AlSymerz

Looking above I forgot to keep going after 81

Wow I think that's the closest we've been in just about every year. I own 7 out of those 10.

I think that's because you're thinking more deeply than I am capable of at the moment. My theory was simple, if we are all dissenting we doing the same basic act, therefore by definition we were the sheep. At least that's what I think I was thinking. No one wants to be friends with me because I listen to thrash but yes I agree prolonged exposure to some people makes it easier to read between the words. I'm sure we all still get it wrong occasionally but it does help. We've seen it happen here as recently as the Ice Nine Kills thread, I don't think anyone was being entirely serious, or trying to offend, in that thread but the result is the dude rage quit calling us old. How fucking rude!! I kind of don't care who I do all that with, within reason. Most of the time I will pick the audience, like you do, but there is occasional times I'll just throw my 2 cents worth in for the sake of entertaining me. But usually those sort of conversations are better had with people that you have a rapport with. Meatheads? Fucking meatheads? Now you've really fucking offended me!

Cosmic Psychos - Oh What A Lovely Pie

It seems that you've broadened my half arsed thought of no substance to something with more depth and that made my brain hurt. I didn't assume we'd follow the same path of music appreciation, but if we are all doing the same thing we are essentially sheep. Although I have to say, anyone who has tried to heard sheep before knows the stupid little fuckers do not follow each other, so really doing the same thing but walking different paths is the exact definition of what sheep do. I do agree with the rest of what, I think, you're saying though. There is no need to be offended by what is said anywhere, real world or internet world, words are just words and they don't need to hurt. To me, someone who is being a deliberate dick and trying to offend people is not really any different to the person who gets offended by a word they don't like and has to make a scene. But that doesn't mean everyone should stop using such words. The worst part of being free with word, letting loose, having a go, throwing some shit, call it whatever suits ones terminology, is that on the net it's often difficult to tell when someone is offended or upset. It's easy to say that I don't get upset by what others say therefore others shouldn't get upset when I say the same things, but that's not a real world scenario, there will always be someone who doesn't see things the way I do. I'm sure we've all mistakenly thought someone else was upset by what we said when they weren't and vice versa. Likewise we've probably all upset someone without knowing it. To me that's life, I'm not going to get cut up over it, I'm not going to run away crying, but if someone else does that's their choice. NP: Nothing because that load of dribble took so long the music stopped.

Dissent, mild disagreement or outright love and fuzzy feelings, forums exist for people to post shit to. The alternative is a hundred posts all saying "this place is dead". Dissent all you like you grumpy bastard but if you ever pick on my pink hat and purple polka dotted shorts you're off the Christmas list. However the thought does occur that if we all do follow down the same path of dissenting malcontents are still not all sheep just of a different breed? Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Marcabre - Carnival Of Killers

John Wick's biggest problem is John Wick. No1 was good, No2 was okay but not really anything startling and No3 was pretty much just rinse and repeat.

I was doing a service on the ute yesterday, nothing like getting up from laying under the car to remind you how old and out of shape you are! But at least I didn't fall asleep on the garage floor creeper...so maybe I'm not that old after all!

Evil Invaders - Feed Me Violence

Rave Party Doc kicking it with the millennials! Battlegrave - Cavernous Depths. Should this have made my list for 22? Probably not, but it's not too bad.

Hydra Vein - Unlamented

It does give the guy bragging rights now that he has a 'dick to big for Disney'.

I didn't even know a second Avatar was a thing until I heard them say how much it cost! I've never been a huge fan of CGI but when I read they were using it to make sure the guy in Black Panther's crotch bulge wasn't too big to be offensive I realised they have finally jumped the shark.

I heard the new Avatar cost something like $400M to make, that's just fucking ludicrous in my eyes, (but I'm not a fan so my opinion doesn't really matter). I'd still much rather a real explosion, cost effective or not, than a CGI explosion. I hate CGI explosions, fires, crashes and the like, to me it cheapens the movie and makes me think they are trying for a slapstick comedy. Maybe in space movies or superhero movies where reality is already suspended it's different, but I can't stand seeing a house blow up in some action movie and realising that it's not real. Awe well it wont be long before Hollywood starts looking for their CGI experts on Fivver so as to cut down the cost of production.

