syntheticgerbil

Hello, I can't seem to find the last couple of copies of this magazine I need from 1988. If any of you collected Commodore User in the 80s and have the May and June 1988 issues, I will willingly buy them from you and pay all shipping and monetary costs! This is a last ditch effort to find these two issues. Sadly Ebay does not have them!

Why do you get my hopes up for no reason? You're such an evil bot.

Ah Simon 3d, such a tragedy.

That just sounds like a large vehicle/train/boat wreck waiting to happen. Anyways, I do hope this sort of thing helps to put more game designers in mainstream media light, for better or worse.

But then who would make the games?

I sort of figured it was a scam. Just like the Orangina available here in the States is actually not the same as the stuff available in France, since it's bottled by Mott's.

AHhhhhhhh!!! That was wonderful!!

When I was in Paris I kept eating Bueno and drinking Orangina out of the subway machines. I miss the stuff even though it was probably terrible for me.

BIG BIRD HAS NEVER STARVED AFRICANS! It's not even his favorite country. You guys have no idea how much I used to love this movie. My recently completed video game is that Game and Watch Collection thing on DS, however you go about completing that...

Hahahaha, for a second I thought maybe it was Dr. Phil, but then a Google search revealed it was Jeffrey Tambor in a show I haven't seen. Oops. Man, he's great in the Hellboy movies!

Oops, I guess that's why I didn't list anything earlier, because I thought his second paragraph was leading into the third but then targeted the third paragraph only for suggestions since I figured it was okay since others were listing non-superhero comics. Er... shorten my list to The Maxx then, for whatever that counts.

They sell that Cadbury 's Fruit and Nut bar at Target year round. Fascinating.

HEY NOW!

Yeah this is the most bizarre thing ever for me. Since when does a game designer make it on a late night talk show?! It's usually actors, prominent live action directors (only the voices of animated characters, never the animators), and animal wranglers only. A game designer?!

I'm with Signordouche on this one. PETA has the obvious "be kind to animals" front, but there is much more going on behind that with their nutcase agenda and bizarre propaganda. Just about everyone in the world who likes animals is for PETA until they take the time to do some research and dig a little bit deeper. Now if only the musicians who contribute to their tons of benefit albums would open their eyes...

YES! I'm crazy about Electric Six! I hate when people write them off as some kind of one hit wonder or joke band! They have like 4-6 albums worth of great stuff now. I'm going to see them again in November! Here's a personal favorite of mine, even though the video is ridiculously atrocious: FKHSBEoCg80 Another forum member, Rodi, is a fan too. I think he may have mentioned them much earlier in this thread.

I feel bad because Dave Gilbert's games have been on my list of "to-play-games-when-I-finish-the-games-I-have list" for a couple of years. I'm sorry, Mr. Gilbert.

That would be incredibly bad ass. He could even show some plumber ass crack during the close-ups in the trailer.

I found this movie pretty shallow as well, along with boring and cheap looking. I'm a Tom Tykwer fan, but it also seems like every other movie he does kind of sucks. I enjoyed Deadly Maria (Although I probably couldn't stomach watching it again, I found it way too disturbing), Run Lola Run, The Princess and the Warrior, and Perfume, but I found myself incredibly bored or disatisfied with Wintersleepers, Heaven, The International, and Das Leben ist eine Baustelle (Although he was just a co-writer).

I'm not exactly sure what you wanting or how weird, unsuperhero, and non-Alan Moore it is allowed to be, but you could try some Daniel Clowes books, either the short story collections like Caricature or longer ones like David Boring, Ghost World, or Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron. There's a mess of character identity problems and weird continuity in all of his books that comes off strangely comforting because of the straight art but usually ends up unsettling or disturbing in one way or another. It you aren't wanting anything overtly jokey, I'd avoid Pussey or anything Lloyd Llewellyn by him. You may also want to give The Maxx a shot, which is an old favorite of mine. It also bends a lot of time and space and goes through a lot of human emotions or problems without ending up completely pretentious as most "underground" comics tend to (not that The Maxx is underground, just shares a lot of qualities with certain nonmainstream publications, especially later issues). It's been nicely collected into 6 volumes for people that pretty much gets the whole story. I think the beginning starts off a bit rough with the first 10 issues as it was having an identity crisis among the new Image crap and whether it wanted to be a full blown superhero book or not. It ended up not, peaking around issue 25 I think. I also really enjoy Evan Dorkin's Hectic Planet, which is also nicely collected in 3 TPBs. It contains a bunch of well written futuristic heartbreak stories as well as some sci fi adventure and violence thrown in for good measure. It's probably way too over the top and jokey sometimes though, but some of what you are wanting may be there. Dave McKean's Cages may fit the epic and continuity changing bill, as it is a thick book. If you can find it it's worth a shot, but it tends to get pretty avant garde and abstract sometimes, not that it is much of a bad thing. He does some crazy stuff with sequencing. The books he's done with Neil Gaiman writing are a bit more grounded and recommended as well: Violent Cases, Mr. Punch, and Signal to Noise. I think the only thing that really may be hard to find is Cages. You could also try to give Ashley Wood's solo books or books done with his wife a shot. Sometimes I can hardly understand what's going on because it either gets too pretentious or his sequencing it's ridiculously hard to follow, but I really enjoy the over sexualized art and the robots. Popbot is one of his now that is in a big available book right now, but hell if I know what's going on the second half of the issues of the whole series. It sure started strong, though. His horror adaptations in Doomed and mythlogical stories in Lore are much easier to follow. If you are okay with Japanese comics, which have a distinctly different flavor, some good ones well worth reading and tending to be fairly epic are Tekkon Kinkreet (or Black and White), Akira, and Domu. The latter too may be way to serious though. The Akira comic, unlike the movie, does a lot more in terms of stirring up images of post WWII Japan, which was really depressing for me. And then there's Hellboy... which is still going, but highly recommended by me as far as epic, serious, readily appealing, and non-corny one-liner stuff goes (at least the more Mignola centered issues, which is sadly straying too far from it's original creator now).

I want a female montage now, too! DELIVER!

Aw weird! Remo mentioned Tank Girl too! Ahhhh, our brains are aligned! I didn't want to mention this before but I like this Goldfrapp remix of the This is the New Shit song. It's kind of fun, but I've never been a fan of Marilyn Manson, nor do I find him to be a genius as some of my real life friends do. For the record, I'm not sure the two that comprise Goldfrapp are into Manson either. Back to the podcast, since I have this bad habit of just commenting while listening if I'm at work.

Idlethumbs has made me internet.

Where's my edition of the Most Essential and Complete Steve Purcell Collection of Monkey Island Concept Art and Drawings Throughout the Years (Of Our Lives)™?!