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Prog 534 should be the start of a Phase.

Not 535 with the start of Zenith? (I wasn't happy with where this phase started, either. I felt kind of stuck with bad options.)

Apologies, poor joke. You don't remember the Prog 534 club? (For people bemused about us old uns always banging on about having read from Prog 1)

Prog 534 should be the start of a Phase.

Mrs Tips is away so I might research this tomorrow night.

I see where you are coming from.

But there's a fuck ton of other people who have invested time and effort (and money) to make Day Of Chaos a viable product. 

If you spent time planting an orchard, feeding and nurturing, looking after the trees for years until they bore fruit, you'd be pretty hacked off if people came along and took your fruit.

It wouldn't matter if they brought their own ladders and baskets, they'd still be taking, literally, the fruits of your labour. Fruit that they had nothing to do with getting ready to harvest.

That's still a respectable time. My mate Martin ran Sheffield today, you probably saw him.

More like TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SHIT  then?

Nearly two years since the last post...

You'd think he would have lost weight.

Justin, Justin, Justin.

What is it?

I'll bet everybody on this forum has made it to some right venerable ages, 55 for me,  without once putting on blackface or dressing up as a Nazi or being charged with sexual assault or fucking a pig's head or wanking off into a potted plant in the presence of a co-worker*.

It's really not that hard to get through life without being accused of these things.


* Even this, the most likely, no, not even close.

I plan on entering the Pitch Fest. I guess there's somewhere I need to register beforehand. Not done a Pitch Fest since Dreddcon days so any advice gratefully received.

Weekend ticket purchased.

Yay!

I'm Just out going out for a run. Then making a curry. Looking forward to enjoying last rays of sun with a glass of wine.

Then I'm buying my Thought Bubble tickets.

But:
The prog's not great.

....

Except this. I really don't see this myself but each to their own and all that.

I love this place. Have made some genukne real life friends here.

Having recently taken a step back from FB, I've found this place a lovely oasis again. Sure it's a trivial distraction but it's about trivia and distractions I like.

Frankly, my order of checking is FILM AND TV (I don't buy agazines like Empire or SFX anymore so it's a great resource), PROG and MEGAZINE (though being digital, I have to watch out for spoilers) and OFF TOPIC because the politics thread is a gold mine of hot takes and satire.

I'm glad we are a lot less laddish, sexist and objectifying of women then we (I) used to be but more diversity would be welcome. This place taught me how to behave properly on the internet after some foolish early years. (The secret? Not a secret really. Do as you would face to face).

But like the mark at a card game, if I haven't  figured out who the horrible bitchy person on the forum is... May be it's me? Actually I'm not sure that's true. I just think that some of the complainers on FB have mistaken being corrected for being persecuted and left.

So some good suggestions above: a cull or clustering of the less used topics and some new open ended discussion areas on characters, character types or themes  to encourage new people and debate.

Stared at this a lot. I really don't get it. Man, I feel old.

I suppose it's people finally realising that, like Judge Dredd can survive without Dredd, the Rogue Trooper can survive without Rogue.

Echo everything said above; a really enjoyable prog from first to last for me. Every tale was a punchy, fun science fiction tale with great visual story telling but also asked bigger questions.