The Silver Fern

@canefan said in Movie review thread...:

@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:

@canefan said in Movie review thread...:

Probably better to download something onto your own device and watch that instead

You mean - buy a tablet, load it with porn, and sit on a plane watching that?
That's... something to consider. I did manage to scare away one fellow passenger with my drunken mutterings about "fucking stupid people, don't know how to do shit, fuck them all, ..." - for the entire flight. Porn-tablet... I like that, could be even better.

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3D VR Glasses Virtual Reality Glassesi Phone Android Games Stereo

3D VR Glasses Virtual Reality Glassesi Phone Android Games Stereo With Headset 3D VR Glasses Virtual Reality Glasses For 4.7 6.7 Smart Phone IPhone Android...

I've never used them, but have been curious about these cheap VR setups that link to your phone. Then you could watch in privacy

Fuck all that. The point of it would be to get every fluffybunny around me to get lost.

@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:

@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:

Some movies what I watched recently on last-minute long-haul flights, so tired and drunk and annoyed at life:

• Captain America: Brave New World ? Or some such.
• • Forgettable
    -- Literally. I watched this on flight back to NZ, and when browsing movies to watch on return flight - had to click into it before deciding I had already seen it
    -- Titwatch, I assume: zero
• Something else Marvel
• • Can't remember. I'm going to assume forgettable and tit-watch zero
• Wolfs
• • attempting to be stylish 2 major lead men bouncing off each other
• • had its moments
• • overall... meh
• • at this point, I've been cut off from being served booze, but the scene of them threatening the kid not to tell his dad anything, and then going in and introducing themselves to same dad... did that make any sense? Did I miss a subtlety?
• • it feels like there might have been tits in this? Or rather - should have been? But wasn't? I'm pretty sure it "should have been", and was a tit-watch of zero.
• Novocaine
• • reasonable, if it didn't always add up
• • tit-watch of nearly, I think?
• • I'll still be re-watching Kick-Ass instead
• At least one other movie
• • Obviously forgettable
• • and presumably a tit-watch of zero, considering I've forgotten it

Fuck airlines. Their low tolerance for tit-watch, and their low tolerance for how many wines a man might need before even considering an attempt at sleeping in a flying noise machine filled with other fluffybunnies. Fuck'em.

Well, you said yourself you were tired, drunk and annoyed at life.

On the YVR-AKL flight. Yeah... fair enough. I was a bit of a jerk to start with. But still... could have done with just one more wine and I'd have happily gone to sleep.
But was positively fucking polite to the staff throughout. Absolutely no reason for them to stop serving me other than the sheer quantity. Cowards.

@canefan said in Movie review thread...:

Probably better to download something onto your own device and watch that instead

You mean - buy a tablet, load it with porn, and sit on a plane watching that?
That's... something to consider. I did manage to scare away one fellow passenger with my drunken mutterings about "fucking stupid people, don't know how to do shit, fuck them all, ..." - for the entire flight. Porn-tablet... I like that, could be even better.

Oh - remembered, as I was perused my list of downloaded media trying to choose tonight's final entertainment - one of the "at least one other movie" was Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

• Another case of "attempt to be stylish ensemble cast" - but... meh
• should have been positive tit-watch, but wasn't
• silly romp, liked the lady's legs

Some movies what I watched recently on last-minute long-haul flights, so tired and drunk and annoyed at life:

• Captain America: Brave New World ? Or some such.
• • Forgettable
    -- Literally. I watched this on flight back to NZ, and when browsing movies to watch on return flight - had to click into it before deciding I had already seen it
    -- Titwatch, I assume: zero
• Something else Marvel
• • Can't remember. I'm going to assume forgettable and tit-watch zero
• Wolfs
• • attempting to be stylish 2 major lead men bouncing off each other
• • had its moments
• • overall... meh
• • at this point, I've been cut off from being served booze, but the scene of them threatening the kid not to tell his dad anything, and then going in and introducing themselves to same dad... did that make any sense? Did I miss a subtlety?
• • it feels like there might have been tits in this? Or rather - should have been? But wasn't? I'm pretty sure it "should have been", and was a tit-watch of zero.
• Novocaine
• • reasonable, if it didn't always add up
• • tit-watch of nearly, I think?
• • I'll still be re-watching Kick-Ass instead
• At least one other movie
• • Obviously forgettable
• • and presumably a tit-watch of zero, considering I've forgotten it

Fuck airlines. Their low tolerance for tit-watch, and their low tolerance for how many wines a man might need before even considering an attempt at sleeping in a flying noise machine filled with other fluffybunnies. Fuck'em.

Scott Hawkins - The Library at Mount Char

• It's good.

@MajorRage said in Final - Crusaders v Chiefs:

@Yeetyaah said in Final - Crusaders v Chiefs:

https://www.theroar.com.au/2025/06/18/why-i-couldnt-care-less-about-the-super-rugby-final/

Absolute dribble from someone who admits not enjoying super rugby in the first place in the article lmfao

The weird thing is I wouldn’t have read it if you hadn’t said it was dribble …. My mind is strange.

Tl;dr: writer prefers league over union.

My reading of it was:
TL;DR: An aussie team should be guaranteed a spot in the final.
ie: an extreme version of the bad old days when each country (AU,NZ,SA) was guaranteed a spot in the top 3 of the table.

@Bones said in SF Chiefs v Brumbies:

Such a shame we never got to see what you could do at test level Shaun.

