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Post by Admin on Mar 4, 2020 22:14:30 GMT
 It's Thursday. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Mar 4, 2020 23:15:11 GMT
So this "self isolating" thing means that gamers are going to inherit the Earth.
That's nice.
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Post by Chumbles on Mar 5, 2020 4:52:51 GMT
Flybe part-owner Sir Richard offers stranded passengers a green alternative ...  To be fair (unusual I know) all those blaming the government for this debacle are idiots. This is the first of many and they cannot bail out Flybe. It would also seem insane to bail out a carrier which uses recycled air, thus ensuring a greatly increased chance of Covid-19 spread. More I've heard which you should hear... |
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Post by scubar on Mar 5, 2020 7:45:38 GMT
Games - no
Films - no
Falling asleep in front of an episode of The Mandalorian - yes
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 5, 2020 7:57:01 GMT
scubar . I don't know if it's your thing, but Jon Culshaw's doing a skit with Bill Dare at the Redhouse theatre, Millbay Road on the 14th March. Details here
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Post by amipal on Mar 5, 2020 8:18:00 GMT
MrTiddles there, trying to set up a hit on scubar. Morning all! Gamesblog - no! TVblog - Altered Carbon. OTTM - went over a mate's for a good chat.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 5, 2020 8:27:20 GMT
Dogging as a Covid-19 transmission route. A thinkpiece coming soon on my blog, planned on the bog. Hit up my patreon.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 5, 2020 9:12:44 GMT
Games. No
TV. B99 on the commute.
It's World Book Day.
Even for you fuckers that read books with maps.
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Post by cobblers on Mar 5, 2020 9:18:42 GMT
Your face is word book day.
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 5, 2020 9:19:59 GMT
Today's 'Spot the cunt' competition. Left or Right? I'll give you a clue: It is not the clearly far-right plastic shrubbery.  |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 5, 2020 9:22:16 GMT
Hello.
Ganes: no.
Tv: no:
Watching the football updates on the BBC website: yes.
World Book Day? I've read some books recently:
Transcription by Kate Atkinson: disappointing. 4 stars.
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson: very good. 4 stars.
Blood's A Rover by James Ellroy: not bad if you like that sort of thing. 4 stars.
July, July by Tim O'Brien: good. 4 stars.
I'm probably going to read The Poisonwood Bible next, but it's very long and I'm a slow reader, so don't hold your breath for my in-depth review.
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Post by Chumbles on Mar 5, 2020 9:24:48 GMT
Games. No TV. B99 on the commute. It's World Book Day. Even for you fuckers that read books with maps. I love atlases - when I was 10 I made an out of scale map of my area - boootiful colours. Anyway, earlier I posted at the end of yesterday's box a bit about top 10 sf books / authors. Dunno if the link will work... Got to sleep, but back braining my top 10 aliens... It would be nice if from books, but I know some of you are barely literate. Give it a go... |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 5, 2020 9:31:38 GMT
Games. No TV. B99 on the commute. It's World Book Day. Even for you fuckers that read books with maps. I love atlases - when I was 10 I made an out of scale map of my area - boootiful colours. Anyway, earlier I posted at the end of yesterday's box a bit about top 10 sf books / authors. Dunno if the link will work... Got to sleep, but back braining my top 10 aliens... It would be nice if from books, but I know some of you are barely literate. Give it a go... I haven't read most of the books on that guy's list, but I thought Inversions was one of the weaker Iain M Banks books. My favourite SF book is probably A Canticle for Leibowitz. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 5, 2020 9:40:39 GMT
Games. No TV. B99 on the commute. It's World Book Day. Even for you fuckers that read books with maps. It would be nice if from books, but I know some of you are barely literate. U Wot M8? |
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Post by amipal on Mar 5, 2020 10:04:19 GMT
Where the hell do you people get time to read books?
Answers on a postcard.
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Post by scamander on Mar 5, 2020 10:11:24 GMT
morning all,
Got back into Skyrim last night. A determined effort to finish the dlc.
Rome 2 is great but I don't have 6 minutes to wait at the end of a turn. I have sragons to avoid.
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Post by scubar on Mar 5, 2020 10:13:21 GMT
ET
Groot
Alien (from Alien)
Alf
Paul
Chewbacca
Superman
Vultan
Kang
Kodos
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Post by scubar on Mar 5, 2020 10:13:48 GMT
morning all, Got back into Skyrim last night. A determined effort to finish the dlc. Rome 2 is great but I don't have 6 minutes to wait at the end of a turn. I have sragons to avoid. Sweet swerve from Far Cry. |
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Post by cobblers on Mar 5, 2020 10:24:04 GMT
In no particular order...
Fivetide Humidyear, Banks/Excession and/or
Quercer&Janath, Banks/Algebraist
Blustery idiots. Splendid.
Krakens, McLeod/Cosmonaut Keep
Cephalopods are fascinating and I can completely believe they are actually interstellar navigators. See also below.
Ford Prefect, Adams/HHGttG
Obviously.
Not Gurb, Garriga/No Word From Gurb
Lost dude in Barcelona. We’ve all been there.
Cuthulu, that daft racist Lovecraft/various. Arguably the things in Color out Of Space and Erich Zann are better, but Ol’ Tentacle Face is the main man.
Frank n Furter, Rocky/O’Brien. A play, so I’m counting it as literature.
Chocky, Chocky/Fisk (Edit WRONG! It was Wyndham, apparently) Scarfolk, 100% scarfolk
The Krakens, The Kraken Wakes/Wyndham. More ambiguous than the Triffids, might not even be ETs, starts with a Tennyson poem. Four stars.
Right, I’m going to actually do some work and consider no10. I note that there’s a serious gender imbalance amongst my near-human aliens and my brain is currently failing to come up with many suggestions. Banks has a lot of good women who could be arguably alien, but they are mostly just foreign humans. Did Le Guin do aliens at all?
Composite no10: Caliban/Id/Krells, who doesn’t love a bit of Forbidden Planet? And it’s Shakey, so proper intellexchooul.
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 5, 2020 10:36:40 GMT
Gort or the predator, or maybe triffids. I dunno..
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Post by Felice Landry on Mar 5, 2020 10:40:43 GMT
Minor quibble about Quercer & Janath... ...they're not aliens |
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Post by cobblers on Mar 5, 2020 10:42:50 GMT
Minor quibble about Quercer & Janath... ...they're not aliens you daft essentialist. You probably reckon HG was just a flymo. Just because they’re REDACTED doesn’t mean they’re not alien REDACTED. I mean, that’s kind of one of the main themes of the book. If you cut them, do they not bleed? Rhetorical question. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Mar 5, 2020 10:47:00 GMT
Minor quibble about Quercer & Janath... ...they're not aliens you daft essentialist. You probably reckon HG was just a flymo. Well he did cut the grass. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 5, 2020 10:51:04 GMT
DR and Quinch. That's all I got.
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Post by cobblers on Mar 5, 2020 10:56:20 GMT
I’m disappointed in some of you nerds. You’re barely worthy of the name.
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