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#1
holy shit I'm an old Metalicca tragic from back in the day but haven't realy had tiime for them since Black Album but god dambn if this new ione isn't a return to form.
I'm a gonna buy it first chance i get monday (I'm old school and need it on CD none of this Itunes crap) It looks like the whole album is on YouTube official with a film clip for each song I gotta say Spit out the Bone is the stand out for me so far Hetfields dropped that crappy country and western twang he was insisting on and this could almost be off Justice.  Hammet is blazing it up and even Lars has a bit of his fire back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m46Z0-HXySo  cool clip too.

Been a long time since I banged my head to anything this has got me going though gonna have a sore neck tommorow wish i still had my hair :)

CU Radbacker
#2
Help! / Need to upgrade grapihics card, help please
25 July, 2016, 01:51:02 PM
Okay I stupidly purchased Total War Warhammer the other day on steam and after being a complete noob and spending 2 days trying to get it to work I discovered my graphics card isn't Direct X11 compatible (I know pretty dumb error).
I currently have a Nvidia GTX280, main processor is a I7 860 2.8GHZ, running Windows 7 Premium.  I only really want to upgrade my Graphics card as I don't really have much dosh at the moment, I want to spend about A$100 - 150 I can see a couple of GTX750's about that price but being a PC luddite (I'm generally more a console gamer to avoid these issues) I'm not really sure how compatible it'll be with my computer, I do know my I7 is a 1st gen its about 6 or so years old so it runs on the old style pin set up, will I de able to just pull out my GTX280 and put in a GTX750 easily? 
I know the GTX750 is Direct X11 compatible so I will be able to run Warhammer but do you think it'll run alright without also having to upgrade the processor (which would also mean a new Motherboard!!)

Any help from someone more PC knowledgeable than me would be greatly appreciated.

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#3
WOW, never read these in original form but have heard a lot about it around here and various other places and am a big The Original Writer fan so while down in Perth this week end saw these three Hardcovers on the shelves and thought I'd give em a whirl.  Expensive but absolutely lovely packages I'm generally not a fan of Hardcover GN's but it just seems to suit this epic story I doubt floppies would've been able to contain the epicness on display. 
Over 300 or so pages Moore crafts possibly the best Super hero tale I've ever read (I think this is better than Watchmen), so much story and detail packed into so few pages if one of the modern big hitters was writing this we'd be getting at least 1000+ pages to get the same story across and it'd still only have half the impact.
I love how it starts out all goofy and 50's and just goes full boar down the rabbit hole ending with probably the most horrible brutal superhero showdown ever put on paper.  I know he's played the trick several times since but the all you remember is a lie aspect of the story is brilliantly revealed without even betraying the original silly 4 colour the original title was, all those old stories are still there just not quite how you remember.  Holy shit is Kid Miracleman one of the most f^&ked up villains ever.  The art is brilliant all through (this is the coloured stuff but it has a lot of the original B&W art at the back which looks tasty too and definitely hasn't been ruined by colouring it) and some of those parts after bad Johnny gets out again are some of the most horrifying things I've ever seen, this is how helpless we'd be if beings of this power got loose in our world, I've always wondered why peoples heads and bodies don't explode when superman gives em a punch a being of such immense power even slightly angry would just pulverise any normal flesh bag human, Batman V Superman looking at this there is no fight.  This is violent stuff but unlike any most other super hero stuff this violence has extreme consequences.  KM's end is also brilliant and when the kid starts blubbing after bad Johnny got out again and MM is all Good kid Johnny good kid sklutch OMG near tears in my eye's.
I started to get a bit confused as the QYs and Warpsmith stuff started to get introduced but it all makes sense in the end and the confusion seems purposeful to the story telling, MM doesn't know WTF is going on why should we.
Seems to wrap up completely in the Olympus arc and what a wrap up, there he is changed the world completely new gods arisen and everyone with the chance to be a god, Utopia arisen but still leaves you feeling what you just witnessed was wrong, we have this Utopia enjoy it if you don't like it too bad there is no other choice.  And is that the point there is NO OTHER CHOICE!!  no choice at all for anyone just what the Supermen decided for us all, god my brain is fried from this I still cant decide if what he did was right or wrong is MM a saviour or just the most successful dictator ever to live?

So as that completely blew my mind is the follow up Gaiman stuff worth a read and add anything useful to the story or best to leave it where it is?

CU Radbacker
#4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuH3tJPiP-U

wow, that's a great trailer, no real spoilers April cant get here soon enough.

