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!

robio said:

I've seen the movie. If you guys just want to skip the game I can tell you how it ends.

aspro said:

You ever put something somewhere and think, “I’ll put it here so I’ll remember where I put it”?

No, not that I can recall.

Played a bit of Donkey Kong Bananza last night and the game looks and plays very well. The destructibility aspect is pretty impressive as well.

So DK is a blast. It starts off slow, first two hours I was thinking this will get old really fast but then it just keeps opening up and that collecting itch kicks in and it's just fun to destroy everything to find stuff. Plenty of Rare like 3D platformer missions amoung the crazy amount of stuff to find. The controls are great, DK has a fun moveset which makes moving around a blast and allows for high level play. Still too easy, hopefully changes.

aspro said:

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!

Except that my famous rock texture analysis was of how good a rock texture was, rather than how bad.

gamingeek said:

Foolz review was good.


I don't think the game is as buggy on switch. Though the framerate would wobble. Really need to try it on switch 2.


I only played the Book of Unwritten tales 2.


It was very good but had a cliffhanger ending so didn't satisfy me as much as I thought it would. Still, it's so cheap I have no regrets from buying it.

Probably a review of book of unwritten tales 2 there, too.

Dvader said:

This is great to hear.

so the last Game under criticizes E33, oh we need a debate.

New Superman movie was really good, love the hopeful style, but the plot has issues. The characters were good but scenes were just not given enough moment to breathe.

The floor is yours!

If you like a variety of outfits then you will love DK Bananza. You have a choice between female outfits and simian.