old movies

 Charles Gray

https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/1fb1xb9/it_was_me_james_all_along_i_was_your_brother_but/

Anyone British,  actually, if you severely limit the accent to a very, very small part of the UK, and to actors overacting.
Charles Gray gives a lecture (a 30 second one) on "Horror."
It's a movie from G0d-knows-where that my mind slapped into my mind's projector to wake me up today.

"Horror" rhymes with "HoTTer" in the UK movies I'm thinking of, 

but drilling down examples of how people pronounce "Horror" in places where 

"R" is almost never spoken (I'm thinking, "Japan") would be too massively huge of a project no one would care about.

A classic-movie theater no one goes to but bugs and winos, until it closes from years of neglect.

"Well, that was a good movie, how odd," was my reaction, 
And then I remembered it was all an advertisement to get off my ass to go to the lobby and pee.

Tik-Tok has lots of asian accent links...

https://www.tiktok.com/@loveenglish.uk/video/7296567208967294241
Reddit too:
https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/58p708/how_do_you_pronounce_horror/

This overdone video (it didn't need music) proves people in the UK can say "R" and add free vowels whenever they feel like it. 

*This* video is an exercise in hypocrisy, sort of...a pedantic-type can say "R" to teach an accent but hidden in his patter are the ways he really talks
(shoat instead of "Short")

And god love you googling an accent by the spelling, it's damn near impossible.

Roit propah aksent spulled ba da wuhds, it's impossibo, mait

And people who love to hear themselves talking slowly is grating.
The best ones use real people, not trumped-up sounds they explain forever.

Other than the new term of the day "Non-Rhotic"
I'm severely not finding much, 

"Add Caption"
(nevermind)

it's deteriorating into an accent demonstration peppered by US-people preaching the correct pronunciations.
You could make zillions, I swear, with your own special accent (from Wales or wherever)

But it *can* get annoying, as I shall now demonstrate 

The huge gigantic gargantuan (did I mention "enormous"?) theater downtown has rant-worthy blogs if you felt that this blog-entry was beneath you.
After the obligatory Trump sharts, 

A well paid writer who people look up to, who google adores.
and I glossed over because it was there (why?)
(Link)

365 comments and counting.

ONE of those comments mentioned "Google Mesh" and the old Train-of-thought started cranking up...

How much is an upper-crust, RTG cat toilet that (prolly) uses Google mesh?
Cats already know how to shit, and well-trained pets hit the yard (not the street to become pizzas)

"OK google, flush the toilet."

bugs & winos...(nevermind)

the rich and comfortably well off

 A rich guy I knew would have the credit to buy an expensive product, use it, clean it, and return it a few days later.
He'd have some patter stored in his brain to tell the sales guy.

Well, anyway I thought of that, when a guy made a kid's stepping stool on a 

"This old house" episode.
A stepping stool is cheap.
Well, $150 isn't cheap but compare that to a "CNC router" used on the show and a thing making dados and biscuits and varnish and accessories (like adhesive tape and work tables)

My dremel tool and scroll saw and the drill are all myself could possibly ever afford. That worm-drive saw was a splurge but it was too loud to use ever except to make my excellent table (biscuit-free, no dados)
Buy all that shit, impress people at garage parties (I guess) or make crappy youtube videos, lol

Of course, you could take back the router and the work table, so maybe this is pointless (The host most prolly got the router for free.)

Most of the shows don't build stuff, 

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+carpentry+did+jesus+do&oq=what+carpentry+did+jesus+do

they cook things on astronomically expensive kitchen utensils.
My cheese-f'n-slicer was $14 at Kroger.
A La Creuset frying pan (whatever), $150-400.

Donate so these guys can tell you how to cook and build stuff......

Yeah, I prolly shouldn't write this, I don't have enough examples, but it's fun watching them custom-make food and furniture in custom studios costing half a million.

Lessee...paints and brushes, canvas, (IDK) $50,000??

https://www.reddit.com/r/HappyTrees/comments/148q3oj/bob_ross_method_average_starting_cost/ They don't know either but it's lots cheaper than $50,000

Not Rich and usually uncomfortable, I seek a game that will cause me to forget (the floor, the rent, the bugs, and Google-News (or most of it):

No Man's Sky

Is it really a glorified cartoon?
Is it only for people with OCD?

     (Do you spend eons building and collecting?)

It's still a big chunk of change, it never ends, you have to read tons (I'm told),

But people make it sound so tempting.

