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Post by mark687 on Jun 19, 2017 14:37:01 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 16:05:03 GMT
Nice one. This sale is always a pleasant surprise. It'll be the Sacrifice box set for me when Sherlock Holmes day comes around. Looking forward to hearing this and completing my Holmes collection.
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Post by SoundableObject on Jun 19, 2017 19:37:30 GMT
£60 for the four series of Graceless seems a great price but I think that it on the list of things to buy once I've caught up with everything else.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jun 19, 2017 19:42:53 GMT
It might be some Sherlock Holmes Christmas presents for a friend.
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Post by Ela on Jun 19, 2017 19:54:25 GMT
Turns out I'm only missing one Graceless release, so might as well get it now.
Maybe I'll get the Worlds of Big Finish, too, for that price. I never got it, as I'm not a fan of several of the ranges represented in it.
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Post by kimalysong on Jun 19, 2017 20:00:58 GMT
I ended up getting Worlds of Big Finish. Technically I already owned it through a Humble Bundle but I'd rather own it directly through Big Finish and this seemed the perfect time to do so.
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Post by number13 on Jun 19, 2017 23:15:42 GMT
Very interesting! And there was me thinking it would be a quiet (and inexpensive ) week after all the great releases last week... I should have known better... 'Worlds of Big Finish' looks interesting at that price, but I will hang on to see if there's a day sale where it would nudge my spend over the £50/10% barrier. So much for the inexpensive week...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 1:26:38 GMT
I already own everything that I imagine they're likely to put in the sale (Graceless, Iris Wildthyme, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Vienna, and Bernice Summerfield) so my wallet will be staying safely shut this week, I'd wager. Still, that's no bad thing. After all last time they had the big Benny sale I purchased a bulk lot of all the CD only releases...even at half price, or whatever it was, my wallet felt that one, that's for sure.
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Post by masolko on Jun 20, 2017 2:30:23 GMT
By chance, I listened to The Worlds of Big Finish last week and greatly enjoyed it. The set served as the perfect sampler for the various ranges. Gracless, sad to say, didn't capture my imagination so I'm taking a pass for budgetary reasons. I am looking forward to diving in further on Sherlock Holmes, Iris, Benny, & Dorian, as well as buying physical copies of the first two Vienna sets.
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Post by omega on Jun 20, 2017 7:39:03 GMT
I definitely recommend Graceless. You don't need to have heard Key 2 Time, and all the box sets are relatively stand-alone.
The adult content warning is there for a reason, so don't let any young kids listen unless you feel comfortable with your son or daughter hearing about sex and adult relationships. It's nothing crass or explicit like fifty shades of grey, it's a much more mature approach.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 10:20:19 GMT
I definitely recommend Graceless. You don't need to have heard Key 2 Time, and all the box sets are relatively stand-alone. The adult content warning is there for a reason, so don't let any young kids listen unless you feel comfortable with your son or daughter hearing about sex and adult relationships. It's nothing crass or explicit like fifty shades of grey, it's a much more mature approach. The problem I had with the adult content is I didn't feel it was handled in a mature way to begin with. It was more like teenagers sperson of colouring at their first look at porn. Thankfully it was much more grown up by series 3 and I'm looking forward to hearing series 4. Edit: what the chuff has auto correct done to my post. Sniggering is not an offensive word. S.n.i.g.g.e.r.i.n.g. not sperson of colouring.
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Post by omega on Jun 20, 2017 10:36:27 GMT
I definitely recommend Graceless. You don't need to have heard Key 2 Time, and all the box sets are relatively stand-alone. The adult content warning is there for a reason, so don't let any young kids listen unless you feel comfortable with your son or daughter hearing about sex and adult relationships. It's nothing crass or explicit like fifty shades of grey, it's a much more mature approach. The problem I had with the adult content is I didn't feel it was handled in a mature way to begin with. It was more like teenagers sperson of colouring at their first look at porn. Thankfully it was much more grown up by series 3 and I'm looking forward to hearing series 4. Edit: what the chuff has auto correct done to my post. Sperson of colouring is not an offensive word. S.n.i.g.g.e.r.i.n.g. not sperson of colouring. The whole range is about Abbey and Zara coming to terms with their new situation and having only each other. You can chart their character development from The Sphere up to The Dance. Abbey had just come from what can be described as sheltered private school (not literally, but , and had been with the Fifth Doctor whose era was big with no hanky panky in the TARDIS), so she was losing her innocence and diving in the deep end. Dealing with how it affects her is her main character arc in the first box set. Torchwood took a season or so to find a happy medium between adult mature and adult sex and swearing. You've just diagnosed a particular internet filter problem.
