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Games / Re: Gamebooks

Last post by Richard - Today at 12:10:17 AM

That sounds even worse than I remembered! I used to own that book, I gave it away to a charity shop.

The next one is better!

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Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series

Last post by Dandontdare - 13 May, 2024, 11:57:36 PM

A lot of fun if you don't think about it too much, and the leads have great charisma, but I could do without the song and dance numbers. And what's with this "season 1" nonsense?

fun trivia - the old lady who was murdered playing the piano was June Hudson, costume designer in the Tom Baker-era

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Creative Common / Re: Does my Art look big in th...

Last post by Nightbook - 13 May, 2024, 10:51:03 PM

So, riffing off an already accomplished pose is well worth it for your finished piece.

That's fair enough. For what it's worth I used a Robocop photo as reference for the pic below. I couldn't get the gun hand working.



Jonathan Alpaca is not a character I draw very often. The helmet is super unforgiving (possibly more so that Dredd's).

#4

Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!

Last post by Dandontdare - 13 May, 2024, 10:05:00 PM

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Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series

Last post by nxylas - 13 May, 2024, 10:02:29 PM

Then again do little kids like babies?

They like bogey and fart jokes.

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Prog / Re: Prog 2382: Beware Iron Tee...

Last post by don wiskerando - 13 May, 2024, 09:14:57 PM

Only that IRON TEETH seems to be a child-murdering underground monster whose initials are IT, which is the name of Stephen Kings famous child-killing monster that lives in the sewers. It might be nothing (at least that's my reading of it)

Ah.  Excuse my ignorance.  I thought I'd missed a Dredd reference from my well-spent youth.

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Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series

Last post by moly - 13 May, 2024, 08:58:40 PM

Thought the second episode with jinx was ok until the dance scene at the end but space babies was one of the worst things I've ever watched

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Prog / Re: Prog 2381: A grizzly fate

Last post by Vector14 - 13 May, 2024, 08:44:54 PM

Far from predicting the future of crime ridden cities I think Mega City 1 was more a version of the, then present-day New York and other US cities of the late 70's. Or at least the movie version of them you'd see in the UK.

There is a very steep decline in violent crime in the UK from 1995 onwards. It was steeply up until 95! Perhaps the changing situation in Northern Ireland had a strong influence on the numbers.

Just correcting what I wrote here. I see that violent crime trends declining from the early to mid nineties is a trend across western countries in general, so it's nothing to do with the troubles in NI.
There is no universally accepted explanation for why crime rates are falling.

Apologies for being completely off topic.

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Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series

Last post by judgeurko - 13 May, 2024, 07:41:58 PM

Yep but it is far worse than most other overnight figures for the show.

But... as pointed out already, the target audience for the show has clearly changed to a much younger demographic who are unlikely to watch broadcast TV. I'm not saying the numbers will be great whenever they finally get tallied up, just that if they've lost [X] million older viewers from the live broadcast but gained [X+1] million younger ones on platforms that don't register in the overnights, then we can't infer much from the overnights, other than fewer people watched the show 'live'.

This is the first one where they've premiered on streaming isn't it? If so, you've got that factor too - some staying up until midnight and not bothering with the Saturday evening live broadcast.

I've no idea what overseas will make of it - maybe here there will be a bump here for the Moffatt written episode.

I guess we'll only know way down the line - it's only an 8 episode series after all.


I don't know what deal Disney have with Who, but they were pretty brutal with Willow

Yes we will see once the collated ratings are in for streaming.

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Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series

Last post by judgeurko - 13 May, 2024, 07:40:22 PM

How do you know the target audience for the show has clearly changed to a much younger demographic?

Did you watch it...?

Both episodes. Space Babies seemed to be aimed at younger fans, the 2nd one not so much. Thern again do little kids like babies?