Miguel Sanchez

Tell you what: You find a historical example of a small group of people trying to sell something to a much larger, poorer target audience which doesn't have the end goal of making the first group richer at the expense of the latter and I'll go buy all of Robbo's sporty cards.

By the time another two years are gone you might learn how to do spoilers properly.

Footballers back in the day usually put their money (or had their money put into) film production schemes. Seems like NFTs are replacing them, only this new scheme is rich, influential people adding a guise of legitimacy to something most of the people they're marketed to won't understand. At least the replies to the footballers doing this are almost completely critical.

Where in the f**k was I? The only reason I kept doing it is to show up on here.

Yeah lootboxes exist for no reason besides scamming money out of people. Bin. Make customisations unlockable if you want, don't put them behind a paywall then make it unnecessarily expensive to get the ones you want.

Ubisoft

Just remember, all those Candle in the Wind CD cases aren't biodegradable, so they're still out there somewhere. That woman buying about thirty still has them.

British football presenters/analysts saying "offense" and "quarterback" when they're talking about football.

He was out of contract, so they didn't need to pay a transfer fee.

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There's an additional part of that statement

I can't go Northern accents. This big blue lad with all the teeth on his face is about the most horrifying thing I've ever seen.

Oh, it's Bradley Walsh. Very helpful.

I've finished watching the Capaldi episodes. To start with, I liked them. It was a change to go from skinny, arm waving person in a suit to... well, anything else, but it was a good change. Miserable Scottish guy not understanding the people around him while simultaneously knowing he's far superior to all of them really resonated with me for some reason. The first series of his kept this up well. Someone in this thread said they liked him because he made the character really feel like an alien, and I'd go along with that. Second series had that fucking guitar. And had a weird, sudden yet drawn out death for Clara who by this point had actually gained a personality. They fucked up her leaving (and I know she swithered about leaving the show which is why) and I ended up tuning out a bit as a result. Maisie Williams' character was terrible. How bad does someone like this have to be written to make John Barrowman preferable? The lack of a decent series arc started letting the show down here too. "The Pandorica Opens" and "Silence Will Fall" and "A Good Man Goes To War" and "The Name Of The Doctor" all turn out to be nonsense he deals with instantly when it catches up with him, but there's a sense of something worthwhile constantly being in the background that they can't escape from. Here you have a rip-off of the main plot of The X-Files which is explained away almost as pathetically as it was first brought up. Third series started promisingly with a return to the standard formula as scottsdad noted, and I already said at the time the reason I felt less connected over time since the switch to Matt Smith was a lack of grounding of anything that was going on. This series started out well by attempting to make Bill a real person but then that just sort of stopped. The same problem comes back here for me, there are no consequences to what's going on. Rose, Martha, Donna, all real people, who live in the real world. It's the real earth that's being destroyed by Daleks or Cybermen and although the Doctor's going to cry about how they always win and always leave him with nothing, they aren't. He's going to win and send them all to another dimension, but I'm still invested in it because there's some relation to a world I understand. Look at Wilfred crying because they're rounding up the foreign people when London got nuked. This actually means something. That the third series did a three part episode about some shadowy cabal taking over the world and running everyone's lives only to not make it real or tangible in any way sums up why I'm just finding it more difficult to watch than I did. And even then, what the f**k were those things supposed to be? "We need an alien race that takes over the world and changes all of human history." "I know, we'll put a poncho over a corpse and rig their gaff with a bunch of camgirl fibre optics, that'll look convincing." Couple that with the extremely clumsy references to things going on in the world ("All the fake news is coming from the pyramid!" and "They charge you for the air you breathe until you can't pay then they don't care" were the highlights, although the clumsy attempts at shoehorning in Timelords regenerating into women was even worse) and with what I've heard about the Whittaker episodes and I'll watch, but I get the feeling it'll be through my fingers. That said, I do like Missy.

I got HUSSY and RUMOR. Loaded it up again and they're different words. Got this second time: Dordle 5&4/7 MADLY&MERRY zaratustra.itch.io/dordle No idea how this one's working tbh

Another cunting American spelling. f**k off.

Week 5 update Three deaths this week. Up first is a slightly old one, the actress Yvette Mimieux: Yvette Mimieux obituary | Film | The Guardian I've seen The Time Machine. I vaguely remember her. It's not been on the telly in a while. Mimieux was 80 when she died, so she's worth 45 Base Points for @Sweaty Morph, with a Solo Shot bonus taking that to 95. ================== Second death this week was former Celtic manager Wim Jansen: Wim Jansen: Former Celtic manager dies at 75, announce Feyenoord - BBC Sport I think as football fans we all like the idea that a single person can represent us in working for their club. As a player, manager, owner, the idea that there's someone who just knows what to do and will always be able to do it is surely the dream, especially in a time where turnover of players and coaches is massive at every level of the game. Considering how much the history of Celtic is filled with Good Celtic Men, it says a lot that someone who was there for one season has received the memorialising he has. On the other hand, what a hit rate. One season, two trophies, one Henrik Larsson signed. Some guy. Jansen died at 75 so he's worth 50 Base Points for @Blootoon87, @Desp and @senorsoupe. ================== Final death this week was comedian and writer Barry Cryer: Barry Cryer obituary | Barry Cryer | The Guardian By all accounts he seems to have been responsible in some way for almost all the biggest names in comedy for decades. My youtube suggestions today gave me an 8 hour compilation of Just a Minute episodes featuring him, so if you're into that, enjoy: Cryer died at 86, so he's worth 39 Base Points for @Bert Raccoon, @speckled tangerine, @statts1976uk and @ThomCat. As a result of all of these, the stats look like this: 1. Ned Nederlander 313 2. Arbroathlegend36-0 255 3. Bishop Briggs 199 4. Indale Winton 183 5. Blootoon87 151 6. chomp my root, sparky88, The_Craig 144 9. JustOneCornetto 143 10. Arch Stanton 135 11. cdhafc1874 130 12. gkneil, Savage Henry 104 14. Sweaty Morph 95 15. Desp, senorsoupe 50 17. Bert Raccoon, speckled tangerine, statts1976uk, ThomCat 39 21. Hamish's Passenger, Moomintroll, The DA 31 24. Everyone else 0 The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mup1IJllKHs0a47J8G6IXUkvShJrV28Iuc-Kkn7RKuo/edit?usp=sharing

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Which is more likely: - Someone with a P&B account creates up to a dozen more, at different times, posts on all of them at different rates and about different teams/subjects, so they can occasionally red dot a bunch of your posts, and only yours - Lots of different people on here think you're an idiot who makes bad posts Think I have to agree with RandomGuy tbqh

Why do you think all of these accounts belong to the same person?

Still, at least you're not bothered.

Sounded a good laugh right enough.

Like a poundland Batman. Like Mad Max for idiots.

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