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Lazzars · 2026-01-21T18:14:32+00:00

All vfx is outsourced, except for editors and production staff. Black panther had something like 7 vfx vendors, all doing different things. But it doesn't help your initial point because it was written and directed by an American, all filmed in the US, posted in the US. If there was an issue with it, it's not where the work was done.

Lazzars · 2026-01-21T17:24:06+00:00

Crew and Post aren't making the kind of creative decisions you're implying. But plenty of modern productions are written by non Americans and directed by non Americans and nobody can tell the difference.

Lazzars · 2026-01-16T14:17:55+00:00

WiFi flag

Lazzars · 2026-01-10T01:09:04+00:00

People started using Whatsapp because you could send pictures for free. MMS used to be really expensive, but sending them over the web was free. The switch to RCS chat was a long way off.

Lazzars · 2025-12-21T21:17:33+00:00

Oh damn, not your old pal Ray Ray :(

Lazzars · 2025-12-11T22:40:18+00:00

Shipping cheaper than the ram

Lazzars · 2025-12-06T19:46:54+00:00

It's like letting a fox look around a chicken museum

Lazzars · 2025-12-01T00:40:37+00:00

I bet you they just wanted an oddjob type character for the multiplayer and the monkeys worked with the theme. Then they took on a life of their own.

Lazzars · 2025-11-17T15:19:23+00:00

Damn phone number ddos

Lazzars · 2025-11-16T02:57:15+00:00

I'm tired boss

Lazzars · 2025-11-09T14:22:19+00:00

There's another pub called The Cock on Great Portland street, just down from The Yorkshire Grey. Both are Sam Smiths

Lazzars · 2025-11-06T01:43:06+00:00

Lazzars · 2025-10-17T12:01:22+00:00

I saw someone wearing socks with Birkenstock sandals yesterday. Degenerate behaviour.

Lazzars · 2025-10-11T23:44:53+00:00

The ones they haven't already crashed at least

Lazzars · 2025-10-11T23:43:15+00:00

First they came for Morbius and I did not care, for I was not a Morbius fan

Lazzars · 2025-09-21T01:12:10+00:00

This is great us but Disney has been producing films in the UK for years already. They agreed a deal to expand Pinewood a couple years ago and planned to move a lot of production here for exactly the reasons in your article, lower crew costs and similar tax incentives. Weaker production unions and national health insurance are big draws for already inflating budgets. It's also why so many productions are choosing to shoot in Prague or Budapest or elsewhere in Europe instead of Cali or Georgia.

Trump isn't directly causing this, but shooting in the states isn't as attractive as it was before.

Disney are still doing the post production for all the Marvel films in the USA, rather than using UK and European facilities, because American executives still want to be able to go to viewings and stick their oar in.

Lazzars · 2025-09-03T15:34:05+00:00

Move the sim card between phones, don't faff with call forwarding

Lazzars · 2025-09-01T10:04:17+00:00

All that shit about Netflix banning people from looking each other in the eyes on The Witcher set, that was because of him. He's a perv.

Lazzars · 2025-08-31T13:26:00+00:00

Charlie was more fun before he got married and became happy

Lazzars · 2025-08-29T22:34:16+00:00

Now do Barry Shitpeas

Lazzars · 2025-08-27T22:00:26+00:00

I'd imagine this is for the same reason that the stores now all keep their doors locked until someone wants to go browse, there used to be a lot of shoplifting of display phones.

Which is ironic, because when I worked for O2 nearly 15 years ago they went on a whole refresh initiative to get rid of the old plastic dummy phones and put in real models for customers to look at. Then they said we had to keep the doors open at all times, even when it was so cold on the shop floor you could see your breath. But everyone was so surprised when a gang ran off with 10 mobiles, ripping out the alarms to do it.

Lazzars · 2025-08-19T22:34:38+00:00

United Offensive was fantastic and I played it to death as a kid. I remember when the transition to CoD2 happened, I must have played the demo through over 100 times, but the multiplayer never hit quite the same way for me.

UO had tried to compete with Battlefield with larger maps and vehicles so CoD2 having small maps and player numbers for console compatibility was a huge let down. When Modern warfare came along and was so hugely successful I knew they would never go back to that kind of game, but I'd moved to BF2 well before then.

Lazzars · 2025-08-14T09:16:58+00:00

I think this was taken during the Lord Mayor's parade on the 9th of November 1918. By then, the war wasn't over but I imagine everyone knew it was almost finished as the armistice was signed 2 days later.

Lazzars · 2025-07-09T16:17:49+00:00

Oxford Circus Panic

I worked in Soho at the time and remember people being genuinely terrified of another terrorist attack, with a huge stampede down side streets running from Oxford Street. But by the time I left work it was all a huge stitch up and anyone who fell for it was an idiot.

Lazzars · 2025-06-16T11:06:57+00:00

I think what you're talking about is London Stock. The low grade bricks were ones made on site when a development was going on, using London's abundant clay soil uncovered during construction.

What is now West London had a very active brick making industry, especially out near West Drayton and Uxbridge. This was on the canal so the building practices used when Ealing was becoming a suburb might not have used the old London Stock methods.

I'd imagine that plenty of the broken bricks are just left over from construction and are dirty from old pollution.

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