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#1
Quote from: Doomlord66 on 25 March, 2024, 10:45:27 PMNot the best of covers to entice new readers, is it?

The announcement of a complete story on the cover seems unnecessary. What is so great about this that it had to be on the cover?

Maybe as its for new readers, perhaps put the story name under the character circle pics?


I like the cover. I suspect Rogue is highlighted because of noise about the upcoming film
#2
Games / Re: Last game played...
11 March, 2024, 11:20:39 PM
Just finished Bioshock: Infinite.

It was okay. It dabbled with racism which was interesting, but ultimately said nothing about it.

It also seemed to fizzle out as a sequel. I can almost see the pitch: "Right, the first two were set in a city under the sea. So this one... in the sky?" And then they thought, we've come up with the location let's all go to the pub.

The "twist", which was a bit sci-fi 101, appeared out the blue in the epilogue and seemed to be meeting the burden of the first game's astonishing "Would you kindly..." reveal.
#3
Maybe I am just getting old, but I have no idea what's going on in any of the strips other than Dredd.

I have never, ever, been able to follow Indigo Prime.

Full Tilt Boogie feels like it has 10 years of back story that I've missed.

Deadworld seems to be going in circles.

Thistlebone... nothing has happened in it, other than some folks have made a film and go pissed. There has been no horror (other than 70s fashion). Am I right in thinking it's a flashback?
#4
Off Topic / Re: What have I missed?
10 March, 2024, 02:45:55 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 09 March, 2024, 01:11:47 PMThe annual meat bingo went smoothly enough, but we haven't chosen whose blood will anoint the crops yet.

Nothing out the ordinary, then. Phew. For a moment I thought there might have been something important happened.
#5
Off Topic / What have I missed?
08 March, 2024, 11:25:21 PM
Due to technical issues*, by which I mean my old computer dying and me having three teenage boys who hog the replacement, I have been off the board for a couple of months.

What have I missed?



*I know, I know, I should have tried cheese.

EDIT: Three months away, and I am still at 0.8 posts a day. Wow. That says more about me than I like.
#6
Games / Re: Last game played...
08 March, 2024, 11:20:10 PM
Quote from: Funt Amenable to Change on 27 February, 2024, 03:21:11 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 27 February, 2024, 01:45:46 PMBaldurs Gate 3 was amazing and well worth all the hype its had - so good, in fact, that I'm tempted to play it through again.

I played 1 and 2, so have been sorely tempted by this. My daydream is a new gaming PC, a copy of BG3 and then ... immersion! (Getting in the way of that - family, career etc.)


Kinda me. I bought a new PC in December that would run this. But I have since been working through my Steam(ing) pile of shame. Most recently finished Bioshock Infinite. I was shocked that I installed it and was offered the chance to start my last autosave which was in the cloud...

...not a joke there, but a shock that the save was August 2016.
#7
General / Re: Cybermatt is great but I miss...
08 March, 2024, 11:17:05 PM
I am confused by this thread. Stumped. What are you talking about?

Tharg is, was, and shall always be the editor. Anyone who says otherwise is about to feel the wrath of a Rigellian Hotshot.
#8
This is just out today, or maybe released tomorrow. I pre-ordered via CDKeys. I have the code. It's for the GOG platform. The code has not been redeemed.

I would rather it was on Steam and made a mistake ordering.

Anyone fancy buying it from me? £35?

If so, DM me please.
#9
Games / Re: Gamebooks
06 December, 2023, 02:59:02 PM
Also, Congrats!
#10
Games / Re: Gamebooks
06 December, 2023, 02:58:43 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 17 August, 2023, 02:45:16 PM
Quote from: Richard on 17 August, 2023, 02:13:22 AMJimbo, did you ever finish Sorcery 4?

No, I never did!

Sadly, around the same time I fell off the gamebook wagon I went and bought a Nintendo Switch, sealing my own doom. My unfinished quest for the Crown of Kings nags away at me, though. Must make some time to complete it before the year is out...


Sorcery, you say?

Switch, you say?

Why choose when you can have both, I say.

Sorcery - the Switch version
#11
Prog / Re: Prog 2360: The weight of the world
29 November, 2023, 09:22:22 PM
Really didn't enjoy this prog.

Not at all impressed with the art on Dredd. The colouring seems off, the art too blocky, and neither lifts the other. The mechanismo on the second last page is a good example. It feels, I dunno, rushed.

Devil's Railroad is an idea waiting on a story.

And Enemy Earth is too childish for me. I get why it's in the prog and it does what it needs to...

The challenge the prog has is keeping long term reader 48 year olds like me happy while winning an audience.

Maybe the childish stuff should be like the recent Battle cross over and less following the crowd?
#12
Music / Re: weird and strange X mas songs
28 November, 2023, 08:47:14 PM
Quote from: rogue69 on 28 November, 2023, 01:18:00 PMFinal answer to "is Die Hard a Christmas movie?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQkkHleQARw

Never in any doubt. There are two types of Christmas movie: those that are based in the Santa fantasy (eg Elf); and those like Die Hard that involve a dysfunctional family overcoming challenge to realise they love and are grateful for each other just in time for Christmas (eg Die Hard). It's just that John McClane's challenge is to overcome a terrorist attack robbery, and not some bloke fancying his missus. (Although John does that too).
#13
Classifieds / Meg 361 - Anyone got a spare floppy?
19 November, 2023, 09:46:12 AM
My sub copy of Meg 361 was lost in the post. The kind 'bots in the subscriber team sent me a replacement Meg but I've missed out on the floppy. The anal collector part of me is raging at this, as I have all the others

If anyone doesn't keep their's, could you send it to me? Happy to pay postage etc. If you are willing, send me a message please.

Thanks
#14
Games / Re: Freebies and/or bargains
28 October, 2023, 12:45:21 PM
Batman: Arkham Knight and all its DLC is £6 on Steam. Total bargain for a fabulous game.
#15
I am thrilled by this.

Set nostalgia-goggle filter to "max" and ignore the sets, acting, and drawn out plots.

I am all in on watching from the start.