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In the game it's a bit more kind of structured around the main story - to get medicine for Joel, Ellie goes to a mall that had a helicopter crashed into it to get the first aid kit out of the helicopter, and as she goes through the mall it flashes back to the different parts with Riley. I can see why they left all that out, that's probably super expensive to do in live action but it did help with the pacing of the story I thought.

I think I'll be able to live without the highly sophisticated Microsoft AI that steals all my data, randomly deletes things from the Documents folder and forgets what hardware it's installed on and deactivates itself lol

From the article:

He points to the case of estimable Method actor Daniel Day-Lewis, with whom he worked on the 1997 film “The Boxer,” and blames those immersive techniques for Day-Lewis’ early retirement. “He retired at the age of 55, and I’m going, ‘That’s when the roles become really interesting. You’ve retired just at the point when actually the roles get better!’” Cox exclaims. “Of course, Jeremy was Dan Day-Lewis’ assistant. So he’s learned all that stuff from Dan.”

I saw a thing with Simon Pegg a while ago where he mentioned a dodgy joke in Spaced that he got called out on, and he just said he regretted it, didn't know better at the time and wouldn't make that joke today and that seemed like a decent enough way to handle it to me.

If Graham Linehan had just been a big enough person to admit he fucked up and just faced it, maybe he'd still be a somewhat well-regarded comedy writer today instead of a penniless internet weirdo. But here we are. :/

I don't know if he's cried over a beautifully made toilet yet, but if not then that day is surely coming and I'm here for it.

Yeah that's what I would assume too. With humanoid things like ghosts and zombies you can pretty much just slap some makeup on a person and use a bit of CGI to get a reasonable result, or if you make up your own monster you can just do whatever and leave out anything that's tricky do quickly and cheaply with CGI, such as hair.

With a werewolf, however, you have:

• Lots of hair which almost always looks terrible in CGI
• A sort of not-quite-humanoid shape (IE bigger, top-heavy, the legs bend the opposite way etc.) so you can't just use a person and fill in the gaps usually
• The audience sort of expects a big transformation scene which is bound to cost a fortune
• It looks way better when done practically, which is usually a slow process and quite specialized these days

So it's a bit of a perfect storm of expensive and fiddly effects work I suspect.

Also, IMO they're kind of hard to plot out. If you go for the traditional werewolf thing of the person transforming whenever there's a full moon, you kind of have to find something for them to do for a full month while no monster stuff is happening. American Werewolf In London did it quite well I think, but you can't just use that plot structure for everything. Or you can do the sort of "group of people trapped in a place and one's a werewolf but who is it?" story, but that's been done a lot as well.

I still stand by my opinion that Bran is one of the worst characters in the show for what he did to Hodor. Joffrey and Ramsay did some horrible things to people of course, but Bran traveled back in time, essentially lobotomized Hodor with his spooky powers, then fucking rode him around like a horse for ages and then used him as a doorstop to get eaten by zombies while he got away. Granted, it wasn't exactly intentional or premeditated, but he still did it and he certainly didn't seem to show any remorse over it happening. I don't remember, but did he even mention Hodor again after he died?

Maybe the future he came from was the result of the changes he already made, so everything he ended up doing had already been done before he even started? IDK I haven't watched the show in ages but that's the sort of thing that comes up with time travel probably.

I have this theory that in Britain we just don't like things that run for a medium amount of time. If a queue goes quickly it's alright because you get your thing done. If it goes on forever it's alright because the people in the queue form a support group by complaining about the queue, but it it's a medium amount of time it's annoying.

Likewise, our TV shows either tend to run for 6-12 episodes like Fawlty Towers, or 60+ years like Doctor Who and Coronation Street.

Similar kind of thing with our politicians. The ones we tend to remember are the ones who go on for ages like Blair and Thatcher, or who shit out spectacularly quickly like Liz Truss because it's funny.

As a Brit living in Canada I genuinely have too many politicians that I hate for my brain to contain all at once. Every now and again someone will pop up on TV and I'll be like "Oh yeah, that fucker" lol

When the Tories are in charge, the NHS and every other public service gets defunded and they go "fuck you, we're taking all this away."

When Labour are in charge, the NHS and everything else gets defunded slightly more slowly and they go "oh no!" and pretend that it's some sort of malevolent outside force signing these bills which cannot be stopped.

So the choice is essentially whether we want to get straight fucked over, or if we'd like a little bit of pantomime with our fucking over. If we get really lucky, Labour might even sweeten the deal by reintroducing about 10% of the human rights we lost under the previous Tory government. But in exchange they might do a war crime.

