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At first I was like "That seems mighty small this day n age" but yeah I guess if just for PS4 it's fine.

Well I know you and I gave it a shot, but who knows who else you were with on Crimson Days! Oh no! Sorry.

There's usually a lot of specific tropes to pantomime, and it has nothing to do with mime in a "pushing against invisible wall" type. The video I linked is maybe not the best example but it's hard to pull examples from youtube, mainly the amateur dramatics stuff. It's not the kind of thing that gets recorded for DVD release or whatnot, sometimes TV release as the above video was. Certainly not intended for primarily adult audience, they're made for kids n families. Usually they pull from fairy tales n such, the kind of stories Disney adapt into animation, though it's a vague framework rather than anything adhering strictly to the original. Usually changed for comedic purposes, fair few musical numbers put in. Everything is hammed up in the acting, and it's all rather colourful. Regardless of the story there's usually a "Widow Twanky", a man in drag, and Buttons, which appears in the above, who usually has a jacket covered in numerous buttons n most I've been to have some form of prize if you can guess how many buttons on Buttons. There's absolutely no fourth wall in pantomime too, there's not only recognition of the audience but they'll have segments which work with audience such as the "he's behind you" and "oh no it isn't!/Oh yes it is!" stuff. The wiki article is pretty good on the various tropes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime#Modern_pantomime_traditions_and_conventions It is by no means a serious form of theatre in the likes of Shakespeare n such though you may sometimes have crossovers in the actors appearing (but that's mainly a side-effect of UK only having like 10 actors to spread around). Mainly the more professional works feature soap opera stars, c-list celebs, the odd x-factor/britians got talent star.

Well yes but that hardly like Leave are going to point that one out

Aww this is pretty sad. Found out America doesn't have much of a tradition of pantomime, and where they do the focus is more on the "mime" party than the "panto" bit (if "panto" meant anything on it's own...). I'll have to see if I can dig out some panto acts on Youtube, though obviously you lose a bit if you're not in the audience, and especially if you're not a kid. I think when I was younger not a year went by when we didn't go to at least one panto show, sometimes a "proper" one at town, usually at the local amateur dramatics club my aunt n cousin participated in. I love all the rituals of panto and the campiness (which might be part of why it's not super huge in the US, n the idea of majority of the cast in drag or crossdressing in some form is probably frowned upon). It's always a bit weird, given the shared cultural heritage, how there's quite a few genres that don't make it across the pond (panel shows being a biggy)

Vote Leave are whining cos 22 of the folks in the birthday honours list are Remain supporters. There's 1,1149 people on the list, it's a bit of a stretch on their part but I guess it's not a stretch for them to make stretches...err..yeah that. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/10/leave-campaigners-accuse-david-cameron-of-abusing-honours-system "The British people simply aren’t going to tolerate being told what to do any more by Brussels, by Cameron, or by his newly-honoured accomplices." I agree which is why I am sailing, I am sailing, home again, cross the sea.... Anyway a shortened full list can be seen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36492850 And the full list here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/birthday-honours-lists-2016 Also turns out Vera Lynn is still alive, maybe one day we'll meet again. (I've always known this song as been used frequently as an curtain call song in pantos, obviously used in Dr Strangelove too) Sent from my Intel® Core(RM) i5-4570 Windows 10 PC using Google Chrome 51.0.2704.84 m

He's also pretty proactive on Twitter if you're looking for someone fun to follow.

Yeah it's not a perfect game by any stretch, but the ubi open world formula is "my jam". It's like a familiar blanket.

I would be more interested in Rise of Iron if yeah, there was more folks I knew active on Destiny. I've not done a single raid. Last time I played was the Valentines day stuff with...Ethan if I remember correctly. Might have been Hot_Heart.

Oh we have the jokes of Scottish being tight too. Same with Yorkshiremen too.

This is why we make jokes about the welsh!

I'll be honest I find it weird that you're calling digestives n shortbread "baked snacks" rather than biscuits/cookies. Also yeah shortbread is super sweet. And TFG you're pretty fucking weird if you get "juice" from a digestive. Like I'll dunk a digestive, though they can't take it much, but I just eat the junked bit I don't like suck the tea from it.

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The best place to have a heart attack is a farm as it's really easy to get you to a stable condition.

Man you can really fuck about in this game if you know what you're doing.

I'm freshly woken up so for a brief while thought I was in the "Games I've Bought" thread and I'm like "Wait...they didn't make KOTOR 3 but that looks right....oowww brain". I'll throw out that RDR 3 is possible ("RDR" is technically "RDR 2") and I think is said to be in development, though there's also some evidence (though entirely possible to be faked) of the making of GTAIV in the GTAV engine. For KOTOR 3 that's pretty much unlikely given the main game atm will be Mass Effect Andromeda which I imagine we'll see more of. I should mull some more on my predictions.

Are you ready? Are you ready for the time of your life? So this is a song for whoever. I'd give it a perfect 10.

Yeah, they've a trend of sequels being the stronger game. AC set out the framework n theme, and AC2 polished all the edges. Much the same between Far Cry 2 n Far Cry 3 (n then Blood Dragon). So on that trend alone I'm down for it. I quite enjoyed the first one too, I understand the hate in the graphics being toned down but I liked the rest of the game n felt it was adequately different from other open source games. Looks like they're taking some cues from GTAV in this one, the bit with taking selfies definitely looked GTAV-esque.

Yeah that's a pretty shittily laid out opinion.

https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2016/06/07/crystal-and-steel-black-dualshock-4-wireless-controllers-launch-in-july/ They're doing a crystal DS4. Shame it's sort of frosted rather than super clear.

I've added a bunch of streaming n hub links to the top. Probably missing a couple, but meh.

Official reveal trailer. Not much in it but we'll see more soon. They've done a live stream for the game too but was same time as Deus Ex. Woops on their part.

Prague gameplay demo, seems fairly early on (I'd guess there's a prologue of sorts before this) They've also announced Deus Ex: GO Seems like the other GO games, but with hex layout instead, and they're gonna push out a puzzle maker too. Also doing a clothes line n such, and also prosthetic limbs. Cos that's a thing you do, sure.

EEEEE 333333. So yeah, turns out the first of these is like in an hour. I've bundled all three of usual topics in one for sake of ease really. Can pop in the PXOD Steam chat if folks want to live discuss (or if someone has Discord set up or something, I've only used that like once). I'll let other people discover good streaming links, or if someone wants to post a bunch below me. It's usually Youtube, corporate sites, Gamespot, IGN etc. I might amend this post later but atm I'm frazzled. Any new games come up your interested in feel free to crack out new threads, add in trailers or whatever. Edit: Okay here's a selection of streaming venues. It might be that not all will be streaming directly, especially the "Specific" sites but they'll have hubs n such for their games n trailers if you're wanting to catch up: Generic: https://gaming.youtube.com/e3 http://uk.ign.com/events/e3 https://www.twitch.tv/event/e3 Specific: http://live.playstation.com/ http://e3.nintendo.com/ http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/e3 https://be3showcase.bethsoft.com/ https://www.twitch.tv/playstation https://www.twitch.tv/ea https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda https://www.twitch.tv/nintendo https://www.twitch.tv/ubisoft Twitch n Youtube both have apps too, which I imagine will be fine-enough for watching on. Youtube specifically has "Youtube Gaming" app which will likely have E3 streams and such on.

I saw something on FB earlier today that I was like "wow spoilers much?" but turns out it cropped up on feed cos friend-of-a-friends grandmother did a bit of stabby action on latest episode of GoT. She seems such a sweet old woman otherwise. So I guess that's cool.