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Steam are now selling this game for almost fifty dollars. I tired to by it , but my bank won't allow me to use my account until I have my card. Damn!

Anyway, I should save my money anyway.

Any advice, anybody advise against this game or anything?

Sorry, if this has already been posted, but I tried find a original post, and nothing cam up.

Been getting a lot of bad reviews, though I'm not sure why, as it's a perfectly competent open-world actioner at least as good as the last Just Cause game I played - a couple of rough edges, but nothing that interferes with gameplay (no interim animations between you entering and leaving a garage area, for instance).  Current scuttlebutt is that anything that threatens to look like a big release is being played down by the games media so as not to interfere with Metal Gear 5 getting sucked off by every website that needs advertising revenue, but your mileage may vary on the credibility of such a theory, as I am personally pretty sure a Metal Gear game doesn't need much help shifting copies.

A couple of things I don't like about Mad Max would be the colour scheme - the sky is too blue and clear and combined with spectacular backgrounds it often looks like a painting you'd want on your wall rather than the end of the world - and the wasteland feeling a bit crowded because you can see all the various settlements and landmarks from miles away, and enemies spawn a lot along the many, many roads still clearly in heavy use.  Fallout manages to keep even a crowded place like Nevada looking deserted and desolate, but Mad Max's playing area seems like it could be a mildly-populated bit of the Middle East or something.
I can see die hard boy racers maybe not liking that you start out with a shitty car and have to build it up over time, and racing is easy even with the (deliberately) atrocious handling.

I'd wait for it to go down in price, or buy a second-hand copy.

I brought it after watching some a video of some game play.

Reminds me of Elite Dangerous or Red Dead Redemption with cars.

Still clearing space on a hard drive to fit the game, uploading some pictures to Facebook

Cancelled my trip to Sydney to see  Good-Game-Live (http://www.enmoretheatre.com.au/events/2015/09/05/good-game-live).

Sadly, I'm to tired , physically and emotionally after having off day yesterday....

Was banned from some adult chat rooms yesterday, but I live up to my username.....


They have some of rules about what you should say to the broadcasters.

The I ordered two family sized pizzas, some garlic bread and some Pepsi-Max last night and ate everything and went into a bloated sleep. When I was younger I used to be able to finish two pizza's in less than half a hour. The first one within the first ten minutes I used to order them while on night shift as Rail-Way-Porter on public station with my supervisor.

Sorry, for going off topic, but all is relevant.

Here are some informative mad max youtubes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpQIORB1dfw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU0sAhN-Z0k

This was made earlier this  morning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvVYZbpcc0U).

Just shows how frustrating it is to be waiting that long for game to processed, update, start-up on my machine!

Started playing this earlier on and was initially impressed with the visuals for the settings, after putting all graphical options up to the absolute maximum. As well as how some of the gameplay was handled!

[spoiler]It's that Max (Who isn't either of Mel Gibson or Tom Hardy!) moves really slow for action film character in a game or maybe this is just mortality. You know how he was in the second film after being beaten up and left for dead. You really need to watch that film again to get that and no joke.

He doesn't stealth, use parkour, Jump/Climb and he barely runs. The combat is like simplified version the original Batman - Arkham Asylum. Although some or the lot of you may not get this. I 'm saying so, because combat starts out as with Fisti-Cuffs, no throwing or wrestling  and there isn't even kicking. Unless his sparring partner is already on the ground and waiting for the final blow. A little later, I found he could draw his shot gun and fire on them at point blank during melee. I assume he can do the same from long distance, but it's not so quick and easy as you might think. Other wise the part of the game was very satisfactory  and yet not so much the cinematic or quick-time event you might get with Batman, The Witcher, Shadow of Mordor. These games are well known for the ease of combat. Once you have mastered the controls. While in this game, there is less auto-targeting and you need to be on the ball a bit more. Once again the lot of you may not agree.

