It’s Bother’s Bar’s Game Night 10 next Saturday and I’m looking for panellists

By | June 10, 2018
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It’s the first one we’ve done since Christmas but Bother’s Bar’s Game Night 10 is happening next Saturday – 9pm until around 11:30pm UK, and I’m looking for seven people to join the panel to play and react to the usual Jackbox Games suite all wrapped up in an arbitrary metagame that will determine who is the CHAMPION OF THE NIGHT, and wins a guaranteed invitation to the BBGN immediately after Jackbox 5 comes out. Will the live viewers Team Audience beat the panel this time?

You will need:

  • A second screen to play along with. You will need your big monitor for the Google Hangout to watch the 5 FPS action.
  • A microphone. A camera is not necessary.
  • A Twitter account so I can relay messages.
  • You’ll need to be free next Saturday night between 8:50pm UK and midnight (in case of overrun).

Specifically I would like a mix of old and new panellists, you should definitely apply if any of these apply to you:

  • Have watched in the past and think it might be fun. Haven’t watched? Here’s a playlist. The later ones are better, obviously.
  • Are female! We struggle to get female representation and there’s no reason for that other than I don’t get any to consider.

Please don’t be offended if you don’t get chosen, I only have room for so many, and I’d love for you to watch, comment and playalong as part of Team Audience. One of you might get asked to come on and play the Arbitrary Endgame, I haven’t decided yet.

If you’re interested you need to let me know, leave a comment or message me on Twitter – direct is probably easier otherwise I risk forgetting you applied. Otherwise get your phones ready, alwright? Goodnight!

Schlag den Henssler 9/6/18

By | June 9, 2018
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Saturday 9th June, 7:15pm UK/8:15pm local
Pro 7 and naughty internet streaming

Tweet us! #bbsdh

Schlag den Henssler is back, and a plucky contestant will be attempting to win a rollover €500,000 by besting celebrity chef Stefan Henssler over 15 mystery events.

As ever, we’ll be here attempting to provide commentary, gossip and games, and we’re likely to be a while so do feel free to dip in and out.

Watching the live Pro 7 stream might be a bit more difficult than it has been previously.

Our commentary stream link will appear here – live from 7:15 to around midnight.
This stream is commentary only. You will need to have a naughty stream running at the same time for the visuals. We are likely to be about 15-20 seconds behind the visual stream (and about a full minute behind if you’re watching an actual satellite feed), sorry.

The Opera VPN has apparently stopped being useful for SdH. Bother’s Bar recommends shelling out for a proper VPN service. Bother’s Bar uses Tunnelbear, other VPN services are available. Matt Clemson recommends Windscribe as a free alternative. We cannot take responsibility for anything you do to your system, so be careful and use some common sense.

To watch it would be useful to sign up for ProSieben’s catch-up service – it’s pretty simple to work out, don’t click the box if you don’t want e-mail messages. You will need to put in a proper e-mail because it will send you a confirmation. 

If anyone knows of any relatively safe livestreams, do feel free to share.

@bothersbar, @danielpeake, @davidjbodycombe @sensei256, @ogbajoj

Show Discussion: The Crystal Maze Series 2, Part 1 probably

By | June 7, 2018
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Fridays, 9pm,
Channel 4

And so we come to this, the pointless second series of the botched up revival of The Crystal Maze, and rather brilliantly rather than take on board the criticisms of the various first series’ of the show that saw four million eagerly expectant viewers tune in for, only for 80% of them to give up, to all intents and purposes it sounds like they’ve doubled down on the elements everyone complained about – so Channel 4! Needless to say we look forward to not enough (30 in this run) new “multilayered” games you can easily recreate at home, therefore losing any sort of aspirational element of watching them on TV and playing fewer games so we can get to know the personalities of the contestants, many of whom have already done reality television and whose personalities we’re already aware of anyway.

Still, that Richard Ayoade’s perfect isn’t he? So sarcastic!

Channel 4 have scheduled this against Love Island.

It largely doesn’t matter if this series is critically better than the last one – people aren’t going to flock back to it. Still, let us know what you think in the comments.