Yeah I can agree that there is more out there that love the shit than there is that avoid it. But for all those that love this also seems to be a growing dislike for what they are doing. Maybe those people are the stupid ones who continually flock to the movies to see things they know they are going to complain about. Maybe Hollywood are the idiots who don't care enough to listen to the dislike because it's not hurting their bottom line. Netflix and other streaming platforms are realising that profiteering isn't as simple as just making it and the hordes will flock to it because even some of their big name series are showing a downturn in viewers but the price to make them is still rising. Cinemas in this country realised the downturn in the market more than a decade ago and had to offer cheap incentives to get people back. Numbers here are up but we are a thousand miles away from places like the US when it comes to most cinema releases and how long they spend playing to anything more than a 20% full cinema. It seems to me with such a heavy reliance on CGI these days movies are becoming little more than animated fairy tales and repeats of themselves. Shit half the time they use CGI to remove imperfections from the $5M stars face, (or remove some poor bloke's wedding tackle from his loin cloth because it's deemed to big for a minor audience). With home computing being what it is it wont be long until 8yr old kids can make an almost Hollywood worthy film without the high priced actors and little more than a D grade at school (they'd have got a B if they didn't spend all day fucking around with that computer!). Maybe that's ideal world thinking. Maybe Hollywood wont ever realise they only cater to some. Maybe the movie watches of this world will always have easy money to throw at lacklustre releases they are only going to pick holes in. I don't really know where the end of it is, but I know the movie world is becoming less and less for people like me. Thankfully though there is still an independent movie industry, it doesn't always create winners but some of the stuff is worth watching.

A woman my wife used to work for claimed she had noarse syndrome. She's right, she her arse was flat and didn't hold her jeans up properly. Her solution was to get some padded underwear that formed her arse into a bigger mound, perhaps you should get some of those. Our sizing is slightly different here, it's not supposed to be but it is, but I haven't bought a size L since I was 14. Long before I became a fat bastard I was wearing 2XL shirts and more than 32" pants.

But why are studios demanding it? Is it the want of the people? I'm not a blockbuster movie type person and don't really mix with people that are, but when the topic comes up most I know seem to be sick of fake and over done CGI. Many even think CGI, big bangs etc are often used as substance because of lack of story line. Is it the studios? CGI costs big bucks in a lot of movies, but big name stars cost a lot more, marrying the two means movies have to make a shit load of money just to break even. Hollywood doesn't seem to be making many efforts to cut costs and the studios seem happy to push the larger costs included with CGI into nearly everything. Is it the producers/movie makers wanting to out do each other? I think that statement probably only stands up with a few of the really big names and there is many who just can't compete. For me I'm sick of remakes, redo, rehashes and origins stories. I would prefer original content (although lets face it nothing is truly original) even if it's not great to yet another movie sequel or remake. Obviously many people disagree with that because they flock to the latest remake, or they drool over a new chapter in a story they've watched before, and that's fine I can live with that because I don't rush out to the movies. I probably still wouldn't rush to the movies if they made them more to my liking, but I'd be more interested in them on my own screen.

It appears Obituary's new album has leaked early for anyone interested in sampling before the official release date.

I think too much of Hollywood CGI these days looks fake. Seems to me that in effort to continually outdo themselves they've gone too far and everything comes off as over done and less real.

AC/DC - Ballbreaker

Yeah the rebranding has worked well for them, the same goes for their trucks. Most Euro trucks didn't have a good reputation here for years and while that has improved Volvo has come in leaps and bounds and now days they even test trucks here. The 80's model 240 GL was a great car despite it's ugliness, there are quite a few here now being brought back to life. Where getting a lot more big GMC's, F Trucks, and RAM's here but I can't see Doc in one of those, they take up too much space in the car park and the more car spaces available the more double bookings a doctor can make, which affords them the expensive US import. So maybe he does drive and Escalade NP: The Poor - Round 2

Volvo's have always been frowned upon here in Oz. The boxy look and the mistaken idea that they always broke down had people who'd never driven them also never wanting to go near them. For years there was also many silly Australian's who thought that cars that always had their lights on by default were somehow inferior. It's kind of ironic now days given that we pretty much can't buy a car here that doesn't have 'daytime running lights'. Range Rover's are big here among city doctors, or at least their wives. One look around several Melbourne Hospital carparks and it's all Range Rovers, Lexus', Mercs and Beemers. Beemers less so now because they are becoming common as muck and even boy racers just out of high school can afford lower end Beemers. Country doctors tend more towards the Lexus version of the Toyota Land Cruiser, the Toyota badge being too low class to be seen wearing. Given the already colourful language he keeps aiming at me I'm going to go with a black Range Rover, and he drives it like Prince Philip used to!

Now that's just bragging!

You are a grumpy old man with a colourful, but not very expansive, vocabulary, are you sure you're not holding something in a little too long?