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Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I forget which actor noted it, but I am always struck by the fact you never hear about actors going hardcore method to play a character who isn't a raging asshole.

Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's sometimes tough to find the line, but 'Pro ICE movie produced by Daily Wire'... that's not a grey area.

Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are people I struggle with. Radha Mitchell has done quite a few Christian adjacent movies, as well as the first Run Hide Fight (bought after the fact by DW), and I'm a huge fan of her work. Jackie Chan is a piece of shit (look up the story about his daughter) and I still watch his stuff...

Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Stuff like this is why I try very hard to be a fan of people's work, without assuming anything about them as a person. If you don't heroise someone, you can just very easily say, 'oh, fuck them' when they do something like this.

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I won't do it SOON, but I'm interested in a second playthrough as a Mage, for a different play style, and there are more than enough dialogue and plot choice options to change the characterisation, so it shouldn't get stale.

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Just finished the penultimate chapter of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Looking forward to wrapping the game up (in that I want to see the end of the story). My only major complaint is some clunky writing around one character's identity (I'm fully on board for the story, but it's very broadly written)

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Generous. After that excellent opening credits sequence I thought this one was unmitigated crap.

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I have some, but they just used AI for their cover of The Card Player, so until they say they won't be doing that shit again, I won't be buying any release from them anymore

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Masterpiece is correct, probably my favourite Chabrol. My Blu Ray is signed by Huppert and Bonnaire (both in person, on different occasions)

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Not really my thing outside of this track, but I do love this one, and the vocals here are astounding.

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This is mad, because the thing that makes Snyder's one and only good film - Dawn of the Dead - good in the first place is that it takes the original simply as a premise and structure, and then does mostly its own thing.

And that's - generously - assuming he's not putting any AI slop on screen.

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Best case scenario, in using AI to 'streamline' certain processes, he's cutting several people out of jobs while paying himself millions of dollars. So fuck him.

Not everyone has to want to win, but Matt and Richard barely seem like they want to play at all, and Nina, while she's lucking out sometimes, only seems about 50% engaged. If nothing else, Taskmaster is a process you just have to surrender to, and I feel like only Chloe has REALLY done that here.

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Every time I think he's running out of ideas, Alex pulls out some great stuff for the following series, but inspiration wise the well feels so dry this time, but how much is that the tasks and how much is the disinterested feel of the cast?

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Another rubbish Taskmaster today. Hide and seek; a very basic memory test, and an overcomplicated version of the S4 classic exotic sandwich task. I'm done with this series. I'm just not clicking with any of the cast, and it seems they're not clicking with each other either.

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I can see why they've gone for this category, but what the Globes really need is a Horror/Sci-Fi category. There are are enough films each year to warrant it, and then they'd act least be CLOSER to covering all genres.

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That's a bold take on Zeppelin there. The first album is great, but II is a big step up for me, and then III and IV bring a lot of new ideas to the table.

Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another director stops being interesting with immediate effect.

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It's got real series 6 vibes for me: a bunch of people who don't gel as a cast, and some serious writer's block from Alex. With THIS cast, I suspect Nina, Isy and Chole would have been better in other series', but the vibe and the tasks are keeping them from being their best.

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Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's weird mix of feeling like the cast doesn't get on that well (Isy and Nina apart), and that they're being too polite, so the studio stuff is mostly tense rather than letting them bounce off each other. It also BADLY needs a total nutter - a Jason; a Lucy; a Sally; a Rhod - to shake things up

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Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not just you. Last week was the best episode so far, but even then. It's just not a good mix. Richard staying in character is tiresome, Matt just doesn't seem interested and the others are incredibly hit and miss. A lot of weak tasks too.

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Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know a lot of people have this down as one of Band Maid's best... This is EASILY the best version I've heard, but I still don't love it. It just feels messy to me, like Kanami's scribbling, rather than drawing the pictures she usually does inn her compositions.

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BAND-MAID - Ready to Rock / Live at CENTRAL26

YouTube video by THE FIRST TAKE

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Given the last two Predator films... I'm listening.

I dipped into the game before, but I'm finding the Rogue the most fun to play; you can do some distance work in combat, but also move super fast in close quarters. There's also a VERY useful skill early on that helps with bosses, because minions become an easy way to charge your 'ultimate' attack.

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Is it the greatest narrative in gaming? Probably not, but it's got a nice balance of lightness and stakes, and I'm finding the quests to be a decent mix of big fights and more story and character led stuff, which makes exploring the world entertaining. Screw the anti-woke criticism, as ever.

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My Rook is a female, Elven, rogue who was a Grey Warden, and I've been going with a more jokey, upbeat personality, leavened with some more combative choices at times. I'm enjoying the interaction with the characters, and the combat loop is satisfying...

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I've been playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard. I remember hearing it was controversial for some fans, but with this as my first game in the series, I'm having fun. I can see that there's some clunky dialogue here and there, but I'm enjoying the range of choices...

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BAND-MAID / Shambles (Official Live Video)

Happy Birthday to Band Maid's diminutive guitar goddess. Kanami Tono is 35 today.

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YouTube video by BAND-MAID

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Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Her most recent album is probably the worst thing she's ever released, but genuinely, there's loads of Taylor Swift worth hearing, particularly the Folklore/Evermore pair of lockdown albums.

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Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would add that I wouldn't even know how to start pretending to look/be cool (culturally) these days.

Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Got this in two. Started with a blockbuster, got two shared genres, then picked literally the most successful thing I could think of covering those genres. DONE.