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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Oh, this board is dull at the moment. A few recent things; Fave experience - that HM of course, in BFH. Fave Film - none. Fave book - Z for Zachariah. Fantastic book. I never knew the writer died before completing it, and that his family finished it off for him. That's strangely sweet and poignant, given what happens in the book. Fave idea - recurring images in my stories. It feels like something is going on between them all that I can't fathom. Fave toy - my talking Robin Hood, bought cheap from Home Bargains. He says - in a bright, boyish voice unlike the guy who plays him - 'People of Nottingham - will you tolerate this?' It's hardly 'Action Man patrol calling' but hey, plastic is plastic, fun is fun. Fave funny moment- Will Hay reading 'Gentlemen' as 'Cheltenham' in 'Oh Mr Porter'. Fave telly - Tony Robinson investigating ghosts. Blitz witch could really speak with the dead! Fave notion - that my list of favourite writers and books shrinks as I get older.  No one has to comment on these things, but I hope they get more comment than on my bloody 'Plasma' thread. BTW anyone remember Dangerfield? What a mournful, sad fucking show that was. And the Bill - been watching some ten-year-old eps and they're great, really great - they make me want John Carpenter to direct them. Seriously good. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Just for laughs, I'll join in and add some of my recent moments: Fave recent experience - appearances in Best New Horror and YBF&H: two lifetime ambitions achieved. Also Charlie saying to his mum the other night that "there's no such word as can't. Some things are just hard to do." Ah, the wisdom of a 5 year-old... Fave recent film - The Dark Knight. Fave recent book - Duma Key. I'm reading it now, and it's fantastic. Fave recent idea - they really are out to get me! Fave toy - erm, the Nintendo Wii we bought Charlie for Christmas. Fave funny moment - Charlie's victory dance after beating us all at Wii tennis. Fave telly - Lost starting again this weekend! And the DVD of Gavin and Stacey - only just discovered this, and it's ace. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.110.69 |
Go on then. Fave recent experience - getting that Joe R Lansdale quote. Fave recent book - Lisa Tuttle Nest of Nightmares. halfway through, savouring it. Fave film - In Bruges. Fave telly - Lark Rise to Candleford but have always enjoy Tony Robinson. The programme he made about his mum dying in a nursing home hit a chord as I had just been with my mum in a nursing home and held her whilst she died. Sniff. Fave funny moment/people - yes, Will Hay and the Marx bros. Fave recent idea - saying I don't believe in ghosts and someone saying on here - yes but what if they believe in you/something like that. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
I got Marie the dvd of Gavin and Stacey s1 - we've not seen it either. Ooh, Dark Knight. I was even thinking more recent than that! Kids are shockingly wise. We don't give them credit. | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 94.194.134.45 |
Favourite word beginning with P - propinquity. Favourite haircut - short back 'n' sides. Favourite writer whose first name is Avram - Avram Davidson. Favourite key on this keyboard - ! Favourite milk - semi-skimmed. Favourite planet - Mars. Favourite bookcase - the one next to the wardrobe. Favourite mood - the decidedly weird one I'm in right now. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.110.69 |
My, my Alan - you really are. Give Tony a fav film at the very least and then I can get back to writing my novel. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Never mind. That Tuttle book is wonderful. You should try Spaceship Made of Stone next. Hard to get, though... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
The Dark Knight is the most recent film I've seen. :-/ Unless Cold Prey is more recenet: that was a good 'un. Gavin and Stacey is ace, Tony. I think you'll enjoy it. We watched the entire first series at the mother-in-law's on New Year's Eve, and the missus bought that and the second immediately after we got home. | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 94.194.134.45 |
Ok, Ally, ok ... Favourite recent film - .Rec Favourite favourite film of all time (so far) - The Double Life of Veronique. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I watched BATMAN BEGINS last night...bloody excellent. I didn't really rate it first time round, but loved it this time. I love it when that happens. It justifies buying the DVDs! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Me too. You watch with too many expactations, don't you? I always do. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
BTW I knew you'd love DK and am so glad you did. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
With me, it's usually because I'm not in a receptive mood. I leanred to watch everything with zero expectations some time ago. That way, I usually get the most out of them. I'm watching DK again tonight: part two of my little Nolan/Batman double bill. :-) | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.110.69 |
DK would have been my second choice but Colin Farrel's performance was soooo good. I'll get on to the other Tuttle book when I can Tony. Thanks! I remember The Double Life of Veronique - good film. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146 |
