I got an invite to join last year and signed up to test it out.

Felt like there was a lot less people and a lot less content on it than Mastadon.

Unless the users/content now really starts to take off, there’s not enough on there to make it interesting.

Loved the house used for the indoor shots in this scene. I believe it’s a famous piece of brutalist architecture in the LA Hills.

Some forums are still reasonably active. I use Whirlpool fairly regularly. Mostly tech related, but has lots of other sections too.

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/

If you search around you can find others.

Yeah, it seems to work now. Didn’t used to work reliably a few years ago. Now, text within any document I save seems to come up in search shortly afterwards.

This happened to me once.

I forgot I had contraband on me and jumped to New Atlantis. I got scanned and asked to hand it over, but instead I just jumped out to The Den to sell the Contraband.

As soon as I got there security started shooting at me.

Had to load a previous save.

An interesting read. Yeah, it’s complicated.

I think sound has been a bit under-appreciated compared to visual effects/quality in recent years.

In summer, I’d rather have more daylight at 7:30pm than 4:30am.

It’s things like this that make me glad that my email service defaults to not loading any images/links/html. There’s a small button at the top to load them if I want.

Yes, I remember that! I recall thinking, imagine how good this will get in the future. Sadly it didn’t.

Exactly the same in Australia.

This.

I use Adguard, if a site blocks me for it, then it goes on a black list of “never visit” sites.

In a few cases, if I use and like/support a specific site a lot and that site is ad supported with no other ad-free option, then I white list it.

But to read the odd crappy article? No I’m not disabling my ad blocker.

Yeah, I really liked the movie and it’s hard to describe exactly why.

It’s not an amazing story, or amazing characters, it’s not exciting…but it has a certain vibe/mood to it that I liked.

I was also a bit fascinated by Japan, so that’s part of it. Got to visit a couple of times in the years after seeing the movie and whenever I’ve been in a Tokyo hotel room it’s reminded me of the film!

Yeah, that’s on my to watch list.

Yes, they are less prevalent due to Reddit and other social media sucking up a lot of the users.

They are still around though. One Australian forum that I’ve been on for years which is still very active is Whirlpool. Started as a tech forum and expanded. It’s very useful as source of info as it’s been around over 20 years and a lot of questions have been asked and answered there.

I watched Amsterdam, a 2022 comedy/mystery set in the 1930s, starring Margot Robbie and Christian Bale and a big cast of others including Mike Myers, Rami Malek, Robert De Niro and Chris Rock.

It is loosely based on The Business Plot, an actual political conspiracy in the US in the 1930s. I’d never heard of this before.

It was an interesting and ‘different than the usual’ type of movie. A lot of the focus was on the witty dialogue between characters. Pretty nice movie visually too. Overall I enjoyed it and would give it about 7/10.

Nice. Thanks for the tip.

Not one I recognise.

Nice! Took me to a site full of movie themes in midi format👌🏻

Got stuck in hospital for a few weeks recently and used the opportunity to finally learn Affinity.

I’m now really liking it. Takes a few tries to get into it though.

I particularly like it on the iPad with the Apple pencil. A bit less so on my windows laptop.

I thought Mass Effect had a great soundtrack that really fit the game perfectly. Moody in parts and rousing in others.

Mass Effect 1 Soundtrack