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Charlie Don't Surf.

Thank youI haven't come across that podcast before. I will definitely check that out. It is a wonderfully silly film.

Oh you mean these fucking guys? They went out of their way to make them especially scary. The whole film is infamous for being basically a kids horror film. Like the bit with the corridor with the disemmbodied heads of the witch all screaming as Fairuza Balk runs through it? Yea..

There seemed to be an era where traumatising children was part of the draw for the audience and I wonder if it has kind of died out. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was another one that my parents had to switch off.

I'm not the film police and your argument for its inclusion as 'post-apocalyptic but fantasy' is all cool. So yes I will take it and roll, awkwardly across sand and gravel, mud and debris, into tomorrow's ongoing dystopia.

Thank you for that recommendation. I do remember watching it on video, probably about the time it came out. Then absolutely wrecking myself on a hill after I took the brake off my own skates. Fun times indeed. Did not remember Jack Black or Seth Green being in it though. Also you are totes not gay for 90s Shane McDermott. Understood.

Great! :D Good to hear that this weird niche from the trash-heap of cinematic history may yet claim another victim.

Any film where people ride around on rollerskates in a post-apocalyptic society.

I'm especially partial to SolarBabies (1986), but I'll also accept 'Roller Blade' and 'Prayer of the Rollerboys', where young Patricia Arquette and downsloping Corey Haim don the skates. Rollerball from 1974 is the Citizen Kane of this genre. The 2002 remake with LL Cool J is its red headed step-child.

You know what I'm probably thinking of the slap thread where they just rip through his socials - apparently liked a lot of Charlie Kirk type grifty shit. https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=132216.120

Roger is definitely complaining about Gifted Hater. 'Cancel Culture' refers (I think) the Chris Cole debacle (beat up his wife and neglected his kids pretty badly over the years) and that just kind of got swept under the rug by JT and a bunch of other industry stone heads. GH made a video about that plus other shitbags like Tim Poole.

Glad you liked it!

Thinking about parts of note from the last couple years. This T-Funk is probably the one that sticks in my head. Just a fucking beast. Worth watching the whole vid but it is very Bakery ;) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uyfck1p430

Louis Lopez dropped loads of great parts while making a run for SOTY- His Cons one- https://youtu.be/2m8gvIzgfik?t=439

Evan Smith is also pretty banging - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tUr2NZfRq4

Supreme's Cherry just bc if you haven't seen it, it seems to have been one of those seminal vids of the teenies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zIVTDbve7k (not a supreme product fan but the vid is great)

Nine Club is a bit of a controversial one atm - Roger Bagley came out as a Trumper in a recent Jenkem interview, and is quite happy to support problematic industry persons as long as they skate good. Also possibly brigaded his own comment section lol.

Gifted Hater hasn't been mentioned so I guess check him out.

As for actual parts that get you psyched to skate : Eetu's one from a couple days ago is pretty ninja. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=985KFs90BLY

Left screen is me bullying an AI in a themed terminal. Just for fun. Virtual midi keyboard (glad you asked) is yoshimi, which assigns the keys automatically to your keyboard. I was actually playing along to some music [playing in cmus] using a 25 key midi sampler. The virtual keyboard shows me which key is being pressed [a blue dot appears on the relevant key]
https://yoshimi.github.io/docs/user-guide/starting/starting.html You know what, install yoshimi and use it. It's great fun.

Yes and no. Use case is the great definer here. This machine has been, and still is, many things; NAS, router, media server, server server, karaoke machine. Hell I even fell for that Chia Coin bingo card bullshit for about a month years back, and pressed it into service to 'farm' that with a big old ugly Noctua cooler sticking out of the open case.
Actually that's a good example bc doing that shit fried the RAM and if I had been using a laptop with so-dimm and soldered it would have likely grilled the whole board.
At the moment it's set up on a work bench desk in a corner of the drawing room where everyone in the household can finger fuck the screens if they wish and I don't have to worry about it . When kids ask if they can play games on it they either get gzdoom or mame or sent away disappointed.
Also it is silent. I love silent computers.

I know plenty of people who don’t even use their laptop much because they’re doing everything on their phones or game consoles.

Thank you but no.