BritGAF |OT6| Dark Souls? More like Arse Holes

Vashetti said:
Hey man I enjoy Tipping Point and The Chase!
Click to expand...

The Chase is amazing TV. Every time I catch it on I always hope it's the episode with Willi Wacker or Fanny Schmellar.

Edit: I miss Golden Balls. That was the greatest gameshow in the history of mankind due to it showing human nature at its ugliest. And it had Jasper Carrott who's awesome.
 
The Chase makes sense as a game show because the questions are difficult so it's fun to watch and play along.

In this episode of Tipping Point I watched, contestants were asked "how many hours are in a day?" That was an actual question on a television game show for adult humans.

Question 2: spell the word, "the."
 
I'm visiting my mum at the moment and there's a gameshow called "The Edge" on and it's basically bowls for cash.

Bring back Gladiators ffs.
 
Miley Cyrus records an album with The Flaming Lips.

Has cover art apparently depicting a large amount of glittery semen being deposited on her face.

tMRWcLd.jpg


Of course.
 
WanderingWind said:
I miss London every day that I'm not there.
Click to expand...

Hope you get a chance to immigrate in.

Personally, I can't stand the place. I think London's a load of shite. Never enjoyed the atmosphere, never enjoyed the people, hated the prices and a lot of the culture. (Obviously painting with broad strokes here.) Been to/lived in so many better cities in the UK. Imo Bristol, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester alone are infinitely better. None of the negatives, many of the positives.

The jobs thing is a biggie, though. Can't beat London for that.

Edit: went to Stockholm a couple of weeks back. Now that is a great fucking city. The Swedes just know their shit.

toythatkills said:
The Chase makes sense as a game show because the questions are difficult so it's fun to watch and play along.

In this episode of Tipping Point I watched, contestants were asked "how many hours are in a day?" That was an actual question on a television game show for adult humans.

Question 2: spell the word, "the."
Click to expand...

No way. No way.
 
Screaming Meat said:
Som! What's happening?
Click to expand...

Long weekend, my man. Consisting of gratuitous excess, and lackadaisical productivity dotted with artistic endeavours.

(Eating shit-tons of biscuits and barely working on music and vidyagame side-projects by procrastinating with Nathan Drake Collection/Dark Souls.)

HBU Meats?
 
SomTervo said:
Long weekend, my man. Consisting of gratuitous excess, and lackadaisical productivity dotted with artistic endeavours.

(Eating shit-tons of biscuits and barely working on music and vidyagame side-projects by procrastinating with Nathan Drake Collection/Dark Souls.)

HBU Meats?
Click to expand...

Music? Vidyagames? Elaborate!

Me? Family shenanigans today and most certainly Bloodbourne/MGO this evening once everyone's sleeping. Tomorrow I get the place to myself and later hook up with some chums for a swift pint and a thorough drubbing of the day's big topics.
 
Screaming Meat said:
Music? Vidyagames? Elaborate!
Click to expand...

Played some bluegrass with a pal - we go to a monthly hoedown in a nice pub which is always good, and try to bring some new choons each time. (We do a pretty badass version of this.) Today, going to play some music with my dad, work on some of his songs (he's a great songwriter).

And yeah I'm doing writing for a videogame! A relatively high impact one, too, which is interesting/terrifying. It's quite tough but a good experience. Found out earlier this week the last game I worked on (and my first foray) has been nominated for a Scottish BAFTA!

Screaming Meat said:
Me? Family shenanigans today and most certainly Bloodbourne/MGO this evening once everyone's sleeping. Tomorrow I get the place to myself and later hook up with some chums for a swift pint and a thorough drubbing of the day's big topics.
Click to expand...

Sounds delectable. I'll probably be up late Uncharted'ing or MGO'ing myself so we should sesh. Kenshi_Ryden on PSN. Same goes for tomorrow daytime. Absolute luxury having a weekend with no big commitments.
 
Musha_Soturi said:
Sorry, tried having a look for you but can't find any. I love them though, they look awesome, let me know if you find any!
Click to expand...

:c

Thanks anyway! And yeah they are great. Super comfy and can look pretty good if you get the outfit right. Might ask my friend where he got his.
 
SomTervo said:
Played some bluegrass with a pal - we go to a monthly hoedown in a nice pub which is always good, and try to bring some new choons each time. (We do a pretty badass version of this.) Today, going to play some music with my dad, work on some of his songs (he's a great songwriter).
Click to expand...

Gotta be quick fingered for Bluegrass! Sounds like a laugh. What sort of music does your dad do?

SomTervo said:
And yeah I'm doing writing for a videogame! A relatively high impact one, too, which is interesting/terrifying. It's quite tough but a good experience. Found out earlier this week the last game I worked on (and my first foray) has been nominated for a Scottish BAFTA!
Click to expand...

Oh wow! Congratulations, man. How did you end up doing that?

SomTervo said:
Sounds delectable. I'll probably be up late Uncharted'ing or MGO'ing myself so we should sesh. Kenshi_Ryden on PSN. Same goes for tomorrow daytime. Absolute luxury having a weekend with no big commitments.
Click to expand...

