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I see there's a PS4 sale starting next week, with PSVR sets at £180.

I am sorely tempted to pick one up. I have a PS4 Pro, so it has a bit of extra oomph to run it.

My question is, has anyone got PSVR and is it just a gimmick? Is it worth it?

Just bought my eldest the 4K remaster of They Live for his Christmas.

Anyone else getting interesting stuff for their self kids?

(To be fair, he's watched The Thing, the Alien movies (not Prometheus or Covenant; I love the little guy) and Die Hard, and asked if there are any cool 80s films that have a "Arnie or someone else shooting up aliens")

I was wondering if any artist type fancied doing me a beer label?

Two mates and I went to a "brew your own" thing in a local craft brewery (Drygate in Glasgow) and now have 40-60 litres of bespoke beer fermenting away. It should - should - taste like a cross between Peroni and Punk IPA. It will be ready in mid-December.

It will be bottled. We need to prepare a label. I'm awaiting a blank template. The label needs to have certain legal warnings on it, as it is proper pukka stuff, so you need all the nonsense about drinking sensibly. The brewery will provide those.

So, is anyone kind enough to draw up a label? Your reward is a slice of the beer (amount determined by the volume produced!), bottled and with your label on it.

The beer's name is "The Sundry Guest".

PM me or post if you're interested. (But I am going to be away until Sunday).

Cheers.

So, I had a dream last night that I was reading Empire (a magazine I've never read).

Not only that, but I distinctly recall I was reading an article about the production of a Revere movie. It was being filmed in London, with an 80 year old parkour expert in a motion capture suit playing the title role.

No idea what that was about!

Being made the Evi Genius Apple

If I were creating the world I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, 8:00, day one!

Am I right in thinking that the Bunrning Man/ Armageddon story lines, back around the time the Meg was launched, was intended to be an epic sweeping into the creation of the Judges?

What happened?

Why didn't it go ahead? Have we ever learned what the plot would have been?

We've relived the 80s. Now we are reliving the 90s.

After the "New Golden Age" a couple of years ago, I think the Prog has been in the doldrums for some time.

Just like the 80s faded into the 90s, losing Zenith and Bad Company for Dead Meat and Time Flies, so too is the current Prog flailing a bit.

I am not sure if it's the fact that Invasion and the ABC Warriors are very similar. I assume they share a Prog due to scheduling let downs for other stories. I've not liked very much in it for weeks now.

I find ABC Warriors, Bad Company and Brass Sun to be incoherent. I think they may be written with both eyes fixed on trades, but I also think that they are very rambly.

The current stories, Invasion aside, seem to have no plot.

Bad Company feels like a brain dump of half-thought out ideas that dismisses character death with a contemprous hand-wave that we would go mental over in US TV. I feel like my childhood memories of the story have been dumped on from a great height.

ABC Warriors is a wafer thin idea of a story stretched to transparency. How long have they been fighting each other under the machinations of Blackblood and Quartz? It feels like this new Mars story has been running forever. It's the opposite of Bad Company's one panel plot dump.

And the current Dredd? How much of a throw back to the 90s is it? Let's take him out of the Big Meg (exposing the ludicrousness of the character at it) and make him a survivalist action hero. Um, no? I thought we'd got past that?

That's just the current strips. I feel jaded. Is it me, or does anyone else have a sad sense of ennui about most of the last few months?

In short: I am reading the Prog out of duty, not love or engagement.

It feels like the 90s all over again. Office clothes are a bit 1995, too, nowadays. And music has gone to shit.

I've got a kidney stone. It's really, really, painful.

I tried a half bottle of whisky to dissolve it. Someone said it would. It hasn't. Now I have a hangover, and the feeling that an alien is eating its way out my side.

Getting old is rubbish.

I'm sorry, I just can't live with myself any longer. Not with the silence, not with the guilt.

I love a bit of girly pop: Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" and "Friday Night" are awesome. Britney's "Womanize" and "Toxic" are pretty damn good too.

And I put tartare sauce on steaks.

And, deep down, I think the best thing about having boys is that you can fart and blame them. ("Fart-blanche," I call it). I do that, then give them into trouble in front of their mum when they protest.

Looking for three or four books to stick on my Kobo and read on holiday.

Any recommendations? Something obscure that wouldn't be on the Tesco shelves is fine (Pirlo Family Circus, say).

You read 2000ad. I read 2000ad. You know what I like.

As part of my clearing out, I am going to get rid of my collection of 2000ad progs. It's sitting in boxes and I've not looked at it for the best part of 15 years; I have the stories I want in collections.

