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  1. That could be worse. But the Crow is so perfectly of its time and so pointedly connected to that time with it's style and sound, that any attempt to redo it with new window dressing for a new time feels off, no matter what you do with it and no matter how well (or not) you do it.
  2. It was alleged that White left the last England camp he was called up for after a falling out with Steve Holland, of some sort, and he's not featured since. Southgate is now telling us that White has asked not to be considered, but that there's nothing in the rumours about a falling out with Holland. If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you. White might have said he doesn't want to be picked, but it's obvious the reason why is because he doesn't want to work with someone in the camp, and the story was it was something to do with Holland, so...
  3. Attacked a UNRWA facility again. This time one of the few food distribution centres thats still operating. **** Israel, utterly despicable.
  4. I threw it in as a grenade It isn't paid for, the guy is way too small and insignificant, and it's not actually particularly anti-EV per se (he actually rates the Taycan as a very good EV, though has issues with EVs generally). He comes at it from the perspective of someone who was a car trader (he ran a small business buying and selling VAG Group cars for about 20 years), and his concern is basically the second hand market for EVs is ****.
  5. I recently was put on fluoxetine. And propranolol. I've not noticed them do anything. I was previously on sertraline at a party high dose for a number of years. Again didn't notice anything, until I stopped taking it then I got bad brain pops for a month or so.
  6. Chindie

    GEEK!!

    Theres a big market for retro figures at the moment. Lots of companies are producing various types of retro figures - be that literal reissues of old figures from the 70s/80s, reimaginings of those figures (where the general design is kept the same but articulation is improved or details are enhanced), full on reimaginings (taking the fundamental elements of the design but updating them to modern standards), outright reboot designs, and various types of premium versions. It's best seen with things like the Masters of the Universe franchise, or TMNT. Masters of the Universe has so many lines from the last few years it's daft - especially considering thats fundamentally a series you'd need to be around 40 minimum to even remember first time round. Here's just a few of the different lines they've done recently - Masters of the Universe Classics - modern reimagining marketed at collectors (weren't available in shops even IIRC, only sold direct off their website) Masters of the Universe Origins - more pointedly retro style with some updates to articulation Masters of the Universe Super7 vintage - full on reissues of vintage figures Masters of the Universe ReAction - reimaging of MOTU figures as 60s/70s 5 point articulation figures in smaller scales Masters of the Universe - Mondo - 12inch premium figures that are absurdly expensive (even more so than other premium figures) Masters of the Universe Masterverse - fully rebooted 6inch scale figures, modernised takes on the classic designs inspired by a new series ...which doesn't include things like spin-off lines (I believe Classics did a run of figures that were inspired by other versions of the figure designs, things like filmation or movie versions) and crossover things - theres currently some clamour about a crossover line with TMNT. Companies like Super7 arguably only exist to market to this retro audience - their bread and butter is remakes of old toys but better. One of their biggest sellers is the Ultimates line, where they take things like early 90s TMNT toys, replicate the fundamental design, and then make it as good as they could were they released now (better articulation, paint, more accesories, more detail). And they sell for nearly £60 each. Theres loads of these. Recently there was a push for 60s Batman figures, Hot Toys did expensive 12 inch verions (which were so popular unlicensed versions of other characters started coming out recently), which then lead to Mcfarlane doing a whole line of them (even characters which weren't even in the show), then there was a push for Batman Animated series stuff - DC Direct did a line, then Mcfarlane did a line, now Mezco are doing a line in their One:12 Collective cloth outfit line as well as in their retro styled 5 Points line.
  7. Toriyama was also influential in the gaming world, being a character designer for the massive Dragon Quest series, and working on a number of other RPG series. His art has an extremely distinctive simple clean cute style and became a big part of the reason that Dragon Quest was Japan's favourite gaming series (which probably underplays how popular it is, the Japanese government asked the publisher to move the release day of the games because so many people queued to buy the latest edition it was causing problems). Massive loss.
  8. That was appalling. As ever when we try to win games in first gear, we're terrible. So many wayward passes, no movement, no pace. Really bad. And a clown in charge. First half made decisions based on the crowd reaction and second half just started handing out cards at random. First half Ajax could have shot one of ours and the ref would play on, second half he starts booking players for nothing. Awful match.