OK I'll keep looking, and I already wrote tons on my searches.
I don't want a cartoon game,

I hate puzzles,
I like (maybe) story mode where you feel like you've accomplished something

or saved someone.
In the end, everyone likes you, you're rescued, or you own tons and get to sit on a throne.

Fallout new Vegas (in a word.)

 Grubby freedom-fighter guy fights undead democrats and wishes for a better yesterday

"They'll blow up real good," said Snake

I'm dissing a game I never heard of, but it's google's answer to "death-stranding clone"

"No man's Sky" vs "Outer wilds"
o...k
(I guess)
No horses nor zombies, I hope

OK the next couple of entries will bitch about not being able to make fuel.

I can condense it, I can make freaking-jello, just not fuel.

In goes one useless ingredient, out comes one ingredient.

I'm missing the part about other ingredients.

I'll totally guess a decent refinery exists somewhere, miles from where I am.

And how would I know any of this?

"Dude," reddit scoffs, "The game tells you".

The game tells you squat.

My "no man's sky" option (maybe) is to continually restart so the planet I get crashed on doesn't burn or freeze me to death.
My first game started pretty decent but I ran out of fuel and didn't have the proper refineries and refiner-accessories. 
The second time (now) I got much better at not running out of fuel (I walked) but the part about the refineries never came up.

Hank Hill in space.

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I accidentally killed a fox. I was mining and my beam hit it.

I couldn't stay there, leave an apologetic note, although Burying it was an option I didn't think of at the time.

Later I killed an acquaintance rather than stick them into the "Matrix" (a DIY version made by a really rich priest and his friend.)

Guilt creeps up on you (if you want to be all immersive)

I forgot 90% of the storyline, but those two examples stuck with me.

Player (me) mines with gusto and abandon as long as the batteries hold out, and sometimes it goes too far.

I wonder if Elon Musk (who is only following Orders) feels any guilt.
So I looked it up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladviceofftopic/comments/1ij4uv4/what_is_the_exact_lawlaws_that_elon_musk_is/ I realize they were fishing for posts on a slow day, but the TLDR is "it depends."

Random TOT (it's topical, sort of)

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/vietnam-my-lai-massacre/

food

 

(Link)

I can't sleep, "acid reflux" or something like that.

I usually "hear" or don't hear the whooshing noises of the late-night traffic.
It'll be quiet because of a holiday, or extra-whooshy because of the rain or the wind.
In my head was a western-style movie about farm workers relaxing from the day's labor, and I could hear a distant guitar playing over the crickets...
What farm workers? 
Do farms have crickets?

(link)

Who is going to harvest the crops once Trump is done being "MAGA??"
I don't really want to edit this to death, because it was a very brief train of thought, audio and images, not words and news.

(Or bombastic opinions)

  

Historically the US treated farm workers like crap, ...

The statement in the first picture above incites grumbling on my part that Wikipedia is so concerned with style that it ignores how opaque it is, how unreadable, and the article, being well written, is considered to be beneath the Wikipedia-unreadability standards.

For example, if you got Marburg or Ebola, your body would freak and release Cytokines like they were the national guard.

A person with elevated cytokines might want to read about them, and what would they find?

You'd go into septic shock. You'd die or almost die.
But you wouldn't prolly know what a cytokine was.

The only people who would, live in 1963 and are familiar with the clubby terminology, just not (maybe) the updated info. (or else why would they bother reading wikipedia?)
We lay people will almost never know.

"Cytokine storm"..."COVID-19" hmm

I don't suppose antihistamines help a whole lot, but it's a thought. (Damn near everyone has a DIY remedy, I just wondered about Claritin and the rest)

Meanwhile, avocados slowly rot on store shelves, and they've rearranged the egg section so it doesn't look so empty.
O, a new train, "What does Kroger think of Trump (and food prices)?"
Enough about rocket ships to oblivion, where you can't grow anything anyway.
Enough about AI and how much money it'll make.
What (the fuck) are you gonna do with food? Use some AI to figure that out.

I'm guessing Kroger likes Trump. 
OK, nevermind

The war, covid, supply-chains, and now tariffs, Kroger must be having a freaking party.

"Battling discounters"

I can't write a damn blog about the inner workings of prices, because they keep changing the rules. Five minutes ago people lots smarter than me pulled their money from the stock market, but then shit happened, and they put it back.

