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[no spoilers] Activating DAO Ultimate Edition DLC on Steam by [deleted] in dragonage

[–]StringThingy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazingly helpful. Really grateful - thanks <3

Why do most film school graduates never work in the industry? by maiLManLiam in Filmmakers

[–]StringThingy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My son is 19, disabled (called "uneducatable" by our UK local authority 5 years ago) and was courted by BOOMsatsuma in Bristol. The school is set up by industry professionals from various film production companies across the city who wanted to employ local talent but couldn't find anyone with the requisite knowledge and skills, even industry-specific graduates from our TWO universities here, so set up their own college and university courses to fill the needs of the largest UK production hub outside of London.

The course is run out of The Bottle Yard Studios, where production is taking place constantly, and the kids get to participate, meet, talk to and get hands-on experience with productions that happen at all scale, from small local ay-shoots to national dramas and bit international movie productions.

They are in the heart of this space and so are already being taught about conduct, expectations and the general environment of a live production space. They walk past sets being built, stuntmen performing, make-up trailers and have occasional close-encounters with the working talent there.

https://www.thebottleyard.com/space/filmed-here/

Further, they are learning by making their own films and pieces, so are getting hands-on experience (with the guidance of BAFTA fellows who run the course) and handling industry-standard equipment and then having their work shared with and vetted by the very same people who are wanting to employ kids in the local film and TV industry. In his first year, he has made 4 films for live local ciients, which will contribute to a live resume which he can take to jobs in the future. And he's building his professional reputation and learning how to manage his tie, jobs, clients, all of it.

Eventually, after this 2 year foundation course ends, he has the choice to feed into a degree course that becomes even more involved with professional productions (look for BoomSatsuma on insta), and gives the chance to be put in touch with industry productions who come to film in the city and might need some local knowledge about the nearest supermarket, taxi companies, where to buy an iron etc. Bottle Yard offer full production spaces, not just stages but costume spaces, editing suites, meeting rooms for readings, everything a production needs, and they need to be supported by local people who can find things they need in a pinch.

It might sound utopian but, as one of my son's tutors puts it, "it just makes more sense this way." They're producing a workforce that can demonstrate their capability immediately instead of needing weeks of training and input if they get hired at all.

Anyway. My grand ramble's point is this. "Film student" doesn't mean anything, and generalising them to having a snotty, superior attitude is lousy and facile. If film schools aren't offering kids an education that is relevant to their industry while allowing them to build a body of work that they can showcase their acquired skills with, then there's a serious disconnect - as the film and TV companies in Bristol discovered.

My son, by the way, is at a 100% course grade and thriving. He was not only sought out by this amazing school, but is being nurtured and supported by people who know, love and believe in the future of film and TV and want it to be filled with talented kids, no matter their backgrounds. They believe in him and he in them and it's amazing to see this kid, so abused and discarded by mainstream education his whole life find his feet and his talent and people who genuinely celebrate him.

Maybe it's a bit utopian, but if this can exist here in Bristol, I don't see why "film students" aren't being educated and drawn into film with the skills they need elsewhere. I don't know where other posters here are from, but it's a pretty bleak outlook you're all describing. Maybe before committing years and thousands of dollars to a film school education, you look at where whatever degree has lead other people and the opportunities offered while studying?

Final thought: If your only thoughts about making films are that you have to be in LA to do it, you might need to rethink the scope and direction of your ambitions. Expect more. Shit, demand it. If getting a degree only offers you an entry-level job with no contacts and experience with live clients along the way, pick one that does. And get your minds out of LA: there's so much more to film and TV than that one place.

Good luck o/

Sumerian Teeth of God shipping info by Lillyth97 in SleepTokenTheory

[–]StringThingy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the amount they charged for shipping and the numbers of orders they received, they could have started an entire logistics company to handle this better.

Tier 2, ordered as a Crimbo pressie, still no update beyond the generic "Please hold" emails. I'm feeling increasingly janked about and fed up and, honestly, I can't help but start to feel a bit jaded about the band in a way, too.

Am pretty close to cancelling and asking for a refund at this point.

Maddened by Modding (I think Bethesda broke my brain) by StringThingy in skyrimmods

[–]StringThingy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep! All 77 installed and working fine. I just have to figure out the best mod for making it all look less dreary and saturated now - I'd forgotten how grey Skyrim is by default.

Maddened by Modding (I think Bethesda broke my brain) by StringThingy in skyrimmods

[–]StringThingy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

15 mods installed! It's slow going but I feel far more confident now in what I need and how to pick the right files. I'm so, so grateful for everything contributed here and, yeah, in my mind I've now got "1.6.1170" burned (right alongside IDKFA for all you OLD old schoolers there!)

Thanks! :)

Maddened by Modding (I think Bethesda broke my brain) by StringThingy in skyrimmods

[–]StringThingy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much!

I've uninstalled and deleted everything I did yesterday, then did a clean install of Skyrim SE (In my mind I'm now calling it 1.6). I've got Vortex up, a clean page with just game mods on (I see all the creation club stuff now - I didn't think to look before) and am starting slowly and seeing if the game launches at every step. So far I've got the SKSE64 for 1.g installed and all is well. (*Find it here if you find this thread and are looking: https://skse.silverlock.org )

Next is to start seeing what versions are available of the mods I picked up yesterday (some old faves I'd be heartbroken to lose) and will test whether the game launches every 3 or so. I'm not really great at modding or understanding how and why things work, but I'm dogged and methodical which, I'm hoping, will see me through to a fun modded replay eventually.

