robmanuelyeah.bsky.social
B3ta.com, @fesshole.bsky.social, @anonopin.bsky.social
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No but I worked at two publishers, one magazine and one newspaper whilst things were being shut and declining around around me.
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Oh yeah I think it's great. I do read the things it throws up and it makes me slightly sad that magazines are crap these days - basically coz there's no money in them/ads so a feature like this that requires a day on the phone can't be made as filler. this would be the lead item.
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I dunno really - that's just something I wanted to follow, to get random prompts of 80s music to google and listen to on streaming, so therefore made it myself coz no one else was doing it.
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But yes it's broadly correct in that Fesshole is my attempt to entertain the masses, Anon Opin is fuck it, I'm doing it coz I find it interesting and Swear Clock is fuck you, I don't care how unpleasant this is, in fact that's half the point.
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Can’t believe all the replies you’re getting saying that that that isn’t actually the Great Pyramid, but the smaller pyramid of Khafre, which is next to it. I mean, what is wrong with people? Bloody pedants. Just enjoy the joke, you idiots.
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Thank you Sam Bam Thank You Wham. I appreciate your commitment to finding great content and appreciating it.
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Why Dame Judi Dench, you don't look a day older than 85
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This post said it better
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Nope it breaks the rule because it makes the conversation about the edge cases instead of the majority. It's impossible to have this conversation where the subject stays about the subject and not the edge cases, which I think says something fundamental about how internet debate is so screwy.
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Lol. The one people mostly point to is Bladerunner and fuck it, even with the v/o it's still a 10/10 film.
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No film has ever been improved by adding extra scenes. I'll say that and replies will be the one or two exceptions where it did improve a film, however saying 99.9% of films were not improved by making them longer has less impact so I'm sticking with the first sentence.
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the lighting on this is quite sinister. Makes me want to play a Medusa Touch game where you crash planes on London with the power of your mind (probably frantically clicking whilst a Richard Burton face gets increasingly evil looking)
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They've still got a few of these in my local library. I should ask if anyone uses them.
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Just have no interest in this stuff. Never seen Godfather or Goodfellas either. I think it's fundamentally about how you fit in into this fantasy world and I know I'd be running a small business getting done over, and not the person doing the doing over. It would be hell.
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That's what I thought but that's not what matt is saying. Matt is saying he has to half build it to make sure the idea works. He has to do half it regardless of money.
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Obviously I say do it. Art is the stuff you're unsure about. Artists are the ones who step into the unknown.
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I'm just repeating my theory really. If the work is good enough then people look past the problems. My personal one is Woody Allen, I am 100% sure he's a massive problem, but stick Annie Hall on and I'm swept away every time.
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I 'Nintendo' (intend to)
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People will look past anything if they like it enough and the Harry Potter books (well the first few before the publishers stopped editing her) really work, they completely enthral kids. It's like Ja*ko being a massive n***e doesn't stop people enjoying Billie Jean. Whereas Gary Glitter is OVER.
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They play high quality video games on the Amstrad GX4000 console www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fFN...
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Where's her third album? It's like the Stone Roses all over again.
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I have a immediate pun reply in my head and I'm not going to post it, but be warned, puns are springing unplanned into my mind, others don't have my self-control.
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No idea what you've deleted but this is what free associated in MY head
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I keep a small eye on it coz fesshole/anon auto post there and it amuses me reading angry posts saying BlueSky is evil coz it only pretends to be non-centralised and original sin of Jack Dorsey's involvement. Nowhere is pure enough.
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Thought I'd follow you on Mastodon for a small amusement but it's gone :(
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If I was your wife I would be pulling a face that you're making me sound old and actually I'm off to the pub without you
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oh gosh, you're right of course, people getting more and more filtered until they're no longer 100% if they're alive or an LLM
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the kids will pivot to microblogging once they see their pretty young skin turn to dry paper - we're just early adopters
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I think the thing is there's no real sense that this places sets any news agenda. Reminds me of how I once managed to make a popular account on Tumblr just at the point Tumblr stopped being something people talked about. The numbers were there but no one in media circles cared. Which is fine.
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The positive is that the stuff people are excited about is live shows. Hence the outrageous prices. Although to be fair, it's only v popular things that are crazy prices, you can see many less popular bands and comedians for a tenner. And they're just as likely to give you an interesting evening
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*points at scene* "THEY'RE DOING THE MEME!"
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This is why Columbo is the best format for crime dramas. Who done it a tedious guessing game. Why and how they've done it is infinitely more interesting, because now we're in the realm of ingenuity and psychology.
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I wanted to be in Duran Duran, and I think everyone can agree, reading thousands of horrible confessions a week and deciding what web projects get a few more hundred hits or not is very much like being Nick Rhodes.
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It's a long way of saying, one packet of sweets a week and you love those sweets, your dad owns a sweet shop and unless you have the self-control of a borderline mystical being, you're not going to have a good time.
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Abundance fundamentally changes stuff. I still have respect for film because I grew up in an era of scarcity. However I can't think of many podcasts I've listened to twice, as I've been trained from the get go that they are infinite and disposable. Film, tragically, is the same for young people.
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There are now adults who've grown up with abundant media. The idea of revisiting films is novel, versus something you did by default because you only owned 4 VHS tapes.
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People often ask me how long the delay is between submitting and posting, so know you now, well you know what it is at moment. It's been different at different times but I like to keep it at around a week, so it's not chasing the same subjects that everyone is chasing.
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We now have AI to get things wrong for us taking away your valuable job
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Taking this literally but insisting on getting a reference from someone’s past two partners would probably solve quite a few problems in the world
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I’m a big fan of old movies, partly because I like stories more than I do special effects, and if there’s one thing film did a lot of in the 40s/50s it was find a cast with dynamite charisma and use them to tell a story.
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You are such a chancer Ricardo - I love you