A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for Film Stories or my blog.

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  • It’s an emulator for playing the entire back catalogue of Lucasarts games. It’s very well documented and ready to use. As I said, if you had some kind of general midi set up or Roland MT32 back in the day, you’d be laughing. The music is awesome.

    The program is called Dreamm.

    DREAMM is a backronym for:

    DOS
    Retro-
    Emulation
    Arena for
    Maniac
    Mansion (and other LucasArts Games). 
    


  • I played the first, maybe not all the way through, on my Atari ST. Later on, I got quite annoyed that the Amiga got the sequel but Lucasfilm Games days it wasn’t coming to the Atari.

    I remember getting the PC CD-ROM edition of the original game and the music was lovely.

    The next time I played was game three, Curse of Monkey Island. I loved the art style and completed that one.

    I plan on playing the latest installment at some point. I downloaded it onto my Xbox.

    There’s also a great program for playing old Lucasfilm faces on PC. You can load soundbanks into it because it can emulated different midi interfaces that I dreamed of owning back in the day. The tunes sound amazing.











  • Back in the day, I bought the official Xbox360 steering wheel. It made me laugh because it was called wireless. It was only wireless between itself and the Xbox. It still needed a power brick to drive the motor and another wire to connect it to the pedals.

    When I sold it, I almost made my money back because it was in high demand. MS had replaced it with that awful U shaped steering wheel that you held in the air like a Wii controller. It used sensors to tell when it was tilted. I never used one but the reviews weren’t favourable as I remember.








  • Rishi may have the brains to run a company (maybe) but his public interaction of any kind is atrocious. I listened to the full five-minute apology, and it sounded utterly false. Every time he speaks, not just this apology, you can tell it has been scripted, especially when he’s asked a question, and he replies with the identical repetition of something he’s already said.

    The amount of times he said the same sentence about the fact the itinerary was already set weeks ago. So you were always planning to leave early? I hope some evidence turns up to prove that he allegedly wasn’t going to go to France at all. This is what the French government were told a few weeks ago, apparently.

    Finally, don’t make this political!? Too fucking late mate.


  • The Daily Mail has the answer. I’ve clicked the link so you don’t have to.

    www.dailymail.co.uk

    Woman threw milkshake over Farage is OnlyFans model

    Eirian Jane Prosser

    14 - 17 minutes


    18:24, 04 Jun 2024, updated 20:49, 04 Jun 2024

    The woman who hurled a milkshake over Nigel Farage as he launched his campaign to become an MP is a Jeremy Corbyn-supporting OnlyFans model who hails from a family of Brexiteers, MailOnline can reveal.

    Victoria Thomas-Bowen, 25, was arrested by police on suspicion of assault after she drenched the new Reform leader as he stepped out of a Wetherspoons in Clacton, Essex.

    Dramatic pictures show how the mother-of-one dodged Mr Farage’s burly minders before flinging the contents of a McDonald’s cup towards him. It caught him full in the face.

    Mr Farage, who previously dubbed Clacton the ‘most patriotic’ town in Britain, merely wiped his eyes and continued.

    Speaking from his home in nearby Jaywick, her Brexit-voting brother Paul told MailOnline: ‘I have just seen it, and to be honest, I’m appalled. I don’t know where she is. I don’t want anything to do with her.’

    Despite posting a video on X with the caption ‘my milkshake brings all the people to the rally’ in reference to the 2003 song Milkshake, Farage admitted it was ‘quite frightening’.

    Nigel Farage was drenched by a woman after being mobbed by crowds in what he described as the ‘most patriotic’ town in Britain

    The woman who was arrested for dramatically throwing a milkshake over Nigel Farage is a Jeremy Corbyn-supporting OnlyFans model, MailOnline can reveal

    Victoria Thomas-Bowen, 25, was arrested by police on suspicion of assault after she drenched the new Reform leader as he stepped into the huge mob

    Thomas, who is an OnlyFans model with more than 18,100 followers on Instagram, appears to be a Labour supporter, previously pledging her support to Keir Starmer’s party

    The blonde young woman who threw the milkshake over the politician

    Don’t mention the milkshake: Farage’s highlights of Clacton meeting

    The incident has led to wide condemnation from MPs all across the political spectrum including Labour’s Yvette Cooper who called it a ‘disgrace’ and ‘completely unacceptable and wrong’.

    But Thomas-Bowen, who films her x-rated video clips in the spare bedroom of her mother’s £260,000 house in Grays, told the BBC she flung the banana milkshake because she ‘just felt like it’.

    ‘He doesn’t stand for me’, the self-described ‘petite blonde pocket rocket’ added. ‘He doesn’t represent anything I believe in, or any of the people around here. He doesn’t represent us, he’s not from here.’

    She previously voiced her support for Jeremy Corbyn on Facebook and called for Britons to boycott the late Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

    Last November, the model flew out to Istanbul for a nose job.

    She told her subscribers she underwent the procedure to make her nose ‘smaller’ and ‘prettier’.

    Posting pictures of her recovery - and showing off the difference before and after - Thomas-Bowen said she loved her new nose ‘so much’ and was already breathing better.

    ‘My milkshake brings all the people to the rally!’ Farage jabs back

    Mr Farage was flanked as usual by burly security as he left a pub, but they could do nothing as the women flung the contents of what appeared to be a McDonald’s cup towards him


    They’re was a lot more but I think you get the gist. It was mostly pro farage stuff.