jim5et.bsky.social
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Dammit, too slow
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Lightweight spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2049/Z...
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To the extent that they lean into it - when I saw them a couple of years back he pretty explicitly told the crowd they'd earned the tight 40 minutes of hits after the 2 hours of glum album tracks
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Question of the day so far “but how can we measure ROI before we run a project?” Quite impressed how politely the presenter avoided saying “make it up, you fuckwit”
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Tell me you don't have to maintain your widowed mother's house without...etc (the nested bakelite plug cubes behind actual bookshelves! The daisy chained extension leads across the loft insulation! )
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I spent YEARS thinking it was a pun on “punani” not “tsunami” and being totally horrified every time i heard it
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Hah, I did actually think of them, though the only song I know (Battle of All Saints Road) turns out to be from the 3rd…
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Was amazed at how glossy the Petty was until I realised I’d pretty much only heard Free Fallin’ at pub singalongs. The album is pretty dull but still beats another reminder that “punks with samplers!” is alongside trickledown economics as a sexy 1980s theory that’s always disastrous in practice
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TBF they’re a subset of the general Choose Your Own Adventure mechanic that pisses me off in 80% of RPGs I’ve tried
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Wait, people over 12 actually click on the “romance” option in games?
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Eh, unless you grew up in the Rough Cider/Special Brew snakebite zone you have nothing to complain about. Do they still sell Rough, I wonder?
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I mean, we’ve got truckloads of drones destroying bombers on the ground, VR headsets so common they’re boring, a reality TV host sending the troops into LA and corporations replacing nation states, all that’s missing is the routine wearing of mirrorshades
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More specifically it's like not knowing about the Beatles in 1967
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100%, I have never found a better shorthand for a concept that comes up at least weekly in my work
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Can't believe I'm the first to post youtu.be/WE5pM1HXxlI?...
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Counterpoint - read these three back to back and you’re 80% to 2025.
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Or is it just because it’s simultaneously an art form and a sport?
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Oh sure, the phrase that keeps popping to mind is “…a popular beat combo, m’lud”
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Which helps with the “gaming is expensive” question - £50 for eg Ghost of Tsushima is much better value if it takes you a year to finish the damn thing
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I have a similar issue, made worse by the genre I like best being almost defined by brutal difficulty (and by living with a 20 year old of preternatural skill). I’ve just accepted that games take me 2-3 times as long and that I’m always wildly overleveled…
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Also the best “writing” on games I’ve come across is in eg YouTube playthroughs not prose.
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There’s something to this, I think; the games that seep into mainstream discourse have a narrative similarity to an older medium. Eg it’s a lot easier to evoke the cut scenes of TLOA than the experience of the Radahn Festival…
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Also Condition of the Heart (beats Sometimes it Snows to best weeper, no matter how much I love the film) and When You Were Mine (maybe best power pop song full stop)
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Forever in my Life, I think.
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Lovely, and lots of sappy pre-Swordfishtrombones stuff. Kind of expected more songs from Alice, my favourite Tom record of all.
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They’re not client funds, right? They’re just another supplier cost
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Kentucky Avenue
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Never actually thought about that Horse cover given there was never a film
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God yes. Both the hardback and paperback Palmer firsts are stunning
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This is why I prefer the old, pulpy, Obrian covers
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Nah, my folks were ferociously alphabetical so
Robert B & Dorothy Parker were cheek by jowl
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1975 so maybe - maybe - they'd have been leftover stock (their bookshop went under in 1975-6 & they ended up keeping loads of bits and bobs) but how it ended up on the bog shelf with Beachcomber, Alan Coren and the Goons/Horne/ITMA scripts is anyone's guess...
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She furiously denied being the source of the COMPLETE SET OF POLDARK TV TIE IN EDITION that was on our bathroom bookshelf for my whole childhood, TBF
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Feel the need to follow up with Mum Canon…
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Also lots of gently acerbic 60s business books - Parkinson’s Law, Potter on Lifemanship, Peter Principle, bit of stepped on Stafford Beer…CC Baxter’s bookshelf, basically
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first 3 Frederick Forsythes before he went fash
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Not sure Dad ever actually read Shibumi but it’s Peak Dad Book.
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Is that not a subset of false consciousness?
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Sticky Thompson stuff, this
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We’re about a fortnight from ending every column with that like Cato the elder
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Yes, all right. The only other one is Laurent Binet’s “if the Vinland settlement live long enough to start a slow spread of smallpox then the whole continent has antibodies by 1492” which I like but it’s hardly one battle.
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Watling street. Nero would 100% have pulled the plug on the occupation which means no adoption of graeco-Roman culture in Britain which means the Founding Fathers set up like an All-Thing not a republic which means./.
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Mind you I say the same when I see my kid playing The Binding Of Isaac
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“Early in CA’s Personal Computer Games review, they say that “it’s just a version of Atic Atac”…and they were right, says my 10 year old self
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As always the onion nailed that era of my life. theonion.com/united-airli...
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For my 16th birthday my sister (huge simple minds fan) persuaded my parents that I (grudgingly like the first 30 second of Don’t You…) would really like to see them at Wembley. I swear to god Belfast Child went on longer than the coach from Exeter
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I do not miss the days of having to give the board a cost/benefit of every idea he pulled out of his arse to distract from disappointing load factors. I had to cost up CAA approval of coin op toilets, even