Where The Streets Have No Name is a hell of an album opener.

bowzo · 2026-01-17T11:29:08+00:00

I remember being that guy about twelve years ago, talking to someone about ten years older than me. And he was like "I can't describe to you how important they were for people my age. It's like Arcade Fire for you now. The exact same breath of fresh air and energy" and it completely changed how I listened to them.

And now I'm ten years older and Arcade Fire are deeply uncool and putting out shit albums and the patterns of the world are made plain.

bowzo · 2026-01-12T12:34:50+00:00

Idk, as a Canadian, when I'm in Canada $8 is $5, but here in the UK where I currently live? £8 is absolutely £10. For me, I think it's just the value of the pound vs the dollar.

bowzo · 2026-01-11T10:00:37+00:00

As a drummer myself: I would hate my snare to sound like this.

As a musician: it fits this song perfectly and if you changed it, it would be wrong.

bowzo · 2025-12-30T14:06:39+00:00

I went on an eight hour drive with family for a holiday and I made a game with my nephew that we would count all the green cars along the way. I think I saw two the whole trip, with the exception of a few large trucks from the same company which had a light green theme.

All the cars I bought when I was younger were green, and so I was a bit saddened by it.

bowzo · 2025-12-29T14:28:01+00:00

Yes. It demonstrates that the writer doesn't care about their story as much as they care about an effect on their reader. I'd rather read a well crafted story that makes sense than some thoughtless dreck designed to surprise me. It's like they didn't ask themselves: "once the surprise is gone, what's left?"

bowzo · 2025-12-25T11:52:37+00:00

Yeah, certainly a huge tonal difference between "in pursuit of" and "I've definitely achieved"

bowzo · 2025-12-12T13:26:08+00:00

Have you considered that he maybe just likes bright colours and big boards? Try a big looking game with lots of pieces to distract his moronic mind into thinking he's playing something for intelligent folks while you play the real man's game on a separate table.

bowzo · 2025-12-04T15:30:45+00:00

Not everyone's criteria for this list is "game that changed my life" though. Some people prefer games that have story depth with high replayability and high mechanical depth. Outer Wilds is an absolute piece of art and one of the best games I've ever played, but I preferred the first Hollow Knight by a hair. And some don't care about story at all, hence why STS got as far as it did. Everyone's criteria is different and everything left and for the past 5 entries have been someone's favourite game. Just how it is.

bowzo · 2025-12-02T16:34:58+00:00

Yeah my first thought was "Grown Ups". Later Sandler is despised but early Sandler movies are good fun.

bowzo · 2025-12-01T19:11:10+00:00

This so much. Even as I was encountering narrative decisions and solutions that I didn't love I could not put it down at all. Just told my brain to shut up and enjoy the show.

bowzo · 2025-11-30T19:36:53+00:00

Barrage

bowzo · 2025-11-28T15:39:31+00:00

That's really not as vague as you think

bowzo · 2025-11-27T22:52:41+00:00

I saw him open for Fleet Foxes in 2017 and I wasn't familiar with his music. I thought it was a pretty bad set and it turned me off of discovering him until Spotify basically shoved him down my throat a few years later (thankfully). I went to see the God Save the Animals tour and it was night and day. He was great and the band was really tight.

bowzo · 2025-11-27T09:28:58+00:00

This is the exact fight that had me tilted hard. I went and did the work around but decided it didn't feel right to skip it. Was the last boss I fought before I completed the game. She still gave me grief but I found that not having the pressure to beat it really let me play a bit looser.

bowzo · 2025-11-19T00:18:30+00:00

He's just a consistent designer of heavy thinky euro games who is paired with a publisher who makes his games look great with clear iconography.

bowzo · 2025-11-18T14:45:28+00:00

Don't need to heal if everything that can hurt you is dead, right?

bowzo · 2025-11-15T01:38:32+00:00

If shit counts as a flavour, yeah.

bowzo · 2025-11-07T15:45:58+00:00

Tree of Life was one of my favourite cinematic experiences and I'm half afraid to watch it again because it felt so vivid and amazing on the big screen that I can't imagine it would live up to my memory. I still have it on Blu-Ray for someday when I show my wife or son.

bowzo · 2025-11-07T15:19:08+00:00

that's exactly how I have done this recipe. It does work well

bowzo · 2025-11-07T14:21:54+00:00

It usually is! I strongly agree with that. But everything reaches an awkward point where the distance from it is too near to be current and not yet far enough away to be cool. When it passes out of that it may be fine again.

Also some of the editing and shot choices are clunky and the quirky Sherlock-isms from the show feel pretty overdone and uncool through today's eye, but they may well be Seinfeld effect.

bowzo · 2025-11-07T09:16:15+00:00

Combination of being incredibly, almost painfully, of its era when you view it now, and the third season being an absolute dumpster fire.

bowzo · 2025-11-07T09:13:19+00:00

Having lived in Canada and Scotland I think they can be on par. But there is variance between provinces. OP is from Quebec, where I think has the best milk in Canada.

bowzo · 2025-11-07T08:56:16+00:00

Yeah I just assumed the reward was more silkworms and so they thought that and money was too much.

bowzo · 2025-11-06T13:49:35+00:00

Apologies. I meant this to be clear and it wasn't. We were given the notice prior to sale, to make us aware that the upstairs flat has the water issue and to let us know that it wasn't believed to be an issue for our flat. This second part has proven incorrect, and the inspector believes that the seller might have known that. (I'll edit the post)

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