Carl Sagan
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On 20/07/2018 at 00:02, Inverurie Ram said:
Great job on the thread and amazing to see this team of U16 hopefulls from 2011. Jamie Hanson the last man standing, with his central defensive partner on the day, Farrend Rawson, now eating houmous at Forest Green Rovers. If I recall, Kwame Thomas managed quite a lot of England U20 games, but has since been loaned out to the National League. A division lower still, Ross Etheridge keeps goal for Nuneaton.
You'd have thought the winners of the Denis Law Cup might have achieved more. #TheirFinestHour
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On 30/01/2018 at 17:23, 86 points said:
As others have said, Three Billboards is excellent. Check out Martin McDonagh's other stuff, In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths too.
Sat down to watch The Killing of a Sacred Deer the other night and was back in the pub 30 minutes later. Incomprehensibly awful.
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The Killing of A Sacred Deer 1/10
Agree entirely about The Killing of a Sacred Dear which I suspect I put in this thread earlier.
Went to The Shape of Water last night. I'd read the screenplay beforehand so I knew what was going to happen. Really I think it was trying too hard and was too one-dimensional and predictable. Admittedly with some unusual elements. I think I'd give it 6.5.
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I'd expect the club to be fined for showing the penalty on the big screens. Everyone knows that this isn't allowed, so I presume it was a calculated call to whip the fans up and put pressure on the referee. Sadly there wasn't enough time for it to make a difference. Here's Lee Johnson commenting on it:
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bristol-city-boss-lee-johnson-1093236
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28 minutes ago, RamNut said:
Ooops, letting your standards slip for brum v derby.
the sound for the pre-match programme is dreadful with tom loakes or owen having an open mike which obliterates the studio sound and report by michael johnson.
I'm really struggling with the autoplay videos. It's like trying to open up a story on the DET, but the paper is doing it in desperation for advertising revenue whereas for the club it seems to be to highlight a recent video. We're not stupid and can look at them ourselves! I've even gone to the trouble of finding and installing the Chrome "html5 video autoplayer blocker" just for the Rams TV site but it hasn't worked.
However, there's a crazy glitch. If I'm not logged in I can close the autoplaying video and not have it bothering me and getting in the way of the site. But when I'm logged in and close the video, the sound keeps playing in the background even though the video is no longer there! So, if I'm going on the site without needing to do things as me, I don't log in which surely is unhelpful for the club who will want to kow as much detail as possible about who is on the website.
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Posted in the Academy thread but adding in here that today is another free RamsTV U23 showing We're twenty minutes in away at Sunderland, drawing 0-0 but dominating the game.
Nice that the in-app casting is back for games like this as it is a better way of doing things.
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5 hours ago, zaragozaram said:
I know the game is not live on Rams TV tonight, however does anyone know if the full game is being shown on Rams TV tomorrow or Sunday, like other league games? Daughters 16th Birthday party tonight so can´t watch or listen but I could avoid the score until the morning.
If we win, you'll have a job not hearing about it, even in Zaragoza! But I always like trying to do a "Likely Lads" if I can't follow the game.
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, 5.5/10
Watched this because it's scifi and stars Rams-scarf-wearing Cara Delevigne (see @Posh Ram's avatar)
I like that people are trying to do space opera scifi that's not Star Wars (like Jupiter Ascending or Guardians of the Galaxy) and some of this is interesting, but there's just no tension and it's let down by some of Besson's puppets and ideas (as though nothing's changed since The Fifth Element. There are good bits such as the potted history of humanity's transition into a galactic-faring species but it ended up being more like one of those bad early movies based on videogames.
However, the beautiful Cara is excellent as ever. I genuinely think she's a star and has seamlessly made the transition from world's hottest/most in-demand model to credible actress. She's added a couple of points to the score on her own, and the whole film scores through interesting visuals. There's a good cameo from Rhianna too.
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Just now, Moist One said:
have you never seen Birthday Girl? She's awesome as a Russian Mail Order bride.
I have and that's true. Well remembered.
In this one, her husband is a heart surgeon with a fetish for comotose patients, so she has to lie there pretending she's under general anaesthetic while he does what he wants, but perhaps surprisingly it didn't redeem the movie.
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Finally got round to seeing The Killing of a Sacred Deer after all the incredible reviews. Utter garbage. Maybe a 2/10 if I'm generous as the weird ugly kid acted well.
