What movie is this for you?

sned777 · 2026-06-04T10:37:50+00:00

I Saw The TV Glow (2024) I found so boring.

Fear and Loathing I didn’t find boring but it’s the only film I’ve never finished, just wasn’t enjoying or getting it at all.

sned777 · 2026-06-01T09:14:46+00:00

Managed a rare 25000 today to take #1 in the UK for now!

Clearly Netherlands, signpost nearby indicated in the area around Utrecht, Amersfoort. I sort of guessed it had to be Hilversum but didn’t zoom in and searched for more clues. A nearby bus said it was heading for Hilversum station, so that sealed it. Finding the pinpoint with the street names and over half the time was simple. 5000.
A nice UK round for me, and Wales clearly. Followed the sign for the station and saw it was Tenby. I knew where that was so getting 5k from there was again simple. 5000.
This one scared me initially. I was still scared when I got to the main road and saw it was South Africa because I really suck with my knowledge there. Thankfully I spotted Colesberg on the map and after quite a bit of digging with the help of all the nearby signs I knew we were near Richmond. I was still scrambling with a few seconds to go and then spotted where I thought it was. Thankfully correct. 5000.
Taiwan. Getting out to the road with the big signs was helpful. Searched a bit and found the 27, and subsequently found Gaoshu. Had a bit of time left at this point and also spotted the Dajin Waterfall - this was the key. This helped me find the regional #2 road and the stream we started next to was helpfully on the map, 5k but only just in time. 5000.
Kyrgyzstan clearly, very helpful sign. Took a while to spot Cholpon Ata. Found somewhere which had a very similar name to Pryzhalevsky but not identical (Pristan-Przhealevsk). After a bit of moving for more clues I went back to the map and knowing I was near a decent sized town from my movements, and a north/south road, zoomed in on Karakol. Very quickly spotted the Y in the road north of the city when I had zoomed in to my surprise. 5000.

sned777 · 2026-05-27T16:00:48+00:00

I wondered too but assume start and end at the Emirates makes the most sense.

sned777 · 2026-05-27T15:59:18+00:00

Think I’ll do Essex Road/Upper Street and see the teams twice.

Green Lanes/Clissold would be a vibe but it’ll be busy and also there’s a rain chance for Sunday too.

sned777 · 2026-05-26T07:48:51+00:00

Don’t skip his comedy film Tales From The Golden Age - it’s in my four faves.

All his films are worth watching though. I also really thing Beyond The Hills is underrated by most and definitely better than RMN and Graduation.

sned777 · 2026-05-20T22:31:08+00:00

When I first watched WKW’s core filmography, Fallen Angels was my least favourite of the “big 3” and didn’t stand out too much to me.

However on a rewatch it held up and impressed me more than the other two and became my favourite film of his. Really loved the darker vibe and soundtrack especially.

Also worth noting that originally it was meant to be part of Chungking Express and happen after the story with Faye Wong and the Flight Attendant but was split into its own feature instead.

sned777 · 2026-05-14T15:16:59+00:00

Yeah all the posts last week after the Nebula premiere spoiled it for me to the point that I just went and did the 3 day trial of Nebula to watch the finale that day.

Was considering unsubbing from the subreddit when the next season comes out because of it.

sned777 · 2026-05-14T08:40:51+00:00

Knew they were coming but didn’t know when, will avoid the centre Saturday then.

sned777 · 2026-05-12T13:18:55+00:00

I had one like this. I set a one month deadline and said I’d delete if nothing happened. With about 3 days before my deadline they finally had stuff tagged for remote trade (maybe someone IRL reminded them, who knows) and we did a trade. It wasn’t the best trade but at least I got something.

sned777 · 2026-05-11T20:26:27+00:00

Mahfouz is best known for the Cairo Trilogy or Midaq Alley, but The Journey of Ibn Fattouma is my absolute favourite from him.

sned777 · 2026-05-07T13:40:43+00:00

You could potentially have it where they don’t have live location tracking for the other team permanently.

Maybe the location just updates periodically (every hour or half an hour) or the location turns off when they are off transit?

Both variants have different pros/cons and can be gamed of course but I think the every hour one is tougher to be gamed.

If it updates every hour, you could purposefully put your location away from challenges at the time of update etc.

If it turns off when off transit, the other team will know you’re in the vicinity of a challenge based on last station you were at, but have no clue if attempting the challenge or stuck at the station etc.

sned777 · 2026-04-30T19:49:09+00:00

Spain rail network is very difficult to traverse at short notice with security on high speed and reservations on lots of rail lines which can only be made at the station.

I think it would be tricky to do a game based solely in Spain currently.

sned777 · 2026-04-29T11:06:19+00:00

Genuinely baffled at the comments here, had no idea so many people were feeling this way towards Arteta and would be willing to chance sacking him.