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#5
Film & TV / GOT season 4 - trailer, looks very yummy.
13 January, 2014, 12:04:46 PM
this is thanks to Jim, he pointed it out in the box set thread but I thought it deserved it's own thread.
looks friken arsom I just wish they could give us more than 10 episodes a year :( always such a wait.
Being a book first reader I see so many favourite scenes and characters in that little snippet that I think this will be the best season yet.  Winter isn't coming, I'm f&*ken coming :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZY43QSx3Fk&feature=youtu.be

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#6
Mulled it over for a day and definitely better that the second one still unsure against the first (one of my fav Marvel movies ever).  has the best end game of any of the others [spoiler]really like the use of the multiple Iron Man suits and loved the way Tony discarded damaged ones in favour of undamaged ones, Pearce would cut a leg of and Tony would just drop out the back into another suit[/spoiler], very cool visual.  Though extremis was a bit under used and never really had a defined set of powers [spoiler]WTF with Pearce spitting fire and then not using it in the final battle?[/spoiler]
The FX as in all blockbusters these days is nothing short of spectacular, wonderful use of CG mixed with practical as it should be. Roll on the rest of Phase 2.  Im really interested to see what they do with Guardians of the Galaxy is it stil going to be animated?

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#7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j89OxgMwz5k
Preview speaks for itself.
the greatest show on TV is back next month, DRAGON!!!!!!!
I cant wait.

CU Radbacker
#8
Film & TV / Fringe The End (Black out spoilers)
21 January, 2013, 01:41:11 PM
Well that has got to be one of the most satisfying ends to a SciFi series in a long time, I have absolutly loved every season of Fringe from when it started out as a X-Files rip off as it delveloped and blew through 3 magnificent Arc plots through its run.  Im gonna miss you Fringe and dont think anything currently running can take its place.  Congratulations to Fox for finally seeing a series through even though last couple of season ratings were very low (maybe it had a big oversease audience but you certainly cant find it on any OZ channels.).  Who new that kid from Dawsons Creek coupld put in such a good performance and Noble deserves Emmy's for Walter Bishop in all forms truelly one of the best mad scientists created today.

Stand up.....slow.......clap.......

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#9
teaser for the new movie from Shane Carruth he that wrote and directed (and stared in) Primer, one of the greatest Time Travel movies ever made.
about "a man and a woman... entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives."   only a teaser but if its half as good a Primer im there.  Killer opening line in the teaser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdYO3KWmcv8

Cu Radbacker
#10
Off Topic / Posting drunk
16 June, 2012, 05:50:30 PM
Well i',m well and truelly fu*ked up at the moment, best fried/housemates b'day, just thiought i'd say hi to all you Dredd lovin' mofo's out there.  Too much alchahole, just thought i'd leave proof or how f&*ked up i am at the moment.  What about that Dredd movie coming out/ hope its as good as the Stalone version :lol:.
Get your Freak On by Missy Elliot is on the TV at the moment, man thats one fuc*ed up film clip.  I need to go to bed, way too many Jacks and cola :D :D

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#11
General / Orders to OZ from the Merch Shop
13 December, 2011, 01:29:55 AM
quick question to any OZ boarded that have ordered something direct from the 2000AD merchandise shop on this very board.  I busted my cherry yesterday (had to get a back issue that didn't seem to hit the shelves in OZ so i got a GN and another back issue while i was at it), my email i got said will be here in about 5 days!!  does this sound correct all the way from the UK in 5 days anyone else got anything from the shop advise if this seems correct? 
if this works out i can see my C Card getting a work out i see several shirts that might have to be purchased.

CU Radabcker
#12
Games / Battlefield 3
26 October, 2011, 01:10:22 PM
some one in oz broke the embargo so i was able to pick this up today, looks a million times better than the demo and even better when you put the hi-res pack on your Hard Disk (on the Xbox vewrsion anyway).  That classic Battlefield gameplay with a state of the art engine, only played Multiplayer so far so no comment on the single player campaign.  level 3 in multi at the moment really enjoying the new support class it was the Medic In BC2 but now he drops the ammo for your squad, his guns pretty shitty on the move but lethal when you drop the Bi-pod (as it should be, always thought the LMG's were a bit too like the assault rifles in BC2).  It calls to me now, back to the front!

