Not much new here, although I do now work with people who were born after I joined this forum

Bon voyage Whiskey!
Hope you have a great time.

"The Substance", a body horror with a lot to say about the objectification of women in Hollywood. Great effects, and a strong message, although it does go a little off piste at the end. Still, a good ride while it lasts, and great performances from Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Denis Qu...

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year all!

My folks had Covid last year, so I stayed in London. But I'm down with them this year, and it's my Dad's 80th tomorrow.

For a little Halloween spirit, I rewatched the original Fright Night at the weekend. It holds up remarkably well, despite a very questionable introductory scene which is uncomfortably close to rapey. It's a tight, simple premise, and it plays to its strengths, while featuring some remarkable effects...

Yay!
Thanks for checking in Whisky, and good to hear things are going well

I had a niggling feeling I'd seen him post something of the like too, but going through his recent post history, I can't see anything.

I'm a bit worried I'll get an upsetting answer, but I've noticed Whisky hasn't posted anything recently. Well, nobody has, but Whisky's especially noteable by his absence. He's the one who posts when things are otherwise dead here.

You still kickin' old fella?

So Avid have added a little AI spice to their already really useful Phrasefind and Scriptsync tools in their flagship video editing software, Media Composer. Both options make a single-user subscription quite expensive at a monthly cost of £74, but our company subscription means I've been able to up...

The most recent movie I watched was The Union on Netflix, and it was exactly the sort of drab, aging-star vehicle I've come to expect from Netflix. Nothing about it stood out, and it was thoroughly pedestrian and predictable. Mark Wahlberg somehow manages to continue his streak of being one of the l...

Found a good Youtube video of one yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f89phZgyf8

(BTW, how do we embed videos on this new forum?)

@Eraser: Yngwie's Rick Beato interview was great, and really humanised him for me. @mrd: Thanks for the recommendation on the Gotohs. If there's one thing I have thought about upgrading on my Studio, it's the machine heads, so getting advice on them is much appreciated. Have you ever looked into gra...

@mrd, I think I noted it earlier in the thread, but the LP is "only" a Studio. I got back in to playing during the pandemic, and despite cleaning up nicely, my old Washburn KC40V that had been in storage for 20+ years just wasn't cutting it. The electronics were constantly cutting out, and...

I think the space after the forum header picture could be better utilised to help compress the page vertically, allowing the reader to get to the stuff that matters quicker. As it stands, upon first loading, about two-thirds of the page is taken up by the site logo and the forum header picture, mean...

scared? wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2024 7:17 pm the funniest thing about this thread so far is that Matt actually believes my troll posts...

Nah man, I actually suspect you'd be a really nice guy IRL, and someone good to have a drink with.

Hmmm, ten posts per page seems a little low, no?

I used to love scarey games, and part of me still does. But I noped out of Resident Evil 7 at the first boss fight; not because of the boss, but because the tension and atmosphere was just dripping , and had built up so much by that time, I was just a nervous wreck. I can appreciate the game for bri...

You touching on the trolling thing is something I'll always be grateful to Q3W for. Looking at the way people interact online these days, I can see that learning how to be on the web via this forum hardened me the fuck up, and basically made me immune to social media and the stupid amount of misinfo...

Damn, you're working fast.
Nice to see all the proper Q3W smilies back. They're still my favourites anywhere on the web, especially

Emojis?
We don't need no steenkeeng emojis!

Testing, testing, is this thing on? Edit: Cool, all working. Will the avatars stay to the right forever, or is that something you guys are working on? I've had a look to see if there's a user setting I can change, but it's not. And I'm assuming the old smilies and their related BBCode will gradually...

What happened in your life to make you this way YGP?

In the past, I've had a tendency to "make do" when buying new kit; an example of which led to me running the ethernet devices on my network through a poor little over-subscribed 5-port Ubiquiti router I used to carry around in my backpack for work purposes. So I finally got my shit togethe...

Ah, the world before YouTube.

raw wrote:Thank you! What is officially over the hill?

The Emerald City? No, wait, that's something to do with "at the end of the road"...

Anyway, HBD you glorious bastards.

AI certification test. Sorry, but rarely have I heard more bloated bullshit than that. What's there to certify? That you have at least one finger so you can type in prompts? The sad thing is, this should be a thread celebrating one of the nicest people on this forum, but Kracus had to go and post a...