Chimp with a Limp

If you do end up getting one, let me know. I stream to the projector and it works fine but I know the software I use is end of life soon

Mulva zombie ass kicker 😒

Got another cinema club happening on Sept 30th, but my mind is set on the big Halloween special! 🙂

As it turns out I ended up as a fully remote worker for a global company, based in a different city. I love it! Recently moved hours to 7am starts, meaning I'm free at 3pm (and the first two hours are quiet). As I come into NZ spring/summer this will be incredible

I'm glad you guys got to meet up! He let me know he was heading to Ireland and was going to look you up, hadn't heard anything else about it. 

I hit 45 today, feels like an "advanced" age but I know if I'm lucky enough to get to 65, I'll look back and go wow I was so young.

I feel lucky that I'm relatively fit, no illnesses I know of. I have a decent career and mid range paying job, that if I was bothered could pay a lot more. I don't love it but it's what I'm best at (data work)

I feel grateful for the savoury cinema club, which I look forward to all the time. 

It's been almost ten years since I moved to America, and maybe six years or so since I moved back. I haven't mentioned it here but that, amongst other things caused my marriage to Tara to collapse. We ended up just friends, and then just housemates and then nothing at all and we split up. 

Since then I've been extremely fortunate to get into another wonderful relationship with a very kind lady called Amy, a vet (animal not Afghanistan). We've a beautiful house, Evelyn and Quinn are with us half the time, and it's working really well. I really do feel very lucky.

Game codes, links, direct downloads etc

Looks like the freebies board did not make the transition 😞 I played and completed Disco Elysium. A very well made game, but I found it pretty horrible to play as such a gross character. I wish there was more detective stuff, like piecing together the crime scene from tire tracks

Here's a new freebies page

https://www.chimpwithalimp.com/newboards/index.php?/topic/2235-freebies/

Anyone heard anything about Threads at all, since week one of its launch?

You deleting your Twitter would be like me deleting my Reddit account I think. It would take something absolutely monumental.

I hope bluesky takes off and is everything that the best of Twitter was for ya

Finally technology is catching up and I can play as a nasty rat

Horror games though 💀

I've seen clips of all the same wonderful nonsense that was in Skyrim. If you steal money, that's bad - if you're seen. However if you push all the money off a counter into a box, walk into a corner and take it, you're fine. Plenty of crazy physics glitches too like spaceships spinning at 4000 rpm in a space station

A bunch of my friends rushed out to get this, but I just haven't been bothered really! Not even been looking at clips. I have a new beats of a PC so I can surely play it just fine, but it's been a while since a new game has grabbed me. When I have 30 mins to play something I'll just play an old classic, or some quick party game, or some mindless hidden picture stuff on the projector with everyone.

I might wait for the game of the year edition, when its all patched up and has extra content.

"we don't feel like strange creeps in the corner of a field of youngsters"

I've had this going to gigs in wellington. Students that are 18 but look honestly 15 or 14, drunk as skunks. I must look 70 to them

Same experience working in the university. Waves of first years/freshmen would come in and look like they were about 14

Next showing is going to be This is Spinal Tap

Perhaps a bit of a safe one but let's see how it goes 🙂

Honestly if I find out there is a crew and catering tent and masseuse just off camera I'll cry. In an episode I watched tonight, a rather chubby guy (they bulk up before starting) was just finished bathing in the lake naked when a grizzly bear that was about three times his size came out of the forest, very close by. 

They're given bear spray and some "bear bangers" which is like a mini firework gun to try to scare them away. It "bear"ly worked

I love it and I chose to believe it's all real! Exploitation be damned

I figure its not really exploitation because some of the people entering the competition live this lifestyle anyway, and want to challenge themselves. In the current season I'm watching, a person has some kind of phD in stone age technologies and are using those skills.

It's incredibly cool to see them start with essentially nothing and make cabins, chairs, chimneys, set up food production. Anyone can tap out at any time, they're not prisoners. If you get too hungry because your fishing setup isn't working, you can leave within a few hours and go home, get a cheeseburger. The people that end up winning it often go through some crazy things though.

There's all kinds of factors really. Having no shelter and reserving calories is great until winter comes in and you're not just literally starving because all the animals and berries etc are gone, you're also now exposed to snow. They time the show so the longer you are there, the worse conditions get until you drop out.