Didn't we get 90 seconds of it?

Major League Cricket... wait, what?
Look it up - Seattle's got a team! Fucking get in.
Except - I have to cheer for Davie-DumDum. Fuck.
And no home games - that's some wack bullshit.

And it seems to be true - Finn Allen - 19 sixes, 151 off 51, his fun spoiled by Glenn Phillips. What a prick.

@nostrildamus said in Artificial Intelligence (Previously "Chat GPT"):

@voodoo said in Artificial Intelligence (Previously "Chat GPT"):

Vernor Vinge's Singularity essay.

is it this? https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html

Yeah - written in 1993. And while a "scientific essay" - mostly using Science-Fiction as reference points.
I believe he was the one that coined the term "Singularity". And interesting is his estimate of when it would happen - "I'll be surprised if this event occurs before 2005 or after 2030."
While today's "AI" is not really anything more than advanced-analytics... if leveraged by smart people towards its own advancement - he might not be too far off.

Just read Vernor Vinge's Singularity essay. Kinda interesting at how much stuff he got right so long ago, but also... how much hasn't happened... yet.
Some naivete around technical capabilities. Plenty of interesting thought-experiment around where it could all lead to.
And some prescient thoughts around what we currently think of "AI" - which is fucking bullshit - vs "real AI".

@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:

Blatant rip off from writers Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore to 'create' the character of Michonne for The Walking Dead - released a year later

Was gonna rage against this, with a nerdy "harrumph, harrumph - you know there was a 'graphic novel' (fuck off - comic book) - before the TV series, right?" Before realising you did actually obviously realise this, mention of Tony Moore should have been the hint - and the Walking Dead nerd-books were actually released well after 28 Days Later. Really thought it was the other way around.
So - yeah, fair enough. 28 Days Later really was ahead of its time, innit?
But to be fair - as soon as one sees somebody in zombie-world with a sword - immediately my preferred weapon of choice for close up stuff. And pretty poor titwatch.

Wanted
Guilty pleasure.
Rewatched tonight - so bad.
But fun.

@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:

Flight of Fury added to download list

@Landers92 said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

@Canes4life said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

Tamaiti limping pretty badly, don’t think we’ll see him again during the playoffs.

100% should of taken him off earlier when they had the chance, especially with Bower on the bench who is more than capable. Could well pay the price for it next week

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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:

@voodoo said in TV Serieseseses:

@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:

@voodoo said in TV Serieseseses:

@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:

@Rembrandt I guess because

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it was an inside job, the cops had to sweep it under the rug and take the spotlight off it.

Toby Jones' character is surely due some comeuppance though

I do also want Eddie to get dealt to, and I still dont get why Maeve is so invested in him, but not Seraphina who seems much more switched on than Eddie and a better horse to bet on

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I can't stand Eddie (which I know is the intention, but still), and Maeve still appears a total lunatic that makes bad decisions. Agree that Seraphina should be get a bigger role.
The last 10mins was just daft for me - having Harry stabbed was just silly as the entire show falls apart without him so we know he's going to be fine. Then an entire prison cheering on old mate as he walks somewhere to do something - fuck knows what was going on there.

I'll still be tuning in next season though

You boys must have been watching a different show from me

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Thought it was an excellent finale with plenty of twists and turns, and a neat & believable resolution setting up a second season

Someone mentioned the level of violence and gunplay in a previous post. Compared with other shows this finale was Leon esque with well planned, targeted attacks

Shame Richie got it - liked his character - but someone had to go. Good to see the lawyer got it too

The battle for who's in charge will be very interesting

As will the Kat and Seraphina meeting

And I think Con's lauded victory lap through the prison was an homage to Mr Bridger (Noel Coward) in The Italian Job

At 0:19

And the Harry stabbing

My younger brother lost his cornea when an ex slapped him across the face just as he was taking a drink from his pint

Total accident borne out of frustration

I’m not sure we’re on different pages - we’re all still in for S2, and I think we all enjoyed all but the last 10mins of that finale.

Good spot on the homage , though as @bones says, why and how does it fit? Seemed a touch odd with no explanation ?

But - the important question is - how long do we have to wait for S2??

What was so bad about the last 10 mins?

I had to go back and watch the last 10 minutes... for the THIRD time - to figure out what all the hate was for.
Don't see it either.
The "homage to Italian Job" seemed kinda incongruous - considering it wasn't old-mate who actually won the war. But I guess nobody inside knows that. And maybe it just shows that because everybody thought he is still The Man - he'll still be a power to reckon with if/when young-mate and Harry decide to let him out.
BTW - how did Harry get that recording of the cops admitting that they were putting on the frame?
And as to the 2 cops just getting killed with no ramifications - I guess that was what the frame-up was going to be?
Maeve supporting Eddie despite him being a wrong-side-of-the-sheets gobshite... maybe it's because she encouraged the affair which begat him? "Creating monsters" - as young-mate said.

The Last of Us

• 8 minutes into episode 1 - and I already detest the two characters I assume are going to be the protagonists for most of it
• What scares the shit out of me is... are they written like this because the rest of the world, or even just the US-of-A, actually relate to these self-absorbed beatches?

Edit: actually - after an hour - Ellie is fucking unsufferable. Somebody needs to convince me that the storyline or landscape or something compensates for that character. Because fuck watching that for a season. Especially if it descends to "unlikely allies" with the stupid bint from opening scene. Which I have nasty suspicions it will.