  9. They decided to play it on Hoth.
  10. There will most likely be a big sale in the summer. Luiz probably the best bet, Ramsey, perhaps Konsa, Watkins if an absolutely outrageous bid comes in
  11. I've been tested for various bowel diseases, I've had a few colonoscopies and blood tests and MRIs, none show anything, so the diagnosis just becomes 'IBS' which one discovered is essentially doctor speak for 'there's something wrong with his guts but **** if we know'. I've done the FODMAP diet (aka the best way to lose weight in the world) and other exclusion diets, nothing really helps. I know there's things I can eat that make it worse, so I do have some actual bowel issue(s), but realistically the issue now seems to be largely mental - the problem being it gets worse the more you struggle with it. You have the bad experience that makes the next experience a bigger deal which makes that worse which makes the next a bigger deal etc etc. I've looked into it and there is a mental health condition that seems to fit, and it seems it's treated like many other mental health concerns. Speaking of which I am now officially back on the happy pills. I'm now taking 7 pills a day for various conditions. Mental. I'm sorry to hear about your own issues, I can understand the position you're in and how debilitating and maddening it can be.
  12. She does more often than not walk to mine, but walking home she's never really done. She feels it's dangerous. I'm not sure it actually is realistically, it's all residential main roads and it's not particularly late when she leaves. I prefer to take her home, and it has the bonus of feeling like I am capable of some things still, but it's also adding a bit more pressure to things.
  13. As for why my mind goes there. My head is so **** to the enormous detriment of my life that I feel like there will come a point where the wheels completely fall off. As I sit here now, alone, in the dark, with YouTube on in the background with some inane shit to fill the void, all I can think is my life isn't much and what there is is breaking me. I don't like talking about it, because it's pathetic, but there's little to lose, so here goes. I got up this morning and logged in to the computer. I had a virtual meeting at 9, another scheduled at 9.30, and another at 10.30. I'm so concerned about my needing the loo during any of these meetings that I went to the loo before the 9 meeting, the 9.30 got moved to 10 so I went again, and then was anxious over the 10.30 one, but that was also tinged by the fact I had the follow up call from the mental health service at 9.45 which put me in a very depressed place. After those meetings I knew I needed to go get a prescription that was sat at the pharmacy which I can see from the front window of my house, which I'd put off for over a week. I ended up in the loo at 2.15 for an hour trying to clear my system to go get those pills, and failed. I ended up calling the pharmacy and pathetically asking if they could deliver them. Thankfully that was before I got to the state of sobbing and slamming the wall over and over like it was a fortnight ago. Apparently they will deliver on Monday. That felt like a failure but also gave me some relief. Now it's Friday night. I'm not doing anything. And tomorrow I won't do anything. I'm already worried about picking my girlfriend up to do our usual couple of hours together tomorrow night. She lives a 3 minute drive away. I probably won't pick her up because I won't be able to make that drive because my stomach will start playing up and I'll be in a state. And then I'm worried about getting her home because the last time I saw her I couldn't drive her back and since that night we've both made excuses about seeing each other because we're concerned about getting her home. I'm concerned about what I'm going to eat between now and then in case that makes things worse. And I'm concerned about what I'll do on Sunday for the same reason. And Monday. And Tuesday. And so on. And thats my life. I don't go anywhere. I don't do anything. All because my stomach problems, which realistically are actually because I'm **** mental and have been on a downward spiral that turned vertical in the last 4 months, dominate my life. And as a result it's not really a life. You can't really lead a life when the last 'big trip' out was to get petrol for a shitbox Lupo and that nearly had you have a full on mental breakdown and panic attack with the girlfriend in the passenger seat telling me sternly to calm down. This week the same car had its MOT at the garage I can see from my seat right now and going to give them the key took nearly an hour of prep. Picking it up later was nearly as bad. The day before I went to the doctor's down the street after promising my girlfriend I would when I couldn't take her home. It took half an hour of 'prep' to get there and was shaking as I walked there and was on edge in the waiting room and nearly sprinted out of the room when they left me in the consultation room while the docs had a conflab for a few minutes when my stomach started playing up. They gave me a propanol prescription which was sat alongside the other prescription for an anxiety med I couldn't pick up when I called the chemists. This isn't a life. And nothing can help. All I do is plug away trying to keep paying the bills and trying to make sure I don't let my girlfriend down when I take her home. What can I do with that? Are we going to get married when I'm not able to get out of the house like a normal person? How would you have children in that situation? I'm holding her back. What if, as I am waiting for, my work says 'get back if the office'? I can't. Even if they don't they clearly rate me lower because I'm not 'present'. I can't get a better job because I'd have to do everything remote - ain't happening. So even if nothing happens by some miracle, my horizons are extremely curtailed. What this existence is is frustration, pain, anger and despair. And it's all pathetic. So very pathetic. A grown man who is housebound by a condition that means he'll suddenly need a toilet without warning, and has been so broken by it he can't really function anymore. It's ruined my life. So it's not hard to think about the rope, the pills, the knife, the reasonable speed smash into a wall (it's only a 1l). It's pathetic in it's own right. And I don't 'want' it. But eventually the matter will be taken out of my hands.
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