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re: DVDs and Behind The Scenes 

The bluray of Doctor Who series 12 is a really big disappointment to me, because of this.

• There's commentary on the first 3 episodes, and nothing on the 8 others.
• There's a "closer look" for each episode, which is a 5 minute thing which mostly is just clips from the episode and the main cast explaining the narrative, with about 30 seconds total of actual behind the scenes stuff.
• Absolutely nothing else.

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DVDs and Behind The Scenes 

One of the major disappointments of streaming services taking over is the huge reduction in quality of the Behind the Scenes stuff that's bundled with DVD/blu-ray releases nowadays.

It used to be that, if you bought a DVD of a tv series, you'd get:
• audio commentaries on every episode
• behind the scenes on set footage
• discussions with crew and cast
• vfx breakdowns
• creature/set/costume design bits

But now, you get almost none of that.

re: Linguistic nonsense 

@BatElite @jenbot@the.monsterpit.net bats perform flaps!

@loki I've seen so many of these people in my area - they almost outnumber the number of people wearing masks properly

fun rae fact 

@weird_hell@cybre.space that sounds amazing!

...but also dependent on playing hide and seek outside - most of the games I've played of it have been entirely indoors instead

fun rae fact 

@weird_hell@cybre.space I'm really curious as to what it could be, because I'm absolutely rubbish at hide and seek

This is a fantastic performance of one of my favourite childhood pieces:

youtu.be/Uu_03mUPgHU?t=268

Vexations, by Erik Satie - a single page of music, accompanied by the instruction to repeat the page 840 times.

@softgoat (but for the most part, you're just going to get some in-game slowness at worst - you're not going to do damage to your hardware, afaik)

@softgoat it depends on the game - if the game required a lot of loading stuff from the hard drive (e.g. an open world game, or something with a lot of different models and textures), then there would be an amount of stress put on the HDD.

But if it didn't require much loading from the hard-drive (e.g. a procedurally generated game), then it would be fine.

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