CP3S

Yeah, I've seen everything except for series ten. Even read the books. 

Once they got Kryten as a main character in series 3 I felt it started to take off, but once the Red Dwarf crew was resurrected in series 7 I felt things took a down turn. Though I still did enjoy series 7 and 8, and for many years found the, what I thought would be forever unresolved, cliffhanger ending to series 8 somewhat agonizing.

Hmmm,

I'm now considering going out and picking up some curry and lager and spending the rest of the evening watching some Red Dwarf...

Hey, it's me, I suppose you've seen series 9 and 10, right? What did you think? I was really excited when Back to Earth was announced, but ended up not enjoying it at all. What did you think? How was series X? I never bothered watching it since I was disappointed by Back to Earth, but I've heard it was a lot more like the series than Back to Earth was. Should I waste my time on it?

Just finished Ashes to Ashes. I've long considered Life on Mars one of my all time favorite shows, and I loved the way it was wrapped up ambiguously but on a happy yet kind of grim note. I found it very satisfying. So a spin-off series revisiting that world and giving us more information about the characters was always something I was uncertain how I felt about.

Shows with sci-fi mystery myth arcs seem to have a tendency to end in unsatisfying ways. Lost and Battlestar Galactica were two shows I really enjoyed and would have loved to enjoy rewatching, but their endings and knowing what silly business the writers came up with to explain it all seriously mars subsequent viewings of those two shows for me. The "A wizard did it!" endings of those shows just takes the fun out, it is too hard to take them seriously from beginning to end with the impossible to ignore end in mind while you watch the beginning.

I started watching Ashes to Ashes because I loved Life on Mars so much, but for the first season I didn't take it very seriously, I considered it kind of a non-canonical fun bonus following LoM, kind of how I consider all the Planet of the Apes sequels or Aliens and Alien 3. When I got to season two I really started to enjoy it and realized how well it did at stepping out from behind LoM's shadow and becoming its own show, in some ways it even became a much better show than LoM. I found myself more into the characters and the story of each individual episode than the over arcing mythology. Sometime during season two I decided I wanted it to last and really paced myself, only treating myself to an episode every now and then. In doing that I kind of got myself out of it and ended up not watching an episode in over a year. 

Recently I introduced some friends to Life on Mars, and after watching a few episodes with them I ended up going home and watching an episode of Ashes to Ashes. Then another one and another one. I've ended up burning through the end of season two and all of season three in a week and a half. Was worried about reaching the end and finding the answers would ruin the entire show for me, almost to the point that I considered not watching the last episode and rewatching it all again from the beginning of Life on Mars on, just in case another one of those damn wizards ended up being responsible for it all once again in yet another very unsatisfying conclusion. 

Turns out I really liked how it ended. All around great show. Can't believe I took such a long break in the middle of the series.

For anyone here who hasn't seen Life on Mars, do yourself a favor and watch it. If you enjoy it, then I'd highly recommend Ashes to Ashes.

The easiest way:

Step 1. Sell the iPad

Step 2. Buy a real computer

Step 3. Profit

Yay! Really glad someone else on these boards is playing this. Once you finish it, you'll have to tell me what you thought of the whole story.

I've found it really interesting hearing different people's takes on Ellie. I found her extremely likeable throughout the game, and felt like Naughty Dog was trying really hard to make the things she did endearing. If they were, it worked on me. Maybe that is why that one thing she did that I found really distasteful stood out so much to me. However, I've heard others mention how unlikable they find her, or as you said, some found her to be a jerk in general.

As far as raiding houses and the nature of possession in the post outbreak world, yeah, things have kind of degraded to a cut throat take what you need survival mentality.
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At one point Joel casually admits to having done some pretty awful things in those 20 years since the outbreak began. I thought the game did a great job of completely mudding the waters of what right and wrong is in some ways.

Wow, that brought back the memory of when I first got the internet and a friend of mine gave me a list of web addresses he felt I needed to know, Alta Vista was of course one of them. Suddenly memories of geocities, The Terrorist's Goldeneye site (that name sounds so unPC today, thought nothing of it back then), hotmail.com, dial up modem handshakes, the annoyance of picking up the phone to make a call and being greeted by an ear full of static, and my mom yelling at me to get off the computer so she could use the phone \ are rushing back to the forefront of my mind.

That wasn't even that long ago. Crazy. Things change so fast. I never would have dreamed of someday being able to surf the web at far greater speeds on a tiny little computer with a then mindbogglingly massive 32gb hard drive that I carry around in my pocket while sitting in the passenger seat of a car or waiting in the grocery cue.

