Jonathan Capps

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‘; DROP TABLE forum;

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Shittest episode of The Bidding Room ever (and that’s saying something)

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This is fantastic. Welcome to the site!

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I’m showing my 9 year old Podey’s post and demanding I get the same dedication when I’m in my 70s.

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Apparently my G&T password was found in a data breach about a month ago. Is everybody already aware of this? Am I late to the party?

I have not been aware of this. Without revealing too much, is this is a G&T specific password or is it used for any other sites?

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Pretty sure Eion Colfer was a fan of Hitchikers and his book was rubbish. After Titan, the only qualification Andrew needs from me is the desire to write more Red Dwarf.

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That’s not what was happening here, though – I was trying to satisfy a craving for a sweet that it was no longer able to experience via non-DIYmeans.

Textbook peanut butter perversion.

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This implies an optimum number of peanut butter perverts.

And that number is 0

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Too many peanut butter perverts in here for my liking. Those poor, innocent, defaced Lion Bars.

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I borrow heavily from the greats as well, of course:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sedG1kBtn1M&pp=ygUabW9yY2FtYiBhbmQgd2lzZSBhbWJ1bGFuY2U%3D

This one has damn near had me throttled by my partner on a number of occasions.

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my dad would always, and I mean always, amusingly say “we’ve seen that one!

When the satnav interrupts music in the car with directions, I always say ”’those aren’t the lyrics!”.

Repetition is key, until your ungrateful family fucking LAUGH. And even when they eventually do, out of politeness or fear, you still repeat the joke forever.

Your dad was fighting the good fight, and I applaud him.

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I also doubt he really knows what the actual issues are beyond wokeness and globalisation and The Great Reset.

Don’t forget all the woke roadworks that make driving to Cons harder.

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Good to know the wildfires due to fossil fuel-related climate change and the EHRC guidelines removing trans rights are on his mind. 

Yeah, this vague-posting he does without actually making clear what he thinks the big issues actually are is infuriating.

Just go full mask off, Chris, it makes it easier.

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I am so pleased that mixing aspect ratios on the Smegadrive works correctly now.

You win the prize* for first to notice!

*there is no prize

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I’ll be honest, I’ve never followed a single bit if Cat’s ‘investigating feet’ stuff in that scene. Absolutely clueless.

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I always took it as a “Kryten is being unhelpful” joke. From what I remember X-Files has the same joke a few years later.

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Also Ben Paddon’s Jump Leads.

Never heard of them

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“can anyone help me get my head around why the smeg Lister being around Three Million Years hence was causing all the universes to collapse into each other?”

I’ve not had multiple re-reads yet, but I took it to be similar to how the Aces in Backwards were getting burnt up going to a Universe too similar to them. This feels like reality can bear Lister being 3 million years in the future in scattered universes, but two right next to each other is a no-no.

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What does that say for other AI we know to exist?

Carzon’s obsequiousness reminds me a lot of how LLMs go on about how brilliant you are for asking a basic question.

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Proloog, surely?

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apparently this book has an essay on how Dwarf is “a missed opportunity in exploring post-gender relationships”

Assuming this is about Parallel Universe, we’ve had a similar discussion on a DwarfCast, but ultimately concluded that it was a niche BBC sit-com in 1989 and so expecting too much is probably not very fair.

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Some corners of fandom can be very nasty and negative.
It makes me appreciate all the more that we don’t have that kind of outlook here.

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I am like some sort of SEO guru

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Could Smegle be considered spoilers?

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The music that plays when Lister is removing Kryten’s inhibitor chip in Tikka is absolutely fucking everywhere. I’ve heard it from Spongebob to a visitors video at the Stade de France.

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Yeah, as DAX101 posted, Doug can say that now, but I don’t think that’s how he and Ed felt at the time.

I seem to remember that they were already saying this in the very early 2000s, but I can’t remember if that was in a TOS post, a conversation with Andrew Ellard at DJ or one of his comments on here.

But by then the whole endeavour had stalled and the original versions were already coming out on DVD, but I do not think it is at all unreasonable that people worried the remastered were going to replace the originals at the time, and I’d be surprised if that wasn’t their very original intention.

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My people

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I’m so old I remember when AVG was an actually useful piece of software and not malware in its own right.

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So I don’t really trust Windows Defender to protect me by itself anymore.

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For the record, nerds on a Red Dwarf forum are exactly the sort of people I would expect to be able to torrent without issues. It’s real people I’m concerned about.

