Is there any other job in the world where the boss can just swap the managers around and hope everything is run better?
Do these people actually have any qualifications? I don't understand how you can just shuffle people around when they have no experience of what they're doing. That's what it feels like to me.
I heard Khan on LBC the other day. The big problem is that the Tories brought in an order (I forget the name) that means all cities have a version of ULEZ.
Other cities have bought in their ULEZs but no one has kicked up a big fuss about it, only about London. Also, the Tories have been happily giving financial support to the other cities to help setup ULEZ but won't give anything to London.
The fake-outs of things such as the TV volume adjusting were fun but obviously don't work for everyone as it wouldn't of matched their own TVs on screen graphics.
There was one however which claimed the GameCube memory card was corrupted and the save game was lost. Yeah, that freaked me out for a few seconds. 😁
Dredd had a really poor advertising campaign. I think the first trailer only came out a few weeks before it's release when for other films it's months in advance.
I think the first footage I saw was actually a VFX breakdown that somehow made it's way into YouTube but it didn't stay there long.
There was a big campaign to get a sequel and Dredd on Blu-ray rose to #1 in the Amazon sales charts.
One of the executive producers, Adi Shankar, explained in a YouTube video that he appreciated the effort but the big problem was the box office returns. Everyone who invested made a loss, so no one wanted to invest in a sequel.
Rebellion were going to make a Mega City One series which may have had appearances from Dredd occasionally but I think that project has stalled.
What a great read for Saturday morning. I agree, Bomb Jack was an awesome game on the humble Speccy even though I had never played the arcade original.
It was one of the games that came free with my Atari ST when I upgraded but it just didn't feel the same on my new machine.
I just checked Wiki and surprisingly there is 15-20 minutes of CGI in Tron. Basically anything that contains a vehicle (light bikes, tanks, recognizers etc) or anything that contains a patterned computer background.
If I remember correctly, Tron was refused any kind of animation Oscar because they used computers and that was considered cheating.
Have an upvote from me. I dumped pocket and started using this instead. It's simpler, cleaner and easier to use. I also reported a web page that wouldn't save properly, it was just an URL without any header or text.
Within about 48 hours, after reporting the link, it saved as a proper page of text. I like to think they fixed it.
Terminator 3 was fun and I genuinely liked how it ended.
Salvation is ok for the most part, purely because I've always wanted to see more of the Future War.
Genisys was just terrible and the marketing ruined the big twist of the whole film. Plus Jai Courtney isn't the best actor and I can't believe I checked the time on my watch during a Terminator film.
Apart from the impressive opening sequence, Dark Fate wasn't that good either.
I loved my minidisc player.
My first was a Sharp but that was stolen in a robbery. So I replaced it with a Sony NetMD which I loved even more. Due to the new compression, depending on the length of the albums, you could fit 3 or 4 onto one disc. Also it docked with the PC, so labelling and ripping was really easy.
I bought a compatible in line remote which had a backlit LCD display which I loved. The chewing gum stick battery lasted ages and if it did run out of power, I could screw on a little compartment that's held a AA battery and keep me going.
Carrier Command was utterly brilliant. I first had this on my ZX Spectrum ( it only played on 128k models)
The graphics were clear wireframe and moved so slowly but the tactical game was awesome.
Then I later got my first 16bit computer, the Atari ST and it came with...Carrier Command.
Now the graphics were in colour and the vehicles were made of solid geometric shapes and everything moved so fluidly in comparison to the previous version.
Loved the game all over again.
I know there's an (unofficial?) Sequel on PC but I haven't looked into it yet.
It's been a fantastic but of software over the years but Musicolet feels like a breath of fresh air. More importantly, it plays music louder than PowerAmp! I thought it was the limitation of my headphones. So I'm quite happy about that.
Growing up, I was quite brand loyal with occasional dips to other magazines if the freebies were any good.
ZX Spectrum - Crash magazine
Atari ST - ST Format with semi regular copies of ST Action depending on the demo disks.
PC - PC Format.
Dreamcast - The official Dreamcast magazine, it was the only one with demo CDs.
GameCube - I honestly can't remember which magazine but I definitely bought one regulary.
By the time I had the first Xbox, all reviews and news I was getting from the internet.
After years of using PowerAmp, ever since Android 1.5, I'm having a bit of a FOSS moment and I've switched to Musicolet. It's wonderful. I'm not switching again so soon! 😁
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Is there any other job in the world where the boss can just swap the managers around and hope everything is run better?
Do these people actually have any qualifications? I don't understand how you can just shuffle people around when they have no experience of what they're doing. That's what it feels like to me.