UKFilmNerd @ UKFilmNerd @feddit.uk

A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometime

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I was carrying a hoover downstairs and slipped. The hoover fell down the stairs faster than me and stopped at the bottom obviously. The wire had partially unspooled and the very British three prong plug was sitting on the ground, pointing straight towards the sky.

Guess where my arse landed once I had finished slipping down the carpeted stairs?

I really resonated with the character and how everything is others peoples fault and he rarely bothered to sort his own life out. Feels just like me! 😆 So their death in this film really struck a chord with me and I was in floods of tears.

Blue Shift was originally part of the Dreamcast port of Half Life. The game did leak and it was quite fun to experience it on the DreamCast but the problem was the game was in fairly small chunks and had to load off the CD which made the wait quite painful.

I've played through Half Life twice. Once on original release and secondly when it received that big remaster fairly recently. I'm my opinion, it's a fantastic game until you get to Xen and it becomes a bit of a annoying platform fest.

It's a two year old SIM only deal with Three. I've been with then for several years now and this contract expires in three weeks.

According to the app, I can upgrade to their Black Friday offer of the same conditions (unlimited everything) for just £22 a month! 😆

My contract will probably just keep rolling unchanged month to month but I wouldn't be surprised if Three try and get me to commit to something.

Nope. Truly unlimited and I'm allowed to tether it as well. So when I'm in hotels away at work, it's my source of internet for my tablet and laptop.

Here in the UK, I'm currently on unlimited everything, calls, messages and data, for £18 per month.

I expect it's because when you mention Sonic, most people just think MegaDrive/Genesis. They're not going for technical details.

As a teenager of the nineties, I'm very, very aware of that. 😂

I'll never forget this one. Never played the game though because it was famously riddled with bugs.

I was surprised at the long load time initially and had a quick fly of an A10 warthog from a local small airfield.

This was on my Xbox Series S and it was a bit stuttery in places. It's clearly not meant for this console. This is for the pcs with big GPUs.

That was way better than anyone was expecting I think. That was a great use of a film license.

Jesus Christ, both!! 😆 But only finger tight. Sod you bastards who get the screwdrivers out! That's overkill. 😁

I enjoyed Ready Player One at the time even though some of it was just ridiculous. Re-enacting Ferris Buellers Day Off for example.

Armada, Cline's next book was awful. So many references on every page, I stopped reading. I remember a line that was something like, "my mum wouldn't let me past, like Gandelf in the mines of Moria." Sheesh! Let it go!

I fully read Ready Player Two but the guy has no story telling abilities. Every time the main character encounters a problem, e.g. I need a level 49 sword to get past this problem, but there's no way to get one, it was always solved with the same solution, "oh, I own the game and all Admins have level 1000 swords because we do!"

I think I reached my limit when he managed to shove in a Shaun of the Dead reference just because he mentioned a cricket bat!

CodeMaster religiously hold onto their copyrights. I remember searching for their 8bit games of the 1980s and while copies are out there, the places that do it legally, World of Spectrum for example, don't host them because CodeMasters refuse permission for these old games to be distributed for free.

I'll never forget hiding under a table in the corridor with the Alien walking around me in circles. He knew I was there but seemingly couldn't figure out how to get me. I thought I was safe but maybe I moved a few pixels in the wrong direction as after a long wait, it grabbed me and gave me the deadly kiss.

I like the USB cable with it's PS1 block end but the rest is just the same old stuff in another colour etc. Also, are they trying to slightly boost PS5 Pro sales by limiting it to a specific number.

I only discovered it myself in the last month or so.

For example, I loved X-Wing CD edition back in the day for the real Star Wars soundtrack but I need to try it with MT32 midi emulation. I bet the iMuse system sounds fantastic.

It's an emulator for playing the entire back catalogue of Lucasarts games. It's very well documented and ready to use. As I said, if you had some kind of general midi set up or Roland MT32 back in the day, you'd be laughing. The music is awesome.

The program is called Dreamm.

DREAMM is a backronym for:

        DOS
    Retro-
    Emulation
    Arena for
    Maniac
    Mansion (and other LucasArts Games). 
  

I played the first, maybe not all the way through, on my Atari ST. Later on, I got quite annoyed that the Amiga got the sequel but Lucasfilm Games days it wasn't coming to the Atari.

I remember getting the PC CD-ROM edition of the original game and the music was lovely.

The next time I played was game three, Curse of Monkey Island. I loved the art style and completed that one.

I plan on playing the latest installment at some point. I downloaded it onto my Xbox.

There's also a great program for playing old Lucasfilm faces on PC. You can load soundbanks into it because it can emulated different midi interfaces that I dreamed of owning back in the day. The tunes sound amazing.