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All the no-Godfathers:

You're in for a real treat when you do see it.  And it goes hand in hand with the sequel.  There's no shame in missing out the third one, although some of the references in The Sopranos are funnier if you do catch all three.

Whatever you do, don't watch The Godfather on television: it gets horribly cut for no good reason.

I agree with peterwolf.

For Wulf, I think Thor would be perfect.  What do you mean he's not real?

I got in trouble for "Phantom"-ing the common room wall.  








Yes, I was a crap Phantom.

I don't know what the technical hitch is, but:
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Like these:

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My mum uses these:

Spastic & Crutch (Starsky & Hutch)
Huge Grunt (Hugh Grant)

It's a bit dated now, but we used to refer to the band Big Country as Large Fanny-twig.  Does that count?

Took me years to get Ro-Jaws & Hammerstein (because I was culturally ignorant of the reference), and I only got the Slavers of Drule on this thread.

Anyway:

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Reckon Dog is talking about this:

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*erk*

I should've known da family would still be around in some form.

Bingo, Noisybast!

I don't know if it would be allowed these days: you could spend money you'd earned (by murdering people) on drugs, which could have a positive effect on your gang's morale.

(Mind you, what am I talking about: in GTA you could hire a prostitute, which increased your health beyond normal, then you could murder her and take your money back.)

It's true that I only ever played sessions of D&D and Paranoia, but I was so in love with the hobby that I had the JD RPG (GW) as well, and bought White Dwarf regularly (before it became an over-priced in-house catalogue).

So, I know all about Golden Heroes, MERPs, GURPs, TMNT (Ninja, not Hero!), Toons, Call of Cthulhu, Warhammer RP, AD&D, Car Wars, Traveller and so on.  This thread is a fantastic nostalgia-fest.

Now - living in the Highlands, and with many of my peers becoming too cool for RPGs (at one point, they had a seriously negative "nerd" badge attached), the solo stuff was a big thing for me: Chainsaw Warrior, Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf, Avenger, Falcon and so on.  And, for a wee while, I found the spare funds to do a PBM (Play By Mail) game about gangsters, but the name escapes me.

Precursor to today's MUDs, really.

D&D (not advanced): last time I hosted a game would've been around 97/98.  It was memorable for one of the Dwarf characters taking a dump in the vampire's coffin, and even though nobody had anything with which to kill the werewolf they'd caught in a snare, the Elf shot it in the bollocks with an arrow, on general principles - and then drew me a lovely picture of the scene.

Paranoia: I remember a mushroom growing out of my head, which I shot off with my laser gun - at which point the mushroom that had grown out of my companion's head said "Don't shoot! We come in peace!"

Oh.  I read about D&D in the novelisation of ET, and then got my dad to buy me the D&D basic set from Forbidden Planet in Glasgow, back in the day (early 80s).

At that point I stopped doing any school work at all and spent all my time creating adventures, and have never really recovered.

Gary Gygax - what an excellent magician.  Or magic-user, rather.  Would it be fair to say that he invented RPGs?

I think the closest the US can get is Big Bang Theory, which was funny for exactly -2 seconds.

Which is fair enough, but now I actually quite like Radio 4, and prefer it to the hyperactive wankathon of Radio 1.

But I still hate the Meg.  Or rather, I hate the fact that it's still so low in quality compared to the weekly.  (It's not as bad as the year of Satanus, but then nothing could be that bad, so it's hardly a measure of worth.)

And what is all this confusion of why the cover doesn't work?  It doesn't work because it looks bloody awful.

The Rennie Dredd doesn't work because we've all forgotten which character was previously introduced and then not used for months/years, before they've now been brought back to introduce another new character (which is basically a human form of the doll from the Saw movies) that we'll not see for months/years.  That's all his Dredd's ever are now: a constant introduction and hint of things to come.  How about just giving us a story with a beginning, middle and end.  (Really, Caballistics has become the same thing: constant promises of what's to come, and that's all.)  He should cut out the middle man and just use this script:

Page 1: Single frame, caption, entire page: "Next Page".
Page 2: Single frame, caption, entire page: "Next Page".
Page 3: Single frame, caption, entire page: "Next Page".
Page 4: Single frame, caption, entire page: "Next Page".
Page 5: Single frame, caption, entire page: "Next Prog".

Save us the trouble of caring.  At least it would be art.

Armitage hasn't changed - it's still what it always was: kitchen sink Dredd - now with life-life relationship squabbles.  Hmmm - just the kind of escapism I really want.  The worst thing is that it keeps referring to things that happened either in 2003 or in 2000 or even from way back in 1995, as if we're still supposed to know or care about them.  The Star Chamber are who?  The guy mentioned at the end is who?  Am I supposed to know?

I'm enjoying the reprint, although it has dated, and the creators were never as good at comedy as they thought or were told.

The Tempest thing is good fun but the art isn't my cup of tea.  I don't have any sympathy for any of the characters, at all.  They're all hateful.  The guy in the white suit is just bland, Tempest himself (for all that this month's one-liner at the end really works well) is just a smarmy dickhead, and the mobster chasing them is a human rottweiler.  Television-heads, ratmen, blah.  I'm not on anyone's side.  That's a problem.

That's it for the comic in the comic, and that's what the Meg will always fail or succeed on for me.  Articles are beside the point.