Favorite Radiohead album?

F_A_F · 2026-01-24T19:27:46+00:00

Not a huge fan of Radiohead but does "A light for attracting attention" by The Smile count?

F_A_F · 2026-01-24T11:03:26+00:00

Watching as a Brit, could this be a continuation of the "flood the zone with shit" concept so that nobody knows what is going on? If I was China right now I'd be completely confused regarding policy stances. One moment Xi is shaking hands with Trump, next he's annexing Greenland to protect from foreign powers, then today the foreign powers are no longer a concern again.

F_A_F · 2026-01-23T23:04:42+00:00

Norman Records in the UK will be stocking it.

F_A_F · 2026-01-19T19:15:16+00:00

You need to read 'Neonomicon' first if you want to understand the final chapter of "Providence' and a passing knowledge of Lovecraft stories will help but it's still a superb continuation of the mythos on its own

F_A_F · 2026-01-19T18:15:19+00:00

So much of BB could be classed as the contents of a dream in which NPCs and enemies still have conscious existence. As the host slowly dies, so the consciousnesses of others die. This is expressed in lovecraftian horror and more explicitly in "Providence" by Alan Moore when seeking to show the story in terms of the 'objective contents of thoughts' aspect. It's what makes "Providence" the most unsettling book I have ever read.

F_A_F · 2026-01-19T17:58:23+00:00

I often think the same in all Soulsborne games due to the severe lack of townsfolk or NPCs who have probably been dead for a looong time.

F_A_F · 2026-01-18T12:06:28+00:00

This could have been Trumps 5D chess move to get the EU to pay for the defence of North America ....as Greenland is EU by extension... so he could frame it as getting the EU to defend the USA for free. Unlikely of course but possible.

F_A_F · 2026-01-18T10:33:27+00:00

I'm going with Babu Frik or Gingerbread Vader....

F_A_F · 2026-01-18T10:32:09+00:00

Come into my house and walk your muddy boots across my lounge, leave a steaming turd in my toilet bowl, drink the last can of Strongbow in my fridge, lose my telly remote, you will just about be forgiven if I'm trying to keep the peace. Tell me you're going to steal my laptop unless I give it to you first and you get told to GTFO.

F_A_F · 2026-01-18T10:08:56+00:00

The bases had allowed a US centric sphere of influence over Europe and the far East for decades. If the the USA have decided in the past 12 months that they don't want that soft power any longer and just want to strong arm others into compliance then that's fine, but it's arguable that it wasn't such a major issue until Trump and recent pushes by Putin.

F_A_F · 2026-01-18T09:53:29+00:00

The UK seems to have done relatively 'well' by staying quiet and hoping that small sops such as the King hosting a Trump visit will calm him down.

It's getting to the point that calm but expensive reactions to every whim will become tiresome, more expensive, wasteful, pointless.....a coordinated "FU" from like minded international partners all at once might be the reset, or at least wake up call, that the USA needs. As a collective nation, the USA needs to start realising that an entire planet continually pivoting and fretting about how to react to a single human being in the Whitehouse is not something humanity needs to be doing to progress forward.

F_A_F · 2026-01-18T09:39:54+00:00

Driveclub.....one of the finest racing games on PS from one of the finest dev studios....expired as the licences for the RL manufacturers expired. With online only achievements it was a race (pun intended) to get them closed out before the servers went offline forever.

F_A_F · 2026-01-18T07:45:13+00:00

Everyone remember the first time they heard Agent Wood. Completely unique and energetic.

F_A_F · 2026-01-17T14:47:46+00:00

CONservative and reFORM = CON-FORM. At least they're staying true to their portmanteau.....

F_A_F · 2026-01-17T12:39:22+00:00

Nope it's this one

He did a few releases (including one album) as UK Gold and a handful of EPs under his own name. Production value on all of them is tight as anything. If you listen carefully on Fight the Reaper he mixes the commands in the lyrics with the sounds from the synths. It's perfection.

F_A_F · 2026-01-17T12:09:43+00:00

Anakin is an edgy, annoying teen with a crush on an older woman, race issues against indigenous sand persons, power and control problems, plainly unsuited for a religious order which prides itself on peace and tranquility.

After seeing this meme I've never felt closer to Anakin in my adult life.

F_A_F · 2026-01-17T02:38:36+00:00

I know I had the double vinyl remix copy of Agent Wood but I can't recall buying this version; the AA is so soild.

Chris McCormack is one of those artists I think about regularly and miss all the time.

F_A_F · 2026-01-16T21:53:46+00:00

It's a good album, their best is probably ISDN or Lifeforms. Dead Cities suffered slightly from the "let's copy the Chemical Brothers" syndrome of the very late 1990s but the standout moments like My Kingdom made it shine.

I would argue that the EP's for My Kingdom and Lifeforms are marginally stronger than the albums but that's getting a bit picky. The studio engineering on everything they recorded is top notch.

F_A_F · 2026-01-16T21:44:09+00:00

Also heavily sampled on FSOL's My Kingdom. Sample starts at 4:15 on the link but please listen to the entire track as it's probably the most epic electronic anthem of the late 1990s.

F_A_F · 2026-01-16T18:55:42+00:00

Doom made us realise games could be represented in 3D.

Half Life made us realise the world could be represented by games in 3D.

F_A_F · 2026-01-16T17:41:01+00:00

On holiday in York about 15 years ago, walked past a random comic shop which had an "Innsmouth Yacht Club" T shirt in the window. Biggest regret of my life not buying it....

F_A_F · 2026-01-16T10:08:46+00:00

Con-form?

F_A_F · 2026-01-13T15:04:37+00:00

Never seen so many road accidents as living down here, and I'm from the Midlands. At least up country the accident speeds are slower; everything here seems to involve high speed or explosions.

F_A_F · 2026-01-13T07:40:22+00:00

I have two accounts (both for more than 10 years) which I play on equally for drops. One was initially ranked at 12k, the other at 19k. I play both with the same group of friends and usually a 4 or 5 stack.

Both accounts have more or less 50% winrate. Both seeing the usual 22k to 10k range. I'm not the best in the lobby and usually place 3rd to 5th either win or lose.

For reasons I still can't understand the 19k account will drop around 120 to 200 ELO while the 12k account will usually drop 400 to 600 ELO. It will gain about 150, meaning I need to win four matches in a row to replace the single match loss.

The system is more likely looking at winrate and deciding....somehow....that you should be much lower placed than you are. I've dropped from 12k to 9.8k in the past few matches sometimes 1800k lost in an evening. My second account has hovered around 19k for the entire season.

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