I think the visuals are almost as vast and jaw dropping as Red Dead Redemption, and yet it does'nt feel so much as a flexible open world game. Which is kind of bad for game of today, but I am still impressed and was comparing the opening location. Where the controls for  Max are first handed over to me. He's in this small box canyon, that I kept comparing to Rogue Trooper and the resembalance stops just here.

Yeah, so far in the game story, where Max first encounters Chum (Lyrically-waxing Poet/Mechanic!) and that dog, then his large boat garage. (Reversing the physics of the T.A.R.D.I.S. by being much smaller on the inside, vast on the outside and when can we actually have the excellent Dr Who open-world, open place, open time game! It's possible to do this, but I've only seen crappy less epic attempts!) and we go hunting for a chassis to connect to the basic frames of the replacement for his old car that was scrapped by the bad-guys. Was Interceptor - Black on Black and now Magnum Opus How weird that this car could be named after somebodies finest work. Not that I'm knocking it, it's just strange words can be used that way and it's also fitting in the world filled with things that are strangely tagged.

Right now, he's busy raiding the token desert bandit camps and removing them all by himself and always with Chum hanging off the back of his new, but unfinished ride. I was going to compare the process of collecting scrap and then being back to use this to upgrade the car back in the garage to Elite Dangerous but that would be silly and yet there are still parallels.

My worst feeling about this game is that the open worldness of it may be a much as a illusion as the other game's open space that is really just filled with space and the connected by parts of play that Max has no choice but o follow a narrow and pre-determined course. So far, there no more than only one way to complete some objectives, which really brought me down.

The car handling is like most other car racing games without even use of gears and until I apply the turbo-charger, it only goes at one speed. it also never lands on it's side or roof, no matter how much I try and never loses any part of it's body after any collisions.

However, I have only scratched the surface of this game and I'm being drip-fed new abilities that slowly widen the horizon's however deceptively wide they seem already. So far, the playing area appear to be a slight mountainous, slightly hilly desert platueu (That was once a major ocean!) over looking canyons and other depths obscured by with thick white mist and those pinnacle rock like formations (Which I have seen while holidaying in Perth!) in the distanced.

I hope this game really opens up so what and this part is still the beginning. Maybe they will patch this game...severely. Right now, it I couldn't even associate it with any of the films, even if it appears to have the right a parts.[/spoiler]

Currently uploading videos which are much shorter than the other ones I have made in the past. Just so they upload quicker and are easier to watch.

My very first  Mad-Max-Game-Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krPtptOGtBI)

Enjoy!!!!

That wasn't the video I thought it was, because when I saw that it was the last one I uploaded. I thought it the first one I made, seeing as it does start out the same way with screen-saver title screen being allowed to roll until it goes fill circle.

Anyway, I haven't been able to complete anymore missions on this game since I reached Skeet's Light-House-Fort, where it seems like a coalition of the Tribes of the Earth-Goddess and Fomorians have joined forces and over run Myrddin's fortress of Dinas Emrys for them selves....


Because the game often freezes  forcing me to shut the game down without saving, and on top of this. It doesn't recognise any of my saves games beyond reaching the fortress. It did the same thing since before then, by not recognising any saves after having the abandon Chum-Bucket's garage-fortess inside the large oil-tanker boat.

Does that mean Chum is a grossly disfigured  Deacon[/b] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterworld)


Who actually cheated death (I know it didn't really pan out this way, but just go with it!) in Water-World (Or it could that the world of Mad-Max is Slaine's Land of the Dead (One of the four L worlds.) and this happened when Waterworld eventually dried up!)  and that garage fortress of was remains the Exxon-Valdez....


Now, I know none of this makes sense at al, but just go with it pls ;)

You-Tube has finally uploaded this for me.....

First Ever Play of Mad-Max - Reminds Me of Rogue Trooper (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn70MkjWrtU).....

