... and goodnight.

tigersgogrrr wrote:

Ugh. I owe a grand in tax. Someone pay it for me please.

I went through this recently. Have you asked HMRC to explain it?

Tell them you're a freeman of the land, and as such are not liable to pay tax as you did not agree to it.

Tell them you have prorogued your tax for the foreseeable.

regmcfly wrote:

Post - op from June today.

Sadly no improvement in the right ear. Had an inner ear injection of Betnovate which goes behind a plastic part in my eardrum called a Porp, which was added during a previous surgery, and where all the problems occur.

Unfortunately I'll need one of these every 3-4 months for the foreseeable.

They're incredibly nauseating and cause me a lot of pain. Hey ho.

I’m very sorry to hear that H. Hopefully things will improve over time.

I think I just introduced myself to my new neighbor while holding a ps4 box, some sheets and a bra.

True story: I woke myself up today singing the theme to The Golden Girls.  Literally singing it out loud in my sleep.

I cant help directly but a few ideas.

1. Vimeo, you have probably checked but worth mentioning.

2. Reddit and forums. Try looking for threads dedicated to games tv shows but also if there are any TV archiving enthusiasts. I believe there are communities for old adverts where people buy up old VHS tapes and see what is on them.
They may have stuff uploaded privately.

3. You could try to track down the presenters. One of them is still on TV I think. That is a real long shot though.

4. You could try to find who has the rights to the show.
It was produced by Hewland International and Sky.
Hewland International folded a few years ago but was owned by Jane Hewland so you could try to track her down.

Alternatively you could try to contact Sky's rights department. This will be really expensive mind, even to commission the episode for private use. It might not even be possible.

Except video games will still manage to uncanny-valley the fuck out of it.

Looks like a fun distraction but I dont think it is doing anything new or better, just a streamlined experience that is user friendly (other than the privacy stuff).

It uses pre analysed clips. So while for the user it takes seconds there will have been hours of AI analysis of each clip at ZAO hq.
The clips also seem to all be close to front on facing slightly off camera and dont show a huge amount of facial movement.
Where there is some angle it is helped by the shape of the face being used. Chinese people have fairly flat features so depth isnt so much of an issue, get someone with a nose like Adrian Brody's and it wont look right because the AI hasn't been supplied with that data.
His face in the link is also quite easy for an AI. Small features sperated out across a broad face, Di Caprio likewise.
Try mapping onto De Niro's folds or worse mapping his folded up face onto something else.

It is a neat use of current tech but corners are cut and limitations put in place in order to make an easy to use experience with limited wonkiness.

In terms of Hollywood I think actors are going to have to get their likeness really locked down now legally.

The political opportunities are really quite worrying though. We already know people will believe any old shite written online, even more will believe it if it looks to be coming straight from the horse's mouth.

Love this wacky ol timeline.

I mean, yer man looks up and nods to the Guinness pump when I walk in the door. Where everybody knows your name (or face, in my case).

How do I know it's not small military hardware with normal sized cats.

Mmm reckon.