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Post by acousticwolf on Jun 20, 2017 10:54:32 GMT
I definitely recommend Graceless. You don't need to have heard Key 2 Time, and all the box sets are relatively stand-alone. The adult content warning is there for a reason, so don't let any young kids listen unless you feel comfortable with your son or daughter hearing about sex and adult relationships. It's nothing crass or explicit like fifty shades of grey, it's a much more mature approach. The problem I had with the adult content is I didn't feel it was handled in a mature way to begin with. It was more like teenagers sperson of colouring at their first look at porn. Thankfully it was much more grown up by series 3 and I'm looking forward to hearing series 4. Edit: what the chuff has auto correct done to my post. Sperson of colouring is not an offensive word. S.n.i.g.g.e.r.i.n.g. not sperson of colouring. It appears to have taken part of the word and censored that - it will be looked into Cheers Tony EDIT: You can snigger to your hearts content now
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Post by mark687 on Jun 20, 2017 11:03:39 GMT
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Post by omega on Jun 20, 2017 11:04:58 GMT
The problem I had with the adult content is I didn't feel it was handled in a mature way to begin with. It was more like teenagers sperson of colouring at their first look at porn. Thankfully it was much more grown up by series 3 and I'm looking forward to hearing series 4. Edit: what the chuff has auto correct done to my post. Sperson of colouring is not an offensive word. S.n.i.g.g.e.r.i.n.g. not sperson of colouring. It appears to have taken part of the word and censored that - it will be looked into Cheers Tony EDIT: You cam snigger to your hearts content now It can be described as The Sc***horpe Problem, where a profanity filter doesn't take the context of the whole word into account when censoring specific sequences of letters. For example, you might be excited about the next Assassins Creed game, but because the sequence ass appears consecutively it'll come out *****ins Creed. Computers will do exactly as you tell them, and not what you want them, so unless you foresee and prevent the problem it will come up. For context S C U N T H O R P E is an actual location. Trying to discuss it in perfectly innocent circumstances will make you look rude anyway. That's a wrap for today's lesson on internet profanity filters.
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Post by acousticwolf on Jun 20, 2017 11:11:16 GMT
It appears to have taken part of the word and censored that - it will be looked into Cheers Tony EDIT: You cam snigger to your hearts content now It can be described as The Sc***horpe Problem, where a profanity filter doesn't take the context of the whole word into account when censoring specific sequences of letters. For example, you might be excited about the next Assassins Creed game, but because the sequence ass appears consecutively it'll come out *****ins Creed. Computers will do exactly as you tell them, and not what you want them, so unless you foresee and prevent the problem it will come up. For context S C U N T H O R P E is an actual location. Trying to discuss it in perfectly innocent circumstances will make you look rude anyway. That's a wrap for today's lesson on internet profanity filters. That will be another one I have to fix ... and I know where Scunthorpe is Cheers Tony
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 11:15:24 GMT
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Post by omega on Jun 20, 2017 11:17:44 GMT
It can be described as The Sc***horpe Problem, where a profanity filter doesn't take the context of the whole word into account when censoring specific sequences of letters. For example, you might be excited about the next Assassins Creed game, but because the sequence ass appears consecutively it'll come out *****ins Creed. Computers will do exactly as you tell them, and not what you want them, so unless you foresee and prevent the problem it will come up. For context S C U N T H O R P E is an actual location. Trying to discuss it in perfectly innocent circumstances will make you look rude anyway. That's a wrap for today's lesson on internet profanity filters. That will be another one I have to fix ... and I know where Scunthorpe is Cheers Tony I've linked the TV Tropes page on the subject earlier in the thread. Might be a good place to get more patches to the swear filter if it's got the space. Gallifrey Base does a filter where Brian Blessed always comes out as BRIAN BLESSED, and anything else entered in all caps will only have the first word capitalised.
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Post by theother on Jun 20, 2017 11:33:15 GMT
Gallifrey Base does a filter where Brian Blessed always comes out as BRIAN BLESSED, Now that's funny. 😄
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Post by number13 on Jun 20, 2017 11:49:14 GMT
Watson, the very information I have been waiting for! Pass me the Bradshaw's, the credit card and the discount code - the game is afoot!
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