Fave funny moment- Will Hay reading 'Gentlemen' as 'Cheltenham' in 'Oh Mr Porter'. :-) That's when he's going through old station signs, isn't it? Excellent stuff. ...but I hope they get more comment than on my bloody 'Plasma' thread. Tony! You had lots of answers, you little tinker, you! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Drat - what I meant was, what a sad little thing to bring up on a horror site. Don't know why I said it like that. It just seemed a step or more away from what you might think a Ramsey Cannibal board might have been designed to be about... (That said, the debate was pretty interesting now I think about it...) | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.110.69 |
Loads of replies about your telly. We can always talk about the baby milk scandal in China. People putting melamine in baby's mlk. Six deaths and 300,000 children ill (some seriously) That's horror, but then everyone would fall out about the death sentences just given out. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.110.69 |
Deliberately putting poison for profit in baby milk. | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
Fave experience: Um... If I told you I'd have to kill you. Fave film: Far too many to list, but SESSION 9 did reawaken my faith in horror movies. Fave TV: "Twin Peaks", still. Got the gold DVD box set for Xmas and have been loving the return. God, was it really 15 years ago? Fave book: Rereading The Hellbound Heart at the moment. "The tongues fell to the floor like a rain of slugs." Brilliant. Fave toy: Um, er... Fave idea: A werewolf transformation in a posh restaurant. I'll be dressed to the nines with an elegant companion who acts nonchalant as I eat my steak with my hands and gnaw on the bone. Every time the waiter appears I'll have some new manifestation - claws, contact lenses, etc. And my companion will say, "It's the full moon. The change is almost upon her. Darling, try to use the cutlery." Fave notion: That people who nibble on their skin (dermatophagia) are called "wolf biters". Or so says Wikipedia anyway. Can I get that formally diagnosed? It's just too cool not to be able to list on some government or institutional form. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
'If I told you I'd have to kill you' ! That's so...frustrating. The death sentence for those people? I don't approve of the death sentence, per se, but I have no sadness about it in this case. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.110.69 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melamine | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Oh, just read that. It's not so cut and dried, is it? They aren't terrorists, but people trying to meet a need desperately, it seems. No - death in this case is certainly wrong. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.110.69 |
This one explains more about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Damn! Just read another article. What to do! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Er... 'Meanwhile a chocolate-covered spread that was sold around sex shops in UK was found to be contaminated with melamine.' | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.110.69 |
I absolutely knew that you would quote that :>) All serious though and thousands of children very ill. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
"Fave TV: "Twin Peaks", still. Got the gold DVD box set for Xmas and have been loving the return. God, was it really 15 years ago?" It's the high water mark of television, isn't it Niki? Filled with astonishingly subtle details that only emerge on later viewings. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
Jesus. Robert Downey is nominated for an Oscar for the insultingly-bad TROPIC THUNDER while Peter O'Toole, the most-nominated actor never to win the award is ignored for his role in a film with a heart, DEAN SPANLEY. From Wiki: "In 2003, the Academy honoured him with an Academy Honorary Award for his entire body of work and his lifelong contribution to film.[10] O'Toole initially balked about accepting, and wrote the Academy a letter saying he was "still in the game" and would like more time to "win the lovely bugger outright."[citation needed] The Academy informed him that they would bestow the award whether he wanted it or not. Further, as he related on The Charlie Rose Show in January 2007, his children admonished him, saying that it was the highest honour one could receive in the filmmaking industry. And so, O'Toole agreed to appear at the ceremony and receive his Honorary Oscar. It was presented to him by Meryl Streep, who has the most Oscar nominations of any actor (14)." | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
Danny Boyle has been nominated, too. Ugh. Even the title of his new film makes me feel queasy with its self-awareness. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Poor O'Toole. I agree with him about that lifetime award - feels golden-handshakey. Boyle does feel naff, and often is, but he knows about movies and genuinely loves the best of them. Funny - belief being at odds with output. That said, I like a couple of his films very much. Millions was wonderful. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