I'm looking for help on how to sell it.

A quick look on eBay and Wake's old threads suggests that a complete collection of the Prog is going for £1800 - £2000.

I'd be grateful for help with the following, though:

What's the going rate for a complete collection of the Meg?
What's the going rate for a complete collection of Starlord?
Are there any rare Meg or Starlord editions?
What's the going rate for the annuals (I have them all)?
Basically, I've bought the lot. Are there any special items I shouldn't let go cheap (eg poster progs)?
How do I sell it? eBay? Or are there collectors?

Cheers.

EDIT: I know I will get the best price if I split it, but I cannot be arsed with the drip-drip of piece-meal sales.

I'm about to embark on a big clear out of tat.

I'm thinking about parting with my 3A Tharg. Any idea what he's worth? Is there a demand for him? He's complete but out the box (which is mint and in the loft) and staring at me over a polystyrene cup as I type this.

I'm not sure I'll sell but at present I'm 90% inclined to do so. Unless he's worth bugger all, in which case I won't.

Thanks in advance.

This is on Netflix.

Highly recommended to anyone who likes 24. Or who thinks House of Cards needs more explosions.

So, a thread for pride in sprogs. Because if you cannot live your live vicariously through your prog, then you damn well can through your children.

My eldest, upon being shown the command prompt (hey, I've just bought a c:\dos run t-shirt) typed in "tree" as a command. And then shat it at the files we had.

I quite fancied this but never got round to it.

Is it any good? It's available in its "enhanced" edition with all DLC for £20.

That, or Bloodborne?

Ooh. Maybe a spolier, but it's on Amazon.

This is news to me. Any special edition planned before I pre-order?

Galaxy's Greatest: Celebrating 40 Years of Thrill Power!

Says its by Wagner and Grant but that could be wishful thinking.

Looking forward to that 40th!

So this is my 5000th post. Blimey.

Some folks have raced to their five yellow stars. Others have come and gone in a burst of activity, then found better things to do.

Me, I've plodded along - slow and steady - at around one post a day for thirteen and a half years; from 13th January 2003 to 5th September 2016. I'm not sure how I feel about that, you know. There's teenagers around today who weren't born when I started posting here.

Whether in the early days of Karne and Oddboy, or chatting to those who have been here forever  (and those who just... can't... keep away; I'm looking at you Trout), it's a great little corner of the web to hang about in. Who'd have thought so many people like the same comic as me?

So thanks to everyone, especially those who I've met up with for a beer in real life. This really is a fun site and all the forum folks make it that way. Personal highlights include Space Maths and the exploits of the Beast, but that's unfairly plucking two things out the air at random.

I'd love to think I'll make it to Call-Me-Kenneth. Even if I don't, the journey will be fun.

Could've done without learning what a goatse was, mind.

One of my kids wants a game recorder for his birthday. He's looking to record from an Xbox One and a PC, an upload videos to YouTube.

Any recommendations? Any pitfalls I should avoid, or are the devices pretty much plug n play?

Budget is £100.

Thanks

[evil]

I am a responsible parent.

Which is why I have just let my 11 year old watch the 18 certificate Alien.

Now, maybe he's a mature lad. Or maybe he's enured to sci-fi violence.

But - he was most disturbed by Jones the cat. He made the astute observation that the cat is responsible for at least two, maybe three, of the deaths. They all die trying to find or move the cat. Now, there are seven on the crewn. John Hurt and the robot are not killed by the alien, and Ripley survives.

So,...the cat is responsible for 60% of the deaths in Alien

Proof, if it was needed, that cats are evil.

So, while on holiday in Spain last week, the forum decided to give me a permanent ("this ban is not set to expire") ban for being a stealth spammer.

This was very saddening for me. Not only did I feel slightly cut off, making me realise just how much of my idle time I spend faffing about on this board, but also I was aggrieved. I felt a bit besmirched after 13 or 14 years of good behaviour. I've no problem with taking a punishment for something I've done - if you can't do the time, don't do the crime and all that - but I was just minding my own business when this happened.

It would be good to know that there was nothing wrong with my account. Also, I'm flagging this in case others experience a similar problem while abroad. Everything was fine when I got back yesterday, and all seems well now. I'm guessing that this was to do with me using a foreign IP? If so, then fine and I guess no harm has been done now that I'm back in Blightly.

That said - I didn't expect Rebellion to implement Brexit quite so swiftly or viciously.