OK fucket, my mind is flashing the lines from "Scarface" with Al Pacino,
"I was only kidding."
Manipulating headlines, more like it. 

(link)

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Note to self, go easy on Shampoo

 https://www.google.com/search?q=shampoo+review+%22vo5%22&oq=shampoo+review+%22vo5%22

OK I don't know why shampoo is so high, higher because of war or covid or supply-chains or greed masking as (war or covid or disease or supply chains)

Every time I shop for shampoo, I wonder how bad it would be to just use liquid soap.

It's true Unilever was sued, but the judgement that I read isn't clear, it's like that lady on "Bones" spouting facts. 
Vaguely, going from reddit, hair-loss has been reported with some shampoo.

Preliminary Reddit link (not exactly exemplary)

I apologize about my reddit link, because there are so many other opinionated reddit links I could have chosen...I was looking for one I saw an hour ago.
More recently, people bombast that there is no proven link between hair loss and shampoo, or "suave" is better than VO5.

VO5 has so many ingredients listed in teeny-print on a transparent bottle, but people (or shills, IDK) push it as a non-hair-losing shampoo.

WHY pay $10 for a bottle that might make you lose hair?
Vo5 is the cheapest I could find in the store.

There should be a paragraph here wondering why shampoos for men, double as body washes, and what differentiates them from women's shampoo.
Testosterone/estrogen?
But it is way too vague, and once you add "for men" or "for women," the price jumps $10. 
Pour Homme vs "Tresemme" (spell checker is having a fierce debate just now)

I also briefly wondered why more expensive shampoos are named after plants or fruit, since they have little or no smell. 
Ignoring the lady cracking open the bottles on the shelf to sniff, I'm talking about the lingering fragrance you get after shampooing.

Well anyway.... Lots of unanswered questions: Price, Hair-loss, smell.

Unilever (apparently) is the death-star, the GOP of shampoo makers.

"Why was Unilever sued" is way too vague.

So, ignoring "Why" and limiting the lawsuits to shampoo:

The other stray trains-of-thought have no home.
Harry Belafonte belting out "Shake, shake, shake Senora" (no ñ)
And where bananas will come from or will people just stop buying them:

His girlfriend's name is "Senora." O. I missed that part.

They made a board game, sort of.
You have to reeeeeally use your imagination,

to answer trivia questions and get some money. 
See, now that is why I'm poor, no game show or fake coin is gonna make me get off my ass. I don't understand the show or the new coins.

well, anyway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(American_game_show)

I like "Match Game" instead. At least, the original version.

The questions were random, the answers weren't obvious (the celebrities tried to be cute or contrarian) and you had just as much chance of winning as on the most complicated game show.

Harvest losses
d...uh, hmm

But don't they wanna eliminate capital gains?

Buy NFTs and eat the bananas (IDK)

I don't know the formula for income you owe $3000 on, but anyway "Crypto millionaire" sounds like $3000 is peanuts, why do you care who gets it.
(Unless maybe it's a competition at the billionaires-boys-club, who pays the least taxes)

Baldur's gate (Train of thought, sort of)

 Should I buy "Baldur's Gate II?"
"It should be punishment for criminals," says one reviewer.
Unless you're super-into D&D, no. 
Well. 
this (bg3) record is getting scratchy from overplaying.

I've got enough $$ for an unpopular game, but the popular ones are still expensive despite years of dust and neglect.

The camera clicked just as Shadowheart frowned to make a point.
*My* point was, give her decent hair and fix her bug-green eyes, 
She almost looks decent (OK this picture was a bad example, but yeah)

Unfortunately I have no apparent control over the washed-out color you might be seeing. She looks very decent, But you'll just have to believe that, because I cannot duplicate it here.

Most popular games want you to kill something, for a better weapon (to kill something) to finally meet the unkillable something.

Ah, IDK. I need to remind myself, unpopular games are my required domain, but some are boring as hell.

What constitutes a good game anyway?
you don't have to ride a horse, nor drive a car.

An available weapon (e.g., "45 magnum") Kills the biggest beast.
You don't die (much)

I think I own that game already, I'm a mailman in a postapocalyptic world, and the unkillable evil guy can eventually be killed, if I cheat tons.

("Death Stranding")

An unassuming rogue-type person who has a soft heart.

This thread starts off rocky and gets slightly better.

"Games you like that really suck" or words to that effect.

Maybe a political thriller

How much nukes could a president bomb if a president could nuke the world?

