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I hear ya, that was one of the most anti-climactic things I've ever witnessed - and to think I stayed all the way up to 6am to watch that.

Just came across this bit of news: https://esc.watch/blog/post/worlds-2018-final Apparently this almost doubled the maximum concurrent viewership of the latest Superbowl, which is insane.

This album features some of the best production I've come across in modern-day pop. Also lol @ the Sims video.

Really like the cumbia overtones on this track.

Yup, ending aside I thought that was quite funny and endearing. Also a better Three Godfathers adaptations than most - perhaps all - we've had.

To be fair, there's a good chance the Cainarsky is all of these things.

Crimson, you tried Rakuten Viki out? They've got a pretty massive selection of series and films which include much of Dramafever's content. Worth checking out if you haven't yet.

Is it true? If so, cool! EDIT: I just checked. It's true!! https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1063220010905038849 Sesame-based Realms Beyond NPC confirmed.

That's new to me! Cheers, I'll check them out further in the near future. Like the vast majority of Polish bands, SBB is mostly unknown outside of Poland. Yeah, I know some Polish acts in jazz, folk and modern classical, but few and far between when it comes to rock. I suppose out of the rock bands my favorite's so far been Siekiera, though that's a whole other business from SBB.

Curiously one of the band's founders is the son of Anthony Braxton, one of the most out-there saxophonists I've come across:

R.I.P. Roy Clark

It's fantastic. Also made by Mamoru Oshii, the man behind Ghost in the Shell and the first two Patlabor films. As a friend of mine once put it, the magic in his cinema comes from the 'pauses' he's able to find and create in his films, the more oneiric segments such as the water bus sequence in Ghost in the Shell or the monologue about peace in Patlabor 2 help evoke a very distant otherworldliness to his depictions of Tokyo and so on in these particular films. Anglel's Egg is practically a 70-minute temporal stasis, it's these moments at their purest, and the result is quite the experience. The imagery, the music, the mood, it's all really fantastic throughout, love it.

They're an awesome band. What's curious about "Theme One" is that Peter Hammill is usually a big component to the band and that's one of the very few (perhaps the only? Can't recall any others) instrumental tracks they did, back in the 70s anyhow. When the band broke up, Jackson, Evans and Banton made a band called The Long Hello, largely instrumental, and at least to me there was always something missing in that lineup, it all felt pretty stale and by-the-numbers. "Theme One" however is a great track, nice lead melody but also there's a drive and energy to it that is precisely missing from that instrumental side project. Good stuff. Also dual sax. Like... what?!! Too kewl 4 skewl. A trick they picked up from Rahsaan Roland Kirk no doubt.

They're an awesome band. What's curious about "Theme One" is that Peter Hammill is usually a big component to the band and that's one of the very few (perhaps the only? Can't recall any others) instrumental tracks they did, back in the 70s anyhow. When the band broke up, Jackson, Evans and Banton made a band called The Long Hello, largely instrumental, and at least to me there was always something missing in that lineup, it all felt pretty stale and by-the-numbers. "Theme One" however is a great track, nice lead melody but also there's a drive and energy to it that is precisely missing from that instrumental side project. Good stuff. That's new to me! Cheers, I'll check them out further in the near future.

Yes, I'm in a prog mood.

Also got nominated for Best Storytelling and Best PC Game at the Golden Joysticks Awards. Congrats Obsidian! Also guys, you can vote for the Game Awards here: https://thegameawards.com/awards/ Let's show our love to this great game!

Same here, I suppose: I was level 19 by the time I was tackling Splintered Reef and Drowned Barrows, and that was among the last things I did in the game. Not sure how other people maxed out their levels half-way through the game unless a) the DLCs make for that difference (I haven't played them yet), or b) they're relying on hyperbole.

Speaking of crazy sci-fi goodness... [Youtube]

Well, he did claim he was from Saturn...

To be honest, the whole thing looks horrendous. It's very reminiscent of the latest TMNT movies, taking cartoony creatures and rendering them somewhere between recognizably cartoony and yet with hyper-real and fully detailed textures, components and the likes. It's Uncanny Valley: The Movie. All likewise shot in a very glossy, weirdly dark/noirish/DCesque lighting/colour scheme even though it's supposed to be a light-hearted affair, and filled to the bring with snarky, ironic humour that may have been very in line with the "X-treme" culture of the 90s but feels utterly naff nowadays. It looks utterly preposterous, a proper "so bad it's good" sort of affair. Jeez...

Oh no...

Too verité.

nvm