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ThomasPaine posted:Are you loving insane, this is the exact opposite of a correct GoT take. The first few seasons were incredible and the last few shat the bed completely. nah I remember thinking the same thing. It would be hard to look at it clearly going back now having the whole show in my head, but watching S1 as it aired I remember thinking it was both kind of cheesey and very sleazy. like a B show. I dropped off in early S2 and only went back later. s3 and 4 are really the peak of the show. s5 and 6 are a step down with some highlights, and then 7 and 8 are basically crap with a couple of cool battles.
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Convex posted:This is also the case on Netflix, if you didn't enable subtitles then all the korean scenes were unsubbed. Maybe it's intentional? Oh really? I assumed it wasn't supposed to be like that because of the business with the translator device. You hear only a couple of lines in the computer voice begore it fades away, it felt like you were supposed to accept that as the reason the characters could understand each other and move over to reading subtitles because waiting for the translator would ruin the pacing. It was made for Koreans so maybe that was overlooked for the english release? My dvd is deffo some silly region though lol.
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Don't get me wrong, the story was obviously better even at the start, and season one can be forgiven for doing a LOT of setup. But there's a real workmanlike approach to the way it is filmed (like it's aping the tone of period dramas, maybe?), and characters like Tyrion get a lot of rough edges sanded off between seasons that hit you full in the face if you go straight back to the start. Massive tonal whiplash with a major cheese factor that I kind of forgot was there. I guess it's kind of charming? Plus it's definitely better than whatever the hell the last few episodes were meant to be.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The 3 Musketeers is like that. Apparently Mads Mikkelsen did not get the memo that this is the kind of film that James Corden is in, and turns in a genuinely good performance. 3 musketeers is one of my favourite trash films. Orlando bloom out fashioning the king of France in every scene is amazing.
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So they're outright saying he's a con artist or a cult leader? Wonder if he'll go Jim Jones if he gets in legal trouble.
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bessantj posted:I worked two twelve hour shifts over the weekend. On the second shift I'd walked over 30,000 steps and handled a lot of heavy equipment (25kg being the lightest and 40kg being the norm) as had everyone else in my gang. Towards the end of the shift when all the actual work was done the decided that we should do some shoveling and frankly were we just too exhausted to do it. Anyway we started doing some but after 20 minutes decided to take a long break and I sat there thinking that really you can only get about 6 hours of useful work out of someone on my job. After that it's a very steep decline, I think another 2 hours of vaguely reasonable work and after that you're lucky to get anything much. On the end of the shift one of the lads was so tried that he didn't have the wherewithal to lift his leg over the rail and tripped. Fatigue is very dangerous, combine that with the fact we're all dehydrated and it's a surprise more serious accidents don't happen. Was he badly hurt? https://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors...ift%20patterns. quote:
Managing rail staff fatigue (this is from 2013 so not sure if there's a newer one). https://www.orr.gov.uk/media/10934 I've lost track (pun not intended) of the infrastructure maintenance arrangements now. Are you employed by contractor or by Network Rail?
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So Rishi was a close contact & Liz later tested positive. Not bad for a photo of 4 people.
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forkboy84 posted:Not bad for a photo of 4 people. I dunno as far as photos of 4 people go? Its pretty bad.
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The fabulous Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine, Matching Mole, etc) has quit the Musicians' Union after 50 years because of their failure to support the vote to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn. https://twitter.com/duduschka/status/1488204308407541760 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQKhoEw2IQ
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Lmao this Savile stuff is going to run and run and the Labour Right are so thick and politically gormless that they have absolutely no idea how to deal with it beyond yelling "It's not true! It's not it's not it's not!!" I know it's loving childish but I'm all for watching the same shifty half-arsed smears the bastards used on Corbyn drag Keith into forever being remembered as a nonce apologist. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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Prole posted:Lmao this Savile stuff is going to run and run and the Labour Right are so thick and politically gormless that they have absolutely no idea how to deal with it beyond yelling "It's not true! It's not it's not it's not!!" I know it's loving childish but I'm all for watching the same shifty half-arsed smears the bastards used on Corbyn drag Keith into forever being remembered as a nonce apologist. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. 
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https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1488607668013084675?s=21 Is it not worth going on the attack to the point you promise life in jail for this kind of negligent wastage and counter lie the Saville stuff by saying Boris has stolen it from the uk tax payer
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One of these https://twitter.com/govindajeggy/status/1488519378601746436
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Was he badly hurt? Yer this is something the HSE is increasingly interested in and Bessantj please raise concerns with a union rep.
