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I STILL need some help with organising this end of "Film night"!

I Sperg

I started "Film night" about 12 months ago, with the express purpose of providing a "gateway to socialisation" for the people here, and it failed to attract any viewers, except myself and a friend regularly.

To my great surprise I was able to deliver almost 100% reliabilty in my service delivery, and overcome various technical problems, but it did not work for you guys. 

If anyone has any interest in stepping up and helping me present it correctly here so as it does attract people and they understand that the levels of inherent safety and opportunity such a thing offers, I'd be very happy to hear from you, because I've decided I'm just not going to attempt any of that any more.  

I think we will migrate from zoom to a discord server as zoom look like they don't want this sort of thing happening on their network anymore...

I'm just testing the water with discord now.

I've probably left it too late for anyone to be able to help to be honest, as there's only two weeks before the first film night of the new year.

Currently I run them at 6pm on a Sunday, although Christmas eve made this weeks a late starter...

This week we'll be watching *PING* (sound of gold coin dropping, clearly I've not been hearing the pennies)

then I remembered that zoom's new update will actually force a break, and you won't be able to continue watching without the long forced breaks like we were,

which means I have to find a new method of "casting",

and this site gets sniffy about me publishing the first zoom address anyway, 

AND NO ONE REALLY WANTS TO HELP (past offering "advice")

OR ATTENDS ANYWAY! (apart from mariusz, Thanks for giving it a go, bud, I was gutted that your sound quality was so unintelligible when you actually tried to talk to us)

I still feel sure that it is a good idea, but I am now quite convinced after this last push, that someone else needs to do it for this Audience.

I'll do what we did last year for me and my mate, but probably in an ownerless discord server set up just for that purpose unless MT is better for the purpose. 

I don't have the 150 quid a year that zoom needs to set up a proper service there, so it'll always have that "hunting for new zero rent hosting" fugitive nature I guess.

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  • I love this idea and if you can get it sorted how you'll work it I'm game to giving it a go. It's a good way of autistic people getting together without really getting together if you know what I mean.

    The group I do we decided to do something very similar with Zoom but changed to MT as Zoom wasn't the best, there was a lot of lag and it didn't cope especially well. Always had the microphone option but everyone preferred to text chat rather than vocally, which suited me as I don't like talking either. I only ever really talk to my cats LOL. I choose dvds from my own personal collection, ranging from things like Disney to Jurassic Park to The Italian Job from 1969 - moi's movie taste is very mixed just like my music taste. I like a bit of everything LOL.

    Please keep us posted on how your film night planning goes. I hope you find it as good an experience as I have with my own.

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  • I love this idea and if you can get it sorted how you'll work it I'm game to giving it a go. It's a good way of autistic people getting together without really getting together if you know what I mean.

    The group I do we decided to do something very similar with Zoom but changed to MT as Zoom wasn't the best, there was a lot of lag and it didn't cope especially well. Always had the microphone option but everyone preferred to text chat rather than vocally, which suited me as I don't like talking either. I only ever really talk to my cats LOL. I choose dvds from my own personal collection, ranging from things like Disney to Jurassic Park to The Italian Job from 1969 - moi's movie taste is very mixed just like my music taste. I like a bit of everything LOL.

    Please keep us posted on how your film night planning goes. I hope you find it as good an experience as I have with my own.

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    It looks like I'll not be doing it as a "public service" but continuing to do it as a private venture in my discord channel most likely with my friend who really enjoys it, running (after careful consideration) MOST of the films we watched last year! 

    What we really need to do it right, is a rich benefactor to set us up a legit zoom account that will allow us to do it properly, and allow people the levels of communication and anonymity that they require. 

    I'd be that rich benefactor, but there really seems very little demand for it and I am definitely not rich...