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[Scooby-Doo]

Since talking about those other well know live action adaptions of Scooby-Doo, Speed-Racer and The Finstones and to avoid deviating that thread and further....

I continue it her about what the title says.....

You'd think this one about the future family sit-com or scifi-drama might have been made by now after the success of it's almost exact opposite about the life of times of stone-age family.

I have fond memories of sitting down to bowl of Coco-Pops and orange juice during the school holidays with this or some other popular cartoon on the television in front of me....

After a pre-emptive Google search, I found some body else had similar ideas to mine......

I don't suppose I should share them here, but compare and just show my own.....

Two possible choices from me here......

Who closest to the role of George in my mind, until I noticed this fellow when I watched We're the Millers.

Who's seems like a more accurate characture of George minus the pot belly and it might also be possible to imagine the rest of the family from the film I saw him in was the rest of the family from this cartoon.

Yu could imagine that they were doing this when that made the movie, and then changed they're minds for some reason.

More to discuss, but later, time for sleep, now.

[Elite Dangerous]

Within the last few days, Elite Dangerous has been that much harder. It's now almost impossible to avoid interdiction with a Federal Security ship and I lost all planetary date I had ben carrying (Over twenty planets worth gathered from three systems when I took on another ship that was merely using chaff against me and nothing else by the looks.

Might also have that I that I had mount for very expensive beam lasers with auto-tracking and was flying my latest purchase. A Viper.

Is there any issue with these blowing up through over use of high powered weaponry.

The Wheelchair Rugby World Cup is on ITV4 now. Fantastic sport. Watch the documentary "Murderball" if you're interested.

Oh, you just beat me to it. Was going to say that I thought this was the only field game in that part of the world and I also understand. We might not be talking about the same thing....

[Slaine]

About the train trip home. I opened the comic book to have a good look through and was happy to find a Slaine story, but not one of the best, though!

[2000AD FREE COMIC BOOK DAY]

Ordered this comic book by mistake.......some time last fortnight or the fortnight before.

Let me check.....

It's just called

2000AD FREE COMIC BOOK DAY

Order from San Jose, California on the 27th of September and only got a ticket in the mail
for myself to pick this up from the post office two days ago.

I was only looking at this on Ebay when I accidently pressed buy and didn't have the money for it and I quite possibly sent the money did this on the first of this month. Yet it took this long to get to me and the postage took the reasonable price of almost ten dollars and added another twenty five dollars for P&H.

For this amount of money, I'm kind of really it took this long (Of course the u will remind about stuff like the weather and other factors....)  and that I had come in a show them the ticket they sent along with any identification I had on me and they go into back room and give me what I obviously see is this comic book from the shape of the package they hand over to me while sign for it.

I did let the lady know why I think unnessary for me to do their work for them, but not in those exact words. With a reply that I needed to sign for it. To that I just said nothing left them to return home.

It was a hot day, I had no money to ease this. The walk is only to the next suburb, but still not really
comfortable on such a hot day.

I was like only going to post here that I got this comic and when decide the catch the train home. It's only one station and yes, I guess I evaded paying for my fare when I did this. Yet, they hardly ever check on such short distance of travel and none of the station are manned at the exits. Not like they used to be, because I was employed by the Railways as a platform porter on a local station that turned out to be rougher than I was prepared for.

That from 1990 - 2000 and I was only working amongst the outside public until 1992 - 93. In those days, we were more strict and they still are, but in a much more efficient way.

Getting back on subject.......

So, how about it, do any of you think I might be entitled in refund on the P&H, because I had to sweat for it?

I think I would like to try, because, I am broke right now and I also the victim of misunderstanding with a e-mail I sent them through PAY-PAL about the where about of some medical supplies I had ordered a fortnight from last Monday had got to.

This letter miraculously got sent to Steam instead and because it was connected with a purchase I made of three of their games last week and this game to almost forty dollars.

So, I sent them another e-mail, that I had sent them that complaint by mistake and if they ever read it. They would know that!

Yet, no, they actually went ahead and removed those three games from my account until the matter is resolved. Of which it is....but they also haven't refunded me.

