Alasdair Beckett-King

A true "what, and give up showbiz?" moment.

The 15th Anniversary Escape Pod book, but the typefaces makes it look a bit like ESCAPE POO.

I think one of these books would benefit from a different font.

Eeeeyeah, that's a typo.

PLYMOUTH tonight! Come and see a comedian who has been compared to the 17th Century mask of the preacher Alexander Peden. (Bristol Friday & Coventry on Sunday.)

www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs

Tres, tres gut!

I didn't notice the bottle, so I did not interpret it as a slur.

Is it me, or did the story stop every time a song started? It felt like, maybe, one song ended with the character/s in a different state.

Hark, a vague rat!

Well spotted. You've got a Screetonic eye.

Comedian HUMILIATED by no one wanting to see his little wooden mouse made of wood. Well, here it is anyway.

It's the full show for Coventry and should be finished by 9.10pm. Hope that's doable!

It is usually 1hr 20 plus 20 for the interval.(But it depends on the venue. Sometimes there's no interval and occasionally it's just a straight hour.)

I'm gonna - not mention it!

That show sold out, so I didn't need to bribe you with a mouse. (Thanks for coming!)

My tour comes to Exeter TONIGHT! If you buy a ticket right now, I will show you a picture of a little wooden mouse I carved out of wood.

www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs

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If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.

Yes, I take your point that there is a formal and informal language of gesture, and that it varies between cultures. But I've seen a fair few live action Japanese films and the actors don't move in that cutesy way.

I accept that it's a stylistic choice - mocap actors imitating anime gestures. For me, it's quite off-putting.

There's lots of nice parts, but there's just too much to do and it becomes dull - and, as usual, I don't care at all about the big abstract looming threat represented by the main quest.

In FF7? Tifa and Aerith especially, but also Biggs and Wedge, are so naive and bouncy and winsome, like the cast of a kids TV show. I didn't mind it with the stylised character models in the original. But I find it very jarring in the remake.

I don't really love Dragon Age 2, Inquisition, Oblivion or Skyrim. But I have played all of them for many hours so it would be wrong to say I don't like them. But I just don't *really* care about the story or the characters.

Deus Ex: Human Whatevers, I'm looking at you.

I was put off by the devs seeming like reactionaries, but I'm now hearing that the sequel is actually woke and "pushing a political agenda", which sounds ideal.

My mistake: posting on the internet.

I don't have a Switch but the new Zeldas look great. I'm afraid RDR2 is top of my Everyone Loves This But I Thought It Was Incredibly Boring list. (Well, I didn't mind stroking the lovely white horse, but I hated everything else.)

I have played one of the NMS storylines, and I liked it. But to me, the promise of an endless procedural universe holds no appeal. I would like to explore a small, meticulously designed place with a story in it.

I did play almost the entirety of PS:T without getting into a fight, and then the finale where you can't avoid fighting was nightmarishly difficult.

I've watched enough video essays about Elden Ring and Dark Souls to know that I would enjoy them for a few hours. But I play RPGs to knock around the market place helping an NPC find his lost pig. I don't really enjoy boss fights.

I should add that apart from them being very slow and tedious, my main dislike about NieR and the FF7 Remake was the weirdly sexualised character designs paired with facile, child-like personalities. Why are they like that?