I remember buying some bits and pieces to setup my home theatre in a new house years ago, and the guy at the store tried to sell me a $100 TOSLINK cable. When I asked why a $12 cable was going for so much, he pointed out that it was the "premium" cable, to ensure the highest quality audio.

I couldn't stop laughing. Like their special cable scrubbed the photons before sending them or something.

See? That just illustrates my point perfectly. I reckon Tarantino intentionally sets out to put people firmly on either side of the love/hate fence, with each film.

I’m a huge Tarantino fan and enjoyed every single one of his movies, except that one.

Are you including Jackie Brown in this assessment? Because that's the one Tarantino film I'd never return to. Bored the shit out of me.

I can see how Once Upon a Time in Hollywood wouldn't do it for a lot of people. The storyline was pretty bloody thin.

From memory, my wife and I had only just recently watched the Aquarius TV series (a few years after it was made) followed by Mindhunter (we were on a true crime kick back then), so the intersection with the Manson murders kept us hooked. Also, Tarantino using the same Aussie actor from Mindhunter to reprise the role of Manson felt like a really cool Easter egg.

But, that's the thing about Tarantino - he's always going to be polarizing. You either love or hate a given piece of his work, I guess.

First OS: MS-DOS, I reckon around v3 - was running on an IBM XT PC.

First Linux distro: Slackware, came on a CD-ROM on the front of a PC magazine.

I'd buy you a $15 book on critical thinking, so you could stop and consider that maybe not everyone is a native English speaker, and their syntax may vary.

Otherwise, you're just making assumptions based on what someone has written. You know, like how many people might assume from your reply that you're a massive dickhead. Just an assumption of course...

+1 for the channels you mentioned, plus I find Inheritance Machining is pretty good too. A goodish amount of dry wit (not as much as TOT, but often gets a smirk out of me), and I really appreciate how he incorporates his manual drawing into a lot of his videos, rather than CAD.

Clickpsring is by far my absolute favourite. I've been following him since the very start of the clock build, and loved every second of it. I like his 2nd channel too - Clickspring Clips - for the occasional 2-3min video brief of him making a single part.

Woodworking. I love it. Wood is such a warm medium to work with, and it's a really easy hobby to get into, too. You don't have to buy expensive power tools, nor do you need to set a target of making fine furniture.

For me, I started out with scrap wood, trying to make as perfect as dovetail joint as possible, using just hand tools - a cross-cut saw and a good, sharp chisel.

That took me down a path of trying to learn different joinery techniques, which was a whole lot of fun. I bought a couple of joinery books from the big A and scrounged scraps from my local hardware to practice on. And, I know you said you wanted to get away from the computer, but there's some incredibly good woodworking channels on YT. I tend to avoid the ones that talk too much about what they're doing - I prefer to just watch masters at work. I find Japanese woodworking videos incredibly satisfying and enjoyable.

I don't get to indulge the hobby as much as I want - family life keeps me pretty busy nowadays - but, when I have the occasional afternoon to myself, I love spending it in my little workshop, mucking around with wood. I always come away from a bout of woodworking feeling relaxed.

Literally just bought a map book for most of Australia a few weeks ago.

Planning a three week trip through the Outback. Seems crazy to try and rely on technology out there for that long without a safety net of some sort.

When I was younger, it used to be falling down a large hole, getting swallowed up by the darkness, and never knowing exactly when I'd hit the ground (or worse).

Now I have a family, my most frequent one has been losing my 9yo daughter, usually when we're camping or at a busy shopping centre - something like that.

Honestly, that's on Martin. He signed the deal, then failed to get off his arse and finish the damn series. HBO exercised their right to develop their own content when, after ~~five~~ eight years, he'd still not made any progress on finishing the series.

The fans needed something. Can you imagine the uproar if HBO told us all to wait another few years before closing out the story?

Martin can whinge all he likes about his creative process, and how he was shut out of the final seasons. I notice he hasn't whinged once about the money he made from selling the TV rights.

Don't get me wrong - he's absolutely entitled to that money. It's his creation after all. But he also signed the contract that got us to where we got to.

In terms of being able to enjoy that massive reveal behind the whole plot, The Sixth Sense or The Usual Suspects.

In terms of being able to just enjoy the whole storyline without any prior knowledge, The Godfather (parts 1 and 2) or Se7en.

When I caught myself planning exactly how I'd scale that building wall, AC style.