Two hours and fifteen minutes of my life I'll never get back. The only possible reason I can think to watch it would be if for some strange reason you're sweet on Nicole Kidman,
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A sad tale regarding what happened to his parents and brother. But I find it strange when someone can be oblivious to their own fame. Has the guy never self-googled?
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46 minutes ago, richinspain said:
Is the League’s version not available on a match basis?
I didn't know if that was an option. Some said they had given up on somehing called iFollow (is that the league one?) from bad previous experiences so had signed up to Rams TV for today's game. But were hating the Rams-based commentary!
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1 hour ago, OwenB87 said:
Sorry for anyone that had issues today.
I'm told there was a problem with Microsoft that was resolved pretty quickly and won't happen again.
Owen
An interesting secondary market I hadn't thought about but that we must be getting is opposition fans signing up using the single-match option. If you look at the match thread on the OneBoro forum a lot of people were apparently watching (and moaning about the feed). I suspect many will have gone through a VPN, but I don't know what you can do to prevent that.
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21 hours ago, JoetheRam said:
Trying to remember some specifics...
I will probably have to watch again.
The bit I most remember is where they need to access deeper dream levels so that they've got more time to do something, which is made out to be a problem, but then hey-presto they find a guy who just happens to have some extra strong prescription that allows them to do that.
Also, is it ever explained how Di Caprio is somehow able to get inside people's dreams and why he's even doing that?
I also never understood why there's people after him if he makes the dream seem unrealistic. It's his dream, he can surely just dream that they're not after him?
The maths of how time slows down seems pretty arbitrary. Why is ten hours in a level 2 dream 6 months in real life?
Why is gravity affected in two levels because of the van falling?
As I said, not my usual genre and maybe I wasn't paying enough attention but I just didn't ever really understand why certain things were happening.
Although the maths in the film isn't perfect, it's reasonably coherent and one of the cleverest ideas they come up with. Basically (and true to real-life) an hour of real time is the equivalent of 12-20 hours dreaming (20 if you have a strong sedative like the guy is able to prepare). And in the next level of dreaming this is multiplied so an hour in real life will be between 144 and 400 hours of dream time. And so on. Your question gets it the wrong way around. They have to do everything during the flight to America, but by the time Cobb is rescuing old man Saito from "limbo" at the end it's right that Saito would have lived decades down there and Cobb would have had time to bring him out.
Either in reality Cobb knows Yusef is a good chemist and has to go to wherever it is (Morococo?) to hire him or it's Cobb's overall dream state and he finds himself there when he needs the good chemist.
I think the film would have been dull if they explained how people get into each other's dreams. They show a device that they hook themselves up to and for that you have to suspend your disbelief and accept that this is possible.
In the film, the different levels are parts of different people's dreams. My personal interpretation was the entire film is set within an overall dream of Cobb's, but he refuses to acknowledge he's dreaming. His wife has killed herself to wake up, but he doesn't think it's a dream so he can't dream he's not being chased. But if you take the initial level as reality, the dream levels go:
- Van chase - chemist Yusef's
- Hotel - Arthur
- Snow fortress - Eames (the forger)
- Cobb's and his wife's dream world - Cobb
- Limbo - a shared state
The absence of gravity from the truck falling has a clever impact on the next dream down in the hotel. It makes sense to me that this happens, though I can see inconsistencies in that it doesn't affect the further down dream levels. The Nolan brothers would probably argue the effect is localized. Though I accept the kick of van hitting water and lift hitting the ground feed through the other levels.
All thoughtful questions. My answers may be rubbish or unsatsfying but it's important to me that there is a logical consistency to these things so I enjoy thinking about it. Onward! I have premieres of Downsizing and How to Talk to Girls at Parties coming up in a couple of weeks so look forward to posting about those.
21 hours ago, ViewsFromTheMiddle said:Inception is bobbins.
Is that good or bad?
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4 hours ago, JoetheRam said:
Fair points and I understand why there's no character depth to the others (I just don't agree with Nolan doing that) and maybe some of it went a bit over my head - definitely not my usual genre. It just all seemed a bit silly and like an episode of Dr. Who whereby things happen and there is a problem and then through some previously unknown mechanic the problem gets solved. Kind of cheating the audience.