(Doesn't exactly roll trippingly off the tongue)

If a president bombed Moscow would he bomb New York to make up for it?

How many bombs could you bomb,
exactly, and manage to avoid nuclear winter?

uhhhh, "Rule the world" in six easy steps without triggering the apocalypse.

(Except they sort of *want* the apocalypse)

"Disco Elysium!" say some, in an obscure thread. Should I even bother looking at the price?
I mean, if people love it, the company is greedy, uh...

You pay a shitload for a videocard and this is what you can expect?
$40

IDK.
Games with beautiful sunsets, endless walking, an occasional closeup, and music.

Gotta have music.

But I've done that genre to death.

"Legend of zelda" best for exploration

but not on PC

(without an emulator)

(and a pirate copy)

Next!

(This is like night-school for old people..)

Um, "Best PC exploration open world RPG"

I really hated Deus-ex, I think.

The rest are ok. 

"divinity yada this&that" is it another card game?? IDK

Next!
(I think I'd hate it anyway)

Unfortunately I've done this type of entry before, listened to your recommendations before, Blocked them from my memory before:

The pictures (above) follow the train of thought from a reddit thread about "FLR" games.

Apparently the OP was looking for such a game, and sex games got a negative review point. There must be, somewhere, a distinction between

Female-protagonist and Kinky Female protagonist. 

(link)

(K-FLR??) No, "Kinky" be the wrong word (maybe)

Bioshock-infinite was topical but you couldn't do a whole lot about the plot, except get yourself killed to save the world.

Kill the police

kill the gangs

kill the preacher

kill yourself

All dressed up in a timey-wimey world.

A loser and a drunk saves the world (kind of) but loses his pathetic life.

(Ahh, memories)

Why can't I find more games like that?

Fallout-something:

The world is toast, thanks to the righteous being taken away after they press the biggie button.

The normal people left, fight the undead, fight radiation, build some houses, and kill mean people.

(sort of nice)
I hate anime and jrpg and (insert name here) 2d phone-games...

I still haven't found the perfect game yet, can you tell?

Replaying games from the old steam toy-chest is less and less fun, IDK

Slow day, reading Google-software news:

"Beta 4"?
Where have *I* been?
My phone is currently downloading 15-qpr2-beta *3*
Now, I know my life is insular, but geez...

Beeesides...articles abound for the preview-2 of pixel android 16.

OK, maaaaybe the "4" is a typo, IDK.

I just wish like crazy they tweaked my fingerprint reader, but I always wish that,

 with every beta update, and

get all disappointed after trying it out, 

giving up and permanently unlocking the phone.

"Maybe THis time"

Maybe NOT this time

(Parenthetically, Dexcom warns me against installing updates.
I um, ignore them, but since I no longer have a working receiver, I should prolly listen)

This next bit is an edit. 
After the above happened, the phone downloaded android 16, but I don't know if they call it that yet, except on the download notification page.

The phone just calls it "Baklava" and lists a ton of scary numbers ("Scary" if hackers know what they mean)

Click to read

The part I circled in red, "Google-play", is a future date.
It's still January.
The baseband, Kernel and Build number look private, but I hope they are not.

The point, if there is one, is that everything looks exactly the same!
The fingerprint reader works again, barely, but the user interface looks exactly the same.

I was going to go look for an android-discussion page to see what the picayune, the exacting, found wanting or approved of.

"I before E except after C" or maybe it runs slower or faster.
As a beta tester, I suppose that I should know.

I got interested (for five minutes) in the sensors.
They have a barometer.

Unfortunately, the apps suck the personal-info dry, locations and such, and I didn't really want to expose the phone to even more scrutiny than it already has.

Apps galore want to know where I am and my contacts.

Referring to my reddit screenshot, I cannot seem to find the exact version yet, 14 or 15 or 16.
Everyone *says* it's 16, but one guy says it's still 15.
3AM insomniacs wanna know.

One of the many "about" pages claims "15". IDK. I can't find it right now.

Also if apps like "Google play services" can be safely downloaded from APK sites or if they should only be installed from the google store.
Ten zillion hacked phones can't be wrong (can they?)

And it's not like I'd find an ongoing hack-mission being talked about much.

My emails and contacts and call history are lily-white, nothing subversive, and yet,

I'd wonder what Trump has in mind for phone-owners he does not approve of.

It's like, (OK) those pirate movies (the really old ones) where the pirates were working for the Queen.
(O, nevermind)

"join the beta"

(join us, join us, join us)

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