CU Radbacker (Look for DardyCrab on the fields)
#13
Games / Battlefield 3 Open Beta starts today 29/9
29 September, 2011, 04:32:34 AM
One level, full multiplayer demo/open beta.  The Paris map.  More details when i get home tonight and start playing, my housemate is under instructions to download today.  Look for GrimDarksock or BushNinja101 (my Live name). Might have to also get this on the PC to fully appreciate the 64 player battles as restricted on consoles to 24 (damn Xbox Live, i bet the PS3 version could go the bigger battles if they wanted to).
comes out 28/10 the day before my Birthday whoo!  our poxy state goverment has shifted the traditional Queens Birthday holiday (would've been 3/10) to Friday 28/10. Our shops dont open on Public Holidays!!!! F U governement.
how good does this look, how many god damn tanks, choppers, apc's and Jets are on this map!!!  looks like a full on war. (this isn't the map released for Demo they're doing the Paris Map which runs from through the streets to the underground railway to t an open square.)
Caspian Boarder Gameplay video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDDfPxF3EFE

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#14
um i tried to get onto the site yesterday from my home computer and i get a perminent banning message for spamming?  now i can get onto the site from my work computer so obviously something wrong with my home computer.  I have paid for McAffee protection and thats not picked anything odd up on its scans (but it has let me down before and let in a particulalrly nasty thingy).

The last couple of days my computer has ocasionally listed up a IP conflict message (it says my computers IP is conlicting with another device same address?)  I have to re-set my modem to get online.  As a bit of a ludite should i be really worried about this? is this related to my banning?  is some f*&ker stealing all my details?  anyone with some computer knowledge able to help?

Thanks Regards
Radbacker
#15
found this when i was trawling about, very actiony follow up to Aliens would've liked to see Cameron do it.  All about Hicks and Bishop, Ripley spends most of it in a coma (and gets sent off in a Cryotube lifeboat before the final act).  Theres more background regards The Company and US military complex and the state of the world that Aliens was set in.  I've read the Wooden world one too and while some of it survived to become Alien 3 it would've been much better if they used this one, i guess it would've cost too much to make.
Have a read let me know what you think

http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/alien3_gibson.html

anyone got anymore old scripts can be quitre enetrtaining to read what could've been.

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#16
my jaw is considerably dropped, multiplayer fully destructable buildings (even the skyscrappers look like they can be dropped!), Tanks, Jets, Choppers oh my god i think something just leaked out the end of my wee-wee.  Also looks like there pulling out all the stopes for single player too to grab the nonliners.

Frostbyte 2 Engine Demo, Actual Gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pNOxynC1Dc&feature=relmfu

Multiplayer - mighty impressed with the collapsing balcony at the end
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO9iVzhafRk&feature=related

Single Player mission - Thunder Run, must watch if you like tankies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOrl036_A

this last ones a bit older but if you haven't seen it its worth a look to see the scale of single player.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FktL2pu2wE&feature=related

very exited for this NOvember cant come quick enough.

CU Radbacker

#17
Off Topic / Osama Bin Laden Dead!
02 May, 2011, 09:43:47 AM
the news around town is he copped a bullet during a Seal raid,  well done to the soldiers that did the deed he was an evil man.  Still dont think the whole terror thing is over it's just good this piece of crap has been dealt with.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8243521/bin-laden-is-dead-reports

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#18
well through various means (or if you have HBO in the US) the first episode is here. First i'll say it looks very good, the production design is top (as you'd expect from HBO) and the acting is pretty spot on. The writing is top notch and little things that other shows miss they do (the Wolf pups aging after passing of time) making it much more ebnjoyable than US network dross (like The Event where there was a tense 2 or 3 hour standoff between the government and the aliens meanwhile b plot has time to do a whole heap of stuff, get a private jet and fly to France now i dont know my geography but isn't it a longer flight than 3 hours frpm US to France?)

And if you've read the books first episode ends exactly where it should.
Strongly recomended.

CU Radbacker
#19
Games / Nintendo 3DS out today
31 March, 2011, 09:11:51 AM
well its out today in Aus so i guess you guys have it too, got one waiting at home for me to have a fiddle with tonight but my housemate reckons its pretty bloody good.
Not really any launch games grabbing my attention  (played Zelda way too many times ove rthe years) but i cant wait to check out the 3D camera (picture of my Wang i reckon :lol:).  Will report back a bit latter once I've got it in my hands.

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#20
First question - how the he;ll did this shit hole of a program (fucken poped up again) get on my paid for protection protected computer (i got McAfee for 18 months with my computer and as far as i know its all configured correctly)?
Second question - whats the easiest way for a complete PC noob (i play games on em, surf, use em at work and thats about it) to get rid of it, i cant do anything with out it screaming at me that my computers infected and trying to steal my credit card number (popped up again)!
I've tried running McAfee Security centre scans but it turns my computer off when ever it find this shit of a programme.
Help me (oh noes!!! I've got 33 seriouse infections that are gonna crash my computer unless i cash up to these fuckers!!!!!!) Obi-Wan-Board your my only hope!

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