One pound fifty is just slightly less than the equivalent of the $3.50 I paid. Seems like I usually only paid $2.50 the other times I had to do that, it is up to the bank that places the unit. 

Usually it isn't hard to find one for my bank, but that night I was fed up, ready for bed, and someone else was driving. There is also a local gas station chain that is open 24/7, provides no service ATMs, and in most parts of the city you can find one of these places every couple of blocks. But the down town area didn't have any. 

Everyone has debit cards anymore, and every venue accepts them, so the only time you really need cash is when you owe a mate something, or apparently, when some fucking wrecking service steals your car and holds it ransom. Some people still seem to use cash regularly though. I don't get that. With my card all transactions I make, how much money I spent and where, is nicely listed, graphed, and charted out for me when I log into my bank account. Any transactions go through my account not made by me (ID theft), I can dispute them and get my money credited back to me.

It is such a fantastic easy to use system. Who needs paper money, save for drug deals, tipping strippers, and other sketchy business these days?

YAY!!!

Right where you left it? Crowds of cars can get confusing.

Exactly, if I report it to management, they'll just send out their guys on their own time and barge in and do their thing whether my room mate or I am here or not.

We have a cat and several other things we're probably not suppose to have around the apartment. Life gets complicated when you don't abide by the rules.

@Fink: Nice! Oh man! I had forgotten about Chaz Solo!

I've never used a cashpoint in the UK, so I am not sure if they have the same fee system, but in the States banks place them all over town; if you use one placed by a bank other than your own bank, it will charge you a service fee, usually around two to five dollars. If I could have found one for my bank that night, I would have saved $3.50.

Pfft. Plumbers. I don't need one those. I've plumbed houses and know the in's and out's of pipes. I'll save myself some money and do it myself. Or I could just put in a work order and wait a few more weeks for management to get their own maintenance guys out and have them poking around my place while I'm off at work.

Another in-joke from sometime ago.

Warbler started a thread to ask some question to which he was the only person that could decide that. Maybe it was whether or not he should continue posting in the politics thread, or something of that nature. And to have a bit of fun and drive forward the point that it was needless to ask others about this when it was his choice alone to make, I made some parody thread asking for everyone's input on whether I should continue using the restroom or not.

Or something along these lines. I don't remember too well. Frink is our forum archivist and historian. It is his job to remember these things and keep them straight. He could probably produce links in a short fraction of a second.

It really wasn't that clever, could probably be perceived as kind of mean towards Warbler, and most likely I was intoxicated when I made it.

NeverarGreat said:

I forgot about the character of those on this forum for a moment. In my opinion, most people would consider watching Metropolis to be an endurance test, not just a chore. It is rather long and the acting of the time was sometimes painful to watch.

BURN HIM!!!

A Foley catheter, and a colostomy would do the trick.

Any luck, Warb?

I have a lost car story. A couple of months ago a friend of mine got dumped (amusingly, he dumped her first and walked away with his head held high, then days later she began trying to convince him to come back to her, after debating and bellyaching about it for a while, he did. A few weeks later she dumps him and he becomes a blubbing, whiny mess of a man). So, my newly dumped friend decides he needs to go out and pick up a girl. Fine. I go out with him one night, he talks to a cute girl who doesn't give him much more than the time of day, but invites him to some party the next night. I found myself somehow not only obligated to go with him to that party the next night ("I was just getting warmed up that night, come on, I'm a little shy, I can't go to that party alone"), but also to drive, since he drove the first night.

We get to the downtown location of this party, and there is no street parking, free parking, or even metered parking anywhere. There is a fast food parking lot with just a few cars in it, no tow away sign anywhere to be seen. My friend tells me he parks in that exact parking lot all the time and has never had any trouble. 

We get to the party at 11pm, I have to work in the morning. The agreement before hand was that we wouldn't be out too late. The girl who invited him is not even there. He is constantly trying to get me to go with him to talk to girls. What?! I work alone. I don't know how to do the wingman thing! If I were a girl I think the idea of two guys approaching me would be really weird and obvious.

1am rolls around, it is time to go. "Hang on, I still need to get the balls to talk to someone.", "Just one more drink, then I am going to talk to that girl." Fine. Talks. Rejected. "Well now I feel worse. Hold on, that girl over there is kind of cute and I think she keeps looking at me." 2am Man, we need to go. I still have to work in the morning. "Dude, we have got to go talk to those two blondes over there! Come on, come with me!" No. We have to go. "Fine, I'll go talk to them!" Dumbass. 2:45am, "Dammit. They both have boyfriends." Good! Let's go! Maybe I can still get some sleep before work tomorrow!

