Jesse

I found the beef to be too weak and the pickle flavour to be too strong overall

35 minutes ago, neil said:

This thread has an appalling success rate

Compared to actual Ouija board success rates it's having a blinder though

3 hours ago, Tommy! said:

Air fryers!

Oven baked bacon!!

What the fuck are you all doing you mental bunch of wrong 'uns

Fully agreed. The correct way is in the microwave with a bit of kitchen roll to soak up the grease.

I've never been able to get on with the Resident Evil games. I suspect it's sacrilege but the only ones I've managed to enjoy are Revelations 1 & 2. Got a free copy of Resi 4 from a competition and gave it a go - managed to get about a third of the way through but it just mostly feels like a procession of putting your back to a wall and blasting your way through waves of the same few enemies and hoping you picked up enough bullets that they don't run out early.

I should maybe try one of the remakes, it sounds like they're a very different experience.

You do know they're not made of actual gold, right?

All capped when, at his lowest moment, a giant CGI Dusty shows up in the clouds to tell Cody he believes in him

Not sure how I feel about an Irn Bru milkshake either

For as much talk as there is on Sami only being good for the culmination of the story and not much of a long-term star, the more I remember Cody in AEW I'm not sure I'm sold on him as the future face of WWE either. We know he can turn it on, and there's a neat story in him going away and reinventing himself and the presentation - but from the parts of AEW I was tuned into he delivered as much absolute dross as he did career highlights.

I do think they're likely to go through with attempting to make him a star, and I'm sure he'll settle in and around the main event, but there's a long way to go before I'm convinced he can consistently carry stuff week to week rather than pull out a good couple of months once a year. That all changes if Arn Anderson comes back and starts waving a gun around, obviously. Instant 5 stars.

My first gig was David Essex, god knows when. My mum took me to it as she was a massive fan - I don't recall anything about it. The first one I can remember going to is Westlife, hardly my proudest moment but I didn't discover anything that wasn't pop until I was 15 so that's my excuse.

My absolute best gig was seeing Dessa at Oslo Hackney. She's been one of my favourite artists for years and getting to see her in a tiny venue just feet away gave the whole night a really intense energy that I don't think I'll ever be able to replicate. Fantastic night, also bettered because she reached out to thank me afterwards for sharing all her gig posts on Twitter, vindicating my parasocial relationship.

Don't know as I've ever witnessed a truly terrible gig. I've been to a lot of unmemorable ones (see above) so in true UKFF fashion I'll share an embarassing gig story instead.
In my late teens I go to see a local band, and while they're playing I meet and get on with a lovely girl whose name is lost to time. We engage in what I am old enough to refer to as heavy petting, and I think maybe I can convince her to come back to mine - but as the band winds up she says she has to go and ditches me. Consoling me in my sadness afterwards, a mutual acquaintance lets me know I had been cracking on with the bassist's girlfriend.

Nothing too memorable, but as a 19 year old who'd only ever had one long-distance girlfriend (met in an anime chatroom) it was a highlight of my teenage years. A year or so later, I start working at a local supermarket and in an attempt to seem like I wasn't a mouthbreather who watched wrestling in his spare time, I share the story of that night in the hopes they'll think I'm 'one of the lads'. Unfortunately, my direct boss at the time turns out to have a side gig as the bassist in the band I had been watching that night so my attempt to fit in instead got me stuck with a year of working Sundays until I switched departments.

6 minutes ago, Browser Brady said:

if i asked the AI to write a poem or a song or even a movie script and it became hugely commercially successful, who owns the rights to the content?

That's the big question - a lot of people I know in the games art space are testing these AI programs for idea generation or quick idea sharing but including any AI-generated images in commercial releases is an absolute minefield for ownership.

Selfie booth with a fork

Or you could have a cosmic ray hit your console at the right time to flip a bit that wouldn't otherwise be flipped https://www.thegamer.com/how-ionizing-particle-outer-space-helped-super-mario-64-speedrunner-save-time/

Blasted through all of Station Eleven in the last two days and really enjoyed it. I'm glad I watched it like that because the story structure is a little complex with how it moves through time so I appreciated having all the context in my head at all times but I found the whole thing really affecting with some great performances from all the main players.

