Spectrum memes

[p13z]

That Wonka Experience feels pretty much like I felt after going to Cadbury World with my kids in about 2010. Okay, it's nowhere near as bad as that, but it's probably the most disappointing day out I've ever had. I/we had been wanting to go for years and I wasn't expecting Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory but I was expecting a lot more than:

I used to live just down the road from there, and the thing is - Cadbury World *used to be* ace. When it first opened up it involved a good tour around - when Bournville was still producing all of the chocolate, some fun little exhibits, and they kept chucking phenomenal amounts of free chocolate at you. As the years went on, Cadbury was bought out by nasty American food giants, manufacturing moved to Poland, palm oil was added to everything and 'Cadbury World' slowly turned into some awful school trip type affair, with forced advertising and a crazily overpriced gift shop. Sad times.

[Nitrowing]

manufacturing moved to Poland

That's when I stopped buying Cadbury's products

[Vampyre]

I used to live just down the road from there, and the thing is - Cadbury World *used to be* ace. When it first opened up it involved a good tour around - when Bournville was still producing all of the chocolate, some fun little exhibits, and they kept chucking phenomenal amounts of free chocolate at you. As the years went on, Cadbury was bought out by nasty American food giants, manufacturing moved to Poland, palm oil was added to everything and 'Cadbury World' slowly turned into some awful school trip type affair, with forced advertising and a crazily overpriced gift shop. Sad times.

Yup, this was our experience - it was post buyout. We'd be hearing for years how great it was and we wanted to wait until our kids reached an age they could appreciate it.

It was bloody awful. Fortunately we didn't have to travel too far to get there (Wolves).

[p13z]

[flatduckrecords]

[cursed airport telly]

[SteveSmith]

Great image, but can I check if I've missed some contextual news item?

[flatduckrecords]

Great image, but can I check if I've missed some contextual news item?

Thanks, yeah it's a Tweet that's gone viral this week. I presume it's in an airport somewhere, but it's about the most awkward place I could imagine to use a Spectrum!

[Evil Genius]

Isn't Sadako's neck already broken?

[flatduckrecords]

Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing.

[SteveSmith]

Some of those faces look like they're straight out of Soft & Cuddly!

[bluespikey]

[R-Tape]

FAKE! @flatduckrecords

It's flawless, other than the BRIGHT and non-BRIGHT in the same character squares at the start of row 13. They always make one little mistake inspector...

[flatduckrecords]

They always make one little mistake inspector...

Hahahah! It's like we WANT to be caught!

don't mention the orangery

Looks like my export-to-8-bit-PNG settings flubbed the non-BRIGHT yellow as well, d'oh!

[R-Tape]

don't mention the orangery

Looks like my export-to-8-bit-PNG settings flubbed the non-BRIGHT yellow as well, d'oh!

I missed that!

We have a new name for nefarious speccy pixel manipulation:

verb: to orange.
noun: orangery

He's been found guilty of first degree orangery.

"Browning" works too, but that's probably already taken by The Urban Dictionary.

[flatduckrecords]

We have a new name for nefarious speccy pixel manipulation

Haha! I like that.

It works too in the broader sense of "image manipulation" as one of the (many) conspiracy theories (into which I had to research for this…piece) states that the Official home that these people don't even live in has an orangery (which is where this photo that wasn't really taken was ostensibly taken) so it mush be a fake…because the trees wouldn't be in full leaf yet would they?

How deep does the rabbit hole orangery go?

[XTM]

What's all this talk of yellow or orange ... will no one think of the bright green on non-bright white? It's even brighter than the yellow. Such Speccy representation will not stand!

[TMD2003]

It's been done with ULAplus, obviously.

Bright red ink on non-bright red paper? You got it. Orange? You got it. Commodore brown? Actually, no, but some rusty-red will do.

[R-Tape]

[Lee Bee]

[TMD2003]

I see Dragon 32 colours... and from the text screen, at that. If only SCREEN 0,1 had been more useful...

[R-Tape]

I see Dragon 32 colours... and from the text screen, at that. If only SCREEN 0,1 had been more useful...

Actually now you mention...orange and brown. At least the Dragon's black on green would be possible on the Speccy. Sorry @hitm4n you'll have to start again.

[flatduckrecords]

Sacré bleu, is this thread patrolled by the colour cops or what?

Can’t get away with nuffink. You might say it’s draconian (32).

[Nitrowing]

orange and brown

I've tried not to bring that up because of the the time/effort/expense

[ParadigmShifter]

Pretty noob expense-wise for Lego, check this guy out... he's now rented a warehouse for it all

[hitm4n]

love it