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Can I just say that I never understood all of the "Oh, he's so cool!" fuss about Boba Fett.

I can understand it (It's a less-is-more thing...) but never thought he was that cool - and don't get me started on those kids who thought that Han was cooler than Luke...

Amusement arcades.
Growing up in Great Yarmouth it was a real thrill to go up the sea front at the beginning of the season and try out all the new arcade games. The first time I played the hydraulic Space Harrier was mind blowing (but it was a bit pricey at 30p a go!)
The arcades are still there but it's all prize cranes, ticket games and fruit machines these days.

Definitely this...

Also pinball machines in pubs.

CCGs are quite good fun, but I prefer the 'living' card games (Dominion, Legendary etc.), which have all the fun of deck-building, but without having to buy hundreds of random booster packs of cards.

It's appearing now - I've managed to download the cbz.

I'll just pop this here shall I...

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/e3-2015-rebellion-co-founder-hints-uk-studio-developing-vr-game-1505578

Virtual Supersurf as good as confirmed 

Was this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ59tfyGxSI

Although if its successful I think some sort of Mega-city one vehicle-based VR game would be awesome

I wonder if it's due to the Kindle being an Amazon device.

Yeah - looks like the app needs to download IAP data from Google Play before it will start, so it just gets... stuck.

Computers can be a real pain, with annoying pop-ups and freezing images,  making the patience required in reading comics  digitally unworkable, as I am sure we have all discovered.

It's easier on a tablet, but the screen size isn't great for anything larger than US size comics. I read a lot of 'floppies' on my tablet, but tend to buy physical GNs for collections.

However! The History of British comics is woefully under-represented in digital disc/download versions of vintage comics: I am sure that everything from the BEANO to VALIANT , TV 21 etc etc etc would sell well if sold as complete/yearly/decades worth  of old comics scanned and sold as disc sets---much cheaper to put together than print editions, the companies like  D C Thomson and whoever owns the IPC archives of thousands and thousands [possibly millions?] of British comic artwork pages are failing to exploit this vast resource, meaning that the pirates have understandably moved in, and are cleaning up on this score.

I wish they would - I'd love a digital archive of the 80s Eagle - it's a major PITA to go to the attic, find the boxes with the issues in, just to read one story. Plus a lot of my old Eagles are in really tatty condition...

With most comics, my barrier to digital is DRM. I gave up on Comixology some time ago, because you couldn't extract the comics and keep them safe, in case of publisher/service implosion. With 2000 AD, if it ever did go digital, I'd continue to buy it, because I like the publication, but also because Rebellion has gone headlong into DRM-free territory, enabling file ownership rather than streaming/'rental'/licensing.

Comixology allows that now (I've been able to save some of my comics off as CBZs) - or is it just for certain publishers?

Some utter crap...

*Sigh*

To clarify - I was using the definition here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misandry (Sorry for derailing the thread!)

Also:

I don't understand what you are getting at...misandry is a lie perpetrated by MRA's to try and justify their attitudes. Mysogyny is a universal issue and manifests in any number of oppressive measures.

Misandry does exist - just more at an individual level, and nowhere near the scale that Mysogyny does. TS seemed confused that Mad Max had a Misandrist agenda, instead of being a slightly feminist movie.

[Slaine - Demon-Killer]

I'm more concerned about the dark side of feminism, just read Slaine - Demon-Killer for what I meant by that personally.

I think you may be confusing Feminism for Misandry - please don't.

Not a new new game but this just popped up on Steam this morning and surprised me:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/352080/

It's also in the current  Humble Mobile Bundle (Android Only though).

https://www.humblebundle.com/mobile

The first time we see what happens if he finds your lack of faith disturbing.

Ah yes - this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jdQqjcsfC8

Something of that mass so close to a planet would completely wipe out any chance of life, let alone allow lovely forestscapes.  Not that Star Wars ever bothered with science anyway, but just saying.

...plus the orbital mechanics are all wrong, unless it's mass is substantially tiny (F = G(m1m2/r^2) and all that...)

It's interesting but I'm not convinced.  I wonder if we're trying to find words in random sound, the same way our brain tries to see faces in things.  The brain trying to fit things into it's own framework?

Or the way some people hear messages when they play music backwards...