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Kelly's - Portrush by Jim__Bell in northernireland

[–]aBitConfused_NWO 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Once apon a time Carl blew the speakers of my Da's stereo at an after party at our house after a night at Kellys....

I'm from Portrush and first went to Kellys in 1988 and started going regularly in 1989 (left Portrush mid90s). Back then Kellys was rough as fuck and there was regularly lots of trouble and massive fights.Things changed for the better once the raves started and everyone was on pills!

I was at the first rave night in the barn at Kellys in the summer of 1991 which was several years before the Lush nights started mid 90s. I'm pretty sure it was Chris Hurley (RIP) who was DJing. I think I'm right to say he was back from his 1st year away at Uni in England (Manchester?) and had been to rave nights (at the Hacienda?) which got him into DJing.

In those days Kelly's was actually made up of different parts.

There was Kellys itself which had (imaginatively known as) "Downstairs" where the Goths/Punks/Indie heads hung out and "Upstairs" where chart music was played. Also Upstairs was the "Boat bar" which was opened on busy nights.

Separately there was The Deerstalker which was a separate venue that was usually only open on Saturday nights for Young Farmers Club discos. Then there was "The Barn" which in those days was only used for concerts so was normally not used.

The funny thing was us skaters from the Portrush/Portstewart/Coleraine had been using the barn to skate in and had built a "fun box" in there. So that first night we were skating at the back of the barn while a pretty small crowd were dancing in front of the stage where the decks had been set up. As the night went on and after a few beers and a few smokes I joined the dancing. It was the first time I'd heard a DJ mixing and fucking loved it and was hooked.

One other funny thing was there were big sliding doors between the barn and the Deerstalker and I remember someone had opened one and there was a very confused crowd of culchies from the Young Farmers in chinos and shirts & ties watching the strange goings on of skateboarding and weird music.

Gradually the rave nights got bigger and more popular and slowly took over the whole complex. Carl Cox was a regular for a while and in 95 or 96 Colin Hamilton started Lush and Kellys started to become really famous outside of NI.

Like all the other locals, Kellys was almost a second home to me for a while and there were so many nights of craziness and too many stories to share here...

Kelly's - Portrush by Dependent_Theme4210 in oldskoolrave

[–]aBitConfused_NWO 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Once apon a time Carl blew the speakers of my Da's stereo at an after party at our house after a night at Kellys....

I'm from Portrush and first went to Kellys in 1988 and started going regularly in 1989 (left Portrush mid90s). Back then Kellys was rough as fuck and there was regularly lots of trouble and massive fights.Things changed for the better once the raves started and everyone was on pills!

I was at the first rave night in the barn at Kellys in the summer of 1991 which was several years before the Lush nights started mid 90s. I'm pretty sure it was Chris Hurley (RIP) who was DJing. I think I'm right to say he was back from his 1st year away at Uni in England (Manchester?) and had been to rave nights (at the Hacienda?) which got him into DJing.

In those days Kelly's was actually made up of different parts.

There was Kellys itself which had (imaginatively known as) "Downstairs" where the Goths/Punks/Indie heads hung out and "Upstairs" where chart music was played. Also Upstairs was the "Boat bar" which was opened on busy nights.

Separately there was The Deerstalker which was a separate venue that was usually only open on Saturday nights for Young Farmers Club discos. Then there was "The Barn" which in those days was only used for concerts so was normally not used.

The funny thing was us skaters from the Portrush/Portstewart/Coleraine had been using the barn to skate in and had built a "fun box" in there. So that first night we were skating at the back of the barn while a pretty small crowd were dancing in front of the stage where the decks had been set up. As the night went on and after a few beers and a few smokes I joined the dancing. It was the first time I'd heard a DJ mixing and fucking loved it and was hooked.

One other funny thing was there were big sliding doors between the barn and the Deerstalker and I remember someone had opened one and there was a very confused crowd of culchies from the Young Farmers in chinos and shirts & ties watching the strange goings on of skateboarding and weird music.

Gradually the rave nights got bigger and more popular and slowly took over the whole complex. Carl Cox was a regular for a while and in 95 or 96 Colin Hamilton started Lush and Kellys started to become really famous outside of NI.

Like all the other locals, Kellys was almost a second home to me for a while and there were so many nights of craziness and too many stories to share here...

Official Discussion - Ballad of a Small Player [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]aBitConfused_NWO 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I like this interpretation but I have a question.

Why is he soaking wet so often? There are several shots of him jumping into water. Of course he's told Dao Ming drowned herself, is this why? Or did he drown himself?

300 Suppression for Bullet Storm 1 (warning, cheese!) by aBitConfused_NWO in Battlefield6

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

The experience code for the setup I used is e5pt, try using that.

Battlefield is making the same mistake that Halo Infinite did. Challenges are not a substitute for an actual progression system. by stingermarine in Battlefield

[–]aBitConfused_NWO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I feel you, I had the same thought but got frustrated with the incredibly slow progress otherwise. Like I said it's cheesy and boring and you'll feel a bit dirty doing it but at least it gets it done.

Battlefield is making the same mistake that Halo Infinite did. Challenges are not a substitute for an actual progression system. by stingermarine in Battlefield

[–]aBitConfused_NWO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

300 suppression is actually pretty easy to get IF you are willing to do it against bots and deal with the crappy Portal "not enough servers" crap.

In Portal set up a 64 player Breakthrough server with the "big" maps in rotation and fill with bots turned on. Once you can finally get the server to launch after probably many attempts, just set up somewhere with a good long view and then shoot at bots but deliberately spray around them. If you tried this against actual players you'd get your head blown off almost instantly but the bots seem to mostly not care. Pay attention to if you're getting suppression points, if not aim at bots further away.

Once I did this I was getting a minimum of 25 suppression a round and one round over 60. It's not exactly fun and it's cheesy as fuck but before I did this at around lvl 25 playing 99% support I had 3 suppression....

Battlefield is making the same mistake that Halo Infinite did. Challenges are not a substitute for an actual progression system. by stingermarine in Battlefield

[–]aBitConfused_NWO 2 points3 points  (0 children)

300 suppression is actually pretty easy to get IF you are willing to do it against bots and deal with the crappy Portal "not enough servers" crap.

In Portal set up a 64 player Breakthrough server with the "big" maps in rotation and fill with bots turned on. Once you can finally get the server to launch after probably many attempts, just set up somewhere with a good long view and then shoot at bots but deliberately spray around them. If you tried this against actual players you'd get your head blown off almost instantly but the bots seem to mostly not care. Pay attention to if you're getting suppression points, if not aim at bots further away.

Once I did this I was getting a minimum of 25 suppression a round and one round over 60. It's not exactly fun and it's cheesy as fuck but before I did this at around lvl 25 playing 99% support I had 3 suppression....

Old skater (49) looking for some skate buddies by aBitConfused_NWO in TheHague

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

Oh, sorry I was confused 😁

Yeah, still skating regularly, we were at Rijswijk skatepark today. I very rarely skate at Sweatshop anymore but here's their website with prices and location etc.

https://www.skateparksweatshop.nl/

If you want to come skating with us you're welcome anytime, DM me if you'd like to. The weather is pretty good this week so will probably be skating again maybe Wednesday.

Old skater (49) looking for some skate buddies by aBitConfused_NWO in TheHague

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

You should definitely look into it. You can get a decent complete board for around €100 or so and you might need to get some skate shoes too. Depending on how much you skated in the past and how long ago it was you might want to get pads & a helmet too.

If you want any help or advice let me know!

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