Just take note of the date  and realise how long I waited on and off for this to finally upload.....amongst other game videos and my claims that how the part where he drops into small canyon or dry cannel at the start reminds me of the beginning of Rogue Trooper. Yes, I understand you may think this is another pointless delusion of mine and not actually a infringement of any kind, but it's just one of those things where I saw connection very briefly.

Rogue Trooper - Mission One - Watch at 5 : 30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCfs_gpH-g)

Watching that video is like forum inception.

(http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/oo211/Keith_Thorburn/MadMaxGame_zpscbhs2unh.jpg)

If you click the video into full screen mode, it's like you have suddenly become Thryllseekyr, or at least taken over his PC.

BTW, and I couldn't help but notice - You may want to empty your inbox, and spam folders! ;-)

The best bit: right at the beginning, where, having started videoing what he's doing, he gets up and leaves the room for several minutes, leaving us staring at his desktop.  Zarjaz!

TS - it's possibly a crazy idea, but wouldn't it be better to begin the video at a point where you're actually ready to start playing the game, and miss out the ten minutes of you downloading it?

Had a quick skim through and landed on the part about 10minutes in when the camgirl and porn sites appear. You know that's in there right? Really might be an idea to check these videos before you upload them?

Quote from: Keef Monkey on 27 October, 2015, 01:49:52 PM
Had a quick skim through and landed on the part about 10minutes in when the camgirl and porn sites appear. You know that's in there right? Really might be an idea to check these videos before you upload them?

Yep I think he does as he click on one photo! But there some website pages in video is too much info to shared, like "foreskin"...  :o

Laugh it up, you guys - but this'll totally win the Turner Prize next year!

Quote from: Richmond Clements on 27 October, 2015, 02:46:53 PM
Laugh it up, you guys - but this'll totally win the Turner Prize next year!

Sadly the Turner is only open to British artists.

Quote from: Goaty on 27 October, 2015, 02:04:52 PM

Quote from: Keef Monkey on 27 October, 2015, 01:49:52 PM
Had a quick skim through and landed on the part about 10minutes in when the camgirl and porn sites appear. You know that's in there right? Really might be an idea to check these videos before you upload them?

Yep I think he does as he click on one photo! But there some website pages in video is too much info to shared, like "foreskin"...  :o

I take back my previous comment.  This is clearly the best bit.

OH....I should really do that before I upload them.

Can You-Tube do anything about that without deleting my whole video. Which would be a shame , since I have already deleted it from my Deskstop.

I can't find anything in the editor that might cut my video in half or otherwise hide the more questionable material.

I might have to delete it!

Which would be such a shame!

About the Spam folders, they are what Steam has been chucking up on my deskstop for the last few months every time I boot up. I have tried deleting these and shifting the main Steam folder to another drive, but this problem persists.

About the Cam-Girls, really sorry about that, hope that girl or girls (There are two of them in that chat room!) never see my video. A few of them have made a copyright warning under their bio page very obvious. Although that girl was only seen briefly and then you all got a eye full of my favourites page. Embarrassment, but that's life really. May just have delete the whole thing outright. I sometimes notice I have accidently video a cam girl doing her thing before I upload a video and those for a thorough editing.

About the Foreskin pages, I really don't know how that got in that video and why I even let it slip out like that  (http://forums.2000adonline.com/Smileys/default/eek.gif)

Yet, Phimosis is bitch (Just imagine your favourite Slaine tee-shirt is about two sizes too small for you and you trying to get you entire head through the neck of it to give you some idea of my condition and another picture to give you some idea......


) ..... (Para-Phimosis is even worse and I had visit the doctor in town to get that taken care of in the worst way possible! A picture of Ukko suffering from the Torc of Truth!) and has been a thorn in my side since my beginnings on this forum here nearly ten years earlier. I think my condition almost commenced when I made some comments on this forum about finally landing myself a mint condition book about the Finians or Falians a source about one of the four tribes of the Earth-Goddess for the official Slaine role playing game after being told by Mongoose Publishing told me it's now out of print and the former Military book-store told me that couldn't get it for me.