One of the biggest things that knocks people out is the deep silence and solitude. People are crying all day alone, thinking of families, and family is typically the reason they sign up - to pay off bills, college funds etc. Apparently even just three days of hunger can do crazy things to your brain.

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One thing they've pointed out to me is it isn't like Survivor where there are votes or weird forced collaboration - everyone is actually fully alone

This is correct, there are no audience votes , no extra goofy challenges. Just everyone does whatever they can, in their own way, to survive in a grizzly bear forest, or in Tasmania, or in outer Mongolia. It's wonderful. You maybe see the contestants and pick someone as being a good candidate for winning, then they slip down an embankment, twist an ankle and they have to tap out to get airlifted away. The contestants have no idea how the others are doing, what they're doing, and everyone's so spread out (10 miles) you will never see or hear them. There's no camera crew or anything, it's all self recorded gopro. If you contact the main base for help, you are out of the competition.

I googled for the best seasons so far, and its suggested one set in a grizzly bear lake area in Canada, season 8 I think. One guy pretty much had a heart attack within a few days, or very nearly (extreme chest pains, history of heart issues) so he had no choice but to call in and leave. It's tough to watch these people trying to get to the phone to tap out, knowing what it means.

We randomly stumbled upon a TV show called Alone on Netflix, where they take ten people, let them choose ten survival items (fishing hooks, tarp, multitool etc) from a list of twenty, and dump them into a location, 10 miles from each other so they'll never meet. Last one left who hasn't quit or needed to be evacuated wins $500,000.

The only season available to us was season 5, set in Mongolia. Some of the people were survivalists, one was an accountant, three were women, so it's a bit of a mixed bag. 

It was absolutely fascinating. You are watching to see how long they'll last and what will get them. Hunger, loneliness, injury, illness.

They get dropped off in autumn, so there's plenty of food and animals. There's also bears and wolves and boars. Fishing is good. They build a shelter, really diverse ones. Some built essentially a tent with the tarp they brought. Several built full log cabins with chimneys and insulation. They make chairs, cooking implements, fishing nets. 

As time goes on, the weather gets worse. Snow, ice. Animals go away, fish don't bite. The contestants start to really get hungry and desperate. One guy eats a heap of tree bark and doesn't poo for weeks. He had to radio for help and get airlifted out with intense abdominal pain.

Another guy was going mad at all the mice in his shelter. He couldn't sleep. Eventually he started to trap and eat them. Another guy made a fish basket thing to trap fish in. When he checked it the next day, it was full of disgusting leeches. Four days of not eating anything later, he went back to get the leeches to eat.

The contestants film themselves on GoPros and discuss their feelings and emotions as it goes on. You can see some of them going bananas slowly.

It's simply brilliant. The people you think will be there to the end sometimes get taken out by injuring themselves. 

I'll probably check it out at some point but not desperate to see it 😕

Trolls 2 was a massive success, really glad I picked it 🙂 Big loud laughs throughout

Next screening is next week, and I'll be showing one of the worst movies ever made - Troll 2, a movie that has no trolls in it and has nothing to do with Troll 1

I'm hoping people "get the joke", because some turn up to watch stuff like oscar winners. Budget is going great since we moved to the new cinema, hundreds of dollars left after rental to buy lollies, popcorn and so on

I remember one of my favourite things to do in the old Battlefield games was to play vs a map packed with bots. They weren't very smart or very challenging but it was great to be in a completely populated map. I imagine Battlebit at its best captures this feeling. I've started watching streams on Twitch about it. I do like that the buildings are destructible

I'm not sure if this is possible but it would be good if you can form a micro 'squad' with friends within a huge map and when you all die, you all spawn together. Would have been good for you and your tank mate to squad up

Good question. I never thought of Wonka as magical at all. My child brain accepted that people could float after drinking extremely fizzy drinks, or there's a breed of goose that lays chocolate eggs. It was biology, not magic. The wonkavision Tv cameras turn you into particles and reassemble you at the far end through science. It wasn't magic. In this trailer, he and others are legit flying around multiple times. I reckon they'll justify it by saying it's how he sees the world or something.

What sounds amazing about it are the vast amount of vehicles, guns and also the numbers of players on each map

I watched some videos on it a while ago and it looks like good bonkers fun