Kropotkin's Beard

For gaming, there is only the Giant Bombcast Sports, well I used to listen to lots of MMA stuff but now I don't find I have the time for listening to 4 hours of Jordan Breen every week, so it's really just the Guardian's Football Weekly show. Which is twice weekly during the soccer season, mostly focused on the English league but with roundups of interesting stories from elsewhere in Europe. Comedy: There's The Bugle, which I assume most podcast savvy people are aware of. And the BBC has The Infinite Monkey Cage, which is a Radio 4 show with physcists Brian Cox & comedian Robin Ince & a few guests where they talk about sciencey stuff in a light hearted but still interesting manner. There was an episode about Space Tourism a couple of weeks ago which had the actor Brian Blessed on which is particular worth a listen, because he's so passionate about getting to do it. It's fun, but be forewarned that they can be quite dismissive of "fringe" views which aren't scientifically proven. And I really enjoy some of the stuff that British standup Richard Herring has done, the sketch show As It Occurs To Me was entertaining, & there's also a series of interviews he's done with comedians, writers & the occasional classicist, Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, & it's offspring Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast, done during the month long Fringe Festival. There's also Collings & Herrin, but that was a podcast mainly talking about the weeks news, so it'll all be out of date by now. And then there's 2 history podcasts, The History of Rome, which covers the myths about the founding of the Eternal City all the way to the fall of the Western Empire with Romulus Augustus. And The History Of Philosophy Without The Gaps, 138 episodes in & we're still dealing with early Islamic thinkers, having covered several pre-Socratics, Socrates, plenty of episodes on both Socrates & Plato, Stoics, Cynics, Skeptics, Epicureans, Middle Platonists, Neo-Platonists, people like Galen, Marcus Aurelius, Cicero, Philo, Plutarch, & then early Christian philosophers such as Augustine. If you've any interest in philosophy & the development of things like ethics, metaphysics & politics then this is well worth downloading & listening to.

I'd get behind that

Delighted that Gat is back. Just to go back to massacring shit with him at your side, it's all Saints Row needs. Well, that & bucketloads of insanity

Don't Bayern now have something ludicrous like 8-10 really good midfielders? I understand why Pep would want to bring in Thiago, but it doesn't really seem to address a weak point of the team.

Thank god I'm not the only one who doesn't want to do that.

More or less, yeah. On the first turn I usually have at least 4/6 guys on Overwatch, assuming the other 2 have moved up quickly both for better cover & as spotters.

Asafa Powell has also tested positive, for oxilofrine

I must have started 10 different games, never finishing them because I just did everything wrong. But when I finally cracked it to some degree it was just intensely satisfying. Losing guys really feels like a big deal, both for the fact that a high level dude like my snipers with 2 shots if they hit & pretty awesome range that you've grown to rely on is potentially catastrophic, but also because they have far more personality than they should have. Looking at the Wall of Heroes can be heartbreaking, knowing most of those guys are dead because YOU fucked up! The main thing you have to learn quickly & that the tutorial mission doesn't really teach so well is that you usually have to be super conservative. Don't utilise run too often moving forward because you need guys to go on overwatch in case xenos walk into your range: best you get the first shot at them than vice versa. Use cover. I mean really, just don't leave a guy in the open if you can at all avoid it. Those are the really important things early on, not being appropriately conservative on a mission boned me way more than once. Obviously playing it you'll find out what combinations of upgrades & classes you'll find useful, but snipers man. Can't overstate how much I love snipers in that game.

Wanyama's going to make a decent go of it down in England & all that, but potential to be as good as Fellani? I don't see it. Certainly in the SPL he seemed to vanish a fair bit.

While I really enjoyed Season 7 on the whole, the stuff with Toby really...grated. It didn't seem to fit Toby, who we'd grown used to after all those years.

Leviathan wasn't great gameplay wise, but I think it makes the whole ending make way more sense. Which was a lot of peoples problem with that game originally. I really need to get ME3 reinstalled so I can play through the Citadel DLC, which just sounds like a whole heap of fun. Just getting to hang out with all those old faces again.

