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Stephen Fry. No links as I'm sure we're all familiar with him but he made any episode of QI. His soothing voice was very much an essential part of that programme for me. 

Also - the late great Sir Christopher Lee. A man who could recite literally anything and it would be the best thing ever. What a voice. 

I watched this film as a kid and Christopher Lee's rant at 22.48 still lives on in my head. 

One of the perks of living in Sardinia is that my girlfriend's father knows a local farmer who supplies us with 6 litre bottles of olive oil straight from the source. It's wonderful stuff. We generously drizzle it on pasta, something I had never even thought of before living here, and it's honestly a gamechanger. 

Thirded. I don't often venture into On-Topic any more but very glad I did this time. Simon also always comes across as a great guy so it's nice to see him getting some kudos for that terrific and informative post. 

Far from a traditionally festive number but I've always found Red Water to be a masterful composition looking at the other side of Christmas. No doubt biased though because it's my favourite band. 

6 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

The king never misses.

 

That's Alistair Darling away now too. Christ, it seems every time I refresh my newsfeed there's another one.  

The melody for Christian Woman has been in my head all day for whatever reason. So here it is here. What a song, what a band.

There's someone on here (I can't recall who) who once mentioned a game called Autobahn Police Simulator. It piqued my interest but I held off buying it for a long time until last week I finally saw it on sale (the Third installment) and took the plunge. 

What a weird game - the graphics, the controls and, above all, the voice acting are all atrocious. I'm talking laughably bad. However, the gameplay itself somehow manages to be really fun and very varied. As you'd imagine from the name, you're a German police officer patrolling the motorway and there's so much you can do here. You can stop any car you like and carry out traffic checks and ask questions, administer a breathalyser or do drug tests. Or you can help out at an accident and investigate as to the cause. You can take part in high speed pursuits or set up roadblocks. You can go to driving school. You can even race off to stop armed robberies at petrol stations (again, the gun controls are horrendous though). There are collectibles to gather and then there are the standard storyline missions too. 

So despite all appearances, turns out that being a German policeman has been rather fun! If you're someone who values aesthetics and technical aptitude over the gameplay, I definitely can't recommend Autobahn Police Simulator but I've found it far more enjoyable than it has any right to be, despite pretty much every review I've seen on the thing being overwhelmingly negative. If whoever it was who mentioned the game a couple of years ago happens to read this, then Danke! 

Inter have just gone and scored this against Frosinone. 

Absolutely outstanding post! Great to see you back Richie. 

I started playing Vampyr for the Halloween season. It took me quite a while to really get into because it's slow, methodical and very dialogue heavy but now I'm totally hooked on it. It's set in 1918 London and it's one of the most atmospheric games I've ever played - amazing soundtrack too. It's one of those games where every small choice you make has ramifications and it does a really clever thing where you're a vampire who is also a doctor and you are constantly having to choose between sticking to your noble path and helping people or giving in to your grim bloodsucking instincts and feeding off the London populace. Feeding off people is your biggest source of XP and thus levelling up so the game guides you towards this path but I'm doing a pacifist playthrough and by sticking to the straight and narrow I have my conscience intact but I am always underlevelled giving the game a fair bit of challenge.  

Seems a gem of a game that went under the radar. Anyone else played?

Forgive me if this isn't the same thread I saw Bacon post about it, but m'on the Fume! Referring to the Copa Libertadores final of course - what a fun and entertaining match that was. From about 60 minutes it descended into absolute bedlam and was such a good watch. Pisses all over the normally dull and clinical Champions League final - said before I prefer the Europa League and Conference League to the Champions League because of the greater variety of teams and fixtures you get to watch as opposed to the same teams playing each other again and again but on that showing the Copa Lipertadores final can join them as more entertaining than the Champions League. 

