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The Notebook?

Oh Good Lord, Damo you're hopeless! What do they feed you guys down in Taz??! Obviously too busy dating/marrying hot chicks to be bothered to learn your SciFi basics!


No Nerd designation for you ... from now own your to be referred to as "Fest", or "Festivus" during the holiday season. So shall it be written... so shall it be done!

How on earth do you get The Notebook from a knife and an athelete

Festy's going to be one of those freaks who hasn't seen it isn't he? (I mean, I completely understand the attraction of dating hot chicks, but there's still standards to be kept up surely? )


edit: I'm seeing a broken link Gits - not sure that'll help Festy

O.K so it's not the notebook!...... Love Actually?


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Ahhhhh Blade Runner....... and nope haven't seen it! is it good?

It's socially acceptable to put someone on ignore for not having seen Blade Runner isn't it?

Yes. It might even be a moral imperative.

Come on guys.......guys?...... you still there?...



...Hellloooooo??


....... sheet.......dammit......lost my street cred!

Well maybe there is redemption for him... riddley me this: do androids dream of electric sheep?

Nope, no bells ringin' looks like I have a movie to watch this week don't I?

Aww, don't pick on him guys.

Yes, it is a very good film. Well worth watching, and you should get yourself watching it asap. Whatever plans you had, they are now replaced with "watch Bladerunner". Go... Go now!

Thanks chaps. glad you like them.

Whatever plans you had, they are now replaced with "watch Bladerunner". Go... Go now!

seconded.

And read the book. Later. The order is important.

Well, now we've been through that little side street of hassling Nerdy I can hark back to what I originally was going to comment! :-) I like the statues. I think they are brilliant and very nicely painted.

Thanks ****fest (go watch Bladerunner).

I didn't finish the statues until Christmas eve. They took a long time as I had to build up the layers of putty and the sculpting of the heads took ages by themselves (still a weak point).

(go watch Bladerunner)

The star I designed myself with a little trial and error. Then it was just gluing and sanding.

(go watch Bladerunner)

And for the Unicorn, I first found some origami instructions online, had a few goes at making them from paper and then decided that I could make a better (and more permanent) version from plastic using the paper version as a template. Then some putty was used to round off some of the edges to make it look like folds of paper.

(go watch Bladerunner)

/final cut final cut final cut

The question is, which Blade Runner will he see? I saw the original theatre version, in the theatre--of course. (yay, grognard cred) and one of the DVD versions some time later.

Oh heck, just see as many versions as you can find. Then read the book. Hruotland is right. The order matters here.

I heard a rumor that a sequel is under discussion. Not sure I like that idea.

Well, there's always Prometheus (as wisely observed by a smart pupil when we'd analysed the Frankenstein analogies) but yeah, Blade Runner only really worked because it was a colossal vanity project and financial failure, oddly. Feel free, Mr Fest, to swing by media studies class sometime sequel will be dire, I fear...

Well Ridley has stepped back into it, and apparently put the story together with one of the original screen-writers (although obviously there were many), so I'm not writing it off completely yet. But not allowing myself to get too excited by the prospect either

Did anyone read the sequels written by K W Jeter? I was impressed by them, the way they took elements from both the film and the novel worked well, they certainly had a feel of Dick's work.

Until now I have consciously avoided them, Monkey. If you say so I might give them a try.

I remember picking them up when they came out and being impressed with them to the extent that I was recommending them to everyone I knew who was into the film, but for some reason I never get round to re-reading them, even though the urge strikes me now and again. I think I'll have to remedy that now

Wow, just picked up The Edge of Human (Blade Runner 2) and noticed it was published back in '95. Definitely well overdue for re-reading...I'll leave it out in an attempt to remind myself

He can watch any flavour of Bladerunner he can find, just so long as 'e watches it.

I've not read "electric sheep" yet. It's on my list, but I don't go through books quickly and I'm trying to complete my Pratchett and Dune collections before moving on to something else.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Well, there's always Prometheus (as wisely observed by a smart pupil when we'd analysed the Frankenstein analogies)

What with the extra line of Frankenstein being "The modern Prometheus". Didn't really think of it that way. Will probably have to watch that again with that in mind. Shame it's not a better film though. Was quite a disappointment. Tried too hard to do too much in one story.

but yeah, Blade Runner only really worked because it was a colossal vanity project and financial failure, oddly. Feel free, Mr Fest, to swing by media studies class sometime sequel will be dire, I fear...