My wife had a subscription to Hayu for a bit and watched all of Below Deck back to back - worth it just for the sheer sex appeal of Captain Lee imo. But Kate was great value on that, always willing to make something happen for the cameras if it was getting too boring, so actually looking forward to catching up with this.

I'm doing a catch-up of decently popular series I've just somehow never seen, starting with Black Sails. Season 1 is alright, basically 'Pirate Deadwood' but they manage to build on that foundation every season and now halfway through the final 10 episodes I'm enthralled, the most fun I've had watching a TV show since Andor.

Will be starting Station Eleven next, then Mr. Robot. Heard good things about both.

I got the HORI split pad for my Siwtch because the joycons were giving me hand cramps and I love them so much - probably my favourite gamepad since the Xbox One

I think the internet & global commerce has also made the good ones more accessible. HORI have been officially licensed by Nintendo for going on 30 years now but they're a japanese company afaik so you weren't likely to find their controllers being sold down your local Eclipse Computers.

More than any other film I think Halloween is what turned me into a film geek in my teens. It was watching that, probably my first 'not for kids' horror movie, that sent me into reading interviews and essays and eventually to Men, Women & Chainsaws and a Film Studies class in college.

Looking back I don't know if it's his best film but it's the one that sits in my memory the strongest for the impact it had on me.

Most out-there thing in that statement is the idea that Jon Jones might fight eight more times. Before all the Ngannou stuff started happening Jones was the 'unreasonable money' guy according to Dana, he's had two doping suspensions and that hit and run. If he even makes it to the cage with Gane how long before he falls out with Dana or fucks himself up again? I think of everyone in the UFC right now, Jones is the most "I'll believe it when it actually happens" and even then I'll be half-waiting for the USADA announcement afterwards

1 hour ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

That seems insane to me. The TV deals were worth around $1.2b when Fox and USA (USA pays much less for Raw according to this article )  did those back in 2018. So are they saying the merch and content is worth $6b? In context Disney paid $4b for Marvel in 2009 and about the same for Lucasfilm a few years later. 

The operating year before Marvel were bought they had revenues of just under $700M, while in 2021 WWE had revenues of $1.1B. Obviously, valuation isn't just a straight multiplying of revenue, but as a rough calculation you'd expect them to be looking north or what was paid for Marvel and given the inflation around M&A across all sectors over the last few years I don't think the figure they're looking for is that shocking, though I think they'll ultimately get less given the arse has started falling out of the market over the last 6 months.

1 hour ago, SuperBacon said:

I have laughed over this approximately every 15 minutes today. It's so funny.

It's a stolen bit. I think I first saw it on Twitter 5 years ago and it routinely cracks me up every couple of months when I remember it.

No-one shot JFK, his head just did that

Personally, I'm 35 years old and I don't make any more money if WWE's figure business starts selling better so those arguments don't do much to sway me against the idea of him winning. He's on the run of his life, cracking me up every week, and I want him to see his worth and knock the bastard off the top shelf so I can lose my shit at 5am when I should be getting a good night's rest instead of working.

I find Bacon's point about the real story being in the heartbreak compelling, but I think that suffers just as much from "What then?" as a scenario where he wins it for a short time. What do you do then? Sami shuffles off into tags with Kevin Owens and we lose all transition of that emotion as Cody Rhodes sets the slate clean?

I think either way, the real guy to be using this short-term boost for is Solo Sikoa. He's the business, and if you're determined to have Sami lose here maybe the play is to have him involved in the finish and give him the Batista Evolution run. He can spin off into a feud with Sami, while Roman buggers around with Cody or whomever, and eventually pay off with a Solo turn on Roman at the Rumble next year to set up your WM main event for 2024.

A sale isn't necessarily likely to see a sea change in creative. They're operating a lucrative business right now, if someone's paying a high price for that then chances are it'll come with people staying contracted in key positions to make sure the golden goose keeps laying eggs.

35 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Watched Glass Onion tonight. Lovely way to round out the Christmas holiday! Every character is played perfectly; excellent casting. Have they announced a third yet? 

Rian Johnson is also doing a mystery series starring Natasha Lyonne that looks like it could be a lot of fun