I think Boyle's probably a nice guy. It's his output that's so hollow. The title of his latest, which I can't even bare to type, puts the image in my mind of a Jim Jarmusch-type poser slouched on a chair trying to be noticed. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
"bear" to type... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
I agree. 28 Days Later showed his Hollywoody fayre was quite suited to him, and Millions was great. But the rest - you have a point. Does he remind you of Bob Geldof if he made films, or Sting? Oh Lord, not Sting. God how I'd hate to be stuck in a lift with either of those two, to be honest. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Boyle's film of TRAINSPOTTING was superb, I thought. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
You see - I've not seen that. I'll not write him off, not yet. But his style is starting to feel 'of a time'. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
SUNSHINE was also excellent. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
And SHALLOW GRAVE. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
Zed's just naming all the stuff I hate so I don't have to. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
Bob Geldof barely made any music, let alone films. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
Jim Jarmusch said he's a member of a secret society that call themselves the Sons of Lee Marvin. He talked about this secret society when interviewed for a documentary. Pillock. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.30 |
Nikki: "Fave film: Far too many to list, but SESSION 9 did reawaken my faith in horror movies." Glad you like it. I never tire of seeing it, it grows on one, too. At first I thought Hank becomes a ghost, but I now believe he actually survived the crude lobotomy inflicted on him by Gordon. | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
@ Protodroid: Yes, Twin Peaks is sublime. And I see something new every time. @ Hubert: I was worried because you guys had all praised it so highly on another thread - I thought there was no way it could live up to the promise. But I was absolutely ecstatic and blown away by it. And as soon as it was over I wanted to start over and watch it again immediately! The demonstration of the lobotomy was so brilliantly done; it never occurred to me that that would be important later. A truly stunning film. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.6.151 |
The strengths of SESSION 9 were most extreme in what it left to the imagination: the horrific story recounted at the opening, what the actual "sessions"/participants were like given the creepy tapes, where/what was going on with each missing worker... what it would be like to wander down that long hallway, to that chair down there... to have to untangle what actually happened at the end.... THE ORPHANAGE, now that I think on it, borrowed some of these techniques, which is probably why it's also one of the stronger horror films of recent years. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
I really like Jim Jarmusch films though. Ghost Dog Way of The Samurai is a stunning movie with brilliant performances and Down By Law is one of my very favourite films. See Proto, I think there's only one way to resolve this... FIGHT! Sorry, couldn't resist that. I saw Boyle's latest and it did indeed feel a bit hollow. Nowehere near as complex as people have been making out. As for The Oscars. A shall, self-congratulatory pat on the back from a mainly hollow industry. Always thought The Oscars were a joke to be honest and not at all indicative of talent. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.30 |
It rather does become a tangle near the end. I'm not clear why Mike opts for another session with his beloved tapes instead of joining Gordon in the search for Hank. I suspect Phil put up those pictures of Gordon's baby in order to confuse Gordon, but I'm still not sure whether Gordon used to be an inmate, as is suggested in the first ten minutes. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.112.152 |
Our very own Harry Hill. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
So I'm fighting Danny Boyle? Actually, I bet he fights dirty. I could take Jim Jar-mush. I'd slap that lazy fag out of his droopy mouth for starters. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Yes, I'm very like Harry Hill, yet not. I reckon I could take Jarmusch too. He looks pail and waif like. Which directors do other people think they can take in a fight? I bet you Nick Love would cry like a baby once you got him in a head lock while Danny Dyer stood in the background and blubbed like the big girl he is. That Guermo del Torro though... he's bring you a whole world of pain with a tripple supplex before bouncing off the ropes and delivering a devestating half-nelson. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Proto - you could email Jarmusch and Boyle and arrange a weird thing in which you tell each of them that the other is you. Then just sit back and watch the mustard. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Spielberg - that would just be cruel - he'd sort of stay still and cry a bit, wondering why the hell you'd want to. Lucas would have a good try but then change his mind and sue. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