Oh hell yeah. Kiddies eat time and money like it's candy.

If I see you on, I'll give you a shout. I'm a wee bit Bloodbourne obsessed at the moment though, so don't take offence if I skip MGO till the morrow.
 
SomTervo said:
Hope you get a chance to immigrate in.

Personally, I can't stand the place. I think London's a load of shite. Never enjoyed the atmosphere, never enjoyed the people, hated the prices and a lot of the culture. (Obviously painting with broad strokes here.) Been to/lived in so many better cities in the UK. Imo Bristol, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester alone are infinitely better. None of the negatives, many of the positives.

The jobs thing is a biggie, though. Can't beat London for that.

Edit: went to Stockholm a couple of weeks back. Now that is a great fucking city. The Swedes just know their shit.
Click to expand...

Man, I just can't tell with London any more, I used to enjoy visiting as a kid (obviously), and to an extent I still do, I looove cities, but I just don't think London clicks with me anymore - it's so sprawling and spread out with no 24-hour transport (other than night busses) that getting around just seems to turn into a bit of an effort. Part of the problem is that I probably keep comparing it to other cities I've been to like NYC, which is just so easy to get around - everything just feels within reach.

I also went to Stockholm over the summer and thought it was fucking wonderful!!!
 
Saladinoo said:
Man, I just can't tell with London any more, I used to enjoy visiting as a kid (obviously), and to an extent I still do, I looove cities, but I just don't think London clicks with me anymore - it's so sprawling and spread out with no 24-hour transport (other than night busses) that getting around just seems to turn into a bit of an effort. Part of the problem is that I probably keep comparing it to other cities I've been to like NYC, which is just so easy to get around - everything just feels within reach.

I also went to Stockholm over the summer and thought it was fucking wonderful!!!
Click to expand...

24-hour tubes are coming soon. Not that it helps for us "South-of-the-river" types.
 
Screaming Meat said:
Gotta be quick fingered for Bluegrass! Sounds like a laugh. What sort of music does your dad do?
Click to expand...

Hard to explain. Like a Scottish Louden Wainwright? So it goes from blues to jazz and even to funk, but it's all got a core of quirky, funny Scottish songwriting. He's in his 60s and his only getting better, which is pretty amazing. A couple of his recent lyrics have been heartbreaking/tearjerking.

Screaming Meat said:
Oh wow! Congratulations, man. How did you end up doing that?
Click to expand...

Friend at university spent 4 years making the game - but he's not a native English speaker and the narrative was a bit embryonic. So in the last few months of production I came in and helped him revamp it a bit. 95% of the credit is his - I just gave some polish and general improvements.

Screaming Meat said:
Oh hell yeah. Kiddies eat time and money like it's candy.

If I see you on, I'll give you a shout. I'm a wee bit Bloodbourne obsessed at the moment though, so don't take offence if I skip MGO till the morrow.
Click to expand...

I know the feel - I'm doing the same with Dark Souls on PC atm, so you do your Yarnham-style thing!

Saladinoo said:
Man, I just can't tell with London any more, I used to enjoy visiting as a kid (obviously), and to an extent I still do, I looove cities, but I just don't think London clicks with me anymore - it's so sprawling and spread out with no 24-hour transport (other than night busses) that getting around just seems to turn into a bit of an effort. Part of the problem is that I probably keep comparing it to other cities I've been to like NYC, which is just so easy to get around - everything just feels within reach.

I also went to Stockholm over the summer and thought it was fucking wonderful!!!
Click to expand...

Such a good place, right?

Yeah London's price of travel + awkwardness of travel is absurd. My partner is training down there right now and if she fails at planning one journey/stop, BAM she's hit with a £35 taxi to get where she needs to go. We're not long in professional work so that's a bitter as fuck pill.

Qasiel said:
24-hour tubes are coming soon. Not that it helps for us "South-of-the-river" types.
Click to expand...

That is a big improvement.
 
SomTervo said:
Yeah London's price of travel + awkwardness of travel is absurd. My partner is training down there right now and if she fails at planning one journey/stop, BAM she's hit with a £35 taxi to get where she needs to go. We're not long in professional work so that's a bitter as fuck pill.



That is a big improvement.
Click to expand...

Sounds like your partner needs to plan better/learn to read the tube maps or something, I've lived here 9 years and never had that problem.

I love London. It's no where near perfect for sure, but I've visited most of the UK's major cities and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

Qasiel said:
24-hour tubes are coming soon. Not that it helps for us "South-of-the-river" types.
Click to expand...

Like I always said dude.....
 
Musha_Soturi said:
Like I always said dude.....
Click to expand...

Yeah I'm not moving to North, dude. To be fair, where I am now is pretty decent; 30-minute cycle to work, close to family etc. If I wanted a place that's like mine North of the river I'd need to win the lottery or something.

