u/Significant-Owl7994

This is kinda Alter Bridge adjacent, but reading other threads that recommend other bands, I noticed a few people pointing out artists that were no longer together.

It got me thinking about how The Mayfield Four deserved better at the time. Obviously, had they become big, we wouldn't have had Myles leading Alter Bridge - so "the universe has its way."

But what other bands deserved better than what they got who are no longer together.

A load of 2000s bands who signed to Wind-Up got screwed in my opinion. Like Atomship - they should have been massive.

Also, I've been relistening to Fair to Midland and thought that we lost a good band with them packing things in at 2013.

Anyway - have at it.

Seriously, I don't know what's happened to personal embarrassment or shame in public spaces but it seems to have completely disappeared.

We went to see Spider-Man the other evening and typically, I always try and chose seats that are in the first third rows of the auditorium for the reasons I'm about to go into.

But my sister-in-law booked the seats... on the very back row...

I hold onto the theory that the same kids who sit at the back of the bus choose to sit at the back of everywhere else they go; the cinema, tube carriage and so on.

Anyway, the adverts are done, the trailers are wrapped and the film starts.

The showtime was 6pm.

People were arriving at 7pm.

What's worse is that these late arrivals turned the torches on their phones and start shining them down each row of seats looking for where they've booked...

Then once they found their seats, the torches stayed on and they remained stood up as they shed their bags, sweets, drinks, then straightened themselves out before slowly lowering themselves into the seat *whilst the film is playing - twenty minutes in.*

Then we have people talking, laughing and fidgeting throughout the film.

We have people who brought bags of KFC into the cinema with them.

We have people filming the cinema screen.

We have people scrolling on TikTok whilst the film is playing.

We have people going to the toilet but taking their sweet time leaving and their sweet time sitting back down.

And I am going out of my mind!

The tickets cost around £15+ each.

And these idiots are ruining the whole experience for everyone.

I know cinema staff don't get paid enough to play bouncer with bad behaviour, but surely SOMETHING needs to be done here? This has reached whole new levels of ridiculous.

But the thing is, I would personally be embarrassed, self-conscious and ashamed of behaving like that.

Yet these lot, with main character syndrome, are absolutely oblivious and have absolutely no consideration whatsoever for others around them.

And you just KNOW that if you told them to be quiet or get off their phones, it'll become a whole thing in the middle of the cinema screening.

Only one time had I witnessed a cinema step up and handle bad behaviour and it was back in Manchester.

The film was stopped.

The lights came on.

Security in high-vis jackets stepped in and refused to accept any apologies from the ones they were throwing out.

Who eventually got up, looking like kids told off by the headmaster, and was escorted off the premises.

The cinema staff apologised - offered vouchers for the inconvenience, started the film five minutes back and resumed.

We need more of that and hopefully that'll let people know that bad behaviour won't be tolerated vs treating the cinema like the extension of their living rooms.

Anyway - rant over.

And they wonder why people don't want to go to the cinema anymore.

This is just a simple post of insane gratitude of getting this entire remastered trilogy for less than the cost of a pint.

I played the original Mass Effect on Xbox 360 and enjoyed it.

But now, nearly 20 years later, I've found a new appreciation for it and that the decisions and actions plant seeds of consequences for the sequels is amazing.

That's it. That's the post.