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I know this is getting into the weeds but this made me question if they were originally on TCR and have moved to nearby Rathbone Place or had always been there and just said TCR because its more well-known, especially given the shop on Rathbone Place looks like its been there for decades. And according to Wikipedia...neither. Was on Whitfield Street originally. Anyway, procrastination over I guess.

Same is also true for pronunciation. I don't care what Stephen Earl Wilhite ways, I'm not calling it a "jif"

If we're going to talk about pronouncing Sega did you know that in Italian "sega" means "he/she/it saws". Now if one imagines what else the sawing gesture could look like you soon hear "seeeeeegaaaa" in a whole new light. (Okay not really about pronunciation but I can never not share that).

Watching American videos actually. Although if we're being picky they do actually know how acronyms work, but not initialisations. Acronyms are words in their own right (eg scuba), whereas initialisations aren't. Depends if you consider FAQ a word. That's a good point, Americans spell that one out but we don't. Fack off with your weird pronunciation

An important question because I occasionally hear some people say "Game facks" and it bugs me.

Coincidentally I was looking at GBA SPs on eBay yesterday because a while back I found my copies of Blue, Yellow, Gold and Silver at my mom's and want to see if the internal batteries have died.

His cause of death has been confirmed as lung cancer. Bastard cancer 😔

"Well excuuuuussssee me" - Princess.

Kate Micucci (Gooch) did recently announce she's been treated for lung cancer but is fine. Terrible news about Braugher. So young 😔

Okay now for the actual thoughts on the film

Just got back from Godzilla Minus One and I'll do full thoughts tomorrow (it's past my bedtime!) but a warning to @Happenstanceand others. They started the film and some things weren't subtitled so I thought "hmm maybe it's just unimportant stuff" then it became obvious it wasn't that. Few people started going out to speak to staff and eventually could see the top of the next line so it was clear the image was too zoomed in and if it was only one line you couldn't see that. After they paused and zoomed in (making it worse) people went again. Eventually they reset the film (10 minutes in at this point) and had to come back after a few minutes and zoom out. The subtitles were below the image itself so I think it is the file rather than the cinema and there's a chance it could be fixed beforehand but might be an issue with screenings so perhaps best to be cautious.

Cheers

You've got a queer showrunner and a queer lead in what has long been considered a queer allegory, I don't see that changing anytime soon. As I've no intention of watching does anyone want to explain to me how David Tennant came back? Curious how they explained that one, but clearly not enough to watch.

My general feel based on various things (the late-in-life big games, some comment Ubisoft made about Rabbids and more) is leaning towards it would be backwards compatible.

Not currently confirmed. I'm sure there are people more familiar with the games that would be able to look at the footage and spot new stuff (kind of like Happenstance has) but we've had no official word from Sega AFAIK.

It's amazing how many emotions you've gone through based on 10 seconds of footage

Oh my glob! Had a lot of fun with the original on the Wii. Looking forward to this.

I'm disappointed in all of you (note: not checked the forum since 8am but see you've now discussed it).

Ah cool, the second best snowboarding franchise on the N64.

"For most of human civilization we believed that life could only exist on the surface of our planet". Pretty sure humans have known about fish for a long time.

Sì, although it's taken a back seat recently as I kind of plateaued so I switched to Spanish and too busy for that. I've said before in the language learning thread that Duolingo won't teach you but can work for practice, same with things like Memrise. Recently used Language Transfer for Spanish and there's 70 lessons for Italian. The whole idea is starting with where the languages have similarities (the cognates) and builds on that to discuss similar etymologies etc. It's English-based so I'm not sure how useful it would be to you. Obviously your English is great, but whether it would be the same I don't know. But it's completely free so no harm checking it out. Weilla Tom on YouTube I found useful. But really it's the classic immersion. In my case that's having friends that speak it (must message a friend in Milan actually) and practicing that way, but obviously stuff like Netflix for Italian content. In terms of Netflix the limited series Everything Calls for Salvation I enjoyed as well as the films Rose Island and The Man Without Gravity (common denominator being Elio Germano so if you find some of his other films elsewhere check them out - I particularly liked My Brother Is An Only Child but it's difficult to find now). Aside from that I listen to a lot of Italian music which is kind of practice... If I think of any more resources I'll let you know. I've found learning Spanish has been helpful. I sometimes get vocabulary mixed up because of similarities, but it's helping to reinforce the grammar especially when it comes to things we don't have in English like reflexive verbs, direct object pronouns etc so if you know another romance language that'll probably help you. And you're German so at least you're used to gender and Italian only has two! In the new year considering signing up to a Spanish service that costs $150 a month but you can book yourself into as many one-to-one sessions (lessons or practice) as you want so considering doing that for say two months to boost myself and then maybe finding a private tutor or pester my Spanish-speaking friends.

It'll also be out on the PS6 and PS7 so you could buy it many times over.

Another Embracer-owned studio doing layoffs: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/5/23989128/new-world-interactive-layoffs-embracer-group-insurgency-sandstorm

This just in: Italians make good food. I am actually considering running away from my family going to Como over Christmas.

Why is everyone coming to Birmingham and not saying hi to me? Also going back to the topic of Sega consoles a bit every time I watch an American youtuber talk about the Genesis it throws me for a second, although it did result in a great Google snafu.