Technically, they ripped me off...until either those games are returned to my Steam Account Library or the money refunded and not the games. Only one of them was really good.

Fist-Puncher

A heavily pixelated trip back to eighties when games like Double-Dragon rules. I actually brought a
game a lot like this for the C64[/b] at around about that time.

I could really do with that money now, but all the banks and the post-office close on the weekend.

Because Westpac is getting really sloppy, I'm thinking about getting Swiss-Bank-Account. Are they really as good as I read them to Be.

[X-Files]

Perhaps, X-Files is the closest we've ever got to serious and darker Scooby-Doo!

Scientists think they've found aliens

I built that!

[SMG]

If this wasn't an Asterix thread I might comment that SMG and FPJr appeared together as live action versions of a cartoon  series in the (rather good) Scooby Doos, and now they are appearing together in a cartoon version of a live action movie series in the (very good) Rebels. It's a funny old game. But this is an Asterix thread, and who knows what kind of wicked tarantella CYNWA will employ against us if we divert off into the sychronised filmographies of Hollywood c-list couples.

Got nothing against SMG and her hubby personally. Absolutely loved watching her in her debut series (Or the one that made her very well known!) Buffy the Vampire Slayer and was very attentive towards  reruns of this show only few years earlier before it got pulled.

The thing about her not being curvy enough for the red haired Scooby, but she certainly seemed to very slimmed down there. Not that I have ever seen over weight or size SMG and as her husband. I really meant her was too short to be Fred and not a jock. Yet, Fred (Fred the cartoon character and not the actor!)  is a typical Jock, who is tall, and broad shouldered and Freddie does give me the impression of more ordinary proportions. Yet, I just had a look at his bio, (Just now!) and found the guy's taller than me. Being at least over 180 cm (My apologies to FPJNR there!) and his dad was famous as well. (Although, I don't recall knowing about him otherwise!) Otherwise, I found them both entertaining in those roles and I guess the film's more accurate than I remembered, but I wouldn't have minded seeing something  cartoon become something darker! (Not partically coloured!) Like, what if it was done by that Mexican director who did the Hellboy movies, along with Pan's Labrynth, and now Crimson Peak. The one who might have made Mountains of Madness, but I think that last one was kind of it, and heavily influenced by some important woman in his life, perhaps! 

Anyway....to make up for my diversion from topic here.....

I found this trailer for computer generated Asterix film.

Plus...three must have made a heap of Asterix cartoon's that seem to be direct adaption from their papery origins.

[Tin-Tin]

Know of them, but never delved anywhere too deep into any of the graphic novels I was able to find in the school and town libraries when I was younger. I think one of my old friend's used to have some of them along with Tin-Tin gn's.

I played some of the old on a friend's game-machine. I think it was a Sega. Just few simple 2D-Scrollers.

When I heard about the films being made and went to a bit of trouble look for more and more information about them on line. I think saw the first one on video or DvD and the later ones on cable. Each film was better than the last, I think. I do recall the last one being more interesting.

They were a little disappointing to me, because it's hard to accurately catch the atmosphere of this comic book character and the way he was drawn along with his companions, adversary's and the back drops of early Gaul and Rome.

It squirts out a bit too sugary-coated when they try to imitate the original look of it all and I suppose these things shouldn't be made as live action because the transition just doesn't carry over that well. To speak of  the actual cartoons that have ben transformed into live action on the big screen.

Scooby-Doo, and it's name sake dog was the only character, along with Shaggy that turned out convincing enough. The other three were poorly cast and realised and the movies them selves were just a lot of what I already said about the Asterix movies.

Along with the live-action straight to television movies I have seen on the cable-cartoon network channels.

Jinky's they got the short pudgy girl all wrong and made her kind of hot and less nerdy.  Then again, who would audition for that role if she wasn't. Fred was too short to be a jock (Not that I doubt Freddie Prinze's sportz prowess!) or dark haired to be the blonde jock and his sometime love interest or real life wife (Sarah Michelle Gellar!) wasn't nearly curvy enough.