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Piracy means most TV shows are already available online for free and it only takes one click to download (not necessarily in HD, but meh).

This is true for the people who are comfortable achieving this, but for the vast majority of people going down the piracy route for TV is absolutely lethal. It’s never been more dangerous.

I will keep banging the drum that open source alternatives need to be more and more accessible. I have a whole mess of different applications to handle VPNs, trackers, requesting media and tormenting safely and as automatically as possible and my dream is that everyone in the world will have a one installer solution that sets up all that for them one day, because 99% of people absolutely should not have to be fucked with all that.

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Yeah, it’s remained the big difference between console and PC gaming, but the shift to digital only has been there, just very softly softly while Game Stop still had influence and they knew it wouldn’t be popular with the customer. But ever so slowly games have started needing that initial download to work, and I’m guessing the next consoles won’t have disc drives options at all. Every console company is desperate to kill physical. I’m pretty sure piracy and emulation is the only proper way forward for preservation, as not a single bastard company out there is going to do anything about it.

For video and music, the situation has long since gone past my preference (I would prefer physical) and more into adapting to what the world is inevitably becoming. Physical things are increasingly uneconomical and nothing will change that, so if I’m to ‘own’ anything then I’ve realised it needs to be digital only, and locally hosted. I think given a few years, some smart open source developers and designers will figure out software to make this a more accessible solution for everyone, as like it or not that is how you will have to preserve the media you want over the next decades. New disc will stop being made and old discs will return to atoms.

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The future of preservation is for sure digital, there’s no other way. DVDs get discontinued and degrade over time. Everyone should be doing their best to build their digital libraries locally. It’s just a shame everything is setup to discourage against that so there’s an annoying accessibility barrier to it, so my hope someone smart solves this and makes it ridiculously easy for people to backup their copies and store them.

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This is stupid. The future is stupid. Bring back DVDs.

Sorry, they’ve all crumbled to dust.

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Easily bubble era quality.

A nice gag. Paul Alexander’s I believe.

It’s plausible it’s a Doug contributed line so I’m claiming it.

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That’s my favourite in a while, Doomitron.

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Easily bubble era quality.

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I’m guessing Andrew Ellard as he says something similar in the documentary.

No, it was… HOWARD GOODALL HIMSELF.

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the comedic plate shattering sound when Rimmer runs offscreen
I thought this was dumb because it was so well established that Rimmer was intangible in an earlier scene, but I’d forgotten this happens one second after he passes through Cat to remind us. It doesn’t get dumber than that! You can’t even assume they’re holographic plates that are there for some reason, because why would they make noise on the floor? Jesus Christ.

That clatter is possibly in the top 5 worst changes in my book. 

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Danny?

If Danny ever expressed that opinion to me I would assume he’s being held hostage and is trying to communicate distress.

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A very good friend of mine swears up and down he prefers the library music to the Goodall originals, specifically the countdown in Future Echoes. It is possible this is an always 30 year long campaign of trolling me, however.

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Remembrance and City of Death were my first two. I think it definitely makes sense to start strong.

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If it’s 5 years though, what the hell am I going to do? I might be in my 30s by the time the show comes back.

You’re only young, you’ve got about three or four whole cycles of Who coming back, going to shit and being canned to look forward to. It’s part of the fun.

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I love how even with today’s news, the Classic Doctor Who thread is still mostly focused on RTD2 Doctor Who, while this thread has pivoted to being about Star Wars and Lost.

I’ve still not figured out if the last season entirely ruins Lost for me or not. It was once hands down my favourite drama (and second favourite show) of all time, but I’ve not had the stomach to re-watch since it finished. I might give it another 20 years.

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What the hell was he talking about here?

Yeah, this shows the absolute madness of it. Selling snake oil.

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The lying about the scripts is absolutely horrendous. Honestly, that group of people have done amazing things for the show in the past, but Who fans are better off rid at this point. 

I should also say that there’s a world where a well done low budget version of Who could be spectacular. I know it’s not sci-fi (and it probably also still has a large budget) but A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is significantly cheaper and smaller scale than the dragon shows and it uses that reduces scale to its advantage brilliantly. 
Get all that empty bombast the fuck out of Who and start from the bottom.

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Also, The Expanse is great, please watch The Expanse thank you.

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The lying about the scripts is absolutely horrendous. Honestly, that group of people have done amazing things for the show in the past, but Who fans are better off rid at this point. 

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