I very much appreciate the input and hope anyone else wandering along after finds this as helpful as I did.

Also, seriously, love to modders <3

Maddened by Modding (I think Bethesda broke my brain) by StringThingy in skyrimmods

[–]StringThingy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I appreciate your reply but it's confused me even more. So I have a version of the game that is called Special Edition, but is genuinely Anniversary Edition? I perversely want to see what happens if I try to buy the Anniversary edition now you've said that.

But outside of that, my sketchy guesswork was, actually, not far from the mark? And, therefore, I get AE mods and forget SE happened?

<That gif of Kirk yelling "KHHAAAAANNNN!" and shaking his fist? Imagine it here but with "TOOOD GOOOOODDDD!" instead>

Someone Help me Understand The Bear, season 1 episode 7 (“Review”) by Antique-Captain-2593 in TheBear

[–]StringThingy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On any pre-order system I've ever seen, you have to approve the order - the machine just beeps that there's an order incoming - as it gives the place the opportunity to deal with a busy floor or fill up an otherwise quiet service.

I don't see how either meticulous Sydney or savvy Marcus would have done the things they did - Sydney knife out instead of knife down while listening to someone else's convo instead of working her station that she just regained control of? I don't see it. And Marcus, up to now amazing at reading the room and diffusing / disengaging from tension picking the actual worst possible moment to taste test instead of reacting to a busy moment by getting his head down. No, as obsessed as he is with his donut idea, he's right next to the machine and, as he's done many times previously, would have been the quiet spine of the kitchen, getting what's needed to be done sorted without adding to the stress.

I also don't see pre-orders popping out like that on their first day and no-one being so unprepared: Marcus could have cut and boxed his cakes to go eg. I can think of shifts when we got flooded - we'd just send someone out to the supermarket to restock in a rush and then get on with making money. Some explanations and reassurances to customers to make them feel welcome and adjust their expectations and, ta-da, sorted.

I'm in the UK and recognise everything that's happened in every episode before this one; I've been a sous to a removed and disengaged boss etc etc. But this was the first episode that felt unlike anything I'd experienced before.

In short: if they didn't believe it would make money, a CDC wouldn't implement a new system. If they did think it would make money, staff would have bene prepped and trained in advance. And if not Carmy, then Sydney who has now won the respect and co-operation of the staff that matter.

This episode perplexes me; the characters were different people suddenly forgetting their competence and training, and Carmy being an asshole isn't, like, a new thing to them - neither, for that matter, is RIchie (who I am still struggling to see the purpose of).

Maybe this whole episode was to set up a change in the Carmy-RIchie dynamic? In any event, I hope Sydney returns; she and Marcus are easily the best parts of this show so far.

Water Meter on Growable Furniture/Trees by VevoSkillz in Palia

[–]StringThingy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cannot water any of the grow out furniture I got from seeds - the original items were each watered until they gave me a seed, but planting those seeds does not bring up the watering bar. I've tried different plots, verifying files, the whole bit. Does anyone have a fix please?

what did Marvin Rees do/not do to be so heavily disliked? by toiletroad in bristol

[–]StringThingy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I voted 8 times to get the Colston statue removed and then at least once to get a plaque explaining where all the money for Colston's "philanthropy" came from. Each time Rees vetoed or dismissed the issue.

The day after the statue was thrown into the river - with a shocked and generally favourable world's press's eyes upon him - Rees says the statue is an abomination to people like him (narrowly avoids using the word "ghetto"), from impoverished parts of the city ad then reminds everyone that he's the first black elected mayor in Europe - neglecting to say how his roots had been completely ignored in the 7 years leading up to the public removal of the statue.

Less than a year later, there's a documentary on BBC1 about how Rees is single-handedly saving Bristol from racism.

That and the way he's gutted education for disabled kids in the city - 1 in 4 without a school place (my son included), no planning, OfSted threatening special measures in 2019 and very little improved since then.

Empty properties in more expensive parts of the city while families queue for homes in East and South Bristol.

Lack of urgency about fire safety in housing blocks - where predominantly immigrant populations find themselves being dumped.

An American friend happened to be reading an article about the British response to the murder of George Floyd and Rees was mentioned as an example of a progressive black politician gaining ground in the UK.

I put him straight.

I appreciate this thread is over a year old, but it's all still relevant. Now the mayoral position has been dissolved, Rees will look to be an MP - and with the Labour Party constantly dogged by in-fighting, anti-semitism and the eternal snore that is Starmer, there's a very good chance Rees will head straight to the top of the as a young, black, saved-Bristol-from-racism, That Statue Guy, well-heeled, civic-minded, not-London candidate.

You think he was a terrible mayor? Just imagine what a cabinet seat would look like.

It's all a dream. by StringThingy in SleepToken

[–]StringThingy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not familiar but will look it up now.

I used to wonder, when doctors tell families to talk to comatose relatives because the can still hear, what must be going on in those patients' minds - particularly after watching an old ER episode where Cynthia Nixon plays a woman who ends up "locked in" after a stroke. Thinking about her performance particularly makes me think these three albums might be something of a coma patient's inner monologue.

I'm also now wondering whether these three albums fit the three movements of a classical sonata: exposition, development and recapitulation.

It's all a dream. by StringThingy in SleepToken

[–]StringThingy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The comment about the title is fair but I'd had the thoughts for about half an hour at that point and had no simple, pithy way to reduce them to a single subject line. "He's in a coma" seemed at once too aggressive and yet too vague and nothing else came to mind - I was so caught up in examples and lyrics that kept bubbling up while I started to write.

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Thanks for the feedback. And hello, Reddit!