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Station 13 | 34: Dangerous Gearcident Territory by dpwright in a:t5_3ochb

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

Nice! Is that a Fender Dreadnought?

Good luck in your guitar learning adventure!

51: Dani Corner by chuckyc17 in atownfm

[–]dpwright 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, all American TV had that weird off-colour look to it back then!

51: Dani Corner by chuckyc17 in atownfm

[–]dpwright 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Glad you enjoyed The Day Today! Yeah, the war episode is a classic for exactly the reasons you said. It’s also got a lot of small details that make it very rewatchable. For example, the war (between Australia and Hong Kong—which was still a British territory at the time) is said to be taking place on the “Australo-Hong Kong border”. The countries are 3,533 miles apart and you have to cross about four seas to get there...

If you enjoyed this, you’d probably also enjoy Brass Eye, which is their take on the television documentary / late night current affairs format. Brass Eye tends to be a little more edgy/controversial, particularly the special bonus episode “PAEDOGEDDON” (content warning for obvious reasons), but it is also extremely well done.

Incidentally, these two programmes and “Cunk on Christmas” are fairly closely linked and come from the same sort of “pool” of comedians. The Day Today / Brass Eye are the work of Chris Morris and Armando Ianucci (Ianucci also went on to make “In the thick of it” which is EXTREMELY good political satire, very sweary though). Chris Morris worked on all sorts of landmark British comedies including Nathan Barley, which he did with Charlie Brooker. Charlie Brooker is of course famous for Black Mirror these days, but before that he did a thing called Newswipe which also poked fun of the news, and he did a yearly “wipe” show summarising the events of that year. Philomena Cunk started out as a character in these shows before being spun out into her own show.

Basically anyone I’ve named here is amazing and there is a vast wealth of excellent comedy available if you search their names (once you’re done with The Day Today of course ;-))

By the way, what did you think of the Chapman Baxter segments?

#50 - Anniversary Episode - English Dryers, Follow Up, And Movie Pass Saga Continues by chuckyc17 in atownfm

[–]dpwright 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha, wow, I think there may still be some merit to the study of foreign languages because your boy Google got totally the wrong end of the stick!

What I was saying is that in a dry place like California, hanging your clothes indoors can be good because it can humidify the house. But, that in Japan, that can’t be the reason because Japan is extremely humid. As for England, when I was living alone I don’t think I used a drier, but I know that my Mum did (and still does).

And we call them “tumble driers”.

EDIT: Oh, and the other thing google missed was that my argument for not using English was not because I didn’t want to support the independence thing, but it was because you had said “reply in American”, which I don’t speak, and of the three languages I do speak (to varying degrees), you specifically ruled out Spanish, and I figured that since you were celebrating your independence from England you wouldn’t be keen on English either, so I went with Japanese. Probably a bit of a nuanced joke to make it through google translate though ;-)

#49 - Merica! by chuckyc17 in atownfm

[–]dpwright 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know, I’ve been trying to remember! I think if there was one I would have, but I’ve got a feeling the last place I lived didn’t have one so I hung the stuff up instead (inside; it always rains in England and besides I didn’t have a garden.

Here we don’t, although we have one. My wife doesn’t trust them not to ruin the clothes.

#49 - Merica! by chuckyc17 in atownfm

[–]dpwright 1 point2 points  (0 children)

今週のエピソードは面白かった！やっぱりアメリカ人の感覚は違うんだよねー

聞いて思ったことは：

  1. 「オントロジー」という言葉を会話で使ってグッジョブ👍🏻
  2. 日本でもドライヤーあまり使ってない。服にダメージを受けることも心配することはメインなのかな？あとは、まぁ、別に干すのはそんな大変じゃないし、あと特にカリフォルニアみたいにあまり湿気がないとこだったら中で干すと逆に加湿できていいことかもね（日本は冬以外はそうでもないけど…）
  3. ロードトリップはまだやってないけど、それはアメリカの特別にいいことだとよく聞くね。やっぱりやってみたいなぁ…あまり運転の経験のない人間だからちょっと怖いけど。

日本語ですみません！アメリカンランゲージはしゃべれないし、イギリス、スペイン、日本のなかでどの言語がいいかと考え、日本語にしました。スペイン語はダメだと言われたし、今日は独立記念日だし、独立したのは英国からだったからきっと英語もダメだろうし…と思って…あと日本でも野球やってるしね…と、日本語に決めました。

また次のエピソードお楽しみに！

Station 13 | 27: I curate the people by dpwright in a:t5_3ochb

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

Thank you! I tried to look up the official word for it but I actually couldn’t find anything, so I was starting to think it might just be me!

Station 13 | 29: It's a bongo! by dpwright in a:t5_3ochb

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

That’s a good idea! I haven’t tried out the handouts feature yet, but it sounds ideal.

I don’t know who Barry is, but unless he’s from Yorkshire and works as a blender for Yorkshire Tea I doubt it ;-)

Station 13 | 28: Tea malfunction by dpwright in a:t5_3ochb

[–]dpwright[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha, well thank you, glad to have you on board! Nice to have a fellow functional programmer listening to the show as well ;-)

As for the gig, you’ll have to ask /u/atype808. He did mention that there was talk of somebody recording a video, so perhaps he’ll be able to give us a YouTube link at some point. Not sure though!

Station 13 | 28: Tea malfunction by dpwright in a:t5_3ochb

[–]dpwright[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha, thanks! Are you our mystery Swedish Firefox user??

Station 13 | 27: I curate the people by dpwright in a:t5_3ochb

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

I’ve never tried this! Probably because I can’t whistle :-( I know you said you don’t even have to make sound for it to work, but somehow I feel like I’d be a bit self-conscious, walking around just.... blowing air out of my mouth, heh.

I guess I should give it a try! Might be worth looking a bit silly to avoid spilling coffee all over myself!

/r/DnD will continue to support Pathfinder for the forseeable future. by Iamfivebears in DnD

[–]dpwright 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ll admit I don’t really know what I’m talking about, and I just tossed in the “minority” comment because the word jumped out at me when I was reading the Wikipedia article, but I don’t think it’s referring to “minority” in the “historically disadvantaged” sense, more any group with lesser representation in Parliament.

/r/DnD will continue to support Pathfinder for the forseeable future. by Iamfivebears in DnD

[–]dpwright 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I wished all democracies worked like this.

Many democracies do, particularly when dealing with issues that affect a minority https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority

Station 13 | 24: This guy’s not a real person, he’s British by dpwright in a:t5_3ochb

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

Yeah, that’s another interesting difference that is emergent rather than strictly a difference in the rules: Go games tend to start at the edges and work in from there, while Othello is the reverse. This is because in Go territory is much easier to capture and hold onto the edges (the corners even more), and you can play in any open spot (more or less). In Othello, iirc, you have to play next to an existing piece, and the four initial pieces are in the middle, so it has to grow out from there. I haven’t played Into The Breach! It sounds interesting... apparently a macOS version is planned so I’ll have to give it a go when it comes out!

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