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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:https://twitter.com/dwmoook/status/1218065788143316992 The first one is meant to be Cybil. I hate adaptations of Terry Pratchett works, even the first ones. Only half passable one is Going Postal. Ruins the images of what I have of the characters in my head. mehall posted:I believe they've already said that the world in The Watch is "inspired by" Pratchetts works. As in 'now hes dead and we own the rights we get all the money! Fart out something quick while there are still some fans about!'. Like what they did to Douglas Adams. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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happyhippy posted:The first one is meant to be Cybil. I thought Geraldine James and Charles Dance were perfect casting in whichever one it was (Going Postal?)
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https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1218171839454662656 Brexit and the press attacks hosed us.
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I still don't see how Starmer would be awful policy wise, it seems to be fear mongering. Having listened to them both speak in the house, though, I just don't see the argument that he's somehow stronger. PMQs between Starmer and Johnson would be a contest to see who could fit in the most umms and errs. Also he has a shellshocked look whenever he's in front of a large crowd. RLB does also have room for improvement. Considering how she handled public appearances including televised debates, though, I think she pulls ahead on the "strength" argument.
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Azza Bamboo posted:I still don't see how Starmer would be awful policy wise, it seems to be fear mongering. Having listened to them both speak in the house, though, I just don't see the argument that he's somehow stronger. PMQs between Starmer and Johnson would be a contest to see who could fit in the most umms and errs. Also he has a shellshocked look whenever he's in front of a large crowd. RLB does also have room for improvement. Considering how she handled public appearances including televised debates, though, I think she pulls ahead on the "strength" argument. He's responsible for the Brexit policy that hosed us and has been hiring from the Labour factions that want to purge everyone to the left of Henry Kissinger. At best he'll make Ed Miliband look like Duke Nukem and at worst he'll Kinnock the gently caress out of everything.
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What I'm looking for in the leadership contest is a candidate who moves away from screaming "stop it you're being mean", who puts away the whining tone and actually looks like they're ready to fight. If it's just going to be more of the same moralising and catastrophising "woe is the poor" then we're set for a self fulfilling prophecy.
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I've been posting on and off since the election and I haven't been following the latest happenings in UKMT. Anyone notice a slowdown in the posts in this thread? Is it just the post-election blues or did some drama happen? Apparently there was some sitewide drama involving QCS and FYAD?
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I think the threads were just much bigger than usual between the Corbyn ascendancy, Brexit, and all since up until the 2020 election, because there was a lot more happening to discuss. e: Yeah they were all like <100 pages a month until the Bae of Pigs incident. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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Azza Bamboo posted:What I'm looking for in the leadership contest is a candidate who moves away from screaming "stop it you're being mean", who puts away the whining tone and actually looks like they're ready to fight. If it's just going to be more of the same moralising and catastrophising "woe is the poor" then we're set for a self fulfilling prophecy. Yeah, pretty much this. Gonzo McFee posted:He's responsible for the Brexit policy that hosed us and has been hiring from the Labour factions that want to purge everyone to the left of Henry Kissinger. At best he'll make Ed Miliband look like Duke Nukem and at worst he'll Kinnock the gently caress out of everything. The first bit is fair, but the bolded bit is exactly the OTT fear mongering Azza was talking about. If it was Phillips we were talking about you might have some kind of semblance of a point here (although that credits Phillips with having much more of a coherent platform than I've seen so far), but Nandy, Starmer and Thornberry just aren't saying the things you seem to think they are
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I've never liked the Discworld adaptations either, though I seem to have missed Going Postal, might check it out for Charles Dance.
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happyhippy posted:As in 'now hes dead and we own the rights we get all the money! Fart out something quick while there are still some fans about!'. Yer drat that Narrativia, holder of all rights to his works, and the bastard board of Directors comprising his long time personal assistant and friend, and daughter?
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Niric posted:The first bit is fair, but the bolded bit is exactly the OTT fear mongering Azza was talking about. If it was Phillips we were talking about you might have some kind of semblance of a point here (although that credits Phillips with having much more of a coherent platform than I've seen so far), but Nandy, Starmer and Thornberry just aren't saying the things you seem to think they are He's not saying those things, no, but he is hiring the people who are. Hiring the toxic scum the left have been trying to remove for several years is really loving bad.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:He's not saying those things, no, but he is hiring the people who are. Hiring the toxic scum the left have been trying to remove for several years is really loving bad. As has been posted several times, the selections for Starmer's team is a pretty transparent attempt to try and appease everyone, including the left - e.g. hiring the person who literally ran Corbyn's leadership campaign. I guess I just don't find that as terrifying/awful a tactic as some here do.
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Guavanaut posted:Just going to interrupt this to say that Bandai makes a scale model of the machine they use to make scale models. This is the exact level of silly recursion I love, it's like that mini of a space marine painting Warhammer.
