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7 minutes ago, iistroudley said:
I’ve got a +1 ticket confirmed. I’ve got the email.
Fair enough, must of been something about our link. Its all confirmed now anyway so let the planning begin!
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Me and my mate couldnt hit the +1 button and it said 1 ticket maximum reached. Looked to me like its 1 ticket per person.
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeees
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Eh, I'll have a go:
Enter Shikari / All Time Low / Rise Against / Neck Deep
Avenged Sevenfold / Black Stone Cherry / Rival Sons / Hollywood Undead
NIN / Stone Sour / A Perfect Circle / Architects
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NIN are the best band I've ever seen live (sober). They would kill a download headline set and really need to be headliner to pull off their proper stage show. Always hoped they'd be given the Friday download slot one year.
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Was stood queueing from 1:30pm - 10pm on the Thursday (after joining the coaches queue at 9am...). Really hard to 'get over' an experience like that and made me lose a lot of respect for the festival before I was even in. Is there really no contingency for the bar code scanners going down?
Once in however, I thought it was great. A lot of unique ideas going about the festival, enjoyed the different areas with different themes and different ways to get your mindset into them. Saw some great acts (most of which I'd never heard of before the festival), met some great people and enjoyed the lack of corporate sponsers / Bang-hai type theme.
For me a great one off, glad I did it but dont think I'll head back. Will always recommend it to others.
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If anyone happens to have an A1 camping ticket available it'd be grand if you could message us - got one friend who is currently camping on her own in C3. Could also do a swap if that would suit anyone!
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Don't post often - and will probably regret getting involved in this luck debate, but couldn't resist the temptation to get involved, as it something I've thought about quite a few times recently, specifically with regard to Kane and Alli! To me, there are two ways to view youth recruitment in the context of 'luck':
1) A select few youth players are ultra talented super-stars to be who are destined to 'make it' (with Kane and Alli being a great example of a club scoring two in a short space of time). In this instance, Tottenham (or whatever club signs / acquires said player) were extremely lucky to gamble on the signing and nature of this player, as with the many thousands of youth players that all the mega-clubs are fighting to sign, its clear no one has any real hope nor the scouting prowess to pick out 'the stars' intentionally.
2) Alternatively, you could take the view that every youth academy has many players who have the potential to be 'stars' (at the level of Kane, Alli or better), and that the coaching, facilities and opportunities given to those players determines how many of them, on average, actually 'make it'. In this scenario, I would argue there is actually very little luck associated to the club - its their infrastructure which determines how many good players come through their youth setup. Luck and circumstances can be attached to the individual players, sure, but with a large enough sample of potential youth super-stars its statistically inevitable great players come through if the infrastructure is in place.
The two scenarios above are two extremes and I'm sure the truth lies somewhere in the middle. However, to me, when you look at Poch's record of bringinig youth through its hard to argue against the second view point. In less than 3 years at Spurs, he's brought (off the top of my head) 8 players through the first team (Kane, Alli, Bentaleb, Winks, Carroll, Davies, Dier, Mason). Sure, not all of them were good enough in the end (and were sold on for a handsome profit), but I don't believe we can rigidly argue that things are this completely stochastic luck-driven thing given Poch's record thus far. Of course, I'm also basing this on his shorter spell at Southampton, where he built the entire Liverpool starting 11 in a year
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So, I guess I would ask Neil, if Spurs have another Kane or Alli come through next year, and another the year after, would you continue to regard it as 'luck'? When does one have to turn your head and ask 'why arn't these players coming through at City / Chelsea / United / Arsenal?', and begin to question if its their methods and policies that are the problem?
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Can anyone offer much info on what this will be like? Bored of Download, but fancy a festival abroad, and while it feels really lame going to a Download literally as close as possible to the UK, it seems cheaper and has a decent looking line up.
Do we know if there are 3 stages like UK Download? I can only see 3 day camping tickets - is the site only open from Friday onwards? The website seems to literally be a line up poster, so I'm guessing the answer is to wait and see...
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And now I remember why I got bored of Download and didn't go last year. How many years am I gonna have to take off before we get a line up that feels anywhere near 'fresh'?