Well, I sure showed them when I did order it through Ebay for the very time!

Bloody hell, so bizarre. And what precisely is going on with your wallpaper...?

Could I politely suggest that someone of the mod variety delete that link pending TS editing the video. It's really not appropriate to be gawking at someone's browser windows, even if it is their mistake.

EDIT: Never mind, missed TS's post there. It's all in, err, hand.

 :o

I hope you've all learnt a valuable fcking lesson.

DON'T.

MOCK.

TS.

HE TAKES IT SERIOUSLY.

AND WILL GO INTO FURTHER DETAILS THAT NOBODY WANTED.

Seriously though - I feel that those who haven't figured this out yet are being more foolish than anyone uploading embarrassing videos onto youtube.

Actually, I think the lesson is that, if you're going to make a 28-minute video (that features only about 8 minutes of actual gameplay) then don't look at porn while you're doing it.

And maybe check the fucking thing before you upload it to You Tube?

Ironically, I bet this is about the only TS video people have bothered clicking on.

Quote from: GordonR on 28 October, 2015, 12:35:16 PM
I bet this is about the only TS video people have bothered clicking on.

Oh god yes!

Quote from: GordonR on 28 October, 2015, 12:35:16 PM
Actually, I think the lesson is that, if you're going to make a 28-minute video (that features only about 8 minutes of actual gameplay) then don't look at porn while you're doing it.

And maybe check the fucking thing before you upload it to You Tube?

Ironically, I bet this is about the only TS video people have bothered clicking on.

Well I'd like to think that's a lesson that TS has learnt now. But even if not there's no need to be nasty about it.

Come now, James. Who DOESN'T come to these forums to see a 2000 AD creator making fun of the technical ineptitudes of the mentally ill?

You both seem to think that whatever anyone says will impact on or be absorbed in any way by TS...

While I suspect most of the banter here is for/by/about the mentally ill, I do think we as a forum can sometimes go too far.  Many of us have our problems, which we perhaps foolishly air here, and TS is certainly no exception. 

Quote from: Richmond Clements on 28 October, 2015, 02:14:03 PM
You both seem to think that whatever anyone says will impact on or be absorbed in any way by TS...

So sort of like calling deaf people names when they're not looking or sticking your fingers up at blind people?

Quote from: JamesC on 28 October, 2015, 04:49:56 PM
So sort of like calling deaf people names when they're not looking or sticking your fingers up at blind people?

Well I signing lots of names at hearing people!  :D

I made another video by watching the other on full screen mode and only recording it from the start of the game.

It's kind of weird and the talking overlaps in places and at often times it compliments the original video while also echoing my original one.

The thing about Rogue Trooper was my attempt at being funny and also highlights what I found to be a very brief and startling similarity between bother games. I should do this a few other videos and those  have especially tagged for editing. The only other problem is background noises as Shadowplay only records what is playing on the desktop and any background noise rather than just the game if being recorded during it's actually been played.

As for other problem.... I won't say any more except that during the time I made comments on this forum about that book, quite possibly The Falians tribe book and feeling so good about that alone. I never was that concerned with the other problem until found that it suffered from this malady for years  and then it subsided, but it also appeared the damage was done or that it may be that I'm just old. The only reason I mentioned the book here is that it's the only point in time I recall that this happened and that a some short time later I was invited to a impromtu school reunion less spectacular than the more formal one I went to back in August 2013 and much less comfortable than I did back then as well.

The causes for this condition might have just occurred with the later diagnosed diabetes which I no longer bother to control and feel much better for it. I do suspect some sort of foul play which I don't blame my father for exactly because I find him too incompetent for that. Yet, I do take note of the that he's really old and often forgets about stuff like leaving the front door of the house open at night and this taken it's toll on me. Among things.

All going well, I should be moving out soon to leave my father to his own devices and I seriously believe he's best taken care of who has being doing so much so already.

