A thoroughly entertaining affair, I loved the leibmotif of the Troll Dance & the bubbling enthusiam of the cast. The latter was played by four guys to the right of the stage, of which the musical’s writer, James Williams, was plonking the keys. It tells the story of Billy Morgan, who follows the Bwca (pronounced Booker) into a magical land which on the edge of destruction fileld with trolls, Faerie Queen’s, wizards & music. This is evident from the great harmonies, eloquent speech & graceful acting of this bunch of teenagers singing & dancing through a perfectly pleasant children’s story. Voluntary ran & fund-raising mental, on a shoe-string budget they charge only a couple of quid to the kids for room hire & get proffessional thespians in who teach the kids there for a cup of tea & a wagon wheel. The company is called UNKNOWN THEATRE & are based in Cardiff, & their story is refreshing. It was there, as everyone was getting changed practically in the street, that I met the producers of the show, who very kindly gave me a comp to see A NIGHT’S TALE (5-12 / 10.30). Some of these are the friendly female staff down at Venue 13 on LOCHEND CLOSE- where I caught BROKEN WING a couple of days back. A big shout out should go to the guys & girls who work at the 300 plus venues, an untriumphed army of youngsters that steer HMS Fringe through the endless oceans of August. But for one month it becomes a veritable Mumbai of the muses, swarming with ballet dancers & graphic artists, comics, singers & novelists.

Indeed, Edinburgh is a joy to live in, very cosmpolitan with more of a village vibe than modern European capital. Admittedly, the percantage of nobheads is roughly the same, but there’s only 5 million souls up here, scattered over a vast area. I mean, I’ve lived in Scotland seven years now, for the simple fact there’s a lot less nob-heads up here. The over-reaction is real.While south of the border England’s cities are one-by-one descending into mayhem, bloodshed & looting, north of the border, Scotland’s capital is carrying on its annual festivities serenely. Seriously, I think GOL needs a :rollseyes: smiley. But I don't think that 'installing Discord is like installing Windows 10'. Now maybe I'm just a 'brainless gamer, gobbling it all up'. But since I already use Spotify, Netflix, Prime, Steam, Twitter and Google products, it's pretty clear it doesn't fit mine. It's opt-in too.īottom line, all the cries about 'Discord is spyware' seem to come from a Stallman-like hatred for any and all proprietary programs. So most of the hate seems to revolve around the 'process logger' which is a feature of the thick client so that Discord can put a 'scaine is playing Mothergunship' tag under my username when I start playing. Yes, they track stuff, like the messages you type? That's what the service is! Yes, they hold your email address. Sites like this don't help sell the story. Why the Discord hate here? Every time someone shouts 'spyware' about this app, I do another little search on the internet and yet every time, I seem to end up on the usual fairly paranoid forum and reddit posts that simply put Discord in the same basket as Steam and Facebook. They also have a shiny new website, check it out here. The ability to lower the volume of others when a priority speaker is talking.Improved user admin tools including inactive time, an improved ban-list and more.PulseAudio monitor devices can be used as input devices.Dynamic channel filtering, enabling you to easily show/hide empty channels.A new shortcut to change your voice transmission mode between: voice activation, push to talk and continuous and a toolbar to select it too.Checking on it Mumble 1.2 was release all the way back in December, 2009! Nearly 10 years in the making-holy cow!

This is the first major release of Mumble in a few years, so of course it comes with some truly massive changes. Move over Discord, Mumble has rolled back into town with a massive new release for this open source voice chat application.

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