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Best game of all time for me was Doctors and Nurses with Samantha Eccleston behind the bikesheds at primary school...

Ye Gods, she looks about twelve years old. Can't we have a sexy older woman for us sexy older men?

I take it nobody's coming, then? What better way to spend a Friday night than chatting to fellow Toothers in an oline chatroom whilst the rest of the world hits the town in an alcohol fuelled orgy of sex and kebabs? Oh, hang on... I think I may have answered my own question, there.

I just got me the first three volumes of The Savage Sword of Conan tpbs off Ebay. I used to get the comic as a yoof, but WH Smith in Southport were very lacksidaisical and I eventually gave up in frustration. The meagre collection I had somehow disappeared and, remembering fondly, I succumbed to the listing.

Wow. The writing's a bit florid, but in an entirely fitting manner and much of the black and white strip artwork is nothing short of stunning. I'm going to have to get the rest of these - it's just a pity that there aren't a few colour pages to show off some of the cover art but still, a cracking addition to my collection. Knocks Slaine into a cocked hat, imho.

I purchased them from here: //http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260379391446  and the guy accepted a best offer of £29.95 with free postage, in case anyone's interested.

Dunno. Philosophy was never my strong point.


Or was it?

The chat room is open as of now until about midnight(ish).

Movie Dredd is currently trapped in production limbo with only an empty Green Lantern costume and Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman script for company?

//http://moviestinger.com/fan-made-green-lantern-trailer-better-than-real-movie/

and yet still no flying cars. How can sci-fi have let me down so badly?

Oh really?



 //http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-527492/Is-car-Is-plane-Actually-certainly-beats-sitting-traffic-jams.html



//http://www.moller.com/

Now, where's my replicator?

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When I was a sharkling the dream was that robots would be doing all the heavy lifting by now, leaving the rest of us to enjoy lives of liesure and spiritual enlightenment. Today, robots do indeed do most of the work in one way or another, but the only people enjoying lives of liesure are the ones who own the robots. The rest of us are just made redundant and forced to compete for ever scarcer poorly paid jobs or languish on welfare. Society hasn't kept up with technology. I'm not saying that robots should be smashed, but maybe anybody who is replaced by a robot should be entitled to a continued income from the increased profits of the business that replaced them. Or something.

Lifeforce with Mathilda May.

More recently, Monster's Ball with Halle Berry. Oh my.

I really don't bother defending sci-fi because it seems like a pointless activity. Just like in any other genre, there is good sci-fi and bad sci-fi and so defending it for the sake of defending it just makes me feel like an idiot. Some people can't see the point of watching movies or reading books about aliens, spaceships and robots and no amount of cajoling from the likes of me is going to change that.

On a slightly different tack, I have a neighbour who proclaims to love sci-fi but he's a complete numpty about it all. For example, he describes any sci-fi film as "brilliant!" whether it is or it isn't. He recently downloaded a movie somebody had made out of all the clips in the Starfleet Academy games and urged me to watch it because it was "brilliant!" It wasn't. He also complained to me that, although Aliens v Predator was "brilliant!" he couldn't understand it because it was set before the other Alien movies. I stomm you not, he actually said that. Sensing that this conversation was the very small tip of a very large iceberg, I merely shrugged and made a mystified face at him. Sometimes, it's the sci-fi fans that need defending and not the genre itself.

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Near the Bloodstains
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Conan the Barbarian
(Follow the Shouting)
Hyboria

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"...and now living in tax-exile in Sri Lanka"

Donning my Captain Pedant costume, I feel compelled to point out that it didn't say "Tax Exile." The full intro went:

"...Mysteries from the files of Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001 and inventor of the communications satellite. Now in retreat in Sri Lanka after a lifetime of space, science and writing, he ponders the riddles of this and other worlds whilst wandering about the beach being creepy at people."