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  • John Cazale.

    Only appeared in 5 films but all five were nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars:

    The Godfather (1972)
    The Godfather Part II (1974)
    The Conversation (1974)
    Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
    The Deer Hunter (1978)

    Died of lung cancer in March 1978, aged 42 ☹️

  • I'm also toying with the idea that he was elected promising cheap eggs and sees Greenland on the map and thinks it kind of looks like a giant egg.

  • I've often thought the same OP, except instead of preparing for it, I'd argue they may even be deliberately hastening it. There's a book by British comedian Ben Elton, called Stark, which explores basically this concept.

  • The problem with this idea comes down to soil and environment. One can't just pick up whole crop areas and transplant them into a new one solely based on the temperature.

    Agreed, but this is Trump we're talking about. I imagine that in his addled head it absolutely is as simple as that.

  • Anecdote is valid when someone has employed the term "never".

  • Just looked it up and someone on Reddit six days ago said BoD3 is finished and will hopefully be out this year! Woop!!

    I've not heard of those others, will need to check them out 👍

  • Yeah that's pretty much spot on.

  • The caravans in this case are a type known as static caravans - basically the same sort of accommodation as a mobile, towed caravan, but usually bigger and more or less permanently positioned somewhere. They even sometimes have additional casings that hide the wheels underneath to make them look more like houses.

    EDIT, as I didn't answer your main question. A caravan park is a term used both for something like a trailer park, where customers tow in their own caravan, but also, as in this case, for a holiday park with these static caravans spread around, similar to small lodges.

    Behind the bar - yeah, that's what they mean here too, the people who serve at the bar. As it's in a holiday park, it's likely that it's a family friendly bar where kids are allowed to be as long as their parents are with them, and can even probably go up and order snacks or soft drinks by themselves. It's not a bar bar in the usual adults only sense.

    Tragic story :-(

  • Yeah, I think so, but I think it was also slated for 2024, and possibly even 2023! It'll come, and I'd rather he takes his time to get it right, but still, very impatient! 😁

  • A few I've read at least twice and will definitely read again at some point:

    • Catch 22
    • Infinite Jest
    • The Windup Bird Chronicle
    • The Handmaid's Tale
    • Full 5 part Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy
    • His Dark Materials Trilogy (plus the Book of Dust series, if we ever get that last one!!)
    • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    • Brave New World
    • Slaughterhouse Five
  • Adam Levin's The Instructions

    I have that on my shelf, but have only read the first chapter or so, I think, just couldn't get into it. Bought on a whim, partly because of how huge it was!

    I take it it's worth another shot?

  • The other thing about this price point is that it's a headline grabber - and then once people find out more, they will spot that if you buy a Switch with MK preinstalled, the game costs half that.

    So suddenly it feels like, "oh hey, that's a great deal, and I was obviously going to buy a Switch 2 anyway" - and Nintendo get the sales and the decreased cost of manufacturing the physical game.

  • Similar, I think I paid £65 for Street Fighter II: Champion Edition on MegaDrive. That's US$84 - and that was in 1992.

    I must have been mad. Although, I probably played that game more than any other, at least until some of the huge open world games of recent decades.

  • There are certain 12" records which despite only having one it two songs in them go for ludicrous prices, in the hundreds. I'd quite like to have those please.

  • It would be subjectively new to them, yes. But objectively it's still an old game. That doesn't mean it's bad, irrelevant or whatever, it's just old. And that's fine.

  • Old doesn't mean irrelevant though.

    I absolutely would consider a book from the 19th century an old book, just as I'd consider the movies you mentioned as old movies. But a great movie is a great movie regardless of age.

  • Ah, yeah, that would make it difficult 😁

  • Fair point, and yeah, I'm in the UK.

  • This doesn't address your question really, but on Reddit there was a great sub called /r/ifyoulike (or possibly/r/ifIlike, I'm not sure) which was exactly for asking this sort of question - "I like this, please recommend more like it".

    Not sure if you use Reddit or not, but if you do, you might try there. Of course, ideally we'd have something like that here, and you wouldn't have to go there!