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Clearly I missed out on this Toastable place! Passed it a bunch as it was just up the road from one of my uni locations but for whatever reason I never tried it out.

Cool to see this here. I just spent a year as a student living in Diemen (which is just after the cut-off point to the south east of your map) and I'd second all your recommendations - some great picks! I'd definitely add the Eye Film Institute which you can access via the world's shortest ferry journey* out the back of central station. Even if you're not a cinema buff it's a bizarre building worth checking out and it offers a nice panorama of the city at night. For some where to actually watch films, The Movies might be the most charming cinema I've ever visited, and possibly the oldest (it's been kicking about since 1912) Here's a quick list of my favourite coffee coffee shops while I'm at it: Rum Baba, Coffee Bru, Toki, Caffenation, Caffe il Momento, Back to Black. *Probably not true, but can be as short as 2 minutes depending on traffic (yes, boat traffic)

Just popping in to say I'm totally doing this. No particular plans or ideas or anything to share yet, just stating my resolve to take part so the public shame of coming up short'll stop me wimping out. Thanks william for introducing me to Tom Francis's GM tutorial series - what a superhumanly cheerful man!

Which kind, the Alpro one? Never really liked ordinary chocolate pudding but might give that a try on your recommendation. Used to be a really fussy eater but over the last couple of years I've found that now I like pretty much everything, so who knows. Oof mega jealous here. I'd do some disdainful stuff for a smooth maker. Ever do any of those weird spinach mixes I see people drinking?

Have had the same thing almost everyday for what must be getting on two years: banana, flax seeds, muesli, soy yoghurt. It looks gross but it's wonderful.

Thanks Sgt! First beat is real smooth, liking it. That example from Lisa is pretty much exactly what I was looking for - track I'm working is also pretty slow and mellow. Been thinking "simple and syncopated" is a pretty good mantra for composing bass lines. Never listened to much New Order beyond Blue Monday but I gather Peter Hook is something of a bass playing diety. I feel like bass players don't get enough credit, and the one's who do tend to be the more showy types like Flea. That being said, I'm all about Thundercat. Hopefully I'll have something to post up here pretty soon.

Really like this interpretation. Though I've mostly enjoyed what I've played so far, I found myself getting frustrated for the same reasons Vasari described; the niggling feeling that anytime I interjected I was cutting off dialogue. Looking at it your way though, I realise that's a response totally conditioned by video games, in which you generally participate in conversations as a sort of content sponge rather than an agent with a personality. Next time I boot it up I'll try paying more attention to how the dialogue expresses characterisation rather than getting hung up on what I might be missing. Only real problem with the game is performance. Doesn't strike me as something that should be particularly demanding but I'm playing on the second to highest resolution with the effects turned off and it's still chugging away (meanwhile I'm playing The Witness at max with little difficulty). Seems a shame to go any lower given how lovely the style is.

Really appreciate of the theory stuff folks have posted on here. Been playing and trying to write music purely on intuition for years now but having no real method's made it difficult to see ideas through to completion. Couple of questions: I'm not a drummer and am pretty hopeless when it comes to laying down patterns that aren't total snore fests. Any tips? What makes a good bass line? Guess a lot depends on the genre your working in but I reckon there's got to be some shared principles

I did this interview/feature with Cara Ellison about her Embed with Games book. Getting to chat with her was tremendously enjoyable and informative, to the point where it felt a bit like receiving divine wisdom from guru up mountain somewhere. It reads a bit clumsier than I'd like (advice/criticism would be wonderful) but I'm posting in here in the hopes that if it gets a few clicks they'll let me do more of this sort of stuff.

Well the consensus on here is pretty emphatic so clearly I'm the odd one out but as someone who also didn't care for Skyfall whatsoever, I thought Spectre was totally serviceable, even quite fun in places. That they've dialled down on addressing the sexism in the series is disappointing but Spectre handles that stuff heaps better than any of the "classic" Bonds, so if you could put up with that before then it shouldn't be an issue with this one.

Sadly not at the moment, I miss it dearly! In any case, the beers'd be on me: free entertainment AND alcohol? No one gets to be that generous. Guess I should actually recommend a podcast while I'm here. It's concluded now but I really enjoyed the Guardian's The Biggest Story in the World which was a behind the scenes look at the conception, execution and reception of their climate change campaign earlier this year. The topic alone would be plenty interesting in it's own right but it's also a really candid insight into their editorial process with lots of internal politics etc.

Fair enough. I've only listened to it maybe a handful of time so far so maybe it'll hook me in the end - could well be guilty of letting expectations cloud my judgement. Definitely recommend going back through his older material. The last LP The Flower Lane marked a turn towards more lavishly produced conventional whereas his older stuff is more ambient, atmospheric experiments and jams, most of it recorded on crackly old tape machines and stuff. Landscapes is probably my fav. (Here's a cool ) Don't know if you know Julia Holter - she's backing vocalist who pops up on a number of the tracks - but this song from her new record's been stuck in my head for a while now. Ever since falling hard for Weezer's blue album in high school, pretty much anything with dramatic slow-build drum crescendos gives me goosebumps. Also features a sick sax solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OERixQR-hxY (How do you embed these things?)

These are great Declan, been really enjoying them. It's a bit shameful though that after 4 years at Glasgow uni it was the Idle Thumbs forums that finally got me to tune into Subcity Radio!

What did you think of his new record? For me, might be the best thing he's ever done but on the whole I found it pretty disappointing. Really dug the last one and the accompanying EP.