Codicier

ok a 2nd vote for phpBB & a ton of other useful info, tnx thrik. Particularly appreciate the hosting stuff because even though my google-fu isn't too bad, It often felt like i was clawing my way through a a tide of skeezy ads. I assume WP stands for word press? If so i honestly hadn't thought about them as a possible option, is it through a plugin or something? anyways will look into it tomorrow & tnx .

Thanks BenLuke. Which software to go for has been another one of those annoying little dilemmas, I know our original site ran on Vbulletin but i remember as a mod i often spent as much time playing whak-a-mole with spambots as i did actually getting to say anything so other options are welcome.

I remember buying a few things off Page 45's through Amazon market place including several Love & Rockets things i couldn't find anywhere else . It's good that a shop that has such pride in it's work is still kicking about, In the last 10 years I've seen pretty much every local shop I've bought from vanish until on line shopping was the only option for me.

Yeah as i think you address in the paragraph it's not a problem unique to AOT, far from it. Its that it's utterly un-unqiue but the show treats it as if it is which particularly bother me, even if it is a concious decision. Its almost as if the show has stepped back 10 years utterly ignoring anything progress that has occurred in the mean time.

I saw this on twitter and thought it basically perfectly summed up BRAvsGER (& this coming from a notorious Rugby hard man), those initial couple of goals in particular were absolutely stone cold assassin type strikes. Anyone looking at the shape of that Brazilian team with even the tiniest bit of tactical knowledge couldn't but help think this was basically kamikaze football, but perhaps even that doesn't do it justice. A kamikaze pilot knew what they were doing, Brazil's wing backs seemed utterly clueless to the the way their desire to get forward and engineer something was leaving their side criminally undermanned.

My problem throughout all of this is that there are certain aspects of AOT I really dislike (I have a whole lot of problems with its production, and i feel it's violence is gratuitous in the worst most juvenile kinda way) the only saving grace it has for me is it's kineticism. So my thoughts immediately go to other shows that share that which if Zeus likes the theme's isn't gonna help at all. Although after reading some of what Zeus says I wonder though if (sorry if this sounds a little patronising) I felt about things like Berserk when i first started watching anime years ago that he is about AOT now Perhaps there's a case to be made that subtitles actually help with engagement, I mean there's no temptation to do things like check your smartphone or ipad when your watching something that is subbed, reading the text on screen requires you attention in a way a show with English dialogue wouldn't. I think what annoys me about AOT is it acts like there has never been a action anime before it, that freeze frame emotional moments, supporting character deaths, 'dramatic' plot reveals, & 'cunning' plans, are something new. Which of course if you've not really seen many anime before they might well be, it's just it feels to me almost galling that anyone could choose to do such clichéd things with such absolute and utter seriousness and conviction. Rant over, to make up for my overwhelming negativity I'm gonna throw out a couple of anime with a really nice sense of movement hope maybe there's something in there which works for Zeus even though i don't share his love for AOT: Evangelion 1.0, 2.0 & the first few mins of 3.0: The Eva films have the budget to do some outstanding stuff at times, the 2nd film in particular does a great job getting across the scale of it's giant participants in a way that only a production which can afford to throw dozens of animators at a sequence can. Eureka 7: Ok this is really NOT a good anime in many ways, but like AOT the one thing they get right consistently is that no matter how bad you may feel other parts of the plot is you can't get away from the simple baseline fact that their take on aerial combat looks really really cool. I mean surfing in the sky in a giant robot, that's cool right? Cowboy Bebop: Not about movement in quite such a overt way but does a superb job showing us stuff about it's characters by the way they move or fight.

Stay away from Knights of Sidonia unless your a fan of really, reeeeeeealy badly done cell shaded 3d. The other two are solid (in particular the later) but very differently paced from AOT. Probably the closest anime to AOT is Berserk although frankly I find certain parts of it nearly unwatchable these days.

