Fairly recently I've seen three movies of hers (The Odyssey, Interstellar, and Les Mis) and she's great in all of them, but her characters in all three are completely miserable lol
Is there anything more light-hearted or comedic where she plays a substantial or lead role?
These discs all work perfectly beginning to end on a boombox I have, so the problem is entirely the player here
You can see in the video it starts by failing to read all 3 discs, then it... tries? To read some?
After I finished recording, I tried again and disc 2 started to play flawlessly, I got excited... only for it to exhibit this exact same behaviour again on restart
Does anyone know where to even begin troubleshooting this
If anyone else has dealt with a similar issue and been OK please let me know
Basically normal level of ALT is 50, according to my doctor's letter anything above 100 is serious and urgent, mine came back as 84
I know there are more benign explanations but my brain keeps going to liver cancer... especially since my cat recently has been extremely sick with liver disease (she has flare-ups roughly twice a year - with perfect health inbetween - where her weight halves in a week, she goes yellow, and her ALT (and other liver values) spike very aggressively (they max out the machine at the vets' at 1000+) and she needs days on an IV before she can come home and start recovering
So I've seen firsthand how bad it can be and my cat is realistically very lucky in that she responds to treatment very well and it's not cancerous
I don't have any parts which would make actual Zooble, but this is the toy Goose based them on so it's very fun knowing whatever you build could've been Zooble's design
I've tried with multiple tapes which all work fine on an old boombox I have, so I know for a fact the cassettes aren't the problem
Also the tape is spinning at the right speed when play is pressed, and the heads lift up and visually contact the tape, it just acts like the pre recorded tapes Im using are blank
EDIT: Now when a tape is played (any tape) there's an incredibly shrill sound from the speakers and the VU meters fly as far as they can to the right (aka peak massively)
So I got the weapon the game explicitly told me I could fire from a vehicle by holding circle
Get to the bike chase, hold circle with it equipped and full ammo, nothing happens and mission inevitably failed
I don't know what else I can do, I am required by the mission to get on the bike and shoot the dude, so if I can't shoot from the bike I am softlocked
And no my controller is fine, the circle button works fine in every other game and even this one, with the sole exception of it being disabled during this mission
"That's Peter Hudson, you know that you can trust him, yeah!"
So it's totally sittable on, no rips or breaks or anything, it's in usable condition
Of course though there is the worry about parasites eg bed bugs - do you guys know how to thoroughly check it before I bring it in, and if anything does appear, what to do about it?
I have two cats so any products recommended can't be harmful to them
I order from eBay a lot, and I always roll my eyes when I see it's going to them
The item always just sits in purgatory with them for 2-3 days, then it gets given to Royal Mail and then it's with me in a day or two
But when sellers ship with RM, it's just with me in a day or two
Why the middleman which seems to only serve to make it take longer?
Was going through some old childhood boxes and found all this!
My dad's a massive gunner (he literally named me after Charlie George, those are my first and middle names) so his love of the club definitely rubbed off
I remember he also took me to a Middlesbrough game at the Emirates (I'm sadly just too young to have gone to Highbury, born in 2000) and an away game I can't remember, but I think those programmes are lost sadly
Imo it's a really solid recording! I don't think it has any of my favourite versions of the characters, but that's mostly because the TAC exists and that's just a fundamentally unfair comparison
It has a couple of my second favourites though, I really like this Fantine and Eponine (Ruthie Henshall has an element of bite and anger to a lot of her anguish I really appreciate which is lacking in every other Fantine I've heard, but this Fantine and Carrie Hope Fletcher from the Staged Concert are really strong in my opinion)
As for Eponine, yeah, nobody is ever beating Lea Salonga in that role, but this Eponine (who I think is the same one from the Staged Concert?) and Samantha Barks from the 25th Anniversary Concert are fighting for 2nd place for me now - they convey both her pain and her hard edged spunkiness and determination from her harsh background
I think I don't really like this Javert and Jean Valjean though? Obviously nobody is dethroning Quast (though Norm Lewis comes close) but this Javert is soooo over the top it made Javert's Suicide feel almost cartoonish - his extreme anger just isn't as intimidating as the cold, detatched ruthlessness Quast and Lewis bring to the role (which also just seems much more in character for Javert)
This Valjean isn't bad at all but he barely sounds older than Marius 😅 I think Colm Wilkinson and Alfie Boe give him a vocal maturity and world weariness that fits him so much better than this far more energetic and young sounding portrayal... this said, Colm and Alfie have both had TWO official recordings so at this point just anyone else is appreciated tbh
As for the Thenadiers, they're solid, much better than the ones on the OBC who I strongly dislike >.< They don't make me laugh as much as the ones from TAC or the Staged Concert (the Staged Concert ones are my favourites) but I think that's unfair because in those recordings they were playing to a live audience which obviously affects the energy of a comedic performance really heavily
I've literally just finished my first ever listen so these aren't super fleshed out thoughts or anything, just first impressions, and they might change around on further listens
But it's where I'm landing right now
PS5 Pro is £800 and that's already pricing out a TON (I'd argue most) people
We don't have the giant generational leaps between systems like we used to, which was a huge draw to getting the latest hardware
And with the death of dedicated handhelds like the DS and 3DS, and the cheapest option (Switch 2) being as expensive as dedicated home consoles used to be... where's the budget option any more? At a time when so few people can afford even basics, let alone luxuries?
I think (and also sort of hope, because it might force Sony, MS etc to have a hard rethink about their approach) next gen will be DoA, almost like another video game crash type situation
It just feels like something has to give and the industry is getting to a bit of a breaking point rn