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stev posted:One episode of Breaking Bad has like 20 minutes of Spanish dialogue and the version I downloaded (before it was all on Netflix) didn't have subtitles. I assumed that it wasn't supposed to since the scene does such a good job of conveying what's going on. I think this happens a lot with subtitles on streaming services. If the film already has subtitles but the audio is mostly Ebglish it can get confused when you switch on the subtitles and blank the parts that are supposed to be subbed. I n the pre-pandemic times my wife and I watched Atomic Blonde on Netflix with the subtitles on since the house we were staying in had a good TV but crap built in speakers. And in any scene where all the Eastern Germans are speaking German (Russian?) there was no subtitles. So you had no clue what they were saying. And I thought that this was masterful story telling. You had this confusing spy film and you are shown glimpses of what the bad guys are up to, but can't be sure what they are doing. Particularly the last scene where the main character and all the villains are just speaking in Russian and it seems like some bold Cinematic experiment. Then afterwards we discovered no, there was supposed to be English subtitles there and all the magic was lost. Also last year Amazon Prime Video went through this annoying period where when any English text appeared on the screen (like characters reading books or looking at signs) German text appeared over it. And there was no way to switch it off. They eventually patched it.
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willie_dee posted:https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1488607668013084675?s=21 Pat McFudden
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willie_dee posted:https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1488607668013084675?s=21 I'm not sure at what point I gave up hope, but this reminded me that yeah, I have.
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Jeherrin posted:I'm not sure at what point I gave up hope, but this reminded me that yeah, I have. If you add the ~£40 billion that was
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https://twitter.com/MrJohnNicolson/status/1488532727368409097 Also this: https://twitter.com/bloggerheads/status/1488606907124363265 In other news, the Torygraph is drip-twisting the knife https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1488618164128727040 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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kyojin posted:If you add the ~£40 billion that was Is that test and trace thing still running? Does anyone actually have the app on their phone anymore? I've only been contacted once and it was via the records at a pub I visited. I never even got pinged by the app... Mad to think how much open corruption and embezzlement is just going to go ignored because Boris had some parties. Prole fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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Off topic, but Baldur's Gate I & II and Icewind Dale & Planescape Torment Enhanced Edition bundles are on offer on Switch right now and I'm 12 years old again. Can't put it down.
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An old cowboy went riding out One track and tracing day Upon a ridge he rested As he went along his way When all at once a mighty herd Of led eyed cars he saw Plowing through the ragged skies And up the cloudy draw Their bat'ries were on fire And their frames weren't made of steel Their horns were goat and fart sounds And their price tag he could feel A bolt of fear went through him As they crashed into a bus For he saw the drivers coming hard Phones on r/elonmusk
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I'm finding this phrase of people saying "We've been taken for mugs" and similar thoughts a bit weird. Surely "taken for mugs" implies you have been duped into doing something stupid. But those taking the covid precautions were not doing anything stupid, so they weren't mugs. If you are doing something that is right, but someone else doesn't do it / appreciate it etc, it doesn't make you a mug.
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I would imagine the suggestion is that if everyone else doesn't give a poo poo and works to undermine everything you do, then you are a fool for putting yourself out. Which is generally true if you don't subscribe to a virtue ethics kind of understanding of the world.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm finding this phrase of people saying "We've been taken for mugs" and similar thoughts a bit weird. Surely "taken for mugs" implies you have been duped into doing something stupid. But those taking the covid precautions were not doing anything stupid, so they weren't mugs. If you let a loved one die without seeing them because the rules were so impossibly immutable that they could never be broken.. then this... then yeah you feel a fool.
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OwlFancier posted:I would imagine the suggestion is that if everyone else doesn't give a poo poo and works to undermine everything you do, then you are a fool for putting yourself out.
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That's also an option yeah, if they aren't taking it seriously it undermines the idea that it should have been taken seriously.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm finding this phrase of people saying "We've been taken for mugs" and similar thoughts a bit weird. Surely "taken for mugs" implies you have been duped into doing something stupid. But those taking the covid precautions were not doing anything stupid, so they weren't mugs. I think it’s more “the government must think that we are mugs for going along with their rules while they ignore them.” At least that’s how I’m interpreting it.
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The news should just follow all items about Boris with the clip of Doon Mackichan from Brass Eye saying "We must catch him, he really is a poo poo."
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Genuinely angry the papers aren't making bank on 'saville row' headlines implying stitch-ups and alter(c)ations
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'Saville row: Sir Keith mishandled suits'
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It's kind of funny that everyone's Very Mad about this Saville remark, but there's been absolutely nothing about Boris accusing the Labour frontbenchers of taking drugs. You'd think someone in the media would have picked up on that.
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