travo said:

gamingeek said:

Agatha Christie – Death on the Nile launches September 25


Niiice.


Did you guys ever try the demo of the new Murder on the Orient Express game?

I bought but haven't spent much time with it.

Foolz said:

aspro said:

Yeah, the government channel and a commercial channel.  It was good, though. We were so bored that we'd take the TV apart and put it back together (amazed we didn't electrocute ourselves).  I told my brother, one day we'll be able to pause and rewind live TV. He said it was impossible. I explained we would be able to buffer the signal on some form of cassette (this was about 1983).

I was disciplined in year 2 because the teacher said, "Did you children watch Pam Ayers (poet) on the government channel last night. I said yes, in fact, we taped it. She challenged me, and I said, My parents taped it.  I was sent to the principal's office because it was fanciful that anyone at the time could own a video recorder, and I was lying. (I put all this together years later).

My Mum had taped the audio on a reel-to-reel recorder so we could listen to it when we wanted.

Fucking small brains.

The most shocking and dating part of this whole story is a poet being on TV.

If you look up Pam Ayers' work, you'll see how a poet ended up on TV. Very broad poetry. Here is what AI produced when I asked it to write a poem about you in the style of Pam Ayers (nailed it):

I’m gonna tell you 'bout Tom Towers,

A chap who spends his waking hours,

Not gardening or baking pies,

But gaming, with discerning eyes.

He’s got a podcast, quite renowned,

Where pixel talk and lore abound.

He’ll chat for hours, deep and wide,

On frame rates, shaders, anti-aliasing pride.

He’s not impressed by sloppy scenes,

Or muddy rocks in gaming greens.

“Those textures look like mashed-up chalk!”

He’ll mutter in his Aussie talk.

And if you dare to name Clair Obscure,

He’ll scoff and say, “The end’s unsure!”

“It fizzles out, it lacks finesse,

A narrative unholy mess!”

But still he plays, with furrowed brow,

Inspecting cliffs and granite now.

“Look at that boulder! What a joke!

It’s polygonal, and poorly woke!”

So here’s to Tom, with specs and sass,

A gaming gent of highest class.

He’ll rate your rocks, your quests, your lore,

Then podcast on it — and ask for more!