That Independence Day guy would probably go into hiding, too. Ridley Scott would be good, but you'd probably end up having a drink with him, all bloody. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
I'm telling you. I'd take Lucas down. I'd beat him senseless with a Jaja Binks doll and then make him sing the Ewok song from the end of Jedi until it was all he could hear in his tiny little mind. Then I'd tar and fur him and scream at him: "Say yub nub bitch!" and make him caper for me in a decidedly Ewokey way. Sorry, I may have snapped at some point this afternoon. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
Yeah, I was thinking of fighting Scott. James Cameron would shoot you in the face from a distance. John Huston would look down disapprovingly as you rained punches on his abdomen. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Oliver Stone would kick all your arses. Then light up a big cigar and smile. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Nah, Stone I could take too. I'm pretty buff dude. For buff, read fat. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Nah - he'd run you over in the car park. William Powell would look wistfully up at the sun while you paused to wonder what you were doing, tears in your eyes. (where the hell did that come from?) Scorsese would somehow manage to talk you out of it (and he's so little). I love that James Cameron image. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Herzog would knife you in bed the night before, in your sleep, then vanish. I think. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146 |
You can get a great Herzog/Kinski DVD set for twelve quid:- http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/149448/Werner-Herzog-Klaus-Kinski-Box-Set/Product .html How's that for value? | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
I have that. 'Tis very good. Cronenberg would know kung-fu. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
A Spock grip he'd do, I bet. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
Herzog almost had Kinski murdered on set. He'd send some Amazonian indians after you with poisoned darts. It'd be like the opening of Raiders, except on a high street. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.48.81 |
Fave experience - Rather like Miss Flynn, if anyone found out I would have to kill them. Would it be worth murdering for? Most definitely. Fave Film (Right at this moment) - The Face of Fu Manchu. Yes - I mean the Harry Alan Towers pic with Christopher Lee. Only because this afternoon my Singaporean colleague next door kept trying to pinch my instruments and we quickly settled into a battle of Fu Manchu vs Nayland Smith that confused everyone except us. Apparently the world will be hearing from him again, curse him! Fave book right now - How to Make Monsters by Gary McMahon . Just what short fiction should be. Fave toy - my Dad has made this game called 'Splat the Rat' that is so inappropriate for my five year old nephew that of course he loves it. Although if my brother's not careful the child may grow up to be just like me. Fave funny moment- The pisstake reviews of Katie Price and Peter Andre's album 'A Whole New World' on Amazon have had me crying. 'Track 6 gave me diarrhoea', 'It cured my broken leg', and 'Not as good as my nineties stuff signed Michael C Hammer' have had me in stitches. Fave notion - that the best is yet to come. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7 |
Fave Experience- recording my new album..When it goes well. Fave recent film - Serpico (I take time to see these things) Fave book - Thoroughly enjoying Strantzas 'Beneath The Surface' at work...Just started 'No Country For Old Men' tonight.* Fave Toy - A new pedal I have bought which you stomp on and creates a bass drum sound - sorted! Fave Funny - Sorrrry, nothing sticks right now! Fave Notion - Considering learning keyboards... gcw *I find the lack of punctuation marks just make it harder to read the book..Is it just to be cool? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Yes. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
I keep thinking some folk make their books harder to read so as to look like they're writing cleverly. SOME, I said. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7 |
You may well be right Tone. gcw | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
I've learnt, after a long time struggling, that simplicity is tricky. And conveys thought and ideas. I'm not saying do the pared-down thing, as that can be another form of laziness, but knowing WHEN to do it. | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
Cronenberg would torture you slowly with instruments that were half metal, half flesh. (And you'd enjoy it.) But it's David Lynch you really ought to watch out for. He isn't what he seems. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.69.28.243 |
He'd attack you with a midget and then steal your brain. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
One day you'd look out from a diner window to see/hear a really violent fight going on in a motel room opposite. 'It happens every day,' the waitress would tell you, casually, as she pours your coffee out. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.19.103.122 |
