HipPriest

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[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I only noticed this comment now, I've been reading the Culture series too - I enjoyed the world building in Consider Phlebas a lot but after a while I just wanted it to finish. So I skipped on and read a few others in the series then came back to finish it.

The Player Of Games was brilliant, enjoy!

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I mean yeah, I've been unemployed for a significant part of my working life. I guess you can also add to my list being the last generation encouraged to get a degree by well meaning parents and teachers at school 'because it will guarantee you getting a job for life'.

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've been reading The Culture series by Iain M Banks. I gave up on the first book a while back, which I've heard is quite common, but I plan to go back and finish it.

I've just read The Player Of Games and Excession and both are exceptional.

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I had no idea of this - I just googled it and it's almost exactly like something out of the book.

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I really enjoyed Yellowface, it's a great read and a bit of a black comedy in places!

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 50 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Definitely as a millennial I'm of the last generation that will remember arranging to meet up somewhere in advance and sticking to that plan (or rearranging over landline with more than a day's notice...)

But something I've noticed when I ask people in my team what their dream jobs are the younger people tend to say 'run their own businesses', 'work for themselves' etc. Whereas in our generation (in my circles anyway) that definitely wasn't so prominent. Maybe a side effect of seeing influencers making it big?

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Awful layout... Some interesting stuff when you can actually find the articles though

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

In my experience in my specific part of England that holds true - Aldi definitely seems a lot cleaner

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

It could grow on me. It's hard to tell without seeing it in action

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Not that it's especially convincing but I think that the idea was that he was 'playing a game' when he'd been doing that stuff with the salt and then thrown it out into the ether for no reason other than messing about.

Or something? I don't know. Much as I love a lot about RTD as a writer, he's definitely not a details man on story elements...

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think it's the 'Boss' and they're building up an arc.

With the whole gold tooth thing I really hope it's not as obvious as The Master but who knows yet

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's a real shame because from what I saw of the Artemis app it looked good as well. I hope the dev is ok.

Kbin definitely needs a decent app. The web app does the job but it can be a bit irritating as you say

 

So I'm finally switching to Firefox (admittedly for the quite shallow reason that Chrome has dropped its dark mode for websites toggle)

Wondered if anyone had any pro tips? I've installed uBlock Origin and Dark Reader extensions. I've made an account so it'll synch tabs etc across my tablet and phone. Just wondered if Firefox on mobile had any nice features worth trying out

 

I think this is a contender for the worst opinion column I've read this year - completely pointless, irrelevant and come on Matt couldn't you think of anything a bit more interesting that happened this week?

Paywall free version https://tinyurl.com/47m2een8

 

I rewatched this again today and I actually quite like bits of it it I just don't understand what the hell is going on. How much of it is 'real'? Is any of it? Reece Shearsmith's character says he's just there to make a good story to keep us watching... So did The Doctor even land?

What are other people's thoughts on the plot of this story?

 

‘Eurowings should be ashamed of how they handled this situation,’ says passenger

 

There was no finished script or even an ending and a key cast member became fatally ill during the production. Three decades after the release of the landmark Hollywood thriller, the cast and crew …

 

In depth look at the creation of one of the most famous albums in rock music

 

Do people here actually think this is true? I'm not so sure myself. There may be the odd episode but I'm quite doubtful that there's masses of episodes just being sat on by collectors.

The person in the article doesn't really seem to have any evidence for his claim

 

Obviously this question is going to be asked at some point so I might as well be the obvious one and ask it...

I am assuming that a lot of people out there will rightly go with Genesis Of The Daleks and City Of Death. (Amusing side note, predictive text badly wants that first story to be renamed Genesis Of The Faeries). The first has Davros and the second is one of Douglas Adams' finest hours.

So I'll go for my 'official' vote The Deadly Assassin . Seeing Tom Baker on the back foot is always riveting. Watching him having to play out everything by himself is just so watchable, right from him putting a dummy of himself of him smoking a hookah to distract the guards to basically drowning to death in the matrix.

Anyone else? I had to think hard for a favourite 4th after discounting my usual defaults of Genesis and City, but that's not saying they're off limits for everyone!

 

Joby Pool, who drove off with sugary stash from Telford industrial unit, had clearly not acted on ‘spur of moment’, says prosecutor


I love the understatement of prosecutor there.

 

Just thought I'd share this. It's an excellent site for reviews of apps and online versions of board games. The guy who runs it has got a pretty exhaustive list of reviews (though not complete!)

There's also a Discord community which is friendly and actually very fediverse like in its lack of toxicity

Anyway, it was perfect for someone like me, because my wife is a bad loser and no longer plays games with me, and my son is 7 so we can manage Patchwork but not much more just yet 😛

 

Not had a chance to actually watch this yet but should be interesting I think...

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