Antiques For Geeks

YouTube video by ChinnyVision - The Retro Game Review Channel ChinnyVision - Ep 570 - Sonic The Hedgehog - Amstrad GX4000

Plugging this new ChinnyVision video that has already caused 3 subscribers to rage quit. youtu.be/MK-JTCye7MY

Cue fierce Zip Stik vs Competition Pro debate!

How I wish I were at home playing Jet Pac right now…

None of your syntax highlighting or camel case. Just a blinking “S” and an instruction in the manual to stop your crying, man up and work out the problem.

38,000? That is incredible. I never much cared for it, it was all a bit goody-two-shoes for my liking however always assumed that there would be an audience for it. But 38,000? I’m staggered it’s still going with numbers like that.

Same with Predator Badlands. Seems you can massacre as many synthetic humans as you like in a 12A…

Bit unfair on Purves. He always came across as quite a civilised chap.

Oh but I do love a radiator bleed and system top-up.

Feels like victory. Over what I have no idea.

How did I, of all people, not realise this?

That’s tonight’s movie sorted out. And @princecharlescinema.com, I’m going to keep putting it on your movie suggestions chalkboard until you show it!

To be fair to Lotus Notes, it never tried to harvest my emails to feed the great machine.

Still sore about Stargate Universe ending when it did; or as my flatmate used to called it “Begbie in Space”.

It’s a car that I revere.

That Lemming and its thousand-yard stare. I remember seeing it in the magazine racks back in 1991 and even then found it haunting.

It had seen things we people couldn’t believe.

I can’t really say I am that surprised.

We’re heading toward HHGTTG series two Lintilla territory aren’t we?

I wonder if a third “genuine” Commodore has entered the chat. Noticed that there was a trademark in the UK filed by an Austrian company in 2019 that is exceptionally close to the Commodore brand of old…

Hold on there! There’s two of ‘em. Which one is his double and which one is the real Monty?

This would be a great concept for a film…

Good choice. First came across them on The Crow’s soundtrack with After the Flesh - think they ended up in the film too but I might be getting all mixed up!

If you see this, post a record cover with a motor vehicle on it.

I spoke to my folks (avid linear watchers) about ITV. Aside from the News at Ten, they’d no idea of what was on; ‘It’s all Reality TV and Talent Shows’. Think the last drama they watched was Mr Bates & before that was Endeavour. Had to think; the first thing I’ve watched all year was Trigger Point.

The Comcast board are going to be upset when they find out The Adventurer didn’t get a second series.

I liked her too.

And as footnote, liking Pulaski and Crusher isn’t mutually exclusive, though my old flatmate might disagree.

This is reminding me of Dunlop whose brand has been scattered to the four winds.

Was my thought when I saw SNW on in a graveyard slot. People *will* still watch, you just have to put it in at the right time.

But I assume “I’m a Celebrity” makes more money. I assume people still phone a premium line to vote for someone off a soap eat kangaroo wotsits in their thousands.

I’d love to see their Xmas offering for 2025 after the abysmal 2024. Days when linear is still big - like Xmas day - broadcasters need to take advantage. I can’t help but get the sense that ITV is done. Until Trigger Point returned, I don’t think I watched anything on there. Not even sport.

YouTube video by Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing Beyond the Black Rainbow

And the trailer - there’s a bit of flashing light in there, just so you know.

If you’re looking for something to watch this Halloween, you could do worse than the psychological sci-fi horror Beyond The Black Rainbow. Slow, brooding, psychedelic, beautifully shot, wonderfully scored; it’s the aftermath - when 1960s mind expansion turns bad and becomes far more sinister.

This shouldn’t work with Brian Donlevy as a Quatermass who seems to be on the verge of pulling a machine gun out of a violin case in every scene, but it does.

I would like to point out that the she identified that the plant needed to be made safe and did it for you *without being asked* so should therefore be compensated with treats & most certainly, chicken.

That’s what I have been reliably informed by my cat when he’s performed similar acts of heroism.

two men are standing in front of a screen that says you have successfully accomplished your task ALT: two men are standing in front of a screen that says you have successfully accomplished your task

Why do I suddenly feel likeI’m about to embark on an Interocitor build? All I’m missing is Robert Nicols holding up a component, looking at me in confusion and saying “It’s not like an EPROM I’ve ever seen Cal, but it checks out.”

Absolutely this.

Recommendation algorithms turn creativity into a production line; an algorithm doesn’t have quality control or worry about burn-out. It exists only to recommend material to push more advertising.

A recommendation algorithm is middling servant and a terrible master!