HipPriest

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[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

That's great! Since most of the people I play with are scattered geographically we play with the app and I actually learned via the app before getting a chance to play it on the table. It's definitely a game where a lot of thought has been put into the tutorials

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago

According to some people on the fediverse, the Kagi forum thread that is linked in the toots I posted above and seemingly nowhere else.

From a non political standpoint: I tried Kagi last year and it was ok but I didn't get the big deal. And because I'm not in the US but the UK if you try searching where's my nearest garage or stay the nearest result came up as 150 miles away. So it's one of those things I'll maybe return to it once it's developed a bit more

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The definitive Doctor for me. Growing up during the wilderness years and VHS and UK Gold repeats were what we had to go on I loved both the earlier 'horror' seasons and the more humorous ones with the Romanas.

Wonderful actor.

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ace and the 7th Doctor were the first Doctor Who I saw - her beating up a Dalek with a baseball bat is my favourite companion moment ever from all of Who!

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The sources I find are solely from mastodon threads, and date from this month and the Brave thing. This is the best thing I've found

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111707573907442638

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Rick is just 12 having some downtime

 

RIP Captain Mike Yates

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Love his Thursday Next books to bits!

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

It depends on the game, character etc. I mean I suppose it adds to the escapism slightly?

I play all sorts of different games though, some where you're not given the choice (Life Is Strange for example) and I don't feel like it's that big a deal

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you Ian Levine?

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I only noticed this comment now, I've been reading the Culture series too - I enjoyed the world building in Consider Phlebas a lot but after a while I just wanted it to finish. So I skipped on and read a few others in the series then came back to finish it.

The Player Of Games was brilliant, enjoy!

 

New entry in my blog about media that shaped me growing up - my first memory of TV is the famous cliffhanger to part 1.

I'd maybe still rate it as the best Dalek story but I can't be objective about it really!

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I've been reading The Culture series by Iain M Banks. I gave up on the first book a while back, which I've heard is quite common, but I plan to go back and finish it.

I've just read The Player Of Games and Excession and both are exceptional.

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I had no idea of this - I just googled it and it's almost exactly like something out of the book.

 

As sci-fi show’s 60th anniversary nears, a collector pleads for BBC to offer amnesty to those with recordings discarded by corporation

 

Well this could be very interesting indeed... Obviously the main question is how on earth can they cut anything from that story down to 75 minutes when it's already such a lean script with no padding at all?!?

I'm a huge Troughton fan though, and while I'm g glad there's been something of a First Doctor revival in the last few years it'd be great to see a colourised Mind Robber or something as well, not that it will happen...

 

It's nice to know that they're planning to do some more Hartnell animations. Although The Smugglers would seem like quite an odd choice

 

With every available Doctor Who episode and its wife coming to BBC iPlayer on November 1, how should you approach a Classic and NuWho rewatch? We have options...

 

People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.

 

Can you blame it?

 

Just thought I'd share this. It's an excellent site for reviews of apps and online versions of board games. The guy who runs it has got a pretty exhaustive list of reviews (though not complete!)

There's also a Discord community which is friendly and actually very fediverse like in its lack of toxicity

Anyway, it was perfect for someone like me, because my wife is a bad loser and no longer plays games with me, and my son is 7 so we can manage Patchwork but not much more just yet 😛

 

Not had a chance to actually watch this yet but should be interesting I think...

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