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#31
Megazine / Re: Meg 465: Night Terrors
21 February, 2024, 02:09:10 PM
Just a quick heads-up for digital Meg subscribers who downloaded the current issue this morning — the last four pages of MC-2099 are supposed to have lettering. If it's missing on your copy (either PDF or CBZ) then download it again — it should now be fixed.
#32
Film Discussion / Re: Urban on Dredd
19 February, 2024, 03:52:18 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 19 February, 2024, 03:03:46 PMHence a lot of Britishisms in a strip set in a future east-cost US.

Oh... I think John, in particular, leaned into that because he thought it was funny. Dean Gaffney block, anyone...?  :D
#33
Quote from: WhizzBang on 13 February, 2024, 09:29:57 PMI am currently watching the 2000ad adjacent film Accident Man on Pluto

Ooh... how much does a prog cost there now? I've lost track of Pluto's inflation rate since they stopped putting the other members of the solar system's prices on the cover.
#34
Creative Common / Re: Does my (a.i.)art look big in This?
13 February, 2024, 11:47:21 AM
Quote from: Tomwe on 13 February, 2024, 11:39:02 AMBut we all know that the AI is trained from human creations. Is a person's creativity coming up with what to ask the AI to do?

Basically: get a shit version of what you would have got if you paid an artist to do it, but you don't have to pay an artist, and the artists' whose work this shit version has been derived from don't get a penny.
#35
Music / Re: Best Cover Versions
13 February, 2024, 11:19:54 AM
Ahh, German metal — the gift that keeps on giving. Squaxx of a... certain age will probably remember the minor UK hit Trio had with "Da Da Da".

Well, here's Hämatom and Eisbrecher's Alex Wesselesky with a hilarious (and not entirely SFW) version. :)

https://youtu.be/ecCDFb8sesw?feature=shared
#36
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
13 February, 2024, 10:24:45 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 08 February, 2024, 08:44:30 PM
Quote from: judgeurko on 08 February, 2024, 07:48:45 PMSurely we've grown up a bit now.

I'm not saying it's the correct approach, but it's still quite common:



I think we need to be a little careful before leaping straight to cries "lazy trope" — the High Evolutionary, for example, isn't a villain because he's disfigured, he's disfigured because he's a villain.

(In the absence of spoiler tags, I'll refrain from explaining how he ends up in this state in GotG3.)
#37
Off Topic / Re: It's a bit warm/ wet/ cold outside
10 February, 2024, 11:11:29 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 09 February, 2024, 07:55:30 PMwe do eat a fair amount of meat, but not out of choice.

Start eating other people. Think of it as an environmental move — you're removing all their future carbon emissions from climate change equation, whilst also reducing your own by avoiding farmed animals in your diet.

If you like the idea, I have a list of people you could start with...
#38
Off Topic / Re: It's a bit warm/ wet/ cold outside
09 February, 2024, 01:49:29 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 09 February, 2024, 01:30:31 PMGiven how massively damaging cows are on a worldwide basis, and the sheer amount of forest destroyed every day for areas for grazing

Not to mention the vast amounts of human-edible food that goes into feeding them every year.
#39
Prog / Re: Prog 2368 - Fear on film
07 February, 2024, 08:54:06 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 07 February, 2024, 04:35:46 PMA positive spin: The Manchu Candidate was intriguing. The Grudge-Father ended! A blessing, there. Babe Race 2000 had the benefit of being the first episode and having Anthony Williams on art duties. I actually really liked both series of The Clown, which is where that subjectivity thing comes in. The Robo-Hunter has Simon Jacob art, which I like.

I'll freely concede that 883 had quite a lot of nice art. The stories, however, are all terrible. Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather slog through a good story with iffy art than the reverse.

I take your point about Major Domo, but he's somewhat subsidiary to the main thrust of the current Dredd story which is, at least, interesting and relevant. We can attempt to retcon MacKenzie's attempted Sino-Cit plot-building into commentary on the rise of China as political/economic superpower, but, really, it was just lazy, racist stereotyping at the time it was written.

I stand by my assessment of 883 as objectively Not Good. "At least the art was nice" is a pretty poor defence of 883 against 2368, because the art is pretty nice in that one, too.
#40
Prog / Re: Prog 2368 - Fear on film
07 February, 2024, 07:17:33 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 07 February, 2024, 06:43:39 PMThey've stolen the name of the boozer from The Wicker Man, but why not - that film after all bis the well from which folk horror flows.

I spent multiple (very boring) summers as a pre-teen in the very small town of Newton Stewart, visiting my dad's parents, and only discovered many, many years later that it was used for some of The Wicker Man's location work. FWIW, the boozer in Newton Stewart had a Galaxian table game... which was literally the highlight of every visit.
#41
General / Re: Paper Quality in the Prog
07 February, 2024, 02:48:55 PM
Quote from: nxylas on 07 February, 2024, 02:42:54 PMI thought it was, but wasn't sure.

Looking on BARNEY now, I'm pretty sure that's right — you can see the move to painted colour covers for 520 onwards, which they definitely wouldn't have done on newsprint.
#42
Prog / Re: Prog 2368 - Fear on film
07 February, 2024, 12:15:26 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 07 February, 2024, 12:08:01 PMGiven how much I like right now, I'm finding it surprising to hear someone aligning it with 2000 AD's nadir.

I'll confess, I raised an eyebrow. Worse than (or as bad as) Prog 883?! A prog with three awful Mark Millar strips, an ever-so-slightly racist Dredd written by MacKenzie, setting up a future plot so consequential that it was instantly discarded and then ignored by every subsequent Dredd writer, and The Clown, and idea very much in search of a story...

Even if you don't like what's currently in the prog, I'd find it hard to argue that anything currently running is as objectively bad as some of the stuff we were subjected to in the mid-90s.
#43
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
02 February, 2024, 10:16:04 AM
I'm not sure why the issue of the biochips' names seems so intractable... I agree that the GIs having names that handily fit the equipment they end up in is both hokey and strains credulity.

OTOH, it's not really unusual for squaddies to give one another nicknames, often intended to wind the recipient of the nickname up. It doesn't seem a stretch to imagine that Rogue might give the biochips nicknames that are a bit on the nose, or even that the biochips might choose their own — clone soldiers bred to fight and die aren't likely to be long on imagination (almost certainly by design) and I could see a scene like that working... particularly if they only had designated numbers before they died.
#44
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
01 February, 2024, 08:59:31 AM
Quote from: Trooper McFad on 01 February, 2024, 08:28:27 AMI really don't think a 1 and done film would do the story justice.

They're going to stay true to the original — they'll keep churning out films until the franchise has completely run out of steam, then they'll do a gritty reboot, then they'll try and mash the gritty reboot into the original continuity until no one either knows or cares what the hell is going on...
#45
Events / Re: Lawless 2024
01 February, 2024, 07:34:33 AM
Quote from: Trooper McFad on 31 January, 2024, 09:28:48 PMI have to say my first Lawless I was "star struck" even more so than the 40th bash. I don't know why a man in his late 40s at the time should be like this but the friendly nature of the whole thing puts you at ease very quickly.

Ahh, that never really goes away, in my experience. I've been a full-time professional in the industry for fifteen years and there are still always creators at cons I'd love to talk to, but completely bottle it.