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Not in the slightest, I can't even work out where his shades are or what direction he's meant to be facing etc - though I expect as soon as I'm shown I won't be able to see ot any other way :)

A GOL aeroplane? The way Liam from GamingOnLinux asks for donations, you'd think he was looking to support his wages and server costs. I didn't realise he was so rich to buy his own aircraft :)

Ah, so it depends if you want to buy a house so you have somewhere safe to live that you can't be evicted from, or whether you want to use it to destroy society for your own immoral personal profit?

[Edit] Sorry, I'm probably being a bit severe there

You might have to do a line drawing of that for us to see it! :)

Though it's probably technically social media, it's very different from everything else at the moment (other than perhaps reddit).

I feel this is much more like an old forum. It's pretty anonymous, you subscribe to things you like and want to hear more about. Comment if you like, lurk otherwise. Nobody's interleaving my subscribed posts with "suggested" posts and adverts. Mainly, it's small and probably almost nobody I know in real life uses it.

There's currently no big corporate users, far-right news channels, "influencers" etc, just nice, safe "Cats, Dad Jokes, Star Trek Memes, Linux News".

It's a good point actually, I'd sort of assumed it was the other way round, for farts that sound like trumpets.

In English (UK), the word "Trump" means "fart".

e.g. "Eurgh! It stinks of rotten eggs! Who's trumped?"

"It smells bad in here. Has someone done a trump?"

"Oh god, would you please stop trumping!"

"Go out into the corridor if you need to trump"

It's like ½ rolling your R.

Imagine how The Wurzels would say it, "stell-arr!".

Not quite - though I'm not sure what you mean exactly. It's about "ar" being pronounced either like "ah/uh" or "aRRR!/uRRR!" (Like a pirate, or breakfast cereal Tiger).

If "Baa" like a sheep and "Bar" like where you order drinks in a pub are pronounced the same, like "bah" = non-rhotic.

A pirate, or farmer from cornwall saying "Arr!" is very Rhotic.

As far as I'm aware, the majority of American accents are rhotic

I can only apologise that myself and the entire Northern half of the country offend you so much, though I'd call that a glottal stop, rather than a "lazy dropped T".

I guess it cropping up unexpectedly in some accents/dialects might seem lazy, but in the North, where we talk proper (as opposed to talking "properly" down South), that's how those words are meant to sound :)

Depends on the person, but sometimes things such as:

"Is there anything you do, watch, listen to, say or have done in the past, which is currently illegal in another country?"

"Did you see how in the US, some states have just recently made abortion illegal, and in others, you can get in trouble with the police for wearing clothes which they don't think match your birth gender? Both things were perfectly legal a few years ago"

"Imagine it's 2024 and mandateless unelected UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says model railways are offensive to motorists, so they've banned them"

"Do you think Facebook's going to defend your privacy when the government makes model railways illegal, Dad?" :P

I'm sure they could do without the overhauls every few years, but this one's important. Gove's removal of "learning around a subject to understand a subject" and replacing it with "memorise and repeat a list of things you're told are correct, without thinking about them" was bad for pupils, bad for teachers and bad for the future of the country.

Brilliant - I'll have to have a look at Shotcut again. It used to be quite "crashy", but it's been in solid continual development for a few years now.

You've probably got your answer already, but just wanting to confirm that Kdenlive can do all the things you listed.

Though the editor itself is very easy to use and obvious (if you previously have used premiere etc), you might find the UI for some of the individual effects a bit confusing. There's tool tips and sometimes help videos and stuff, but you might find yourself dragging a few sliders left and right to find out what they actually do :)

Note that generally speaking, Kdenlive doesn't currently support graphics-card-accelerated timeline preview very well, so if you're packing on the effects, you might not get real-time playback in the timeline without "preview rendering". If you ever used Premiere 20 years ago, it works the same as that.

From memory, Olive has the best "in-timeline" graphics card acceleration - but is otherwise at a much earlier stage of development.

As others have mentioned, some or all of these are also doable in Shotcut, Openshot, Olive.

Also, you might be interested in TJFree Tutorials on YouTube, which has a playlist of Kdenlive tutorials - for older versions, but it's mostly going to be the same. He also has tutorials in loads of other FOSS creative software. I found he tended to be "clear and efficient" and doesn't take 5 minutes to give you 1 minute's information.

If we consider vapourwave/synthwave etc to be fairly interchangeable terms, there's a bunch here:

Slipstream (2018)

Retrowave (2022)

Neon Drive (2016)

Retrowave World (2024)

Outmode (2022)

Horizon Chase Turbo (2018) - not quite so neon, but same gameplay heritage

PalmRide (2021)

Inertial Drift (2020)

Rhythmic Retro Racer (2020)

Synthwave Dream 85 (2018)

Sunset Drivers

List of Synthwave Racing Games on Itch

(I'm kind of going by visuals or my perception of gameplay - these might not all fit the description)

I'm almost certain I've seen this on Steam (I think it's on my wishlist) - but I think my brain is just combining 5-10 different "80s style synthwave car racing" games.

That's really interesting, thanks - I think you (nation, not you personally) did a lot to popularise its usage in the last 30 years though :)

I do think it's a bit disgraceful for this sort of thing to happen on the BBC.

What happened to a good old British "V sign" with two fingers up? Or maybe a "wanker gesture" with a casual shake of the wrist? If even the BBC have stooped to an American-style solitary raised middle finger, what hope is there for the rest of us?

4. Get Tuvixed because you got a bit of alien leaf stuck to your shoe.

That is some amazing cat alignment. Did they stack themselves?