{"id":10116,"date":"2017-06-13T18:11:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10116"},"modified":"2017-06-13T18:11:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T17:11:10","slug":"im-getting-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10116","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m getting old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next month I am 36. It&#8217;s fine, but I find I need to look stuff up now and it takes a lot more to get me excited about things.<\/p>\n<p>Take this exciting story from Gizmodo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.co.uk\/2017\/06\/sky-and-f1-owners-back-drone-racing\/\">Sky and F1 are putting money into drone racing<\/a>. We&#8217;ve briefly discussed the Drone Racing League before suggesting it really isn&#8217;t ready for primetime yet despite the fact it features things that in theory are quite good. Unique tracks set in derelict buildings? I love both unique tracks and derelict buildings! Neon hoops? I love neon hoops! People called things like &#8220;C00!D00d&#8221; and &#8220;badOuef&#8221;? Yeah you&#8217;re alright thanks.<\/p>\n<p>And yet. When watching it&#8217;s still quite small indistinct objects flying around arenas that feel a bit too big for them, through hoops at speed but because we&#8217;re watching very 3D events on 2D planes it&#8217;s difficult to appreciate the positioning and skill. Simply put, whilst on paper drone racing sounds quite exciting it&#8217;s not that much fun to watch at length.<\/p>\n<p>Although in one minute bursts in first person it looks brilliant, obviously.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QSZmSNL_0r8\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also got no interest in E-Sports either, despite playing loads of videogames. Sod off, &#8220;youth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In Bother&#8217;s Bar Film Club news, in the last week or so on Netflix I&#8217;ve watched <em>Ares,\u00a0<\/em>a quite good film set in a near future French dystopia where the one thing that unites the public is a hugely violent drugged-up version of MMA broadcast on screens over the city and on the Eiffel Tower and one fighter trying to take down the system from within with the unlikely help of a transvestite. SPOILER: The corporations are bad guys. Good use of mise-en-scene for all you A-level media students reading.<\/p>\n<p>The other film I saw was gory Indian horror <em>Ludo<\/em> where some horny kids end up in a shopping mall playing Ludo for supernatural reasons except I got bored and turned off just as they started playing Ludo. I would totally watch a film called <em>Death\u00a0Jumanji<\/em>, somebody fund that thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next month I am 36. It&#8217;s fine, but I find I need to look stuff up now and it takes a lot more to get me excited about things. Take this exciting story from Gizmodo, Sky and F1 are putting money into drone racing. We&#8217;ve briefly discussed the Drone Racing League before suggesting it really\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10116\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-2Da","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}