Fave Experience- having artwork appearing in print for the first time this year. Fave recent film - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Fave book - right now, Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith Fave Toy - fully painted Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine Army (geek alert) | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Ah-hah, another Warhammer geek outed! I'm not really into the miniatures game but I utterly love the Warhammer 40,000 RPG. One of the best roleplaying systems I've played in a long time. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146 |
Fave Experience- having artwork appearing in print for the first time this year. Where was that, Karim? | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.19.103.122 |
Jonathan - Yes 40K marine army- Just finished painting most of it actually- I'm more into the minatures but I guess I'll have to do some gaming-but no time! Mick- Feb 2nd 2009- cover art for Brian Evenson's Last Days. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.19.103.122 |
Jonathan- is there still a 40K roleplaying thing happening? Been away from the gaming thing for years... | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Yup, brand new edition a couple of years ago. Games Workshop license it out now to Fantasy Flight games and they are doing a brilliant job. The beauty of the game is that it puts equal emphasis on character development, investigation and combat. All elements work really well. Currently playing a Tech Priest called Brother Sequilious and we're currently investigating a Space Hulk for signs of ancient artefacts. I just love the anachronism of the catholic church in space with Lovecraftian monsters and political intrigue. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.19.103.122 |
Jonathan I have a completed, fully painted Space Hulk game BTW- Its the only GW system that I still occasionally play with friends. But I have never done the GW RPG thing. Space Hulk was sort of Aliens meets Lovecraft meets 2000AD- I loved that system- but alas, GW dumped the system after a time. I think the new fifth edition 40K stuff is geared for a younger audience- also in the minature design. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Yeah, the miniatures stuff certainly is. In fact they've been going that way for quite a while. But the RPG stuff is clearly created by dyed-in-the-wool hobbyists who know that most gamers these days are middle-aged men who have been doing it for years. Beautiful books. Also feature some 2000 AD artists. By the way, everybody else should know that I'm still cool and a hit with the ladeez. I'm very post-modern and ironic. (; | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.19.103.122 |
Ha! Actually I've been returning to the old school analogue stuff, because there simply is no comparison to having the real thing right there- and then there is the whole dimension of the art of the game- the book artwork, painted minatures, real terrain. No comparison. Why play Red Alert when you can have the actual figures in front of you. But the hobby is bloody expensive- you are paying more now for plastic minatures than you were for the lead ones. You'll easily spend 150 pounds on an army... | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Hi Karim When I talk about the new 40K RPG, I mean old pen and paper stuff. Not the computer game. Never been into the massively multiplayer online games. I'm a dice and pencil man meself. J | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.19.103.122 |
We agree. :-) | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Although I'm the only one in my gaming group who doesn't also play the online stuff. If I did I'm sure it would suck away my life and I'd get no time for writing. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.19.103.122 |
Yeah- no time- The warhammer thing is the one thing I try to squeeze in and its great fun! | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
Coming to this late, but I can never resist joining in things like this - Fave recent film - The Dark Knight. Fave recent book - I’m currently about halfway through “Promised Land”, by Robert B Parker, which I haven’t read for years and it’s very, very good. I’ve just finished Doug Winters “Faces Of Fear”, which was very interesting. Fave recent idea - the one I’m trying to work my way through at the moment. Notes ahoy! Fave toy - The Wii we got between us for Christmas. Now I just need a gun and the House Of The Dead disc and I’ll be all set. Fave funny moment - Matthew, in all seriousness, telling me I was very good at shooting things on the Wii Face recent ‘didn’t think that’d happen’ experience - renting “What Happens In Vegas” for Alison and then enjoying it myself. Much better than “Next”, I can tell you. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Fave recent film - We Own The Night/Dark Knight. Fave recent book - The Night Mayor ( my 2nd read of it and loved it more than the first time) by Kim Newman. Fave recent idea - Red Leaves, a story I'm currently writing which involves killer leaves! Fave Toy - my new stapler. Fave funny moment - three of us trying to walk home at two o'clock in the morning, but unable to because the pavements were so icy it was next to nigh impossible. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2009/01/21/stig-is-revealed/#comment-11354 I think this is funny anyway. What really gets me is some of the comments where people clearly don't realise it's a piss take. |