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no memorable action sequences.  No "Lobby from The Matrix", no "Building Site chase from Casino Royale", no "Lightsabre fight from Phantom Menace"

Ah, but The Matrix (touted on release as the best sci-fi movie of all time) has faded a bit over time.  If the best thing about your movie is a new special effect (bullet time), then that doesn't speak well of the movie.  Casino Royale's building site chase is ridiculously contrived: "we want to insert free running - shoulder it in here".  And The Phantom Menace isn't even a proper Star Wars film.

I'd rather a movie be good overall, than have a single stand-out memorable scene.

When I eat jam with pips in it, sometimes a pip will fit neatly into a pip-shaped tooth cavity I've developed. It's difficult to extricate said pip, when this occurs. Feels weird. Can't focus. One chance ... tooth-pick!

Troutski is totally, like, rad. The Trout abides. Whilst established, he is not the establishment. He posted on Thread Zero, the very mention of which sends shivers of nostalgi-fear reverberating through the hive mind, and yet lives to tell the tale.

On another note - I just found out there's going to be a new Dredd film in which Doctor McCoy and Juno's pal raid Cersei's palace.

Oh - and Day of Chaos!

I'm v. out of touch.

My boss has some amazing power-saving notions:

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Boss: "To save power, the lights switch off automatically 30 minutes after you leave".
Me: "So we could save 30 minutes of power by switching the lights off when we leave."
Boss: "No! They're automatic!"

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Boss: "To save power, don't print any posters - project the information onto the wall".
[a few minutes later]
Boss: "Switch off the projectors when not in use - the bulbs are expensive."

*de-cloaking*

*necro-threading*

Let's see:

• Emigrated
• Married
• Less forum time
• Employed
• Unemployed
• Ceased reading 2000AD at prog 1683 for financial reasons
• Mourned
• Employed
• Daughter born!
• Lack of sleep...

*re-cloaking*

Thanks, guys.  I asked for a Wacom Bamboo Fun, and if the boss says no, then I'll ask for a cheaper one.

I have an Interwrite pad, but the sensitivity's pretty sucky, and I want one for the students to use.

(Resisted the urge to look under your spoiler blanks, Rad ... is he on Mars? Stookie? Holiday? Don't tell me.)

Ah - I expect not, Button - my overseas sub expired at the same time as my then employment, and so I stopped buying 2000AD for the first time since about prog 170 or so.  I was going to get the online version but ... haven't.  Spared you the details, there.

Erm ... is Dredd still in the Cursed Earth?  (Don't answer that - I might still go on an online back prog splurge.) 

Hello!

I'm looking to buy a graphics tablet, but am completely ignorant on the subject (like it might not even be called a graphics tablet - that level of ignorant). It's for high school students to use in the creation of computer art work - can any of you talented artist types give a recommendation?

When the impossible is eliminated, what remains, however improbable, must be true.

I'm so poorly read I thought Spock had coined that.

It sounds like good news, and I hate to be a grump - but it worries me that in order to have a dialogue about the usability of the Clickwheel service, one has to post on the 2000AD message board and wait several days for any information.

I still have sent Clickwheel two emails outlining the problems I'm having using their services, and still have received no reply from them.  I'm just one customer, but I may be indicative of a wider problem.

If I had a fiend, I've have it apporch something as well - just to show solidarity.

Someone further up the thread said something about 2000AD's being available from the 2000AD online shop, or something along those lines.  Did that mean pdf versions of 2000AD?  The subs people have never had any problem accepting money from my bank account - unlike clickwheel.

I need to make a decision soon whether I wait for a new service or re-subscribe - clickwheel's proven itself an unreliable option, given what everyone else here is saying, my experience being unable to penetrate their pay system, and their policy of ignoring customer emails.

It's a huge disappointment because I'd save a ton of money (and trees) by going digital.

Thanks - I scanned right past that without noticing it.

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone has any advice or relevant experiences with the Clickwheel service, because I'm having serious difficulties in trying to use it.

At the moment, I can't reach the log-in screen, and I've emailed them twice about the other technical issues I'm experiencing (more of which in a moment), but despite being very patient (the emails were sent on the 20th and 21st of May) I haven't had any reply.

I was trying to pay with a UK bank account with an address in the US (which works perfectly well in all other pay systems), but theirs kept rejecting my payment, and also kept switching everything to dollar amounts.

It seemed like a really good deal for me, financially, to read the e-versions instead of shipping over the paper versions, and so I didn't renew my sub, and now I'm 5 progs behind, after reading the weekly since 1970, so a little bit upset at the poor service (given that Rebellion/2000AD recommend it).

Should I just accept it as a fact that the clickwheel service doesn't work? Does anyone know how much extra it would cost to pay with a US bank account?  (I assume it would cost more, as each payment would get the transfer fee of USD->GBP added on.)

Finally, does anyone know if clickwheel has simply gone bust?  It doesn't seem right that their log-in won't work and they never reply to emails about the service.

Best,

FS/LP

Loved Tank Girl in the Meg - and sorry to hear it's going.  There's something beautifully summery about that strip, like I'm back reading a comic in my childhood, except I understand the rude jokes.

I thought of Firekind immediately when I became familiar with the plot of Avatar, and even more having seen it.

Man goes to a poisoned-atmosphere (for humans) planet of blue-skinned natives who have a relationship with dragon-creatures.  He goes native.  Bad men attack the planet and the natives.  Planet rises up to destroy the bad men.

Just like the dude says in the article - the comparison's easy to make.