And as we both know, my next move is totally going to be to Cornwall ;)
 
Musha_Soturi said:
Sounds like your partner needs to plan better/learn to read the tube maps or something, I've lived here 9 years and never had that problem.

I love London. It's no where near perfect for sure, but I've visited most of the UK's major cities and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
Click to expand...

That's totally fair enough.

But why?

PS in her defence she's on a high-end journalism training scheme and is literally having to rush across the city at incredibly short notice to do sudden interviews/shoots. It's a 1-week intense course, she's been to London many times before and hasn't had any issues with transport any other time (besides the absurd prices). I was being facetious, I guess :P
 
I find it odd that folks are even comparing NYC to London. NYCs metro is horrible. Dirty, nearly always broken and late, trains way too far apart and not even close to servicing large enough parts of the city. Granted, I have a relatively small sample size of both cities under my belt, but the Underground was definitely one of the enormous pluses in London's favor. Of course, I don't live in a place with stupendous public transit, so perhaps I'm not the best judge of how it should work. But as a complete newb I was able to figure out the entire transit system in less than a day and they got me everywhere I wanted to go and they weren't late a single time for the (again short) seven days I was there, morning, day or evening.
 
SomTervo said:
Yeah London's price of travel + awkwardness of travel is absurd. My partner is training down there right now and if she fails at planning one journey/stop, BAM she's hit with a £35 taxi to get where she needs to go. We're not long in professional work so that's a bitter as fuck pill.



That is a big improvement.
Click to expand...

That's painful man, I feel like I have to leave for places so early just in case there are issues, which makes every trip super long.

I suppose it comes with being the first major "modern" city (I think), it just wasn't planned this far in advance...

Also, isn't the 24 hour tube service only on Friday / Saturday nights or something?
 
I really can't believe people are excited for the new star wars.

It is really cool that they've got Boyaga and, to a lesser extent, Daisy Ridley and Oscar Isaac, but it is still a JJ Abrams film. And a Star Wars film.

I know this reads very snobbish and maybe it is. I just don't understand.
 
Musha_Soturi said:
Same, where you seeing it? We're going to Empire Leicester Square imax 3d
Click to expand...

My local iMax cinema going 2d though as couple buddies can't handle 3D but will no doubt go see it again probably the same day/week in 3D hopefully at the waterloo one.

I just went back to look and seems odeon has taken down bookings lol
 
I would like to see it in IMAX, but was the film even partly recorded in IMAX? Plus, I'm not a fan of wearing 3D glasses when watching films. BFI is the closest to me.
 
Skele7on said:
My local iMax cinema going 2d though as couple buddies can't handle 3D but will no doubt go see it again probably the same day/week in 3D hopefully at the waterloo one.

I just went back to look and seems odeon has taken down bookings lol
Click to expand...

Odeon were a nightmare this morning. I kept getting partway through the booking, even selecting my seats, then it would crash or hang. I really thought I was going to miss out until Qasiel told me to try Empire.

Got through and booked 4 seats with no problem, then found out I got the 4 seats right behind him!

This is the only time I will be grateful to the Empire.
 
Musha_Soturi said:
Odeon were a nightmare this morning. I kept getting partway through the booking, even selecting my seats, then it would crash or hang. I really thought I was going to miss out until Qasiel told me to try Empire.

Got through and booked 4 seats with no problem, then found out I got the 4 seats right behind him!

This is the only time I will be grateful to the Empire.
Click to expand...

I hate empire but at least they hooked you up this time....

I had an awesome thought they now sell beer in cinema's

MAY THE BEERS BE WITH YOU.
 
8bit said:
Spectre is apparently 2½ hours long, even longer than Skyfall. James Bond can fuck right off.
Click to expand...

James Bond is a middle class wank into an old outdated personalized handkerchief.

It's like a film version of Top Gear, I just find myself wanting Bond dead every time
 
Skele7on said:
Hopefully he'll be less of a middle class murdering rapist than how the films usually are.

"Hey hot girl in the shower, just gonna slide in here."

I've got a licence ya know, a sex offenders one.
Click to expand...

Whereas Skyfall lacked any kind of awareness whatsoever*, I imagine Ellis will acknowledge, account for and likely criticise that element of him.

*the worst bits are the fact she tells him she's been a sex slave since she was twelve (still has sex with her) and how nonplussed he is when she's shot in the head. I mean, at least he caught the baddie, right?

...right?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Are all American supermarkets like Costco?
13
3K
Afro Republican replied
Dark Souls Mafia |OT| Git Gud or Die Trying
36 37 38 39 40
2K
140K
Trogdor1123 replied
LEGO |OT6| We Only Build in Black. And Sometimes Very Dark Grey.
224 225 226 227 228
11K
1M
Chiaroscuro replied
  • Locked
PoliGAF 2017 |OT6| Made this thread during Harvey because the ratings would be higher
338 339 340 341 342
17K
2M
UselessNapkin replied
May Wrasslin' |OT| May I Fancy You To A Nice Arse Whipping?
395 396 397 398 399
20K
905K
giancarlo123x replied
Top Bottom