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It's anti-Semetic not to sell missiles to Israel for the purpose of sea front property development.

Games broken.

Buys a £2k MG ZR. It's quite a good one on paper, early, low mileage, top spec. But it's an MG ZR, a 23 year old one, that's sat for a while. As an enthusiast, wants one to save, as it turns out basically all of these MG editions of those 90s Rovers are gone. Gets a company to look it over. £13k minimum to repair, as it's basically **** in every respect below the windows bar the engine.

Mad.

Hunted isn't 'real' as in it's a straight game where what is shown is what happened and nothing is artificial, but everything is meant to be done within the realms of reality. Hacking a Facebook account I think might be pushing it, but if we assume the series gives the hunters the full extent of any power the police might have you can probably justify their hacking a social media account.

We quite like the series but it's hilarious how bad people are at it, and how much the show sometimes has to pull it's punches to let people have a chance of winning. Like, you're going on the run for a month, with limited cash, and at some point you're going to given an instruction to get to a specific place at a specific time to 'win' - you probably shouldn't go home, use a phone, especially to call close family, go anywhere near a big city or use a major train line, or contact anyone within your direct circle of friends and family. But all they do it.

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Keir Starmer has told voters he cannot “turn the taps on” to fix the crisis in local authority funding as he was quizzed on how Labour would plug councils’ £4bn gap at the launch of its local election campaign.

“I can’t pretend that we could turn the taps on, pretend the damage hasn’t been done to the economy – it has,” he said. “There’s no magic money tree that we can waggle the day after the election. No, they’ve broken the economy, they’ve done huge damage.”

Grauniad

We're ****.

That's the hope. That.

If only it wasn't so predictable.

Sam Bankman-Fried got sentenced earlier. Guilty of one of the biggest fraud cases in US history, about $10bn, across multiple charges, for which he hasn't shown any sign of remorse and maintains hasn't done anything wrong, got 25 years. Worth noting the comment by a former prosecutor that someone moving a kilo of heroin, worth about $30k, would expect to get a heavier sentence.

Beat the MLS champions Columbus Crew last night, although by all accounts it was a comedy match.

You know you're in for a wild ride when you have you a first half that started with a bad kick off, ran for 62 minutes and included a red card, a missed penalty, a missed open goal, a disallowed goal and multiple VAR reviews.

For 3 series Game of Thrones is in the running for best TV show ever made. Crazy high production quality, lots of excellent characters and acting (ironically not including most of the main characters), and it's exceptionally well written with multiple extremely well plotted arcs and narratives that genuinely create intriguing and smart storylines. After that it wobbles and starts to decline but is still very good for a session, then begins to nosedive until the final 2 series where it completely abandons the smart character stuff and becomes a single minded spectacle generating machine trying to finish it's central plot at double quick pace even if doing so makes no sense, requires characters to do things that are completely inexplicable but necessary to create dramatic moments and push the plot, and puts character 'development' in the bin in favour of 'they're doing this now' level writing.

It's become clear in the aftermath that the showrunners didn't want to do it anymore now they had other projects come knocking and agreed to finish it for the studio on an accelerated timescale to get out and done asap, showing they had no respect for the audience and didn't care that they were the reason they had Disney begging them to do a Star Wars show and other studios ringing them with blank cheques. 

It's the perfect storm of bad government, especially at national level, and absurd income inequality.

Apple is in a weird situation that we've not really seen before.

Whilst they don't have a 'traditional' monopoly (other smartphones are available etc) they have created a sort of monopoly by their practice of creating homogenous marketplaces that they have sole dominion over which obviously destroys competition practices within it. So you have things like Apple refusing to allow third party hardware to work with their devices (either to their fullest extent or not at all), or their pushing back against any app that threatens their own stranglehold over something like contactless payments. That's dodgy as **** and obviously needs to end. And it's good to see that the US has gone further than the prior moves against Apple by the likes of Unreal over their marketplace practices, which was a start but by no means the full extent of their wrongdoing.

****, man. You know it's going to be shit.

Got revealed today finally. Hennig's next thing.

Graphics!

38 minutes ago, Designer1 said:

Yep, seems its not a patch on Afterlife which I really enjoyed.

Still going to see it at the weekend though

It seems it's been **** over by Sony's desperation to have their own juggernaut franchise. I can't say I'm shocked though as from the first trailer it looked like something they'd smeared the Ghostbusters 'skin' over, and Sony are dreadful for trying to make everything they have blockbuster wise into the next MCU.

It is a shame though as I agree, Afterlife was good fun and managed to walk the line between fan service and cynicism very well.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, unsurprisingly, has reviewed like a ghost turd.

11 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Aren't BTS a Korean band?

I believe they are.

But it also stands for Behind The Scenes in this context.

This week's Corridor Digital VFX breakdown picked up on a surprising trend, hiding CGI in BTS footage.

The BTS footage of Barbie has been doctored to hide how much CGI was used in making it. It seems that the perception of using VFX in a movie is so damaging that they'd actually bothered to make the BTS footage they issued have somewhat finished CG in it to hide that so much of it was filmed on blue screen.

They actually covered Barbie in an earlier episode where they showed that the filmmakers in one scene created a real set with real props and scaled environments and items, which was then only used as reference for the CG shots in the finished film, meaning in the film you watched none of the physical set and props they made was actually on screen at any point.

Like for the Watchmen reference.

It's Starship Troopers with a dash of 40k, imagined as a small squad co-op PvE shooter.

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.

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...

Attacked a UNRWA facility again. This time one of the few food distribution centres thats still operating.

**** Israel, utterly despicable.

9 minutes ago, sidcow said:

I look forward to watching this no doubt full of paid for inconsistencies paid for by the Oil and Gas industry video later.

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 ****.