{"id":9310,"date":"2016-05-22T17:52:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T16:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9310"},"modified":"2016-05-22T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T16:52:51","slug":"fun-with-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9310","title":{"rendered":"Fun with fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just occasionally I like to step back from format discussion and share some things I have been watching and doing which you might find quite interesting and entertaining as well. Or you might not.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m currently playing the <em>Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection<\/em> on PS4 because I&#8217;m in quite the mood for pulp-y adventure stuff. What I&#8217;m mainly learning is that the first <em>Uncharted<\/em> is actually liable to be a bit dull with shooting galleries going on much longer than necessary when I mainly want abandoned places to explore (I had already played <em>U3<\/em> which I enjoyed and I&#8217;ve got <em>U4<\/em> to play when I&#8217;ve got time).<\/li>\n<li>Following on from this I watched <em>National Treasure: Book of Secrets<\/em> on Amazon Prime Video last night, mainly because I wanted to watch <em>Romancing the Stone<\/em> and nobody&#8217;s got it. It&#8217;s actually a pretty entertaining treasure hunting film with mildly exciting lost city trap aspect to it and didn&#8217;t leave me a bit disappointed like the first one did. I almost started a Bother&#8217;s Bar Film Club a while ago (We&#8217;d be the new BBFC) looking at films with a varying ludology bent but I ended up being too lazy and they&#8217;d mostly be slasher flicks anyway. Perhaps I will wander\u00a0down this avenue again at some point.<\/li>\n<li>The other night by accident I\u00a0discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/henders007\">Grand Illusions<\/a> on Youtube where an elderly guy named Tim talks about old toys and puzzles. Episodes are 5-10 minutes long and it&#8217;s been going for years and I&#8217;ve found myself dipping in and watching 5-6 in one go. Here&#8217;s quite an old one on trick boxes, I love these sorts of things but have no patience to actually solve them:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XHC7-bbe_qQ\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apropos of nothing they&#8217;re making <a href=\"http:\/\/7thguest.weebly.com\/\">a <strong>The 7th Guest\u00a0<\/strong>web series<\/a>. The computer game was a 90s FMV classic, wandering round a haunted house solving puzzles made by Stauf The Toymaker (I think toymakers are a much underutilized branch of villainy). This is likely to be terrible but I&#8217;m compelled to watch it all the same.<\/li>\n<li>Marble races! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMV8B1Q5lEEb5yR8Hqkbdhg\">Jelle&#8217;s Marble Runs<\/a> featured on the BBC website recently, they are <em>surprisingly<\/em> diverting:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z8rx-0PUK1Q\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>But if marble race are just too real and exciting for you today I discovered <em>virtual<\/em> marble races! Evidently there must be a creator somewhere, probably on Steam, as the few videos I&#8217;ve seen from different people seem to use similar obstacles. Marvel at the machinery for about two minutes then long for a fast forward button. Music agreeably <em>Lemmings<\/em>-y. There must be a format in marble racing somewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CoEGJcQf8MU\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just occasionally I like to step back from format discussion and share some things I have been watching and doing which you might find quite interesting and entertaining as well. Or you might not. I&#8217;m currently playing the Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection on PS4 because I&#8217;m in quite the mood for pulp-y adventure stuff. 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