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#1
Film & TV / The Walking Dead Season 10
17 October, 2019, 09:35:24 AM
Didn't see a thread for this, which seems unusual!

Only a couple of episodes in but the latter half of season 9 went a long way to bringing me back on board and I have to say TWD has gone from something I was finding a bit of a slog to something I actively enjoy putting on again.

It did make the mistake that the show seems to make quite often though, coming back after a break and starting with a bit of momentum and then hobbling itself a little by immediately making episode 2 a flashback episode. It didn't bother me personally but seeing as a common complaint is that long stretches go by without the story progressing it always surprises me to see them playing for time a little so early in a season.

Saying that I did enjoy episode 2, and it had some good Alpha/Beta stuff. So I'm currently more enthusiastic for the show than I have been in a long time, hopefully that continues!
#2
Games / Save Point X Charity Games Marathon!
11 October, 2019, 09:16:03 AM
I thought I'd already spammed about this but looks like it slipped my mind!

I'm doing the 24hr game marathon again this year for Edinburgh Children's Hospital, so will add the links to get info/donate and also the link to watch my (usually very boring - it's just me on a bean bag eating biscuits in silence and occasionally swearing at difficult bits mainly) stream.

This year I'm going with a horror theme (again) and going to dip into the shame pile. Main objective is to play through Resident Evil: Code Veronica X in it's entirety and beat the dang thing, I started it way back in the day and never got very far so hoping to finally batter through that.

If you have a quid to throw in the bucket, please do :)

https://spx.everydayhero.com/uk/keith-s-save-point-2019

https://mixer.com/superbeasto

#3
Film Discussion / Drokk Vinyl
20 May, 2019, 11:52:42 AM
For anyone interested, Drokk (the original DREDD score Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury were working on before they were replaced with Paul Leonard-Morgan's score) has been reissued on vinyl and it's very nice -



https://www.invada.co.uk/products/geoff-barrow-ben-salisbury-drokk-music-inspired-by-mega-city-one-2019-special-edition-re-issue

I love the music that wound up in the film but it's still quite fascinating to imagine it with a different soundtrack. They went on to do Alex Garland's other movies (the Annihilation album is another one I had to get on vinyl!) so wonder if they were his choice originally and he got over-ruled or something.

At any rate it's a pretty nice piece of collectible Dredd history I guess.
#4
Help! / Advice on getting rid of old 2000AD comics
05 March, 2019, 12:12:06 PM
Hi all, I'm considering the unthinkable and looking into maybe getting rid of my boxes of progs and Megazines, and wondered if anyone has any experience or advice.

I hate to do it but space is becoming an issue so the idea of replacing them with digital copies feels really appealing! For that reason I might keep the ones that aren't available digital, doesn't seem like the digital store necessarily has everything and I don't know if they've stopped adding old years to it now.

I'd thought about finding a shop that might buy them as a collection but I can't seem to find anywhere that does that in Glasgow, and as a collection it's a bit scattershot and there are a lot of annoying gaps where issues seem to have been lost, so I don't know how feasible it is to list them on ebay or the like.

Has anyone done similar and have any tips?

This is what I have -

PROGS
551-554
834
950-957
959-968
972
974-997
1000-1004
1024
1026-1044
1046-1065
1067
1069
1070
1072-1094
1096-1101
1103
1106-1108
1110-1115
1117
1121-1126
1128-1131
1133-1137
1139-1165
1167-1171
1173
(2000) - 1174-1183
1185-1192
1200-1272-(2002)-1289
1291-1309
1311-1389
1441-1449
(2008)-1567-1568
1569-1573
1593-(2009)-(2010)-1677
1724-(2012)-(2013)-1822
1824-1835
1837
1841-1848
1850-1868
2061

MEGS
58
68-79
4.1-4.18
201-329
331-338
340-342
344-345
339

...and Extreme Edition 1-30
#5
I post about this every year so apologies for the deja vu!

This weekend I'll be taking part in Sick Kids Save Point, a gaming marathon to raise money for Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity.

I'll be starting on Saturday morning and doing up to 36hrs (I've been adding an hour for every £10 raised and am sitting at 29hrs currently!) and this year I'll only be playing sci-fi games. Aiming to beat some unplayed games from the pile of shame and also do full runs on some classics (Halo 1, Dead Space 2, Dark Void because my mate made that a condition of his donation!), and streaming the whole thing to prove I haven't fallen asleep.