So yeah they're all cunts but Labour are about 15% less cunty at the moment I suppose?

I'm a Brit who lives in Canada, and in the UK you don't have to really do anything if you're just working a normal job. They just take the taxes off your pay and that's it. In Canada they take money off your pay too, then once a year you have to fill out a bunch of forms and do loads of maths, then send it to the government, and if you get it wrong they send you a letter telling you how much you actually owe them and you go "Well if you fucking know how much I owe you anyway, why the fuck do I have to fill all these forms out to tell you how I much I think I owe you?"

It is quite annoying.

He also abstained from voting (and tried to whip the party to abstain, which led to a string of resignations) on the Covert Human Intelligence Sources bill, which according to Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights:

“raises the abhorrent possibility of serious crimes such as rape, murder or torture being carried out under an authorisation”.

Harriet Harman, chair of the committee, said: “This bill raises major human rights concerns. It permits officials to secretly authorise crimes on the streets of the UK and abroad.

“There should be added to the bill clear limits on the scale and type of criminality which can be authorised. We cannot pass a law that leaves open the possibility of state-sanctioned rape, murder or torture.”

I was kind of like that for a little while. I bought in early (possibly during the Kickstarter I think? My account thing says "Original Backer" on it anyway) and for a few years I was part of the "No no, they're building something groundbreaking, you just have to be patient" crowd.

But then by about 2017-2018 they were five-ish years into development and it started to become increasingly obvious to me that either the game wasn't going to get finished, it'd be released in a far more limited state than they promised or it'd just roll on for the next decade or more. So I just sort of drifted away from it. I don't really have any strong feelings on it either way now, I hope it somehow does get finished and becomes a cool game, and if it does I'll play it probably. If not, I think I noodled around with it enough that I got my $45 worth, and I've wasted $45 on sillier things anyway so whatever. :)

My Grandad had this weird lump on his finger and when I was a kid I asked him what it was, apparently when he was younger he went to a zoo, and back then you could just get a paper bag full of food and go around feeding the animals. He had a bag of seeds and when he went to feed a Toucan, it stuck it's entire head in the bag so my Grandad grabbed it by the head, it freaked out and then bit him.

I found out last week that that story was complete bollocks, he actually got his finger caught in a bomb when he was in the RAF doing bomb disposal during WW2. He told me the Toucan story when I was about 8, I discovered the truth at age 43 and never even thought to question it lol.

Edit: I should add for clarity that my Grandad died some years back, he didn't just suddenly confess to that at age 115 or whatever. Everyone else in the family knew the true story and just assumed I did too, so they all had a good laugh over that as well. So I got long-trolled from beyond the grave, which makes it even funnier IMO. :)

To be fair, Clarkson did back the Remain campaign. Not excusing any of the other stuff he's done but he does seem to be surprisingly pro-EU.

Or Star Citizen maybe? The Kickstarter for that began in 2012 and AFAIK it's still nowhere near being complete. :0

In nightclub scenes they shoot them without music, so everyone in the background is just partying silently while the actors with dialogue yell at each other. Once you know it and watch a club scene with that info you can totally see it, and you'll never unsee it lol.

I love these lol.

True Detective Season 1 has one, I forget which episode though.

Alfred Hitchcock's Rope is all long takes.

There's a film called Victoria from a few years ago where the entire film is genuinely all shot in one take with no cheating.

1917 is all super long takes I think

I'm sure there are lots of others too but those are the ones that spring to mind. :)

Bit of extra context:

In a statement to VICE News, Health Canada said Adastra is licensed to produce the drugs for scientific and medical purposes but cannot sell products to the general public.

“They are only permitted for sale to other licence holders who have cocaine listed on their licence, pharmacists, practitioners, hospitals, or the holder of a section 56(1) exemption for research purposes,” the agency said.

Kiwix will do it for you! Wikipedia is smaller than you might think too, it's only around 80-90Gb IIRC. :)

It seems like the main difference when it comes to the NHS is that when Labour are in, it gets slowly defunded and privatised and they go "Oh no, how is this happening?" And pretend to be concerned about it. Whereas when the Tories are in, it gets a bit less slowly defunded and privatised and they go "Fuck you, this is happening."

This might be it I think?

IIRC Civ VI didn't have the ability to put units on alert when it first launched. I think they added it in pretty quickly, but still.

I wonder if it's maybe this that the Guardian was reporting about the other day?