It still blows my mind that the Prodigy / C&S day went down what felt like an apparent success, for Download to then revert back to the same old crap every year after. Bored.
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I'm not totally sure that statistics is the primary incentive for the likes of LIveNation implementing a scheme like this. I assumed this was more to do with simply helping with the movement / management of physical money. Having millions of pounds of cash on site is a huge security risk, alongside great expense required in moving it, counting it etc.
Stat tracking is possible, but I'm not totally convinced it tells them a huge amount of information they probably don't already know for the most part. Stat tracking on the scale of the major supermarkets isn't simply something where they note down a load of numbers and rejig their stores to sell double the product. It requires an extensive experimentation based approach, which is grudually rolled out over a small sample of stores and very often yields statistically insignificant results (which may not correspond to a positive increase in sales).
Generally I've formed the impression that large corporations are the most mindnumbingly boring, risk-adverse entities in the world. While the stats they could in-theory collect on every festival goer is compelling, I don't think any of these companies have a willingness or culture to experiment and change things based on 'the stats'.
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God dammit I was hoping I could skip Download this year...
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However if your talking a salary cap where all 20 clubs in the league have the same wage bill/transfer budget. I would have no issues with that. However I suspect many fans of bigger clubs would think that's taking fairness a bit far!
Of course if the premiership was to put in place such a system, then all the talent would simply move to the other major European leagues where they could get a bigger pay cheque. It would give us a more competitive and interesting league but ultimately the best would leave for Europe in a heart beat.
The sad thing is the premier league actually has certain things in place that keep it financially fair - at least when compared to say Spain where each team negotiates their own TV licensing fee. Over there you get Madrid and Barca getting 100m + euros and the next highest earner in the league a quarter of that. The premier league split it far more equally (albeit still with more to the bigger teams), but clearly given Barca and Madrid keep getting all the premier league talent it already shows that any sort of (truely) FFP in the premiership will lead to more talent leaving
Athleticos achievement was truly outstanding last season in reality.
Having just looked it up, new legislation is coming into La Liga that will prevent the top earners (Barca, Madrid) earning any more then 4x the bottom earner in the league
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Indie games are great and all but I thought the major selling point of the Vita was it could give you home console quality games on the move?
It was, but I found when I played Uncharted on the thing it didn't feel right. I don't want to play epic story telling type games on a handheld console on a train, I wanna play them in front of my 50" plasma with nothing going on around me. The best handheld games have always been those that have a more pick up and play type vibe, which is normally where indie games fall in.
It seems like the Vita has bombed pretty hard sales wise anyway so indie games are all thats left, seems they're the only things that can make money on the thing lol.
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£11m for Ross McCormack?
I don't know whats happening at Fulham anymore
. Can't see how that ever doesn't turn into a complete flop, and this is with Mitroglu still kind of being somewhere in the background with no clue what the hell he's going to be doing this year.*shrug*
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The vita is a great bit of hardware - I've got the OLED one too and the screen is brilliant. It's the first handheld I've never had an issue with sun / light glare while trying to play, cause the screen is just so damn good! The battery is maybe short but still lasts 5 hours, can't say I've ever had it run out on me but does mean you need to remember to charge it whenever possible.
Its games line up is really drying up, I think E3 this year showed that Sony are kinda losing interest in the thing now that the PS4 is set to be such a cash cow for them. I think every Sony developer is working on a Ps4 game now, which doesn't leave a huge amount of resources left for Vita games and it shows with the rest of this years line up being 'headlined' by Minecraft and whatever Sony Japan are making lol. It pretty much seems to get all the indie games that PS3 and PS4 do though, and in reality I'd much rather play them on a handheld then I would Uncharted or Killzone. I'm kinda happy with the Vita just becoming an indie system in all honesty, especially given that they all come free to PS+ in the end lol.
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If it's a very slightly different setting and tone they can time sequels, Demon Souls 4 and Bloodborne 2?
Crafty, eh?