If you do wish to donate or learn more about the charity my page is here - https://sp18.everydayhero.com/uk/keith-s-sick-kids-save-point-2018

And I'll be streaming on Mixer all weeked - https://mixer.com/Superbeasto

Got a good chunk of space-based games to dip into so should at least be a fun if incredibly tiring ordeal, cheers!

#6
Games / Sick Kids Save Point 2017 Game Marathon!
28 September, 2017, 12:10:24 PM
Hello! Little bit of spam here, but I'm doing another charity games marathon soon for Sick Kids Save Point (to raise money for the Edinburgh Children's Hospital) so thought I'd share the link!

It's starting Friday 13th October, runs for 24hrs+ (I'll add an hour for every tenner we can raise over my target, up to a maximum of 36hrs - last year I wound up doing 36hrs and it was rooooough!), and I'm aiming to do beat Flashback, Prince of Persia, Condemned and Portal, plus play a whole lot of The Evil Within 2 and anything else I can dig up to fill the time. There's a chance I could just get stuck on one of those old games for several hours (like the year I embarrasingly botched a Resident Evil playthrough...it still hurts) but will hopefully get through them!

My page is at https://sksp17.everydayhero.com/uk/keith-thorburn

You can get info and sign up to take part at https://sickkidssavepoint.com/

And I'll livestream my attempt here to prove I've not nodded off - https://mixer.com/Superbeasto

Cheers!
#7
Hello Hivemind!

Wondering if anyone can recall a Future Shock where someone made an epic journey in a spaceship and the final reveal was some graffiti (something along the lines of so and so 'Was Here')?

A colleague is trying to hunt it down and it rings a bell but I can't remember any more details!
#8
Hey everyone,

Just spreading the word that I'm once again doing the game marathon for Sick Kids Edinburgh on 10th October in case anyone wants to throw a couple of quid in the pot!

It's a 24hr game marathon, but this year I'm going to add an hour for every tenner over my target I can raise (up to a maximum of 36hrs, because I still have to work Monday unfortunately!)

I'll be streaming the whole thing, playing some classics and the scariest horror games I can get my hands on so should be a bit of a laugh really. Cheers!

https://www.justgiving.com/Keith-Thorburn4/
#9
Events / Future Shock at Edinburgh Film Festival
29 May, 2015, 12:19:11 PM
Just in case anyone doesn't know (I just stumbled on it today and bought tickets). Haven't seen it yet so good news.

https://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/films/2015/future-shock-the-story-of-2000ad
#10
Picked up the recent Warhammer 40,000 game (Assassinorum) and while reading through the rule book and poring over the characters and models it struck me how much I've always enjoyed that part of their games (I used to play Space Crusade and Space Hulk as a kid and thought artwork and the universe was really cool and a huge part of what made the games fun), but that I never really dived into the lore beyond what was presented in the games.

Has anyone read a lot of them who could recommend a good place to start without being completely lost? Had a look for novels on Amazon but even using the wiki page I found it tricky to figure out how everything is laid out! Any advice appreciated, thanks!
#11
Slightly spammy (but for a good cause!) -

Every year I take part in the Sick Kids Save Point, where a whole bunch of folk play games for a ludicrously long time to raise money for http://www.edinburghsickkids.org/.

This year I'm doing 24hrs but I'll raise it to 36hrs by adding an hour for every tenner over my goal I can raise.

You can donate at https://www.justgiving.com/Keith-Thorburn3
And watch the my livestream at http://www.twitch.tv/superbeasto81 (it won't be very entertaining because I'm neither an entertaining person or particularly good at games, but it's proof I haven't fallen asleep on the job or anything!)

Rough schedule is -

9am - 12pm: Shadow Of Mordor
12pm - 1pm: Kinect Sports Rivals
1pm - 4pm: Another World (full playthrough hopefully, if I don't get stuck...)
4pm - 6pm: D4 Dark Dreams Don't Die
6pm - 7pm: Kinect Sports Rivals
7pm - 8pm: Sniper Elite III Hunt The Grey Wolf
8pm (or as soon as it's dark enough) - 1am: Alien Isolation
1am - 2am: Need For Speed Rivals
2am - 4am: Alien Isolation
4am - 7am: Metro 2033
7am - 8am: Kinect Sports Rivals
8am - 9am: Titanfall (come join in!)
9am onwards anything goes really. I'll probably be terrible at anything by that point anyway.

Cheers!