At 2:50am we make it back to the parking lot and my car is gone. It is a huge parking lot, and apparently way over on the other side of it, obscured by some trees, is a sign that says "All non-customers will be towed at owner's expense". Great. My friend calls another friend to come get us, who was fortunately still awake. Around 3:40 I am reunited with my car and divorced from $95 dollars, which had to be in cash, requiring a foreign ATM visit and a $3.50 transaction fee. $98.50. Blah. My friend had to catch up with his buddy who was kind enough to get out at 3am to pick our asses up, couldn't be rude and ask for his help and ditch immediately. Finally get back to my place and get to bed at 4:30am. Enough time to get just a couple of short hours of sleep before work. 

That sucked.

TV's Frink said:

I look forward to reading C3PX's next issue.

My next issue is dees damn pipes! The bathroom sink fills half way up with water every time we go to wash our hands. I've fished several beards worth of hair out of the thing (so gross), and it still won't drain. Every time the toilet flushes there are weird burps and gurgles resonating from within the walls for the next ten minutes. 

Going to get some drain-o when I'm at the store and remember, but I'm afraid it might need to be snaked. 

Tune in next time for more of C3PX's issues.

So, realistically, Hey, what do you feel like the solution is?

Hey, it's me. said:

Thanks C3PS. That was all that was needed, now I understand. But I fail to see the 'owns' or makes a valid point part of it? Moth3r thinks I'm a bit of a dick (an opinion, not a point) but likes Red Dwarf and old Chan films too. So I'm not a total dick. Hardly a point (opinion) that had me running in defeat with my trousers round my ankles. Lol

It's a joke, but it seems like it got lost in translation via the culture barrier.

You are reading way more into it than was ever there.

"Oh snap!" in American is kind of hard to explain. It can be an expression of shock or surprise, it is frequently used by third parties when two people are having an argument and one totally pwns the other or makes some really valid point. Kind of like, "Whoa! Who saw that one coming?!"

I beat The Last of Us.

Wow. I'd been looking forward to this game since it's announcement, but it had always been the nifty visuals and the post apocalyptic environment that drew me in. I really wasn't expecting much more out of it than that. I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near as amazing as it was, or for the story line to be that good.

This one ranks up there with the original Bioshock and the Half-Life series for me, my top two all time favorite story driven games. So many games that come out you play and they are a lot of fun, but you know they are nothing special (Bioshock Infinite, and almost every game I've purchased over the last three years), people aren't going to be talking about them on short lists of greatest games from the last decade. The Last of Us is something special, it is one of those games that still will be mentioned ten years from now, it is one of those games that set the bar just a little bit higher.

The game play is solid, but not unlike anything you've ever played before. Pretty standard third person stealth and shooting, very simple, nothing revolutionary. It is the visuals, the atmosphere, the acting, and the story that are absolutely outstanding. This game is just about as much fun to watch someone else play as it is to play yourself.

Just because we disagree on a lot of things in the political threads doesn't mean I don't think you are a valuable member here. I appreciate the fact that you are willing to open up and participate in the ever increasing number of political and religious themed threads, even though most members from your side of the planet and mine seem to disagree with most of what you say.

Tobar said:

NeverarGreat said:

the original German film (which I have seen, don't ask why)

Er, why would we? It's a classic.

Yeah, in these parts you're much more likely to get questioned if you haven't seen it.

In fact, while reading your post I almost wondered if perhaps it was a typo and you meant to say "which I haven't seen, don't ask why".

Gaffer Tape said:

You spelled your own name wrong.

Oops, not surprising though, anytime I log in I usually get it wrong the first time too. It just feels more natural to put the 3 after the C. 

Hey, it's me. said:

Yeah, ehen did that change take place? I thought you chose your screen name and then that was it, no going back?

Uh, ehat are you talking about?

;)

I am being even more cruel to homosexuals by taking this thread from them and making it only about The Last of Us from now on. This thread is now officially the place where I talk about The Last of Us.

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg play the opening of The Last of Us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9U_sXsKAg

I really don't get into Rogen's or Goldberg's type of humor, so I am not much of a fan. But I found this video fun to watch. The opening of the game is pretty dark and intense, so it was interesting to watch them try to make jokes about it.

Since they rag on it being a zombie game a bit, I kind of wished they played it long enough to have an encounter with a clicker, but that is probably almost an hour, maybe a littler longer even, into the game.

Not too long ago I posted a link to some examples of the Islam issue in the politics thread (I think it was the politics thread), one of the "newbies" gave me shit about it, I could have sworn it was Hey, it's me, but I am not so sure and can't be bothered to dig for it.

Anyway, keep them coming. If anyone here is reading them, it is always a plus to spread awareness about the issue.