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Niric posted:As has been posted several times, the selections for Starmer's team is a pretty transparent attempt to try and appease everyone, including the left - e.g. hiring the person who literally ran Corbyn's leadership campaign. I guess I just don't find that as terrifying/awful a tactic as some here do. You've got RLB and Phillips as the Corbyn/never-Corbyn candidates and Nandy as somewhere between 'towns' and 'red-browns' depending on who you ask, and then you've got Starmer as ??? other than he seems good when given a brief to follow. Given how long the left has fought for a glimmer of hope against a tide of Blairism and associated shite I can understand some worry about anything that looks like it might undo this. I don't think he's going to immediately sell the party to Rupert Murdoch, nor do I think he'll manage to get away with ignoring the membership like pre-2015 leaders could, but it's the unknowns. He's very model of a competent technocrat, which could be a blessing when it comes to evidence based approaches to things that the left wants, or a curse when it comes to memories of the past 30 years.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/17/owen-jones-attacker-tells-court-far-right-belongings-are-football-relatedquote:The items found at the home of James Healy included pin badges with the names, logos or mottos of the far-right group Combat 18 and the banned loyalist group the Loyalist Volunteer Force, and a black flag featuring a “totenkopf” skull-and-cross symbol and the initials of a Chelsea football hooligan group. quote:He also denied that a photograph of him taken nearly 20 years ago showed him making a Nazi salute, saying that his arm was in fact outstretched to his side to show off a Chelsea tattoo. “I’m showing a tattoo of my right arm, and I’ve got my arm out,” he said. Turns out the morons who attacked Owen Jones last year are all literal Nazi's. Imagine my shock. Saros fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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happyhippy posted:Going Postal I liked that one though I wish Angua got more lines than just growling.
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Niric posted:As has been posted several times, the selections for Starmer's team is a pretty transparent attempt to try and appease everyone, including the left - e.g. hiring the person who literally ran Corbyn's leadership campaign. I guess I just don't find that as terrifying/awful a tactic as some here do. If he's hiring right wing Labourites to appease the right, then he's planning to appease the right by moving right. If he's hiring Corbynites to appease the left, then he isn't the left in the first place.
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MikeCrotch posted:now Brexit is out of the way holy lmao i mean, i know what you mean, but still... ugh
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Saros posted:Turns out the morons who attacked Owen Jones last year are all literal Nazi's.
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Guavanaut posted:I think a lot of it is that we just don't know quite where Starmer stands. Yeah, this is a much more reasonable critique and I more or less agree with it all. I definitely don't want to give the impression that I think Starmer is a perfect candidate (or Nandy or Thornberry for that matter), but I am sceptical of RLB's pitch so far and pretty disillusioned with the way a lot of people on the left (both here and in meetings) knee kerk hate everyone who isn't her
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Chuka Umana posted:I've been posting on and off since the election and I haven't been following the latest happenings in UKMT. Anyone notice a slowdown in the posts in this thread? Is it just the post-election blues or did some drama happen? Mostly I've been enjoying life a little and taking in as little politics. Definitely post-election blues, I just feel a bit less motivated re: parliamentary socialism and burnt out on the general bollocks that is the news in this country, both print & TV. Niric posted:As has been posted several times, the selections for Starmer's team is a pretty transparent attempt to try and appease everyone, including the left - e.g. hiring the person who literally ran Corbyn's leadership campaign. I guess I just don't find that as terrifying/awful a tactic as some here do. I don't trust him not to run to the centre at the first sign of trouble, and the centre is now so far to the right of where it was even in 2007 that is bad. I have no interest in seeing a right wing Labour government. Sure, it probably improves my life a bit but I want more than that. Remember in 2015 when Sadiq Khan was backing Corbyn right until the moment he won the nomination to be Labour Mayoral candidate & then started tacking right. Straight up, I do not trust the Labour right to actually work with the Labour left. The second they have their hands on a controlling interests of the NEC they will do all they can to ensure the left can't be in charge ever again. I don't think RLB is perfect but she's the continuity candidate and I happened to like Labour under the previous leader for the first time in my life.
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Total Meatlove posted:Yer drat that Narrativia, holder of all rights to his works, and the bastard board of Directors comprising his long time personal assistant and friend, and daughter? https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/jan/17/discworld-fans-are-right-to-be-nervous-about-the-bbcs-punk-rock-the-watch quote:Pratchett’s daughter Rhianna, and his long-term friend and assistant Rob Wilkins, who still runs Pratchett’s Twitter account, did not comment directly (they’re not involved in the adaptation). https://twitter.com/rhipratchett/status/1172096652603248641
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Niric posted:a lot of people on the left (both here and in meetings) knee kerk hate everyone who isn't How can a unity candidate work when the only thing one side cares about is purging the other and taking control? e: in fact, didn't we used to have a leader who's literal entire gimmick for a while was trying to bring together the various factions of the party whilst staying true to basic socialist principles, how'd that work out for us Borrovan fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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Katt posted:I liked that one though I wish Angua got more lines than just growling. Some of my favourite Watch moments are when they pop up in someone else's book, and without the benefit of their internal monologues they come off (rightly) as scowling bastards
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Some of my favourite Watch moments are when they pop up in someone else's book, and without the benefit of their internal monologues they come off (rightly) as scowling bastards Pratchett really does do a good job of characterising the police from the perspective of everone who isn't the police in those, yes.
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Borrovan posted:FTFY, and it's because of the last 5 years of internal politics. Speak for yourself, I hated everyone who isn't a socialist for years before 2015!
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Guavanaut posted:Just going to interrupt this to say that Bandai makes a scale model of the machine they use to make scale models. Why the heck did they make it 1/60, that's not going to fit in with any of my stuff The Deleter posted:This is the exact level of silly recursion I love, it's like that mini of a space marine painting Warhammer. I made this a while back: 
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The discworld pictures look interesting and I'll take that over "slavishly adhering to the text" any day but especially on days when the text is by Terry "my writing never works on screen" Pratchett  Good Omens is the closest we'll ever get to capturing the spirit of his work and frankly "something happens on screen while a voice over tells you what is happening on screen because the joke was in how he described it, not the event itself" was poo poo television. Just read the book again.
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Rarity posted:Turns out my new laptop is a piece of poo poo that freezes up every time its asked to do more than scroll down. I spent almost 400 quid on this Pretend it's broken and return it, if you can?
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