Yeah we did grow up in that world, but who didn't think PDAs were cool in their favourite sci-fi series? There's a lot of convenience smart phones bring which I certainly would not like to give up. For example, I find my phone indispensable when carrying out home repair. I can take photos of my house, make notes, watch instructional videos, ask for advice, and have all that available when I go to the shop as well. I do have some old DIY textbooks too, but my phone's essentially what taught me basic carpentry for example. With that said, I find most new phones to be hideously bloated - literally - their size is anathema to their function. I just got my Mini-13 repaired as the battery croaked, I have no idea what phone could ever replace it. In my opinion it is the perfect phone Steve Job's Apple set out to create when the first iPhone came out.

If I had mod points I'd have given them to you. We need you back, cmdrtaco.

The spectacle around this is madness. I truly hope all the people riffing on it just to get their own fifteen minutes of fame get sued into fucking oblivion. They won't, but my God they deserve it. Everyone's so pathetic that the moment a story breaks of someone else screwing up, they jump on it like flies on shit. We're collectively revelling in other people's misfortune. As a species we deserve the literal boiling that's coming.

Fucking upvoted funny by incels but this is the absolute truth. My wife and I and all our friends with one kid wanted two. Two kids playing together is healthy for everyone. But who the hell can afford a mortgage AND taxes on a property that comfortably houses four people? Nobody. We both work, we have been looking for a bigger place for years. No dice. We settled on one child because it is financial suicide to have more.

To pour my third cup and it's not even 11am. Here's to coffee - the miracle drink that allows me to play with my kid, pay off my mortgage, and pretend that the ever growing pile of eurorack gear in my basement will amount to something.

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Sounds like you were just a miserable sod to be honest.

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Nevermind.

Well you certainly sent her back to the kitchen!

Well here's the thing, I did not find it hard to hear Bane. The audio quality in all of his other films is absolutely superb, Batman included. Tenet is SO FAR off from those films that it genuinely feels like a mistake.

It certainly was! The problem though is we couldn't make out what was being said half the time. It's as if there was an error made during mastering where the vocal track was attenuated. Neither in the cinema nor at home did it sound correct. I've not had the same issue with his other films, but nevertheless when I think back to when the cinema 'got shit', sadly Tenet marks the beginning.

Exactly! My wife and I used to be avid movie goers, the pandemic just killed it for us. I remember seeing Tenet and wondering who the actual fuck mastered the audio so god damned badly. And since then, it's just been shit all the way. Now we have our own surround sound setup and it's superior.

Most of that is just corporate bullshit. The real reason the games industry shat the bed is that game developers continued to make overpriced, bug ridden, poorly performing and poorly written slop nobody wanted to play. And had the audacity to tell gamers if they should get used to not owning their games. Well the consumers have spoken, and it looks like those studios need to get used to not existing. For those developers that made games we actually wanted to play ... Guess what? They are doing just fine.

Aren't they planning to put solar panels on them or something, instead of keeping the land as agricultural? That would push up food prices in a world where there's already a shortage. There's also been changes proposed to inheritance tax in the government's budget, making it more difficult to keep farms in the family.