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#9331
Help! / Re: Cutaway of House Image?......
28 October, 2005, 12:02:20 AM
Got this response:

"I haven't a clue where you'd get such a thing  - all vector images that I would do would be in Freehand and it would be a huge amount of work
to draw one so v. expensive to buy, I would think. Or maybe he means an architectural (as against illustrative) image made in CAD? [Joe Bloggs] doesn't use that program and I don't know if it would be used in this way but I can ask around. I have used a cutaway isometric image of a house but that was hand-rendered by an architect then scanned. To trace a scanned image is probably what he's trying to avoid doing!"
#9332
Help! / Re: Cutaway of House Image?...
27 October, 2005, 07:11:25 PM
I've emailed a graphic designer that's married to an architect - and I know she does the design work for his academic books - see what crops up.
#9333
Off Topic / Samain, The Holiday Of The Dead
27 October, 2005, 06:18:42 AM
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#9334
Film & TV / Re: FIlms you never got to the end...
28 October, 2005, 09:22:00 PM
Yeah, that's right - my flatmate - yup.
#9335
Film & TV / Re: FIlms you never got to the end...
28 October, 2005, 08:54:24 PM
I never got to the end of any of these movies, despite several attempts:

Desperately Sucking Susan
Pump Friction
Saturday Night Beaver
White Men Can't Pump
The Italian Knob
The Legend of Shagger Vance
Forest Hump
Schindlers Fist
Robocock
Toys in the Hood
A Cockwork Orange
The Good, the Bad and the Ho
Dude, Wheres My Pussy?
Bufty the Vampire Poker
Womb Raider
Good Willie Humping
Inspect Her Gadget
#9336
Film & TV / Re: FIlms you never got to the end...
27 October, 2005, 07:01:07 PM
Crash (Cronenberg).  I'm with you there, Tips - what a load of pretentious shite, frankly.

Last Man Standing (Willis).  Did we really need another re-telling of Yojimbo (later A Fist Full of Dollars)?  Especially with Willis as a violent mysoginist and a patronising lowest common denominator voiceover that practically described each scene, just in case the audiences eyes had fallen out on the way into the auditorium.

Zoolander.  Ha ha ha ... oh.  This should have been a 5-minute sketch on a half-hour comedy show, not a movie.

Meet Joe Black.  Just hurry up and f*cking well die so we can get this over with!
#9337
Film & TV / Samain, The Holiday Of The Dead
27 October, 2005, 06:18:42 AM
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#9338
General / Galen DeMarco
26 October, 2005, 03:27:18 PM
Was DeMarco really acting out of character in the birthday Meg's Simping Detective when she attempted to assassinate that crime lord as a matter of personal revenge?

When she was a Judge, she fell madly and passionately in love with Judge Dredd: someone completely unattainable.

When she became a civilian she immediately got drunk and broke several laws, one involving a firearm.  Only Dredd's guilt saved her from the cubes.

She's highly emotional, unstable and prone to breaking the law when it suits her needs.
#9339
Off Topic / Re: Daytime TV is Great!
25 October, 2005, 08:14:32 PM
Now Columbo - there's your class right there.
#9340
Off Topic / Re: Quake 4, while we wait for Rog...
26 October, 2005, 05:36:10 PM
My x-flatmate, before broadband:

"No fecking wayyyy!  No way!  Fecking cheating motherfecking wank-bastards!  Cheats!  There's no fecking wayyy!  Hack-bastards!"

My x-flatmate, after broadband:

"No fecking wayyyy!  No way!  Fecking cheating motherfecking wank-bastards!  Cheats!  There's no fecking wayyy!  Hack-bastards!"
#9341
General / Re: Anyone else remember OUTLAW?...
25 October, 2005, 06:28:34 PM
And there were a few loose ends in Chronos Carnival that I'd like to see tied up*.










* to a heavy rock before it's dropped into the Mariana Trench.
#9342
Prog / Re: 1462 - School Daze
31 October, 2005, 01:47:04 PM
"Cinnabar" demonstrated that there's life in the character and setting of the original Rogue Trooper (whilst it naturally built on much that had gone before).

Having said that, the original series, right up until the death of the Traitor General, had, in effect, told the entire story of the Rogue Trooper.  

Dragging him to Horst to find a magic potion, or placing him under the command of enigmatic aliens wrapped in a riddle was just forcing things to continue past their natural end point.

The story had a beginning, middle and end.  Now that he's been forced into new rogue situations, re-invented as Friday, re-born as Tor Cyan, re-jigged as Rogue-with-a-different-virus [Rennie] and finally paid homage to (recent outtings) how are long term readers supposed to be able to invest any consideration in the character?  Who is he, anyway?

Now Rafe, the sassy female GI combat pilot with her sidekick computer Gabe - she is a new and interesting character.  The first time I saw her, crash-landed and helped out by Rogue, she was the main character and Rogue was the cameo guest appearance.  The same goes here.

To summarise:  I enjoyed the latest instalment, but I consider it Rafe's story, not Rogues.
#9343
Prog / Re: 1462 - School Daze
25 October, 2005, 09:25:21 PM
Right - so these tales are free to use Bland, Brass, Magnam, Bluegenes, the Traitor General et al?

Eenteresting.
#9344
Prog / Re: 1462 - School Daze
25 October, 2005, 07:18:42 PM
Erm...only if I have as well.

It's true, and I think I've used (or stolen) the idea before about the diversion of resources after the initial failure at the Quartz Zone.

Let's face it, we can use logic to twist the story any which way - and I agree that ending the Rogue Trooper strip at the point where the Traitor General dies would have been a natural and satisfactory end point for the character and the story.

I never could remember why Venus Bluegenes existed.  Were the female GIs non-combatants?  Why didn't they all die in the Quartz Zone Massacre?  In Rennie's Rogue-iverse, are female GIs exclusively pilots?  Is Rafe from a new batch, created after Milli-Com debriefed Rogue?  Or is this all an alternity Rogue, similar to the original but not beholden to any of it's continuity?

Should I just shut up and enjoy the story?*







* rhetorical
#9345
Prog / Re: 1462 - School Daze
25 October, 2005, 06:52:19 PM
The original Venus Bluegenes was just GI tits 'n' ass, and stuck into the plot to try and liven up things with...Helm, was it?

Then, in her own series, she was just a female version of Rogue (much in the same vein as Samantha Slade.)

But this GI Pilot (name?) and her computer Gabe, I'm finding a welcome addition to the pantheon.  Given the hi-tech nature of the war, it would be stretching it a bit to suggest that Rogue could be so unique as to be "the last GI" (despite the poetry of it).  What's to stop the scientists making more?

As it is, she provides an interesting character as both an in to Milli-Com and an unofficial ally to Rogue.  Plus, she's kick-ass.