In reality its because Demon's Souls was kinda a sleeper hit, and Sony really didn't have much faith in the game so it caught them off guard. They worked with the develoeprs to get the game out in Japan but kinda threw it away in the west, letting ATLUS publish it in the US and Namco in Europe. Once its sales caught fire Namco came in and struck a deal with the developers to get them to make the 'sequel' but changed the name to Dark Souls avoid IP infringement with Sony - who own the Demon's Souls name.
Well clearly, Sony kinda regret letting that one get away and have gone back to the developers (From Software) and said we want you to work with us to make another Demon Soulsy esque game, exclusive for our console, but this time we're actually gonna give it a push and effort and make it one of our headline games. They didn't publish Demon Souls and yet Blood Borne was premiered at E3!
I think it's awesome, while I'm sure many of the core 'Souls' attributes are there (difficulty, slower style combat, exploration) they could so easily build on them to make a game that has its own identity - while also being another awesome PS4 exclusive.
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Generally speaking, do we think 2015 will suffer for less revenue being generated this year, as in smaller bands playing in higher spots etc?
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Well watchdogs is getting some rather lukewarm reviews. Eurogamer gave it a 7, but the review text reads like lower, and inexplicably, Gametrailers sounded rather unimpressed with it, and gave it 8.9!
and this video, showing what GTA IV was capable of in 2008, shows up W_D's to be rather shoddily made indeed. Next gen my arse
The reviews seem fine, some go as low as a 7 but they are all upwards from there probably averaging around 8.5. It's not gonna be GOTY but it seems to be a very good game. I ain't gonna pay up whatever they're charging for it on PS3 (InFamous is still £40+) but I'll grab it when it's finally discounted.
Visuals were clearly held back by having ps3 / 360 versions I think. Reckon we'll see a clear distinction this holiday between games that keep previous-gen iterations (Assassins Creed, Call of Duty, Far Cry) and those that go exclusive to PS4 and Xbox One (Batman, The Order, Drive Club).
Sensing a vibe of delays / releases to 2015 though, albeit it's all kinda speculation before E3. I reckon the first wave of games that really feel like they 'need' the new consoles won't be before then. It took roughly that long for Gears of War and Uncharted to come out and show off the 360 and PS3.
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Can see Bowling for Soup, Arcane Roots, blessthefall and BMTH pretty much clash free. Awesome! Shame to miss Killswitch but happy with how that all lines up.
Sunday is still grim but guess I can hope the secret bands is Bullet or something - not a massive fan of black stone cherry :/.
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Sebastian Bach played on the Sunday a couple of years ago didn't he ? I thought he was pretty good, with a decent crowd too.
I would assume that the Skid Row setlist would be pretty similar to what he played - Greatest Hits.
Ticket arrived this morning.
Here's a question : Tax the Heat or Miss May I for the first band ?? Tax the Heat for me, I think.
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Ticket came! Exciting times.
Clash finders alright but Saturdays a hellish nightmare. Think I'm just gonna have to main stage it all day but miss KsE for Arcane Roots. Wanted to see blessthefall, New Politics, coldrain and lonely the brave, oh well.
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ugh, Dualshock 4.
Best controlled I've ever had, albeit only had Nintendo and Sony consoles. Would be nice if I could turn that damn light off though!
Seems like such a common thing in games now, one company takes the lead, then get arrogant and makes poor decisions leading to their downfall. Really does just feel like arrogance - Sony thought they could do whatever they wanted with the PS3 and it'd win because the PS2 was such a goliathe. 360 was the strongest console in sales by the end of the last cycle meaning Microsoft thought they could get away with more, while 6 years of hurt for Sony made them make logical, sensible decisions and make an all round better proposition of a games console.
PS4 still needs games though, sounds like Sony's first party is going through a lot of issues at the moment and its lead to a scarse early 2014 lineup and still dodgy exclusive holiday line up. Although it matters less nowadays as the third parties put out some brilliant games now anyway.
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I think relegation has a long way to go, can see Cardiff and Fulham picking up points in the next few games to drag WBA, Villa and Swansea properly into it. A few sides in there who really don't look like they can get a win at the moment.
Really not sure how many points Fulham need to be safe... could be as low as 3 but probably somewhere around 7-9.
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My phone was on flight mode pretty much the whole festival to save battery.
Turns out that was a great stategy to not get pinged lol.