I'm curious because I can't imagine what bits you mean. Can you specify (absolutely fine if you don't wat to bother, but I am genuinely puzzled)?
I'd say Nolan is the last director who would cheat his audience - just the opposite in that he accepts they're a bright bunch who don't have to be spoonfed everything. So, there's a lot of depth in his films and the audience is well-rewarded by repeat viewings.
I'll also add that my counter-post to your original post was a little tongue-in-cheek and just my interpretation of the film. I didn't mean to pick on you! But as well as many viewings I have read the screenplay (the shooting script) several times to come to that particular interpretation. But like all good films there's no "right" interpretation.
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On 12/09/2017 at 12:57, JoetheRam said:
1. "I'm not being funny, but..."
2. "To be honest..."
3. People coughing.
1. I know you're not being funny - you've never made me laugh in the 3 years we've known one another.
2. Surely this goes without saying. Do I presume every sentence you don't preface with this is a lie?
3. Just don't come in if you're going to be making that awful noise and spreading your illness.
I have to add:
4. "To be fair..."
It's pretty much never even being fair as it's almost always followed by a "but", with the speaker going on to be critical based on their own subjective opinion. Even if you are being fair it makes you sound nearly as stupid as those idiots who "reach out" (see earlier post).
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On 12/08/2017 at 22:26, JoetheRam said:
Had a marathon recently.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 10/10 hands down one of the best films I've ever seen. Bought the book as well.
Apocalypse Now - 8/10 - Weird. Epic. Feels like too much film to take in in a single viewing.
American Beauty - 8/10 - A bit pretentious, but love me some Kevin Spacey and a great dark comedy.
Inception - 5/10 - Just plain stupid with zero character depth. Great special effects.
Wash your mouth out!
Inception is one of the finest movies ever made. Only Cobb has real depth because all the other characters are shallow representations of people in his subconscious, as he explains to his missus at some point. That's after she's explained to him that being pursued around the globe by nameless organizations is because he's in a dream. But he refuses to wake up. You're waiting for a train...
Extraordinary conception. How do you know you didn't dream up DCFCFANS? Do you remember how you got here?
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@David Fair enough and I understand that. I could never leave the beauty and utter simplicity of my touchscreen Windows laptop for the bizarre and terrible touchstrip at the back of the keyboard of the MacBook Pro. But each to their own.
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Fair enough but nowadays if you want to stick with just Google you get vast amounts integrated out of the box (chrome of course is Google's as is Maps and Keep is the notes package and there's tons more - no music but I just use YouTube which of course is Google's too). And if you want it to everything syncs between phone/laptop/tablet and (android) telly!
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1 minute ago, David said:
The minute you can have iOS on Android phones I’ll be there that day
Will that ever happen? (seriously - I have no idea on that)
And even if it could, what's not to love about android and it's cusomisability and free apps? Doesn't a techie lad like yourself not feel constrained in the straitjacket of iOS? And isn't Apple's closed ecosystem a betrayal of the Web - philosophically surely open source is the way to be? And even Macworld admits of Google Assistant vs Siri "its capabilities seem far more advanced thanks to contextual understanding of language that allows follow up questions to initial queries": http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/iosapps/siri-vs-google-assistant-3659249/
A problem for Apple is that if you want to do amazing interesting work in the California tech industry that might change the world you'll be at Google or Tesla or SpaceX or similar. Or else you could go to Apple and do a tiny tweak on how an Apple watch works. So they don't have the calibre of people for genuine innovation any more.
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4 hours ago, ViewsFromTheMiddle said:
I prefer to not have my already limited leg room reduced.
But reclining a seat doesn't have any impact on legroom - it's only the higher-up portion that moves back.
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2 hours ago, ViewsFromTheMiddle said:
People who put their seat back on the plane, shouldn't even be an option to do so imo.
You have to ask them instantly to put it forward or you're screwed.
If everyone puts their seat back you're all more comfortable. I don't think it should be done on short flights, but it's perfectly acceptable and expected on anything long. When you're coming back on an overight flight from America, how else are you to try to get some sleep?
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Been terrible all first half. Rebooted laptop and telly several times. Then the whole thing went off air at the start of half time. Has come back far better. Just went again. But finally we're back on the big telly in HD for the first time in the game. Everything crossed it lasts the half...