#12
Film & TV / Pacific Rim 2!
27 June, 2014, 08:55:51 AM
This has made me deliriously happy today. And an animated series! This is what all Fridays should be like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HndBiSyOrK4
#13
Music / Best Cover Versions
12 May, 2014, 03:56:53 PM
We've got the butchered songs thread so seems only fair to have one of these!

I'll get the ball rolling with this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dunKAwRN3P8

It's a pretty revered song and quite a dramatic re-tooling so probably won't appeal to all, but in terms of taking a song I've never been all that fussed about and making it something I really like it's probably one of the most successful covers I've heard. MJK's voice has a lot to do with it of course, he is silk to the ears.
#14
Books & Comics / Humble Image Comics Bundle
01 May, 2014, 09:21:02 AM
Hey,

Couldn't see a thread about this but it's a pretty cracking deal.

Humble Bundle (they do a 'pay what you want' deal on batches of videogames and ebooks with a portion of the money going to charities, have gotten some crazily good bundles from them in the past) have an Image Comics bundle up at the moment.

You can pay whatever you like to get the first volumes of East of West, Fatale, Lazarus and Morning Glories, if you pay above the average donation (currently about $9) you also get Saga, Revival and Chew, and if you pay $15 or more you also get Volumes 1 and 20 (?) of The Walking Dead.

TWD aside I haven't read any of those books, and as it happens Volume 20 was the next TWD on my list. Really cool way to try out some new stuff for me, and for a good cause!

https://www.humblebundle.com/
#15
Just putting this here as it's for a good cause and is the last day of auction, one of the artists at work is auctioning off this Tom Baker piece for Cancer Research UK.

It's bloody lovely and seemed like the sort of thing you lot would be interested in:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chairty-auction-original-Doctor-Who-Tom-Baker-art-by-Alisdair-Wood-/281277627596

#16
General / Digital Subscription Advice
30 January, 2014, 04:43:14 PM
Hey, I've finally decided to take the plunge and get a tablet and switch my subscription to digital (purely because I literally have no more room for progs in the home sadly).

Being a noob at such things I just wondered what people use in terms of readers and what the easiest way to download them onto your tablet for reading are. It's a Nexus I'm getting so it'll be Android.

Asked some friends but they tend to do their comic reading on Comixology and said that the best format to grab is the cbz, but that there are a bunch of different ways of reading that, so I guess I'm just looking for a breakdown of what your process is when you buy and read the prog!

Thanks!
#17
Film & TV / Gravity
11 May, 2013, 04:36:10 PM
No-one pumped about this? I know nothing about it, but the trailer had my knuckles white with panic, if the whole movie is that intense I might need sedated beforehand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufsrgE0BYf0
#18
Off Topic / My Custom DREDD guitar pedal!
19 January, 2013, 10:14:06 AM
Been wanting an Octave pedal for a while and for my birthday my girlfriend had one custom made for me! We have dubbed it The Lawgiver, gives me clean, 1 octave up, 1 octave down, 2 octaves down and I can mix all 4 to my heart's content. Properly awesome, I'm well chuffed. So chuffed in fact that it warrants a smiley (sorry)  :D

#19
The movie is showing on Saturday 16th February, and there's a Q&A event that afternoon. Nice!

You have to buy tickets for both separately from the looks of it, I've only bought for the Q&A so far. This year's film festival is really looking to bankrupt me.

http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/4772_john_wagner_on_dredd_with_colin_macneil
#20
Games / Rogue Trooper Charity Game-a-thon!
07 October, 2012, 01:19:58 PM
Hey all, I'm doing the Sick Kids Save Point 24hr Games Marathon again this year, starting 9am Saturday 13th October (so just a week away)!

It's for a good cause so if anyone fancies sponsoring please do at http://www.justgiving.com/Keith-Thorburn1. Even a quid or two won't go amiss, it's for the Sick Kids Friends Foundation in Edinburgh so every little helps :)

Last year I spent a chunk of it playing Dredd Vs Death from start to finish (and had to defeat Judge Fear with my bare hands due to a dodgy checkpoint, I'll never forget that) so this year I thought I'd play right through Rogue Trooper, get a Left 4 Dead session on the go, bit of Dance Central to keep the blood flowing and then Project Zero AKA Fatal Frame for the midnight brown trouser hours. Maybe toss in The Punisher if time allows.

I'll be streaming it online at http://www.twitch.tv/superbeasto81 so if you've ever really wanted to watch Rogue Trooper with a picture-in-picture feed of a man on a beanbag then tune in!

Spam over, thanks!