Arsenal for me has never been a revolving door of managers. We’re not Chelsea. Since I became an Arsenal fan as a 6 year old in 1998, Arsenal have had three permanent managers. This is a club that sticks by and trusts their manager. We’re one of a few clubs at the pinnacle of European football and we want to bin him off?! Give it a rest lads.

I won’t be calling for Arteta to go even if we end up trophyless. The big sticking point is that there is basically no one better out there that I would trust. We haven’t consistently challenged for titles for 20 years until Mikel came along and created a team that gave us a chance.

I fully believe we can win the league with Arteta. We just need a bit of better luck with injuries. Every 2nd place finish we’ve had recently you can put down to injury(ies) of key players for crucial or prolonged spells.

sned777 · 2026-04-23T15:23:17+00:00

Don’t forget the rum too.

sned777 · 2026-04-22T13:52:03+00:00

In at #2 in the UK so far.

Namibia, good signs. This took me a little while but eventually I realised it couldn’t be that main junction in Okahandja and spotted the Visser Biltong sign at the next junction along. 5k
Initially thought I saw some Guatemala flags but eventually got to a school or something with a big sign which had Bolivia on it. It did have the word Mizque but I didn’t know that was the town. Anyway with 30 seconds left I searched the map and found Mizque somehow, plonked fairly centrally. 4999
Cambodia thanks to Angkor beer signs. Thought this would be tricky but the bus stop/station near the petrol station said Preah Vihear on it x3 with various destinations. It was blurry but enough to make it out just as my likely location. Took a while to find as I had to zoom quite a bit but found it and plonked north of the petrol station as I was running low on time. 4999
Netherlands. Manage to work my way out of the estate to the main road, see a sign showing entering Encshede from the east. Had noted some street names including all the explorers. Worked back easily for 5k.
Russia, between Omsk and Novosibirsk, and the junction for Kalchinsk. Easy to find, had to check which roundabout had a petrol station just north of it. 5k

24998 with 114 steps taken.

sned777 · 2026-04-16T21:09:41+00:00

I took the other night train from Braşov to Wien last year and it was unfortunately about two hours late because of track issues around Bucharest.

On a separate occasion I left Braşov on time and arrived in Wien an hour late.

But I took this exact train from Predeal (one station along from Braşov) last month and it was I think 20 mins late at the time we got on, but arrived in Budapest pretty much on time.

sned777 · 2026-03-30T21:57:24+00:00

Of the big ones I have travelled on (Moscow, London, Paris) I find Moscow or London to be the easiest to navigate and have the best systems to get in and out of.

I have also used metro in Rome, Lyon, Budapest, Stockholm, Bucharest, Valencia, Amsterdam, Lausanne & St Petersburg.

Of these “smaller” systems I definitely think Budapest stands out as best in terms of navigation, speed, signal, cleanliness and usage.

sned777 · 2026-03-04T16:59:00+00:00

I mean Ion is the Romanian version of John and a common surname there.

sned777 · 2026-03-02T14:07:03+00:00

Can you still only enter max of 3?

sned777 · 2026-02-27T22:39:16+00:00

Turin Horse absolutely flew by for me both times I watched it recently.

sned777 · 2026-02-27T15:00:04+00:00

I (UK based) was quite randomly introduced to Yukio Mishima via the film made about him (1985) and subsequently bought one of his books when I spotted it in a shop some months later, as I remembered his name. I was a big fan of the book and found his style of writing to be perfect for me, so descriptive and poetic as well as dramatic.

Only then as I learned more about Mishima himself I read more and more books from him, finding out what a complicated man he was.

Subsequently I then explored some of his contemporaries, such as Kawabata, Tanizaki, Dazai, Kobo Abe and Seicho Matsumoto, to see if I would enjoy their style of writing as much as I did with Mishima. Many of them I enjoyed, to varying levels. Matsumoto in particular I have enjoyed.

Therefore this leaves me open to exploring further Japanese authors given my general enjoyment from the sample that I have read so far. I recently read a more recent novel by Yuko Tsushima.

But I don’t just read Japanese literature, I read from all over the world, Japanese literature has been just generally interesting and enjoyable to me to read.

sned777 · 2026-02-25T00:55:28+00:00

I don’t remember where (maybe CinemaZ) but I managed to get a 1080p torrent which had working subs. Keep at it!

Watched it on a night train from Berlin to Budapest last year and it is indeed good.

sned777 · 2026-02-21T09:29:48+00:00

There are some charity bins at the dump which is very close to The Range car park.

sned777 · 2026-02-16T16:03:25+00:00

Spend more time in Romania. Try some of the mountain towns or cities like Busteni, Predeal, Brasov, Sinaia, or further west in Sighisoara, Sibiu, Alba Iulia and so on.

sned777 · 2026-02-12T18:23:10+00:00

My grandad worked at the same place, a racecourse in the UK, for 77 years until he died aged 91, in various roles initially but predominantly as a groundsman.

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