The Two Popes

Surprisingly good!

This film focuses on the life of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) and his frenemyship with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Anthony Hopkins). While there is some religious debate between the two the movie really shines on the more mundane sections of their conversations which are impeccably acted by both leads.

One of my favorite scenes, obviously. :)

Everything about this film gets the thumbs up from me. The third act where we learn about Bergoglio's past is a bit more meh than the rest but it's definitely worth a watch, regardless of your beliefs (or non-beliefs) as it is an entertaining flick. I give it 3.5 red shoes out of 5 and would watch it again.

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Blaugust Bonus: "What are some of the things that you wish you knew before you started creating content?" -Sandrian

That the 5000 label limit on blog spot isn't a bluff, because I hit it! Shit. I'm having to back track and remove the less used labels so that I can continue posting stuff. Less is better apparently in this regard. Oops!

Developer Appreciation: Blogger

Short, non-gaming Dev Appreciation for Blogger today since it's been hosting this blog for free since 2011. Easy to setup, easy to use, and it takes most of the coding part out of my worries as a blogger. Sure, there are times when things go belly up, but those are few and far between (literally years apart). Looking forward to the next seven+ years of blogging with you. :)

Blogspot Blog List Tips

I had some serious issues with my blog list recently and most of the problem stemmed from bugs(?) in the blogspot process. I'm just posting this to remind myself and maybe even help others should they come across the same issues, should they still not be fixed.

Firstly, when adding new blogs from the reading list selecting "ALL" or any number greater than one will FAIL. You must add each new path individually.

Secondly, the list won't often update on its own. If you want to see the changes, edit the blog list and untick the icon option and save it. Then turn it back on and save it (or vice versa). That will refresh the listing.

That's it! Hope that's of use to someone! :)

Blogspot Header Issues

For some reason it seems blogger / BlogSpot has been screwing around with people's headers lately (mine included). If yours decided to do some funky things like, vanish, display vertically, or have a really slim width causing words to wrap then this fix (found on the help forums) will probably sort you out:

1 - Go to "Template Designer"
2 - Click 'Advanced'
3 - Scroll down to 'Add CSS' then in the box put the code below and hit return:

#header-inner {
    width: 1000px !important;
}

4- Save Changes (if it doesn't let you, add a space or press enter somewhere for the save button to activate).

Your header should then be back to normal, or at least closer to normal than it was previously! :)