I found myself breaking out the SNES from the attic over the weekend because it was too damn hot to be outside. So I started playing Earthbound. I own it, but I'm pretty sure I barely played it as a kid. Which is a shame really. Also played through Sunset Riders, though after failing feebly for a good hour plus I ended up using a Game Genie code for invincibility. Even then it's a really great little shoot-em-up.

Yeah, I couldn't remember the exact wording of the quote. So I paraphrased after a night of no sleep. It was my signature before the board went down, & well, I can't think of anything better for a new signature! Besides, I'm largely a nondescript lurker so I need that continuity. Also, really agree with you on "if there's someone I like I'll boo or cheer them if they are heel or face & if there's someone I find dull I'll just keep quiet". I dunno about that. I mean I may be cynical about the nature of the WWE not really changing much, but at least I don't go out of my way to act like a prat when other people are trying to enjoy something. Which is what these people are doing, consciously or not. It's like if I go to see a band, but the support group aren't to my taste, I don't shout "witty" things at them, I shut up, slope off to the back or to the bar or somewhere & wait for the group I paid to see. Because I've been the person there for the support band & know how much it irritates me when other people actively try to ruin their set. What's really more cynical, going out of the way to make your friends chuckle at potential the expense of other folks enjoyment, or just saying "hey, I won't watch something I don't have any interest in any more? Because there's only so many hours in a day.

Then why on earth do they bother watching it? The WWE is what it is. Until Vince dies/retires, I hardly see that changing, & there's still alternatives out there for them if they don't like what the WWE is producing.

I don't know about that. Umaga debuted in 2006, hardly as if there's that many more "smart" fans than that recently

Yes, a plain blue/white combo also raise less flags for snooping managers in places of employment.

I really can't wait for the football to start again. The Tour de France has not filled the hole in my soul, & even the Confed Cup only briefly worked as a fix, though it was a very nourishing fix while it lasted. But nothing can beat the nitty-gritty of league football, & I'm desperate to see how Ross County cope with having last several key players like Vigurs, Lawson & Oikonomou. Brought in a quartet of Dutchmen though, who've all impressed so far in pre-season friendlies) (Yeah, sorry, Scottish football is about the only football I can talk about authoritatively, but I figured the thread deserve more than than 1 post)

For whatever reason, video game golf is far more satisfactory than real golf. Presumably because it takes way less effort to be able to hit the ball 300 yards. But yeah, there's something really relaxing about golf games, where as actual golf just sends me into a coma. So yeah, if those GTA mini games are even half competent, like you'd expect them to be, then god. I'm just glad I have a month between Saints Row 4 & this coming out to rush through Saints Row. I can't imagine it'll look nearly as great if I played it after GTA5.

That's the fella. His work can definitely be seen as dark, though I think that's just a reflection of us as people. Well, except Jam, which is just the strangest collection of sketches I've ever seen. Brass Eye is on the 4OD player, but sadly Jam isn't.

I read a biography of the satirist Chris Morris, it was very short but great if only for reminding me of all the great moments from his career like Brass Eye, The Day Today, Jam & the Why Bother? interviews with Peter Cook. Morris is a rather private person so there's scant details about his childhood & all that sort of thing, which is probably for the best.

I have been playing some Prison Architect, some Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition, & yesterday I got my mittens on Burnout Paradise on Steam's pre-Summer Sale sale. Which is the first Burnout I've owned & has been fun so far. Away from the PC, I've also been playing through Saints Row The Third again, which is still great & funny.

Still can't believe how dumb that was.

I'd say "lurk less" but I'd probably be lying. I don't watch enough wrestling to feel like a knowledgeable contributor, but I mainly use this board to keep up with what's going on in the world o' wrestling because it's mostly fool of good people. Maybe try to post in the music forum more often. Because music is rad.

That was always my favourite feature of a board I posted on 10 years ago. And yet I've never seen it again since. So this is wonderful progress for the DVDVR! Of course I've instantly gone back to the shitty name I chose for here 7 or 8 years ago, but at least it'll not be long before I get a less dumb name. Or more likely, a more dumb name