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There has to be a reason why we haven’t had Kate talk straight to camera ‘yeah don’t worry, it’s all cool, I’m fine, these rumours are nuts’ It would be so easy to do, that not doing it seems utterly suspect.

Total speculation, but if for instance Williams childhood had in fact totally messed him up and he was actually a wreck of a human being, who cheated on his wife ( like his dad did), and was mentally scarred by his mums breakdown and subsequent death… then what hope would George have, if he’s growing up in an environment that is just as bad. Right now I don’t believe any of it, but if it was true, yeah, it could be really bad for the Royals.

Even then I don't see it as 'lead story for a week' material, it's not like there aren't 2 wars going on at the moment! The guy may or may not be racist, his comments were racist, but still a world away from him supporting racist causes or something like that. Mostly it sounded like someone with some ignorant views mouthing off about how terrible Diane Abbot is, in an ignorant, badly worded, and yes racist, way. Sure, but they are right that what he said wouldn't fall under this stuff at all. Don't disagree the way Tories handle all this stuff is slimy and doesn't help their image. It would certainly be easier for them if they gave some money away. My point is that The Guardian are making more of this than I really think is there, it's not really a smoking gun for corruption, or Tory racism, or really anything. Its basically just a case 'some ignorant middle aged guy says racist thing', which really I don't think is quite as newsworthy as they think it is.

Meh, I just don't think it's all that interesting, nor does it really come under the banner of 'corruption'. Guy says something racist a while back, he gets rightly called out on it, the Tories could give him £10m if they wanted (but thats almost like rewarding a racist) , but I doubt it really matters very much. The Guardian seems to think it's the top story for an entire week, and some sort of way of building up a whole new 'Britain is racist' narrative. I doubt many people actually give a shit. The worst part of all this though is you've got people like Angela Rayner suggesting Dianne Abbot should be an MP again, which shows a serious lack of judgement.

I notice that The Guardian has had the Frank Hester story as its lead story for basically the entire week. Not sure why it's all that interesting.

Think the game is trying to tell you that you are not a virtuous character!

I think Paladin is by far the most popular class, I guess most people thematically want to play a good ‘knight’ character. Definitely was one of my first choices, and i did find it rather fun being that pompous puritan! They make it really hard to not break your oath though, I think I lasted 10 minute, those Tieflings guardian Lazael mean you have to pass a charisma check to avoid it, which I didn’t do. After that though it rarely came up

Crow 2: City of Angels is maybe the first truly awful movie I remember watching in a cinema, maybe the first time I realised just how bad a movie could be, how much worse a sequel could be. Maybe this is the spiritual sequel to that travesty.

Mentioned this in another thread, but he really puts a lot of big studios to shame, doing lighting in his bathtub is nuts.

Githyanki simply look so stupid I have purposefully avoided all plot points that involve them. I skipped the whole Creche because of it.

Yeah makes sense that in certain positions its about being in place to hit on the counter, even then it does sound like Rashford could apply himself a bit more, though I've always thought the criticism of him is a bit over blown. At the same time, it's not like he's Messi, he's not good enough to change games for you in the same way, so I would have imagined that ETH would want a more pressurising player in that position. I'm not really sure what ETH's tactical style is at this point however.

Even Stephen Colbert is out there laughing about the rumours https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/13/stephen-colbert-prince-william-kate-photoshop The big rumour, that William had a child through an affair and Kate had a breakdown is getting even mainstream traction. Have to wonder though, I doubt Colbert would be joking about it if there was a suspicion it was true.

Does he actually track back though? It's all become a bit of a cliche now, with lots of video of him just jogging along not even making minimum effort, but then I've also seen him occasionally running back too. Not sure what the general view is on that.

From what I heard he was never very tactically astute and was never required to be that tactical at Shaktar. Even at a much cheaper price it's hard to see the reason for buying him, other than loaning him out to one of their linked clubs and trying to sell him on later.

I get the sense that if Rashford got his head together he could be.. well, much better than he is. He seems to be let down by his own mentality and is very much affected by everything going on around him. Maybe a move to PSG will do him good, it would pretty much end his England career but he's hardly a starter anyway. Mudryk really does seem to be the worst signing, it seems to much more a case of him being worlds away from what is required tactically, maybe even technically, and it's bizarre that nobody spotted that when they were doing scouting.

