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Post by ๐ on Jul 29, 2024 14:36:07 GMT
Dave Perry joined EG at some point.
It went about as well as expected.
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Post by rftp on Jul 29, 2024 14:52:57 GMT
I've never tried cocaine (honest guv) but Diamond at his peak always struck me as the definition of a minor sleb on it.
I'd forgotten the Dave Perry thing. Remember it being quite shocking, but different times eh.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 29, 2024 15:07:43 GMT
I went down a rabbit hole and ended up watching the show Diamond presented after GM more specifically the episode that had David Walliams and Matt Lucas at their most unfunniest as Mash and Peas. One second hand cringe was real.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jul 29, 2024 23:59:49 GMT
Go home, street, you're drunk:
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Post by Whizzo on Jul 30, 2024 18:15:11 GMT
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Post by rawshark on Jul 31, 2024 14:54:30 GMT
I think Dave Perry was always a bit strange, to be honest. The Games Animal persona was already in place well before the GM fallout... with the bandanas and asking for the questions for a TV quiz before he agreed to take part (lest he look like he wasn't, in fact, The Games Animal). It was basically just free ammo for anyone who wanted to give him shit. And to no one's surprise, they did.
Even when he was editor of Sega Pro he saw himself as some kind of maverick against the system. Getting crap quality photos of Sonic 2 at a no camera event just so he could print them first (getting himself uninvited to future events in the process) or accusing other magazines of being paid to inflate their scores without proof. By all accounts he was an absolute dickhead. That doesn't justify bullying in any way but he did make himself an easy target.
It's not like Diamond did himself any favours with his behaviour, either. He never really achieved much past a few radio and shitty channel 5 voxbox shows.
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Post by Trowel ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ on Aug 4, 2024 22:04:44 GMT
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Post by simple on Aug 5, 2024 0:15:12 GMT
I can highly recommend the GamesMaster book that Dominik Diamond put out a year or two ago. And yes, the reason for his character change over the years was indeed loads of cocaine.
The idea of him, Walliams and Simon Pegg all being on the same drama course at uni together does fascinate me given how their big breaks really straddle three quite different eras of tv comedy.
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Post by Trowel ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ on Aug 6, 2024 20:13:46 GMT
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Post by Danno on Aug 6, 2024 20:32:33 GMT
VOLUME WARNING โ๏ธ
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Post by cubby on Aug 6, 2024 22:14:28 GMT
Why are my eyes leaking?
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Post by Red_Bool on Aug 8, 2024 21:06:35 GMT
This popped up in my YT feed. It was so unexpected I actually laughed out loud ๐
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 11, 2024 13:23:25 GMT
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Post by mothercruncher on Aug 11, 2024 13:46:57 GMT
Why did the horse particularly need her in the shot though??
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Post by minimatt on Aug 12, 2024 2:52:03 GMT
"joy" wouldn't exactly be appropriate*, but as internet nuggets go, a live stream of north korean tv is extra nuggety www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3VGSAv2v8sas best i understand it, this is the satellite version of ye olde ham radio folks occasionally stumbling across number stations
* except for the joy we feel toward Great Leader's benevolent rule
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Post by Trowel ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ on Aug 14, 2024 17:54:31 GMT
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 21, 2024 0:19:38 GMT
That the AI gave Angel about 20% more forehead amuses me greatly.
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Post by Trowel ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ on Aug 21, 2024 15:25:57 GMT
Niall and his stories of rescuing countless dogs in Thailand were already one of the best things on Twitter, so tales like this really give you hope for a better future
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Post by Danno on Aug 22, 2024 13:20:39 GMT
Stevie Martin is fab and more people need to know about her
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Post by darkling on Aug 22, 2024 15:41:35 GMT
That the AI gave Angel about 20% more forehead amuses me greatly.
I've been watching this guy's videos recently, but for me the pick of the bunch is his latest vid, LOTR: The Return of the King. I'd watch the crap out of this 80s version. |
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Post by simple on Aug 23, 2024 13:46:57 GMT
Now thatโs what Amazon should have done with Rings of Power
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Post by darkling on Aug 23, 2024 17:57:13 GMT
Watched this last night. It's a rather amusing whistlestop tour of the first series, episode by episode. I'm really hoping he covers the subsequent series too, including the Dave Perry incident. Series 2 now available... |
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Post by ๐ on Aug 23, 2024 18:32:17 GMT
Woo, I went to the filming of that series. Young me is in a bunch of the crowd shots.
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Post by simple on Aug 23, 2024 18:37:42 GMT
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