I know the thread is called Foley Is Crud but I really enjoyed that. The format was a little strange - I'm presuming it was based on something where you drink  an ever-increasing-in-strength selection of alcoholic drinks while you answer questions? - but it was a brilliant watch. Self-deprecating, funny and just seemed like a nice guy did Mick. Something that stuck with me from it is when he mentioned Vince saying "No thumbtacks" to the match with Orton and then remarking something about how it was 9 years prior he was doing the Japanese deathmatches. 9 years! I was 13 when the Orton matches were taking place so the KOTDM stuff seemed like another lifetime ago. Nowadays it's not any less mental - 9 years seems a bizarrely short span of time for Foley to have been the KOTDM to have gone to WWF, been Mankind, Dude Love, Cactus, Mankind again, Hell In The Cell, the Triple H feud and then back to fight Randy Orton - I gave up on modern wrestling when it seemed like Kofi Kingston was fighting Dolph Ziggler every week for years in the same dull match and since then I've made my peace that it's simply no longer for me and I'm best sticking to the old stuff but it's remarkable how quickly wrestling flowed back then in comparison. 

On the subject of Kane, Type O Negative actually did a theme for him that wasn't used about 2003ish. Type O are one of my all time favourite bands so I loved this. 

Journey of the Prairie King was most certainly not cosy. 

Yeah there's a bit of a Mandela effect about this one. I too am sure I heard that Bob Barker died a couple of years ago. All I've seen of him was the time he stole the show as Raw guest host and the above cameo in Happy Gilmore (which I'd totally forgotten about!) but on that small sample of evidence, he was brilliant. 

For example: 

That is downright horrendous news. Tragic whatever way you look at it - from a fan's perspective, we've lost a greatly loved and respected competitor and more importantly, from a human perspective, a young family has lost its father. He was only a few years older than me. 36, fucking hell! Absolutely horrible. 

RIP Bray. Follow the Buzzards. 

God that makes me homesick. They're quite poor quality as you'd expect but definitely does the job, especially the slice. If you have some eggs and bread in for fried eggs and toast that thing's a simple way to an easy feast on a Sunday morning. What I'd give for a roll and slice....really hope I can come home this summer. 

Looks like a tattie scone (which are brilliant by the way and an essential on a breakfast) but square rather than triangular. 

Will trade one Brendan Rodgers for one Ange Postecoglu. Appreciate this isn't the Scottish thread but it's incredible how much we've regressed since Ange left. Where we once had fast-flowing, dynamic, extremely attacking football now we've got slow, ponderous, side-to-side dullness. We went out the league cup today to Kilmarnock by the way and it looked like we could have played for 5 years without scoring. I don't mean any disservice to Killie by the way, they were outstanding and clearly a team not to be messed with this year. McInnis is a great manager who never quite gets the credit he deserves, I feel.

Just want Ange back 😟 You Spurs chaps are in for a treat. An absolute diamond of a man. 

I nominate Vice City's finest. Love Fist Fury is a genuine belter too! 

Worthwhile mention to UKFF favourite Chemical Toilet as well.

2 hours ago, FelatioLips said:

Watching Mad Men earlier and someone said "Go shit in the ocean". No idea what it means but it made me laugh.

This reminds me of an amazing one I've heard in Glasgow: "Away and throw yer shite at the moon!" A line as bizarre as it is hilarious.

Funnily enough, I picked up Bus Driver Simulator a couple of weeks ago because it was £3 on sale and I've never played a simulator game before. I don't think it's the same one as yours, Jazzy, the cities here are Moscow and Cologne. It's shit - really, really shit. The graphics would be considered poor even on PS3 and the character models are ridiculous. Some of them shuffle around like zombies and the templates have clearly just been lifted from other games. It's not uncommon to see a bunch of medieval soldiers get on your bus, for instance. It is actually quite chill though to be driving your route, doing your duties. The actual game itself is fun but it quickly gets dull. It's frustrating too - cars sometimes appear from nowhere and pedestrians occasionally walk right out in front of you. Colliding with either commands a hefty 300 financial penalty. Also if you're unlucky with red lights, your entire route is screwed and you get penalties for being late at every stop. Even though there's nothing you can do about it, which I suppose is accurate to  being a real life bus driver, but not particularly enjoyable.

The worst part of the game though is the grind. It's ridiculous. All going well, for a short route you can rake in 1000-1500 coins or for a longer route as much as 3000-4000. This takes between 15 and 45 minutes. To complete the game you need to unlock all buses  which aren't cheap. The most expensive is 28,000 coins and there are others at 25,000 and 22,000. Add it all together and Bus Driver Simulator is going to take a very long time to get it all.  Still though, despite all my criticism there is a certain charm to the game and it's perfect for sticking on a podcast to mindlessly drive around.