Watched a couple of episodes of The Gentleman, the series on Netflix by Guy Ritchie. I will say going in that I turned off the movie less than 30 minutes in, it felt like a parody of a Guy Ritchie movie, all of his worst excesses and cliches bundled into a boring half hour. The show however seems to be less in your face with the Ritchie-isms. Oh they are there, it has some weed selling burnouts, a bunch of cockney geezers, a rag tag bunch of blokes Ritchie met down the pub playing hardened criminals, an Irish gypsy boxer, Vinnie Jones... it's all there. The structure is a bit more straightforward, there are some fun characters and for the most part it's quite enjoyable. Main negatives are those weak cockney accents. The main female character is doing what I can only describe as a 'Kate Nash' (One hit wonder singer from the 00's who did a pretty silly chirpy accent) or Lily Allen, which is a bit distracting, but not the end of the world. Oh and Gus Fring is in it, doing Gus Fring.

I was also a massive Xmen fan at the time, collected the comics. Tuned in to the show.. fucking Jubilee appears.. naaaah. Goodbye. Spiderman the animated show, now that was good.

Not to you maybe, but by the time I saw Requiem, Leto had been in at least 3 of the biggest movies in the last year. Just because you hadn't been paying attention doesn't make it so. I remember the time very clearly, maybe you don't.

Not sure if you are being deliberately obtuse or you are sleepy or something. Point being, Leto wasn't an unknown comparable to McGregor, he was a well known face, he was basically a movie star. Requiem is full of movie stars, that in of itself makes far less grounded than Trainspotting. I could point to a few other things in the way the movie is produced that means it doesn't feel quite so authentic. I will suggest that this will also be a cultural thing. I'm in the UK, UK productions will feel more authentic than an American one. But at the same time, I do think there are a lot of elements of Requiem that mean it's almost like a cosplay of realism.

Apart from you know.. the massive movies he was also in at the same time and that he was on posters on every girls was for years sure. Either way, my point isn't that it's a Hollywood movie in the way that Independence day is, but that in comparison to Trainspotting it really has a layer of Hollywood attached to it and a lack of reality. It feels much less authentic.. and a bit try hard.

Can't say I find her to be the most trustworthy of sources, but it's all pretty engrossing none the less.

What? McGregor had been in one major movie previously, Shallow Grave, that had some underground buzz but was hardly mainstream. Trainspotting was his breakout really. Johnny Lee Miller was a total unknown and pretty much still is. Everyone else in the movie was basically even more unknown. Jared Leto had just come off the back of Thin Red Line, Fight Club, Girl Interrupted and American Psycho, plus was a teen hearthrob from My So Called Life. Marlon Wayans had been in a bunch of pretty big movies and was well known at the time. Jennifer Connolly had been around since she was in Labyrinth and Burstyn was a huge name.

Not absurd at all! Think you are taking this a little too personally mate. Anyway, just look at the cast, Trainspotting had a bunch of unknowns, regular looking people, speaking in a language that is barely intelligible to anyone outside of Scotland. Requiem had a cast made up of major Hollywood stars, Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly being some of the most beautiful people around, Burstyn and Wayans also incredibly recognisable. I know Requiem is a dark and grim, but it also is clearly a Hollywood movie. I also highly doubt Aronofsky had never seen Trainspotting by the time he'd made Requiem.

My comparison to The Office is in the way the same topic can be approached differently but the similarities and differences say a lot about the creators and the culture and audience it’s designed for. Also Requiem and Trainspotting are from a similar period of time so stylistically share a lot of the same language, in a way that US Office takes a lot of cues from the UK version and adapts them to what it wants to do. Maybe it’s not a totally fair comparison, but that’s how it felt at the time. Trainspotting feeling real and gritty, Requiem feeling like a grim Pepsi advert in comparison, the facade of reality but with a Hollywood sheen that broke the illusion. Which is kind of how I feel about US office.

By the time Requiem for a Dream had come out I had probably seen Danny Boyle's Trainspotting about 10 times. So my reaction to it was that it just felt like an overblown Americanised version of that. Similar subject, but higher production values, bigger stars, less subtlety. Dunno if I would feel the same now, I certainly have never wanted to watch it twice, but in my head it's like the difference between the UK and US The Office.