^ Classic Metal Purist

Not all anime is good, a lot is straight up shit. Not all things that aren’t anime are shit some are quite good.

Oh it was one of mine too. But the amount of times you have to slog back and forth across the same 6 or 7 poorly designed maps, fighting the same 4 or 5 enemies and doing the same repetitive tasks gets old very quickly.

It looks fantastic (for the N64) but the sacrifices they made to get the higher fidelity textures and dynamic lighting, including some horrendous object pop-in distract from the visuals.

Also, the inexcusable difficulty spikes make it a very frustrating game (looking at you Beaver Bother and that annoying bug race) and the mini games are an annoying bit of dragging the game out rather than the fun diversion they were meant to be. And who’s decision was it to make you have to get through the whole of the original DK arcade with only one life?

Rare had a genuine hit with Banjo Kazooie and they kept trying to replicate it and just ended up piling more and more stuff onto the formula and made it worse each time. Though if any of their platformers stands up today it’s Conker’s Bad Fur Day.

Tag Anywhere for Donkey Kong 64 makes it at least playable in this day and age (I still don’t think it stands up but it removes the most annoying part of the game).

Master of Time for Ocarina of Time is incredible.

Super Mario Star Road is basically a direct sequel to Mario 64.

Tomorrow Never Dies is a 13 level new Bond game based on Goldeneye 007

One man’s garbage is another man person’s good ungarbage

The Bude Tunnel

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Or less locally the Hole in the Wall

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Her?

There’s now no way to stop or reverse the inevitable collapse of the comfortable way of life we have right now. This isn’t a fight for survival or for the planet, it’s to perpetuate the system we enjoy at the moment.

The only way remaining to minimise the damage to our way of life is with some huge geo-engineering projects. Like scattering reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect some sunlight away or releasing some novel chemical into the oceans to fix carbon dioxide and lock it away.

The risks of experimenting like this has always outweighed the benefits (like the guys who thought they could kill a hurricane and instead magnified it and sent it back inland resulting in the deaths of multiple people). But now it’s too late to worry about things like that because the inevitable impacts of climate change including wild fires, habitat destruction, biodiversity collapse, extreme weather events are all here now while most of the world is still arguing about whether it even exists or not.

Anywhere else in the world has an incident where children get murdered in school and they do something. Largely, what they do serves to make children safer.

In America you do literally nothing

Long story short, concrete needs a specific type of sand and there’s a finite amount of it and much of that is locked away in protected areas, agriculture or deep, deep under the ocean.

Gangs are looting what’s accessible, destroying entire ecosystems in the process and selling it on the black market to brokers who effectively launder it with legally acquired stocks and pass it on to the construction industry.

Oil bros

Not really the incident school wise but personally was for me. This is back in the days before things like dyspraxia and ADHD were regularly identified and so I was therefore a disruptive nightmare in several classes where I wasn’t stimulated correctly. Professionals were brought into the school (at great expense I’m sure) to try and analyse the bad behaviour.

It was in a meeting between several teachers, supervisors and my mum (who was herself a head teacher of a different school) and she asked why it was that I didn’t act up in maths or English or science and it was only in music, RE and geography I couldn’t be controlled in and maybe I wasn’t the problem but it was certain teachers weren’t actually very good at controlling classes or providing a stimulating enough environment then politely told the school to get bent and we went to get ice cream.

The actual incident at the school was the music teacher Mr Mann getting caught masturbating in the classroom between lessons by a TA and several students.

How did you turn my comment into something that supports your warped point of view (some time after I actually posted it which means you specifically went looking for something to get upset about.

Thanks for the suggestions. I think Downfall is probably the best film of this type as it shows the ultimate story of the defeated person, a lot of the criticism comes from people who don’t want to see Hitler as a human person rather as some sort of evil boogeyman

So you’d actually be OK with a christofascist dictatorship as long as people you don’t like get oppressed as well? Cool.

More (anti) war films from the “wrong” side’s perspective. Flags of our Fathers and All Quiet on the Western Front are compelling as they tell stories that we all know but from a fresh point of view making you compare and contrast the experiences from both sides.

Something that fleshed out the lives and motivations of VC or NVA troops during the Vietnam War would be interesting as they’re only ever portrayed as screaming fanatics who’s only existence is to shoot at Americans in most films.

Or the story of a conscripted German teenager sent to Normandy on the eve of the allied invasion and the all-encompassing dread that must overwhelmed them as ships and planes fill the sea and sky.

Or what life must have been like on board a Japanese aircraft carrier before Midway, that unshakeable belief in your own destiny as a people filled with propaganda about your own superiority and stories of your endless victories to be so utterly shattered in a cataclysmic defeat. The ultimate story of hubris.

I only use the camera for casual pictures and it’s fine. It’s still the same lenses and sensors after all. The camera app obviously isn’t as all singing all dancing as stock but perfectly functional, has all the features you’d expect.

Graphene rules

A certain section of society watched The Handmaid’s Tale (they wouldn’t read it because books are bad) and thought: “yes please, let’s have some of that thank you very much” this is the thin end of the wedge.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with paper ballots if the system itself is trustworthy. Since America’s electronic voting systems are largely compromised their untrustworthy too and a lot easier to manipulate at the scales needed to throw an election.