Your Fight Site

4 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Minge 2027.

This has to be someone taking the piss. Gauntley can’t really be stupid enough to think that people will have forgiven him for screwing people over and stealing money for what, the fourth time? And that he thinks he can’t just swan back into things a few months later like nothing’s happened. 

2 hours ago, Merzbow said:

So who we betting on taking over? Double J? Hogoff? Vince Russo???

His replacement’s already been announced and put in the role: Anthony Cicione.

Gutted. We no longer got a stew goin’.

5 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

That poster’s been treated by whoever does the Photoshop on WWE’s Pay-Per-View Premium Live Event posters. Stupid amount of airbrushing going on.

2 hours ago, JNLister said:

From what I can gather, most of Netflix's content is hosted/delivered by Amazon Web Services. They charge a very small amount for the actual storage and then a variable fee based on how often it's accessed/transcoded/delivered. Content that nobody watches really doesn't cost that much day-to-day in the big picture.

But at Netflix’s scale, those “small amounts” will be a significant cost. Especially as Netflix will create multiple encodings of shows and movies up to 4K quality; we’re talking gigabytes of data for a single title.

1 hour ago, Callum1993 said:

In fairness I don’t think Ambulance matches have been in any of the games…not that I can remember anyway. 

Special referee and casket matches have been, though. They were around on the first PlayStation.

The number of times 2K removes features, and then re-introduces them a few years down the line as “brand new” is ridiculous.

5 hours ago, thatvinylgeek said:

Special ref matches back

Casket and Ambulance matches...

They’re not “back”. They’re “all-new”.

18 hours ago, Statto said:

@Your Fight Site, some further taping inside info if you please (and thank you for the last lot - I'd always wondered if they taped games in blocks or set up/tore down endlessly).

The Gladiator entrances where they come out and do their pose on the stage - do they actually do those each time? My suspicion is they've been taped once and edited into episodes as required. 

I can’t comment as I only went to the first day’s tapings (which for some reason was broadcast as the second episode that went out last night). The filming order was a bit over the place. When we got there, the arena was set up for Power Ball. The men and women played their games, then stagehands came in, took that stuff away and brought the stuff out for the next game. The two tall side panels either side of the entrance (which also double as The Wall) slid up and all of the equipment was behind there which was then pulled out by stagehands and people in forklifts and put into position. I think they filmed Duel second, and then decided they were going to film the opening titles, so the Duel stuff was put back, the pyro things put in place and they had drones fly backwards and forwards a couple of times. Then Bradley and Barney did some pieces to camera before getting back on with games.

To answer the original point, yeah, the Gladiators did their little poses and whatnot when coming out for their games. If I had to guess, they’d probably do those each day, if only for the benefit of the live crowd, as would be a bit unfair if they just nonchalantly walked out because “sorry, day 2 onwards crowd, we’ve already filmed their high energy entrances.”

We were also instructed to the do the “Another Bites The Dust” hand actions with the foam fingers with cameras whizzing around and told since we were the first day‘s crowd, these clips would be used for the entire series but again, without being at any of the subsequent tapings, you don’t know how much is just producer bullshit and don’t know if they just tell every night’s crowd, “Oh, you were amazing! We’ll definitely be using you across the series!”

We were amazed at how quickly the Eliminator was set up. I think the whole thing was in place in less than half an hour, but there were about 40 stagehands buzzing around like worker bees with forklifts and power tools and hoists and whatnot.

5 hours ago, Roy said:

Kenneth

14 hours ago, Frankie Crisp said:

I also shit my kecks on the walk home from my Grandad's funeral after trying to keep up with my old man's drinking speed.

It’s genuinely impossible for a thread to run for any amount of time on here without someone mentioning shitting.

6 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

I thought this was really funny!

 

I thought Little Britain got cancelled?

51 minutes ago, WyattSheepMask said:

Amiright in thinking that figure for that time slot in this day & age is absolutely massive?

On the surface, I’d say so. 6 million is almost 1 in 10 of the UK population. Although I’d be interesting to find out what the BBC’s definition of “average audience” is.

A quick Google and apparently the opening episode of Love Island 2023 only had 1.3 million viewers in comparison: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65818567

I went to see the first episode recording in Sheffield back in June and it took an absolute age. Was there for over 8 hours.

I applied for free tickets via Applause Store I think it was. Got tickets, said to turn up at 13:00. Turned up, queued, queue started moving, got to front, only to be handed an actual ticket and told the recording actually starts in a couple of hours.

Grabbed some lunch and when we got admitted to the arena it was set up for Power Ball. We thought they would maybe filming one game per record but we saw the same two contestants film their entire episode and play six games. The speed at which the stagehands tore down and set up each game was amazing. But there was a lot of pausing, setting up cameras, recording the Walsh’s pieces to cameras and re-recording them, we were still there at gone 10 PM and after three trips for food and drinks. We left after the men’s Eliminator as we had pushed a restaurant booking back twice, the last tram was not long due, and we didn’t want to be fighting with however many thousand people for a tram when the show did end.

So a long day and did enjoy it, but hoped they the recordings got more streamlined on subsequent days.

35 minutes ago, Gus Mears said:

Things are too slick now to recreate that. Not that I'll watch it anyway, but at least they didn't shoehorn fucking Mulhern into the presenters role.

I guess they‘re sticking to the format of “Northern” presenters.

Organ transplant pioneer Professor Sir Roy Calne.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67907549

I feel like my heart’s been ripped out on this one.

Jason

8 minutes ago, Chris B said:

Bump, since Kylie Ray appears to have confirmed that the NDA recently being discussed was because she left over backstage harassment by Jericho. And there are others.

Also because his wife unlocked her account, and pretty quickly people found her tweeting about "proud pure blood".

 

Pure blood? As opposed to what? A muggle?

Didn’t know whether to post this here or in the “Jesus Fucking Christ” thread:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67813689

On 12/19/2023 at 12:05 PM, cobra_gordo said:

A mate has just posted on Facebook that he's had one from his bank which included "Congratulations on being in the top 5% spenders at [SOME PUB IN DONCASTER]"

Hello, Monzo.

I think DDP’s rationale was, he knew he was slightly older than his contemporaries, and any star power would reduce if he sat out his contract. Whilst he was no doubt comfortable, he wasn’t going to be as comfortable as say, Sting or Hogan, and so decided to take a solid offer knowing he would have a job and also know how much he’d be earning, rather than gambling on what value offers would be once he was a free agent, if there were any at all.

3 hours ago, Chili said:

Right he's got a mate or someone involved there, I refuse to believe this is nothing but very funky outsider humour.

The mate’s putting nowhere near as much effort in. Just stood there whilst this Lewis chap is throwing his arms around and doing his best to pretend he’s being held back.

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

You can see who viewed your instagram story?

Apparently. There was a whole “Wagatha Christie” case that came out of it. 

34 minutes ago, BigJag said:

I don't hate it. Has anyone watched the full film?

Yeah. Watched it this afternoon and it’s exactly as the trailer makes it out to be: fun little animated jaunt with plenty of gags.

18 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

One company I used to recruit for had 7x stages! And the last one was in Belgium and I was never allowed to go and accompany the candidates as my director was a twat. Booooooo.

You sound like you were a producer on The Apprentice.

“For the seventh step in The Process™, we should send them to Belgium and give them half a day to find a list of obscure items with funny names.”