Speed-Racer might have been better with out the unesessary hippy-trippy lights and back drops along with hi-tech upgrades that definitely weren't part of the original cartoon This is diabetics night night-mare. Along with the poo throwing on bad guys face. I don't care if any of that stuff was cannon.   

The Flintones was so spot on, then the sequel was okay, but without Alan's well known larger brother from Home Improvement. Anyway, speaking the first one, where they even copies the introduction where Fred slides down the neck of the earth-moving Bronto, going home  in his floorless conveyance on rollars being locked out of stone slab house after the cat swaps places with him and they all go to the drive in and order a side -ribs of dinosaur that tips the family rollar on it's side.   

One of four isn't good enough and I wonder what if they took a more serious approach to these films with the exception of one about the stone-age family.

What if Scooby-Doo was more like CSI-Miami, Burn-Notice, or Criminal Minds?

What if Speed Racer was more like those racing films that starred Tom Cruise (Days of Thunde[/b]) or Will Farrell (Teladaega-Nights and I understand this wasn't that serious either, but possibly hilariously close to the truth!) 

What if Asterix was giving the same design as Peter Jackson's work on the works of Tolkien.   What if Martin Freeman was cast as the Gaulish-Berzerker, and the fellow who was Beorn as Obelix and Ian MacCallen as Getafix the Druid. (At a guess!) Just imagine that!

Lastly, what about Grue?

[World War Z]

World War Z. Wow that's some nonsense right there. Despite some visually impressive sequences and a strong cast, the lack of any consistency in the threat itself (even how the zombies look is different scene to scene), the relentless sequence of improbable coincidences, and even-more-than-usual gross stupidity of supposedly smart and experienced characters just drag it down into frustration for me. I quite admire the attempt to do a gore-free action adventure take on the zombie apocalypse, but the result just isn't worth the effort. I did enjoy imagining Brad's horrified reaction when he wakes up[spoiler] in the Welsh WHO (geddit) facility[/spoiler] and sees Capaldi standing over him: 'F**k no, I've been captured by Malcom Tucker'.

This was one of those films I really wanted to see this in the theatres as I was impressed by the trailer for it and then disappointed after finally seeing this on the Box-Office channel. I didn't even bother watching this properly. I do recall asking on this very forum wether to see this film or Pacific Rim or another big-Sci-fi film showing at around about the same time and not seeing ether of these until their secondary media release.

I remember buying the Pacific Rim DvD on the very same day I got my Go Master-Card and my brand new computer was ordered late 2013.

Anyway, I though this film was very uninspiring and it barely held my attention for long.

Not sure what TB means by Dr Who reference, but I did look up Malcom Tucker and wondered if Peter Capaldi is any funnier in this political satire (Not known to me!) than he's tries to be in Dr Who when he attempts to mimic the comical charm of some of the better and better known Doctors.

Sorry, to be mean...but, (As I did have high hopes for him based on the hyped and advertisement!)  he seemed like he decided to adlib in his debut episode and wasn't all that prepared. Since that episode , I haven't bother tracking the show enough to stay tuned each week, but did notice some improvement wen he encounters badly dressed Robin Hood. I think more suited to serious stuff that I might find boring, but that 's just my opinion.

As for the Zombie Apocalypse...I like to see this done in Game of Thrones. or have they already? I do remember the episode where young Stark or Liennister fellow gets stabbed to death by his own. I was wondering if they should have some powerful Liche villain creating the undead or maybe there is....the White-Walkers. I was thinking of something more powerful and a lot smarter, something that  know to stay out of the close quarter combat.     

How do I apply for this, or is it too later. All I know is that anybody can play this. No restriction as far as I know.

[Mandy Patinkin]

...teamed with alien detective Mandy Patinkin...

How did I not realise this. Going to have to have a rewatch!

Mandy Patinkin the Spaniard

You Killed My father....Prepare to die

[Banner Saga]

Played some Banner Saga after removing Mad Max from my hard drive.......nothing personal about that except. I really can't continue with that game, unless I can record it on video. Hopefully, I will be playing that again soon when I get the Blood Bowl Two campaigne out of the way and enough videos taking up valuable space uploaded or another external hard drive.