I hoping to recover completely soon, the problem which reoccurred earlier this year and this time I knew what was happening and still couldn't deal with it. Yet, now I after some internet research and this is what you saw in the video about Tight Foreskins (I had to the original video again thoroughly jus to see what few seconds of lingering on the wrong internet page can do. I still look at porn, merely because the brain is only other sex organ I have to think with and I don't suffer from impotence any more then I suffer from being less functional.

This is why I spend so much time on the forums here and partically why I have buried myself in my hobby. I was like more interested in obtaining the weekly prog in my home town and seeing the completion of my Slaine collection. I was that dedicated to doing this that I had completely ignored my other problem and really had left it out of hand on day to day basis..... (http://forums.2000adonline.com/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

My next move (With some help from my family!) is the first time I will be will have legitimly lived away from home (No including the time I rented a house with former school friends nearly nearly 20 years earlier and worked and played done south of the border longer than I originally intended (That pun wasn't intentional!)  and without being I would never have rediscovered Slaine!) because, I seriously want the demons that have been bothering me for so long to stay here while I leave. It's weird that the same demons that take care of my father may well be the same ones that have bothered me for so long. I'm hoping the split fixes that. Lately I have living like homeless person barricaded in my room. if I get my life back in order it hasn't been in for so long, than I may really start to spend less time here.

As for the airing of something that I might have kept to my self and as dumb as you all think it is. It does feel liberating to finally share this with you. Because somebody here said noticed I let this slip in my original video and rather than get embarrassed about it keep quiet, I made attempt to explain.

Perhaps some or quite a few of you have the experience with the same problem and would give advice or back away in horror that it that it's about to. A lot of men who don't get circumcised suffer this problem some time in their life and that operation it self isn't always the best way to deal with it. I know I'm a slow healer. So, Found these things that are called Flesh-Plugs made from some sort of silacone or plastic kind of like those earrings that stretch the ear lobes or washers that keep the faucetts working. They come in number of sizes and I will leave their implementation to your imaginations. So far it hasn't ben working quite as easily as I thought they might and  that may be because II have not handled myself so much in a long time contrary to what a lot of you may think of me.

I've become so much more accustomed with handling the keyboard and mouse that I surprised the other thing hasn't completely atrophied from lack of attention.  So with that written, I don't try to accuse my father of any tampering, (Yet, he is the only other person that legally shares his house with me!) but I do barricade myself away all the same from apparent negligence. That's why I'm so angry.....

I seriously think there are a group of illegitimate medical professionals and nurses that help themselves to the unwary and unprotected who got me confused with my father. Yet, that does sound a lot like crazy talk and I can't prove this.

As for talk of me and mental illness, well, I think and am as crazy as the next person and that mental institutions are being filled with really sane people who must learn to be as silly as the people allowed to roam on the outside. 

That's all I'm writing for now....

New Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUSd5fvabQM)

See?

Pass the mind bleach, matron!

TS, your candor is... refreshing, and I've certainly learnt new... things, but for the love of Crom don't give up managing your diabetes - my paternal grandfather and my uncle both died from complications of unmanaged diabetes before they were 60 and my father very nearly did.  As a result I never knew my grandfather, I miss my favourite uncle very much, and my Dad had to have a quadruple heart bypass in his 50s. A diagnosis of (I'm assuming) Type 2 diabetes  is NOT a mistake or a conspiracy, it's straightforward as anything. Managed, it's no biggie, unmanaged it's a passport to debility and death. Get it sorted, please mate.

Quote from: Richmond Clements on 28 October, 2015, 09:23:53 PM
See?

Just because TS doesn't react to the nasty comments, it doesn't mean they're justified.

Quote from: JamesC on 29 October, 2015, 07:50:29 AM
Just because TS doesn't react to the nasty comments, it doesn't mean they're justified.

But it's fine to laugh at him, right?

