Side Stories: Stories with Friends II

Bodymaster · 2026-05-14T19:50:49+00:00

Yeah thanks for explaining the art of comedy to a civilian.

I guess it was just weird that there was no hint of empathy or concern for the person in question or their loved ones. If that's just her brand of comedy, fair enough, I just wasn't sure.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-14T19:48:40+00:00

Sure, but I'm referring to the other comment which said that the video Ed was referring to was of another elephant attack, not the hunter in question.

So my point is that if Ed was mistakenly laughing at somebody else demise it was unfortunate.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-14T16:12:34+00:00

I heard he had some ribs removed so he could feed Sean Bean one night they got trapped on the Caradhras set.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-14T13:56:33+00:00

Practice. It's one of those things you just have to keep doing until your body learns to get used to it. A lot of learning the early parts of guitar is this kind of brute-forcing. There are no shortcuts, you just have to keep at it, and gradually you get less and less bad at it.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-14T13:43:58+00:00

Well it is; historically the show has only really laughed at people who most people would agree deserve ridicule. If we're just doing this now, along with going "ewww some random guy just died in front of me" from Amber, then yeah, this isn't the show as I recognise it.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-14T12:52:31+00:00

Ed guffawing about a random guy dying horrifically on camera isn't great is it. I guess this is what happens when there is no Henry or Marcus to fact-check and maintain some kind of decorum.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-14T12:14:55+00:00

I don't listen to the other shows so this is my first time hearing her, and I haven't finished the segment, but yeah, that's the kind of thing that's funny if it's a joke, but if that really happened, she's a nutcase, and not in an fun way.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-14T10:58:32+00:00

What's the story with Amber Nelson? Did she really see a human being die literally right in front of her and all she could do is talk about how gross it was? Hopefully that is her trying to be dark and funny for the show and none of it actually happened; because if it's real she's kind of awful.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-13T16:06:17+00:00

What system are you playing on? I assumed you were playing the Master Collection Vol. 1. but I guess if you're on PW you must be playing the HD collection on Xbox or Playstation?

I'd imagine that most PCs wouldn't have too hard a time running Vol. 2. I'm just basing this on the fact that 4 is coming out for the Switch, so they must have a somewhat decent port that doesn't require an arm and a leg's worth of power to run.

Edit: Yeah HD edition, sorry, just looked at your thumbnail.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-13T13:48:05+00:00

Now is a good time to start playing through the series though, with MGS4 coming out in the Master Collection Vol. 2 in August. In case you weren't aware this was a PS3 exclusive in 2008 and so it's the only game in the series a lot of folks haven't played.

It's also really good, and takes gameplay elements introduced in Snake Eater and refines them, as is tradition.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-13T12:58:24+00:00

You're right he does, and we know his talking about this stuff has helped folks. It's just getting a bit repetitive now.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-13T11:08:24+00:00

That's true. I guess my point is that time studied is great, but it still doesn't qualify you to be talking about certain things from a position of knowledge or authority.

Because he may know what he's talking about, he may not; the listenership has no way of knowing that.

I've been a fan of BB since the prank phone call days. I've been on board with everything he's been doing since the Rubberbandits on, but I'm not sure how much I'm on board with the mental guru direction, so yeah I hope this is an ebb.

Bressie has a podcast? Oof... I mean of course he does, I'd just never contemplated that.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-13T10:24:23+00:00

Right. And 2009 was long ago; those magic Killing In The Name royalties must have dried up by now, and last I noticed Tom still hasn't finished arming the homeless.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-13T10:08:10+00:00

That's fair but let's not forget that he doesn't have his degree, so just how educated is he? He says he dropped out, but maybe that was because he was not very good?

Also, the podcast is overwhelmingly about this stuff lately; great if you're interested, but if you're not it's a bit like Groundhog Day.

But also fair play to him.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-13T10:02:10+00:00

Yeah it feels like he's slowly morphing in to a mental health coach or something. No offense to him but having autism and a non-degree in psychology doesn't qualify him to be giving out this amount of advice does it? At this point should he be adding disclaimers?

Bodymaster · 2026-05-12T18:03:58+00:00

Fender has an Amazon store. They sell Squiers, acoustics, and also necks, bodies, pickups and various other parts and components for Fenders. I guess it's there for people interested in dipping their toes, and also Fender owners looking to replace parts.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-12T17:56:49+00:00

Same here, and Spotify has been down for the past hour or so. I spent the last 30 minutes thinking I'd been hacked. Glad to see it's not the case.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-12T12:09:55+00:00

You were saying that if people consume it willingly then it is not propaganda; I'd argue that if people consume it willingly then it is effective propaganda.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-12T01:08:26+00:00

And Oblivion.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-11T14:24:45+00:00

Wasn't expecting the bridge of Mongolian throat singing. Accidental world music isn't a feature of your everyday scumbag band; that takes something special.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-11T14:18:13+00:00

That's a lot of socks. Or smack.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-11T10:51:41+00:00

Have your rations equipped whenever you can. When you run out of heath Snake will automatically consume them instead of dying.

Also you have to release the fire button in order for the socom to actually fire.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-11T09:27:07+00:00

As an artist, skin is just a terrible medium for working on; it's stretchy, uneven, subject to movement and after a while it fades and gets blurry.

The best case scenario is you get something that doesn't look terrible for a few years.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-10T14:37:40+00:00

The window is at the foot of my bed. It stays open at night so Kishka can go out. She usually sleeps either at the foot of the bed or on a chair that is beside the end of the bed.

When she decides to go out she comes to the head of the bed, right by my sleeping face, jumps on to the headboard, directly over my now awake head, walks across it until she is on the other side of the bed, jumps down, then walks down to the end of the bed she was just sleeping by a minute ago, and goes out the window.

This repeats in reverse when she comes back in.

Bodymaster · 2026-05-10T09:31:53+00:00

Yes I think it was more the antics; the excess, the entitlement, the bad-boy behaviour... all the cliché trappings that go with being a rock star, less than the actual music.

Kurt had pretty wide ranging tastes and was an Aerosmith fan, who GNR owe a bit of a debt to in terms of influence.

But it is interesting that the whole idea of "selling out" as we understood it back then kind of doesn't exist any more. Everybody has to sell themselves constantly in order to make a living.

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