I gotta admit that surprises me, I mean I live in a town literally 1/10th of the size of Nottingham I suppose partly it depends on how much money local government is putting into the service, but also quite heavily on whether you have a member of staff who's prepared to advocate for their inclusion in the collection. I wonder if having a university running a illustration (or similar course) helps or hinders public libraries trying to build up a decent collection, on one hand you have a constant supply of people with a interest in the subject to drive issues, but on the other hand I can easily imagine some of the senior librarians I've worked with using the argument that if the uni already has a specialist library they don't need to replicate the service. Getting away the how for a moment, and talking a bit about the "what" perhaps using something like the Eisner awards as a baseline might work, I mean sure its not going to be perfect but you would get a list of books that would almost certainly be fairly widely available. You could even move the focus out a bit, instead of doing one graphic novel you could pick one author/illustrator (or combination of) and say "OK lets talk about this person's work", rather then "lets talk about this specific piece of work".

Considering how much amazing football i've watched the past few weeks its strange to think its no long now till the whole thing draws to a close. Its made me miss the days in my youth when live football was regulary on the BBC and not restricted to paid channels like Sky.

Just want to throw another voice behind the idea of trying to base it of Public Library collections In the UK at least between individual branches collections and interlibrary loan you can get access to a very good selection. Idk how well the USA, Canada or other places hold up though. For example I've just finished reading (from my local library) Are you my Mother : Alison Bechdel Which is the second of Bechdels work I've read and must go down as one of my favourite memoir graphic novels. It's weird I seem to see the "Bechdel Test" talked about more than her work, which I'd encourage people to give time to because frankly she's a great storyteller. The Nao of Brown: Glyn Dillon The illustration for this is gorgeous, and some of the character building and interaction is really sensitively done, but fundamentally I'm not sure I can recommend it because of the somewhat contrived feeling to the books conclusion. The Tale of One Bad Rat: Bryan Talbot Just very very good. Deals with what is a occasionally harrowing subject matter, all handled with Talbot's normal accomplishment

You are obviously not going to get the full complexity of a big Civ game but i remember enjoying the time i put into it on my iphone.

Have decided regardless of whether or not someone is messing around with it a refresh of our router to something a bit better is perhaps overdue. so I'm currently looking at this D-Link Wireless AC1750 Dual Band Gigabit Cloud Router & was wondering if anyone has any experience with either that particular model or just D-links current line?

Damn twig, how you don't have a smouldering crater where once you PC stood idk....

Yeah that was prob the original series, there was a new feature length episode at Christmas and 11new episodes this season with a promise with another 11 in winter

Thanks for the info. In terms of connected devices we have a printer 2iOS devices and a Kindle, I've already got everyone to do a sweep of their PC's using anti virus and anti malware stuff (though all pc's are cable connected)and that's come up clean but, I'm not sure where to start in terms of iOS or Kindle security.

A lot of what i was thinking after this episode has pretty much already been summed up here. It was good to hear some casual opinions but it did feel a bit like the episode could have done with someone who had put more time in. One subject that seemed which got little attention was on the choice that Blizzard made on how to divide its card pool size, more specifically how it has a huge pool of neutral cards everyone can use unlike games like Mtg who's base sets (around 350 cards) are roughly divided amongst its 5 colours, with a much smaller common pool of neutral cards. If you consider this release HS base set then a HS player is actually picking from a bigger chunk (25 class cards + 195 neutral cards =220 card pool) of a bigger overall pool (420 cards) than his MTG equivelent (working on a assumption of two colour each with around 55 cards, (110 total) 30 multicolour, & 30 artifact = 170 card pool). even if you assume a full block of cards you dont end up with significantly more cards to choose from. Its a choice which also deals with another problem mtg has always had, thatt many sets need to contain near identical cards to previous sets, with many different variations on names for the 2/2 for 2 "Grizzly Bear" or a 3/3 for 4 "Hill Giant", HS seems to cut straight to the point here and just makes those base building blocks accessible to everyone. I would have loved to see a deep dive on this choice and on other interesting design decision with blizzards choice regarding keeping player interaction confined to their own turn seemingly prime for more discussion than it received. It seems like it is the one decision that is essential to keeping the entry level to the game low but which also creates much of the problems which are beginning to evolve at high level(the one turn kill deck being a reoccurring issue). I mean there's even a interesting discussion to be had over whether all players having access to this big pool of efficient neutral minion helps keep under control the that the occasionally solitaire nature of some decks create.