'tis a pretty film. The (or one of the) last film(s) to use all practical / in camera special effects, and still blows many modern CG films out of the water.

If Ridley keeps it "simple" and makes it pretty, then it'll be fine. If he does a Prometeus and over complicates it and makes it an action film, it'll be rubbish.

Imagine the scene , Nerdy's house,
Nerdy "Hey , my lovely new wife , why don't we have a weekly film and popcorn night ?"
The lovely NerdWife " Hmm, good idea, what shall we watch first ?"
Nerdy " Bladerunner. Every week till i understand WTF Dakka is going on about …."

"Final Cut".... definitely.

Big H - And if there's any justice in the world she would reply to that with "What? You haven't watched it before now?"

 monkeytroll wrote:
Big H - And if there's any justice in the world she would reply to that with "What? You haven't watched it before now?"

Followed by " Now go stand in the corner ! "

There has been constant rumors of either a remake or a sequel of Blade Runner for the longest of times. ( original theater viewer am I )

Amongst or household ( an SCA thing ) there is a list of required viewing as well a list of never to be mentioned and use as punishment for lack of taste.

A new year has started, I've (finally) finished the Helbrute commission, and I've completed WipEout Fusion again (just for research purposes ). I also have a Jeweller's saw, Dremel and tentacle maker to make use of... Time to cut something up and turn it into something fit for a mad scientist.

I'm just about to start planning what I'm going to do, so bare with me for the time being. I'm going to pull out one of the jet-bikes and have a look at it and then see from there. The only part of the plan in place so far, is that this (and any other future jet- or fast- vehicles) will be made to look like they are part of the WipEout universe, so anti-gravity racing machines.

I have some fluff already written for where these come from, needs a bit of expanding but it's there, so expect that to surface at some point soon.

In other news; The next round of the LoER terrain contest is up and running. Go and check it out, you have until the 29th of March.
This time you have to build an accident. In progress, recent, past, ancient, any setting, any reason. Something's gone wrong and you need to show it in a piece of terrain.

I have a couple of ideas for this, but nothing solid yet.
Will likely be either a UFO crash, just because. I'll want to make a unique UFO though, more Giger wreck (there's that man again) than typical flying saucer.

Or some kind of magical accident, ruined magician's tower type of thing, don't know yet. Set in the 40k universe, but I may have played too much Oblivion/Skyrim for it to be too future-tech' based.

Keep your eye's peeled for future developments coming soon.

That all sounds very promising Dr H, can't wait!

Wipeout that brings back memories crashed that so many times

Cant wait to see what you come up with what jetbike are you using for the base of the model

I did think about a UFO crash as an option but I have altered that thought process now, well as you mentioned it in text first I thought it was only fair

Good luck with this maybe you could combine both projects

Cut,cut...chop.chop...saw, saw....TENTACLES!!!

Get to it feisar boy!

Thanks Gits'. I also can't wait to see what I come up with...

lone dirty dog wrote:Wipeout that brings back memories crashed that so many times

While many games state that they are easy to learn and hard to master, WipEout is hard to learn and even harder to master.

Cant wait to see what you come up with what jetbike are you using for the base of the model

I shall be starting with a Dark Eldar Reaver. I've had a look over the sprue and the main body of the bikes looks like a good "blank canvas" to start with.
I'm thinking of making a different front end (don't know what from yet) and using less of the blades... Has anyone else noticed that the blades at the back of the Reavers are the wrong way around? The only way they are cutting anyone with those is if they are going backwards...

I did think about a UFO crash as an option but I have altered that thought process now, well as you mentioned it in text first I thought it was only fair

Good luck with this maybe you could combine both projects

There's plenty of room for more than one UFO. We could have a UFO-off, or is that a U.F.Off

Depends on how well the bike build goes, doesn't it...

monkeytroll wrote:Cut,cut...chop.chop...saw, saw....TENTACLES!!!

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

Get to it feisar boy!

...and it might just get those colours too.