So, I did buy a few cheap games, some are worth mentioning..... like Timberman which is charming in it's simplicity and Skyhill which is about some rich dude who gets trapped in his penthouse apartment in NYC during a epidemic of fallout from nuclear weapon which turns most of the populace into mutants. So, he can scavenge for stuff by using the stairwell to travel from floor to floor and raid other rooms on the lower floors of his high-rise haven. While fending against mutants who have managed to get inside. He can also sleep in the room with the couch, eat from the room with the fridge or construct weapons, better weapons  and other useful things in a room with a workbench. While this isn't the type of lack of luxury I'd expect here. I guess it will do for a early access game.  I keep getting him killed from lack of food, loss of blood from fighting the hefty looking aberrations of nature. He's better off finding some sort of hand weapon first or it's game over for him.

Just realise now, that this game could be based on the Omega Man, (You know Charleton Heston....) and he may have find a woman of dark persuasion, a mutant cult with albino's wearing robes and a cure for them before getting killed.

The Banner Saga which I put nearly two hours into this morning. Even though it says I played this for just over seven hours on my profile page. Not sure how it got that statistic.....??? Because I barely play the game when I hade purchased it nearly a year ago now. I got as far the first battle and stopped after making my first move out of pure disinterest in wanting to play anything that requires strategy. I knew I brought the game after being notified that it was being sold under priced and liked it enough through a review on television. (You know that show I keep banging on about....) I'm glad I finally got around to bother with it today from it's retro-tastic cartoon like design. It's one thing to see the subtly animated figured during the some time overly-long winded character conversations that only enflame my enthusiasm for the battles where you see the Norse-Warriors animate like some creation from a Rankin Bass cartoon. This really impress's me. Lots...... Does needs more work with camera control on the battle screen, but it's set in stone. We need more games like this.   

Another-World...which I believe is a old phone game. With early looking minimal graphics that please my eyes. Character control sometimes triggers a incidental cinematic sequence and I didn't play this one for long because it does require brutally extreme accuracy or you start from you last saved point in the game again.  I know the out come of this game and still want to complete it. It kind of like you the author of Slaine (A Younger Pat Millsperhaps and only because he's looks like the tallish red haired individual who finds himself in one of his own stories.) finding himself in strange world (Another World and not that I would wish it !) filled with mono-toothed-slugs, some Fomorian-Cyth natives that stand in his way and I remember him [spoiler] escaping on the back of large wing beast on game completion.[/spoiler] 

Yeah, that last one very familiar.

I also reinstalled all the Fist games like.....

Fist of Awesome, (Once completed on the same day of purchase!) Fist of Jesus, Fist of Guns, Fist Puncher.

Papers Please,

Monaco and The Swindle.

I just got Jotun which is about female Norse warrioress who must fight to regain the respect of the gods and the graphics looks like they were hand drawn by the same artist who did Banner-Sage. This looks great and I can't wait to play this. I can't install the gam e jus just. 

Thinking of uninstalling Nova-Inceptio, but would like to figure out how to start a camp fire before  doing that!
   

[Origin]

So everybody is playing this and might I have ago once I get the download to work. It's on Origin, and I had an account there ever since I brought Sims Four. Wonder my copy of that game is now. I just have'nt played since a short while after installing it and then having to uninstall it again.

Getting back on subject.....

This sounds interesting and I at loss for wether this picture here is actual a photo of young Skywalker.....



I realise it couldn't be for obvious reasons and that this level of realism in games is also actually a bit of a worry. it's opening another avenue for fraud ...people can be replaced so easily by pixels now.

As for the beta release...am I missing anything.

[Filarion Charioteers]

Finally beat the Filarion Charioteers during the Blood-Bowl-Two campaign match.

Three-Touch-Downs

I didn't start filming until the second touch down, and you really have to admire cheeky audacity, the lazy of the team I was playing. As I'm often blinded to where I should moving pushing , shoving nudging the players to a victory.

The game did go for another few moments after I ran out of space on the my hard-drive (Yes, my video just stops right after the touch-down...Great-Timing!) until the timer really did run out in game and declared the Reikland-Reavers as the winners.