C.R.FitzGerald••••

I'm on the sky colour app too so will follow back asap, usual bat name & channel.

Keep going. Two weeks until BACKROOMS.

AQUA announces they are disbanding after almost 30 years. They are the group behind ‘Barbie Girl.’

I just had the craziest experience at the airport. We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on your flight. Pilot walks over to the counter, gets on the PA system, and starts addressing everyone. “Folks, I’ve been doing this a long time. Flying one of these jets is easy. The hard part is looking at 130 people and telling them their flight is going to be delayed.” Audible groans throughout the boarding gate. Most people here are flying to Atlanta as a layover before another flight. 130 people just had their day become a complete mess. The pilot goes on. “I get it, trust me. But here’s the deal: During our landing, we had a small mechanical issue. I’m not your pilot for the next leg, but I don’t feel confident the jet’s safe to fly until we have a mechanical team look it over, and I don’t feel comfortable asking the next pilots to fly you guys until we get confirmation.” He points at the agents next to him behind the counter: “Now, none of this is the agents’ fault. Please be kind to them. I’m the one who made this decision, not them, so any inconvenience you experience is my fault. Just please know that I don’t do this lightly, and I’m only doing it because I believe it’s in the best interests of everyone’s safety.” Now this is where the story gets crazy. The pilot puts the microphone down, grabs his suitcase, and all the people in the gate… Start clapping. I’m not joking, everyone starts clapping for the guy. 130 people who just had their travel plans ruined give an ovation to the guy who made the decision and delivered the message. All because he addressed them with decency and transparency, took ownership of the decision, made it clear that it was necessary, and explained why it was in everyone’s best interest. It’s honestly one of the best examples of strong communication—of strong leadership, for that matter—that I’ve seen in a long time. @Delta, whoever your Atlanta to Wichita pilot was this morning, he’s one of the good ones. Please tell him the delayed passengers of flight 1637 appreciate what he did.

Why Maplin failed youtu.be/0o8xYjdA6x4?is…

Shameful that our act at Eurovision was abandoned by the BBC and his team as the scores came in! And how lovely of the Denmark team to invite him to sit with them, so he wasn’t alone. Well done BBC, you chose him and then you abandoned him. Vile.

🚨do you understand what happened to Subnautica 2.. a game that was genuinely loved. Very Positive reviews. record player counts. people were excited. then they read the EULA. - you don't OWN the game, you have a LICENSE that can be revoked anytime - they collect your personal data and device information - streaming and recording require disclaimers - mods you create inside their game - they have legal claims over - VPN use is banned - disputes go to arbitration in California only - they can change ANY of these terms whenever they want without asking you people started requesting refunds not because the game is bad - but because they finally READ what they agreed to. the game industry has been doing this for years. Subnautica 2 is just the first time enough people paid attention.

Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.

Back in the early 90s, before the Internet, we had "Defrag and Chill". You'd start Disk Defragmenter on your 540MB hard drive, dim the lights, crack open a Surge, and just vibe while the little blue bars crawled across the screen like they were solving world peace. Forty-five minutes of pure, unfiltered anticipation. No notifications. No algorithms. Just the two of you, the gentle grinding of the hard drive, and the sacred promise that your Solitaire games were about to feel 3% snappier. This is MS_DOS 6.22, which I worked on, but I honestly have no idea who wrote defrag. Iconic utility though!

I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the sun. The moment it happened, TWO floating prominences were visible, making this not just my best aircraft transit photo, but one of the luckiest of my career! Videos of the transit 👇

@PunishableSin If Subnautica 2 hit a significant selling number (I dont remember the number), then everyone got bonuses Krafton did not want to pay this so they illegally fired people They were forced to hire them back

we didn't do this for the confederates and look where we are

I'm thinking it'll be launch price for years.

@SpaceHavenGame FYI I got the codes via Bugbyte, problem solved.

@SpaceHavenGame Are Kickstarter backers going to get a Steam or GOG key? I don't think I ever got one, just an Alpha direct download years ago.

Ten Years In The Making: Our Colony Sim Space Haven has Been Released as 1.0 Today! This game has been a true labor of love for us, and with our small team we've put everything we've got into it. Check out Space Haven on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/979110/Spa…

Educative minute: Film twitter, please know that all these "amateur 35mm scans" comparison are deceptive. 1. Films are made of atoms (nitrate, acetate, polyester), and unlike digital data, they are vulnerable to entropy like everything else. 2. For the same movie, not all theatrical projection prints were made with the same process. Most were poor quality with short shelf-life (6 years according to Martin Scorsese). 3. Dye compounds are unstable, decaying at different rates over time, their colors degrading, fading & shifting. Notice how most of these "35mm scans" are bluish & faded, with contrast added in post after scanning. 4. Even if you had a perfectly manufactured, flawlessly stored & maintained, and masterfully scanned film, digitalization remains an interpretation process. A projected film is pure light, and mapping a RAW capture to the displayable dynamic range of screens is a subjective process, not a perfect science. So never interpret these 35mm scans as "how a film was supposed to look". No two surviving 35mm films look the same, and none look the way they did at release. These are just films degraded by hundreds of theatrical runs & decade of chemical decay. This organic "instagram filter" evokes a certain nostalgia, but it's an illusion. There is no pristine original to go back to. Even the original negatives stored by studios require month of digital cleaning to be considered "usable". It's all a subjective process.

Ordering a Pizza for Delivery 1995 – You call – You order in 2 minutes – It arrives in 30 minutes 2005 – You go to the website – You customize it – It arrives in 45 minutes 2026 – You download the app – You create an account with email verification – You add your address with a PIN on the map – The map can't find your street – You add it manually – You select a pizza – The ingredient you want has an extra charge – You add a card – Payment error – You pay with another method – "Your order will arrive in 85 to 140 minutes"

They dangle incentive hook like planning exemptions & €14k tax-free rent-a-room cash to ‘solve’ the housing crisis, then slap on extra Local Property Tax (LPT) as soon as you actually build the damn thing. Classic Irish Gov move, encourage a bit of self-help, then net in the revenue 🎣

Coming to 4K UHD Soon Critters (1986)

Sega is moving forward with a new ‘Crazy Taxi’ game 🚖