Bah, both Ping Pong & Mushishi are over after only 11 episodes! (yet pretty much every other series wants at least 2 more) surprised not to see more talk about either of those two & in particular about Ping Pong on here, as I thought it pulled off a astoundingly well crafted combination directorial ability, framing, art, and soundtrack. Perhaps its because it's plot wasn't particularly complex and there was no controversy around it there's not much to say apart from that was really REALLLY good.

I've become a little worried lately that someone may be using our wireless network. Now our routers about 5-6 years old d-link which i've setup as WPA2, with 19 character password to log into the router itself, so I should feel secure to a extent, but some of its behaviour recently has seemed damn strange to say the least in particular im concerned by sudden slow downs that only affect the wireless devices on the network. I've done a little digging into it and it seems most people say the best way to tell is to check connected devices when a problem occurs and to run a log if a router enables it, but i was wondering if anyone else had any tips i could try to check whether this is someone mooching, or if perhaps there's a prob with the ageing router itself

That episode will forever exist in my memory as a weird chronicle of offhand incidents of capitalist excess both in & out of games. It feels like those same executives who indulged their teenage fantasty a by having their band play with a full set of pyrotechnics will be the same ones dropping thousands on a ship flying around playing at being Han Solo while everyone else feels like Greedo

Urgh This sort of thing would just have me blockading my darn doors and not going outside for days. I remember one day when walking home I saw someone carrying around a (unstrung) recursive bow. My initial reaction was kinda 'meh, that's weird' but slowly over the afternoon as my brain had time to build itself a nice little freakout feedback loop, untill I reached a state where I couldn't actually work because of the sense of unease I started to get just sitting at my desk with my back to the window. Stay safe Tegan

Ping Pong continues to be almost absurdly good. I'm maybe even talking possibly top 2-3 anime I'd recommend to anyone good. There's just so much energy in every shot. In addition to its art style (I'm not sure what to call it even, rotoscoped super deformed maybe?)It's got a consistently vivid colour pallet and some really dramtic shot composition. The musical/sound is superb too i love the punkish track at the opening in particular but I think there's some great work creating character with sound throughout. The 'hero appears' track has a great video game feel to it, like something that would play at the start of a bonus stage. Not quite a chip tune, but it feels like there's some influence there(probably deliberately considering Mr Tsukimotos video game playing and 'robot' nickname), the feudal drumming for The Kairo players while pretty easy choice is still used well, as is kazuma's monster music. I think my favourite little thing is when the almost fairground tunes that accompany Peco early on get switch out for a far more intense synth beat track we get when he plays when he plays kong for the 2nd time, and then switches again to a even faster almost desperate track as our viewpoint switches to Kong as he begins to realise he's going to loose. Plus there's a few really nice more low key tracks when they are needed (often for flashback or exposition who's slower pace they fit perfectly) and the generally hyper kinetic match music (which is kinda trancy/clubby at times). Plus they not afraid to cut the music completely to really bring the sound of the game, that iconic TWHAK TWHAK TWAK of a Ping pong ball shooting back and forth when it's needed. Anyways it's just damn frikkin amazing

I had that bug too except it showed "Winston's" in the podcast app & "Wilson's" when the podcast was actually played

I Agree almost consider jaunt mandatory. My preferred upgrade for it is the area of effect, giving you a explosion which is great for breaking the shields on both enemies and on the little respawn things & not a bad opener on bigger guys who you want to get a nice long combo on.

I'm fresh from finishing so my opinions may change with more consideration but... (there are no direct spoilers here im just putting it under because of what can be implied)

The only thing I've seen which even suggests a reason behind this whole thing was the issue of orphaned siblings being adopted by different family's after WW2 . If you have a culture in the post war years where you have multiple instances of people who are romantically involved for years (possibly even having children) suddenly finding out they are related it might fuck up the nations moral compass a bit.