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  1. https://amzn.eu/d/5OEwKYT

    Buy my book plz

    1. TEOL

      TEOL

      Christmas is fast approaching and I hear it makes a great gift for friends and family!

  2. Skummy

    Doctor Who

    I mean, you've watched Doctor Who written by Russell T Davies before, right?
  3. Reed Richards should be portrayed negatively. Pretty much every good version of that character is a self-centred narcissist. He called himself "Mr Fantastic", for fuck's sake.
  4. Skummy

    Taskmaster

    Taskmaster Hotel is an all timer.
  5. here's Dolly's actually really good version of Stairway, btw:
  6. yeah, so many of the rumours around them were entirely based on the assumption that there must be 35 of them because of the name - but the name is because they're 1/35 scale models. I only heard the Costa del Sol thing within the last couple of years, I don't even know if that's true, I just assumed they were a useless joke item.
  7. I actually quite enjoy when Rifftrax and MST3K do the same film, because they find different jokes and different things to laugh at in the same films. Rifftrax's Manos isn't as good as MST3K's, but it's still fun. And then obviously Rifftrax has no host segments or anything like that, so there's another angle to it on MST3k.
  8. Level 99 is a new one on me, but it is the kind of thing that used to get made up about games all the time - something that is ostensibly achievable, but that so few people will bother doing that it's not at all worth the effort to disprove. The main rumours for Zack that I can remember related to the 1/35 Soldier - just people assuming that meaningless items must have purpose, and making the weirdest possible conclusions about it, along with good old-fashioned playground bullshit.
  9. I've talked on here before about knowing someone who is now in their late 30s, if not early 40s, who still insists that she revived Aeris and unlocked Zack as a playable character in FF7. In terms of first playing it - FF7 was my first JRPG, never knew anything about the genre. I had just started a new school, got talking games with a kid I befriended; I had been playing Little Big Adventure 2, he had been playing Final Fantasy 7. LBA2 felt huge to me at the time - it was relatively open world, had some RPG dynamics, and had a fun point where you go to another world and have to use a different currency - and I assumed FF7 would be a similar game, but it was just so much bigger and broader and I was completely blown away by it. I had played RPGs before, but it was stuff like The Bard's Tale, some Ultima knock-offs, or more recently Diablo, never anything like a Final Fantasy. FF7 was a complete obsession for a couple of years - my first online communities were around it, every conversation at school was FF7, Starcraft, or Metal Gear Solid for a year or two there. It was, and really still is, my baseline of what an RPG should be - I started getting into emulation and retro games purely to go back and play previous Final Fantasy games, and found so many other great games because of that.
  10. Dolly already did a cover of Stairway to Heaven on "Halos & Horns" back in 2002, and it's a much better version than this one. Most of the album doesn't really work for me, though I haven't listened to all of it yet. Wrecking Ball is good, and Bygones is the closest to what I hoped the album would be, in terms of Dolly doing actual rock music, but the rest feels a bit gimmicky.
  11. Abraxas is another one that has been Rifftrax-ed a few years ago - it's a bad Terminator knock-off, but perfect MST3K material.
  12. Aesop Rock's new album is fantastic.
  13. https://www.patrickwreed.com/blog/panther-pleasants-wrestling-in-hitlers-shadow

    New to the blog, the story of Eric "Panther" Pleasants, the Norfolk wrestler who fought for Hitler.

  14. even aside from the MST3K episode (and Rifftrax did a great episode on it too), Sumuru has one of my all-time favourite bits of bad movie dialogue - "what's new at the Dracula factory?".
  15. Laibach tonight, their first UK date since before Brexit. I am excited, even though I don't really know what to expect.
  16. I'm struggling with Loki, it just seems all a bit pointless. There's none of the intrigue that drove the original series, and not enough fun bits to make it work without that. It feels like content for content's sake. My issue with Loki in general has long been that none of it really feels like it needs to be Loki at the centre of it, if that makes sense. It's an interesting sci-fi concept, but the outsider caught up in the TVA's business being the Norse God Of Mischief doesn't actually add anything to that idea, and if anything detracts from it. It's one of the MCU properties that feels like it would be a more interesting series without the Marvel trappings, compared to what little it gains from having them. As much as I love the aesthetic, of time travel being managed by drab Cold War bureaucracy, it's always felt like a Doctor Who two-parter stretched out to series length, and the second season feels even more like that. I just don't know what I'm supposed to be rooting for or caring about.
  17. If Steam isn't a dealbreaker, the first one is one Zomb's Lair - https://www.zombs-lair.com/discworld - I imagine you can find 2 and Noir somewhere too.
  18. Finished Sea Of Stars with the true ending, and final post-game easter egg last night. It's a slow burner, but by the end I was absolutely hooked, just a gorgeous, heartfelt lovely game.
  19. That and the following level were what really hit me, as a one-two punch.
  20. been playing Unpacking lately. It was free on PS+, and I picked it up as it's the kind of cosy game my girlfriend likes, and ended up playing it because I had a bit of time spare before having to head to the airport, and didn't want anything that would tax my brain too much. I absolutely love it. It is relaxing, but for a game of just moving objects around with almost no text, and no visible characters, I found it surprisingly emotional. Each level is a new living space that the central character is moving into, and you get a real sense of the person you are just from the objects they own, what they take with them from each previous home, and what new additions get added to the mix. There's a run of like three levels that were an emotional rollercoaster for me.
  21. I probably won't donate this time - I was happy to support for the last season, but never even ended up watching the whole thing. I'm glad to have my rewards, and have got a lot of wear out of the T-shirt already, but by the time they arrived I'd basically forgotten about them anyway. I'm kind of at the point now where I'm glad that MST3K can still exist, but it would take something special for me to go out of my way to start watching it again.
  22. Skummy

    Doctor Who

    he's also a mad conspiracist far-right nutjob. He's been insisting that he owns more rights to Doctor Who stuff than he actually probably does for at least ten years, but it's very telling that his stated reason for kicking off about it so much this time is because of the BBC casting black and queer actors.
  23. incredible new metalman lore just dropped
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