I'd say it's fine to laugh with him, not at him.
I think TS takes a certain amount of humour from his adventures and I'd say that a safe helpful environment in which people can laugh with him but also give some useful advice is probably the best way to play it.

Quote from: JamesC on 29 October, 2015, 10:41:54 AM
I'd say it's fine to laugh with him, not at him.

You keep telling yourself that.

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 29 October, 2015, 10:50:14 AM

Quote from: JamesC on 29 October, 2015, 10:41:54 AM
I'd say it's fine to laugh with him, not at him.

You keep telling yourself that.

I'm not setting myself up as some paragon of virtue, I just think it's best not to be nasty!

I don't have much in the way of experience dealing with mental health issues and will freely admit that. My feelings towards TS are that I don't want to ignore him and that if he thinks something is funny, it may be best to acknowledge the humour but to also point out that there may be something serious that should be acknowledged too (as Tordelback does).

Apart from any of that I don't think I've laughed at him anyway so I'm not sure why I'm being confronted over the basic message of 'don't be nasty to TS'.

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 29 October, 2015, 08:07:56 AM

Quote from: JamesC on 29 October, 2015, 07:50:29 AM
Just because TS doesn't react to the nasty comments, it doesn't mean they're justified.

But it's fine to laugh at him, right?

Laugh it up fuzzballs As somebody famous might say and surely your not getting the progs if that's the only thing that does it for you!

Yet I guess I should have kept that information to myself. Yet I did keep it bottled up for years. Only the doctor, my brother & some pharmesists knew the whole time.

Only saving face here or what I can of it......

Anyway, the video has been fixed, if you watched the latest one I've linked, you will find it much more boring  than the first. Even though I ruined it because of the background television noise.

The other  problem (https://phimosisjourney.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/unboxing-the-phimocure/) (First time I found this, since I got mine and I might actually study this !)  requires more time if these things would actually work....


These could be included for free with the monthly magazine. Think about it Tharg and even if it doesn't apply to you or your partner. It's good to be prepared (http://forums.2000adonline.com/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

Also support against peer-pressure to get circumcised when ever you feel that pressure from your own foreskin (http://forums.2000adonline.com/Smileys/default/lol.gif)

Tooooo muchhhh information alert?!!  :o :o

Yeah, well, we could do without the laughing commentary as well (http://forums.2000adonline.com/Smileys/default/eek.gif)

Dammit, but my curiosity has been piqued.

What are those ring things called, and how do they work?

Quote from: Goaty on 29 October, 2015, 11:34:06 PM
Tooooo muchhhh information alert?!!  :o :o

LET THIS BE A LESSON TO YOU.

We'd not be here now if on seeing that video your eye didn't catch on one particular webpage and you felt the need to mention it.

Look how far we've come. LOOK HOW FAR WE'VE DESCENDED SINCE THOSE SIMPLE SWEET DAYS.

In future it may be wise not to say anything. I wish I hadn't.

Just peeked in at the 2000ad Forum and was disgusted to read a forum moderator and 2000ad creator making 'fun' of a mentally ill forum member. Absolutely disgraceful that the powers that be at Rebellion let this go on. If you don't know who I'm talking about...this pic is a guide. Dim Dumbbell doesn't exactly clothe himself in glory either. The Twatfecta out in force...beating down the unfortunate ...one mentally ill person at a time! I expect to be banned for this...but I don't give a fuck! Something needs to be done about these arseholes! Are you reading/listening Rebellion!!!#hypocrites
(http://i.imgur.com/YYkorjI.jpg)

Stay classy, 'Flint'. I particularly enjoy your ability to make amusing nick-names to the level of a five-year old.

To follow up on a more serious note:

I have TS on ignore, mainly due to my inability to decide what approach to his presence here would be in TS's best interests. I'm not convinced that providing some measure of validation for TS's behaviour by 'laughing with him' is in any way a more constructive method of engagement than challenging him on that behaviour. I'm genuinely not qualified to make that call so (and perhaps this is moral cowardice, I don't know) I choose not to engage at all.

