this is Punk Vs All Friends Wrestling, Carny Man Punk Vs The Gratitude Era. I just think this is the next phase of the story story they've been telling since the beginning. We knew he'd be turning eventually, we know he's an actual Bad Knob Head. This is them dropping the other shoe. This is how we get to Punk Vs Kenny eventually. In my head at least. I'm more than ready to eat shit on this though!