On the topic of soup and sunflowers, just to point out the obvious their plan was not to throw soup and thus the world stops using fossil fuels. After 40ish years of people asking nicely, educating and negotiating that it is gonna kill us all and it’s actually cheaper to use renewable energy with only people to still be indifferent to global warming and certain governments even in the West like UK and US are going backwards on policies a different tack was used. Just to irritate people constantly like when a child throws a tantrum and to also create a message to a certain audience (as they have given up on a wider message) in this panto with the painting as a prop to show that look at how angry people are at the non-damaging protest has done whilst the same anger isn’t displayed at people knowingly killing us and pricing us out of life to bring in more neutrals to the debate after seeing the reaction on the social inter media webs.
Personally I think they should of gone bigger and more targeted like throwing toilet paper over BP CEO’s house!
@jump - I've got a tiny bit of admiration for Hirst from watching that series about the YBAs on BBC2 (or 4). He seemed to be the most driven and together, and his art was the most interesting - until Tracy Emin and Sarah Lucas showed up in the programme and you could then see it for it's 6th form posturing along with his tiresome britpop geezerism.
Anyway Starry Night or The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai?
Starry Night but as cliche as it is you need to see it in person and seeing the brush strokes does add to the experience rather than clean pixels on screen.
I actually prefer his other Starry Night the one over the Paris river displayed at the Tate (or I saw it at the Tate at the time) as that is the one it went from understanding the mechanics to feeling what he did for me.
@Rambler yeah it’s a panto for the people who already agree, at best it encourages the people who agree to become more engaged with such things. Not to say people who disagree aren’t able to be persuaded, I remember watching a South Park episode (a show which has always leaned right) was mocking Al Gore/global warming only for years and years later they did an apology episode which is very unlike them. But thank the Jebus Cross that all these billionaires have started to urgently try to get into space now and just like trickle down economics they will share getting off the dead planet with us poor people…
I’m the same with art, my other half is an art lover so I’m dragged to galleries alot, she is one of those people who will be staring at a piece for so long that 3 or more groups will have come, looked at it and then moved on before she is done. Don’t get me wrong I do enjoy seeing art but don’t get it as nearly much as they do. When we were at the Louvre I was more preoccupied with counting down in my head til we get to Disneyland Paris so I can meet The Hulk whilst she was being wowed by the pretty pictures.
@Rambler one of Liz Truss plans is to eliminate smoking in Britain before 2030. I don’t see it happening as the plan is to raise the age limit and ban smoking outdoors. The smoking outdoors bit will having people kicking off and it will be another u-turn.
@Rambler yeah installations are fun. I went to the Tate Modern a few months ago to see Kusama‘s display. I know her story of being in a mental institution is cliche and The Infinity Room is on the nose but fudge it is beautiful being in that room.
Huh. My Switch itself just crashed there while I was transferring videos over to my phone. I regrettably didn't think to take a picture of it for future reference but it said something about 'an error has occured. ....something something....if blank happens, hold the power button for 12 seconds'. Anyone know what kind of error code that is? I haven't even had my current Switch for that long (only coming up on a year in 2 months time) so I'm quite perplexed about it. I was able to send the video on after restarting it (and checked all my saves and cloud saves for good measure) so I'm not really worried about it yet but may as well be on the safe side.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, I did have this kind of error happen exactly one other time. It was when I was playing Pokemon Café Remix and the same error message popped up there as well. That happened back in March though so I still don't think I really need to worry about it.
Huh. My Switch itself just crashed there while I was transferring videos over to my phone. I regrettably didn't think to take a picture of it for future reference but it said something about 'an error has occured. ....something something....if blank happens, hold the power button for 12 seconds'. Anyone know what kind of error code that is? I haven't even had my current Switch for that long (only coming up on a year in 2 months time) so I'm quite perplexed about it. I was able to send the video on after restarting it (and checked all my saves and cloud saves for good measure) so I'm not really worried about it yet but may as well be on the safe side.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, I did have this kind of error happen exactly one other time. It was when I was playing Pokemon Café Remix and the same error message popped up there as well. That happened back in March though so I still don't think I really need to worry about it.
It just happened again. What's going on?!
EDIT: Checked the error history, looks like it's Error 2168-0002. Should I be concerned?
I hate being sick. I woke up, thought everything was fine and I was over it, and now I have body aches and am coughing every two seconds. On the bright side I get to play a lot of BoTW today.
Currently playing: Pokemon Soul Silver, Mario RPG
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@Fizza Have you looked up that error code on Nintendo's support site? The steps I've seen include restarting your Switch, and making sure that it has the latest system update. Maybe try those steps and see if that fixes it. However, it does say that the console will need to be repaired if that issue persists. Hopefully it won't come to that... best of luck!
I love how on my phone, Nintendo Life shows me ads for fries and ketchup. I don't know if this is a bug, if it is, don't fix it. Unlike most ads, I'll most likely buy fries and ketchup, lol. Nintendo Life makes money from ads, I get fries and ketchup... everybody wins!
@Tyranexx Me too, snow is always wonderful to look at. Whenever it snows, I always open my curtains just to have the view. Since I live near the woods, it looks nice outside. I don't think anyone likes to shovel, one of those things that you have to do.
@MarioLover92 Yeah, I had a really good day that day. Sounds like a good idea, I forget the Donkey Kong Land games were on it. Interesting really as those were basically Donkey Kong Country on Game Boy, except, original games. I typically like Twix, or a brownie or something. Because chocolate has some caffeine in it, I just have it in the morning or early afternoon (like after lunch), otherwise, I'll be up all night, lol.
Yeah, but it seems Smash Bros has the worst lag with online play for some reason. Especially when Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 usually has no problem, or very little problem.
You're welcome. I usually use voice chat with my IRL friends to avoid toxic players. I did use the Wii U one once and the voice chat worked fine. I'll leave that up to you, I'm a bad Animal Crossing player. Let's just say, I go on vacation so much, everyone always asks where I've been, lol. I don't hate the game, but I end up playing other games.
We should one day. Sounds like a small nice collection. I have a bunch of Sonic stuff, from plushies, to shirts, to games, to TV series on DVD. Finally got to see Sonic Boom's TV show because of the DVDs, until then, the three Sonic Boom games ended up being my Sonic Boom experience. Some of the season DVDs actually came with figures too.
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