However, 'Flint' can spare me his moral outrage which seems to only prompt him to post on this forum when it enables him to perpetuate his childish little feuds, feuds which seem to be his only real reason for engaging with 2000AD fandom at all these days.

Bloody hell, Flint.

Mods, please nuke this thread from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. And just when I was learning new things too...

I think that is disgusting that these constant attacks on TS by the same small group of members, including those employed by and closely associated with Rebellion, are allowed to continue in this forum and Rebellion should step in and do something as it reflects very badly on them. Bullying, and it is bullying, is just vile.

Aw bless.

Hah, so not with it this morning I went back through the thread looking for posts by one Dim Dumbbell.

Dunk!

Quote from: Richmond Clements on 30 October, 2015, 08:35:30 AM
Aw bless.

Well, If 2000AD are going to support bullying on this forum and its moderators are going to deliver such insulting responses I will not be renewing my subscription to 2000AD.

I think the whole situation is disgusting.

Aw chill out, 2000AD forum is one of the greatest and friendly forums I ever been on and I am Deaf! :)

Quote from: Skullmo on 30 October, 2015, 09:54:48 AM

Quote from: Richmond Clements on 30 October, 2015, 08:35:30 AM
Aw bless.

Well, If 2000AD are going to support bullying on this forum and its moderators are going to deliver such insulting responses I will not be renewing my subscription to 2000AD.

I think the whole situation is disgusting.

That was to Flint's charming post, not you.

TS is a genuine fan of 2000AD (or one of its stories anyway, can't remember which one...) and a very long-standing and valued member of this forum, and is quite able to stand up for himself. I enjoy much of what the man writes, sharing many of his interests, but some if it worries the crap out of me - as I and others are not slow to point out.

Like many here TS is quite open about having mental health issues, and does get into numerous scrapes which are (I'm sorry) often very funny.  I see the argument that laughing with TS is 'enabling' of potentially destructive behaviour, but I'd prefer to think that, like me, he derives an important measure of community and support from his online interactions here. As a forum we have frequently told him when his behaviour is unacceptable or dangerous - and he's not alone in that - and that has to be positive.

I'd hate to think that there was no place here for a man who can't find his Slaine beanie on any given day, any more than the guy who has a toy museum in his basement, the guy who catalogues letters, the guy who named his kids after horror stars, all the people who spend years if their lives on fanzines and fan movies, the fellow who writes page after page defending The Phantom Menace, the guy who breaks out in a sweat when he sees a crossbar 'I' - or any of us whose posts articulate struggles with homelessness, depression, autism, career implosion, and far far worse.

And most of all I'd hate to think we couldn't all laugh at each other. Like any group of mates, real or imagined.

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Hope my couple of comments weren't construed as bullying, wasn't my intention to be mean (I like to think I'd be the last person to make light of someone's mental troubles, god knows it's never been plain sailing in my own brain pan).

Not knowing the ins and outs of TS' situation I can sometimes still be a bit surprised at the content is all, so some of it does get a reaction. Like Tordelback says, I don't think TS comes here to be ignored and this particular episode doesn't appear to have upset him. Apologies if anything I said did though.

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/albion79uk/8ce4e844bb6783f8e6a25962bf3bea6c_zpsh8bbrzda.jpg)

From the other side of the fence, I've moderated forums since the 1990s. With one exception, this forum has the lightest-touch moderation I have ever seen, despite having certain members who are frequently hostile to those doing that job. Note that this is done entirely in there free time and often involves quite tedious management work, fixing errors and helping users when requests are made regarding broken posts and errors.

It's also notable that whereas most forums operate a pretty strict policy regarding membership/banning, it takes an awful lot here for the latter of those things to happen, regardless of what people are posting. I wish people would remember that more often before trying as fast as possible to get their knickers in a twist.

And on that note...