tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post8261280442021500061..comments2023-04-06T22:01:07.239+10:00Comments on YOA's Blog Of The Unusally Pointless: Random CrapYouth of Australiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-79404763769508740532008-07-18T21:00:00.000+10:002008-07-18T21:00:00.000+10:00Whoops...CameronWhoops...<BR/><BR/>CameronCameron Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06361563785705155695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-67038872276113096202008-07-18T20:24:00.000+10:002008-07-18T20:24:00.000+10:00Wow.That left me even MORE confused than I already...Wow.<BR/><BR/>That left me even MORE confused than I already was.Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-8703669167794811632008-07-18T20:21:00.000+10:002008-07-18T20:21:00.000+10:00Ah yes, Sapphire and Steel...The Mystery of the Mi...Ah yes, Sapphire and Steel...<BR/><BR/><B>The Mystery of the Missing Hour</B> was originally conceived by Nigel Fairs and written by Joseph Lidster to be the final S&S audio, as given by the end with Colin Baker revealed to be Nick Briggs' father, and the temporal duo trapped on CD for all eternity. <BR/><BR/>However, sales picked up and a third series was commissioned.<BR/><BR/>Joseph Lidster was commissioned to write a story called <B>Reborn</B> to show how S&S break out of their prison, and on the basis of the plot outline the cast were booked and recording dates scheduled. A week before recording was due to start, Lidster rang up Fairs and said that he hadn't finished the script beyond a partial draft of episode one, due to other work (that other work being <B>Torchwood</B>), so Nigel wrote a new script in 24 hours for the actors he'd already cast for Joseph's story.<BR/><BR/>I just wonder why my pet names for the new Sapphire and Steel, Opal and Zinc, didn't catch on on the forums...<BR/><BR/>CameronCameron Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06361563785705155695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-43052618970307423502008-07-17T19:49:00.000+10:002008-07-17T19:49:00.000+10:00Well, I never heard of David Yip till I bought the...<I>Well, I never heard of David Yip till I bought the CD, so I don't know.</I><BR/>Well, I always knew him from Destiny of the Daleks.<BR/><BR/><I>All I know is that I could have played the "HOOO-Sohh, wercome to Singah-pawww!" guy just as well.</I><BR/>Dare I even say, better?<BR/><BR/><I>My God, how can we possibly transfer PDFs over this distance?</I><BR/>Carrier pigeon?<BR/><BR/><I>Hey, that was fairly easy to ignore. At least until the guy walked over to us with the mic.</I><BR/>They shouldn't inflict that crap on the under-tens. They got their whole lives ahead of them.<BR/><BR/><I>I've actually NEVER played a pen and paper RPG so I have no idea at all. I admit it sounds like quite a bit of work.</I><BR/>D&Ders always seem to have such fun.<BR/><BR/><I>I do like wargaming, though. When I can find the time.</I><BR/>Cool...Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-52916428896582188702008-07-17T19:40:00.000+10:002008-07-17T19:40:00.000+10:00Didn't even twig it was David Yip, he was so convi...<I>Didn't even twig it was David Yip, he was so convincing.</I><BR/><BR/>Well, I never heard of David Yip till I bought the CD, so I don't know.<BR/><BR/>All I know is that I could have played the "HOOO-Sohh, wercome to Singah-pawww!" guy just as well.<BR/><BR/><I>OK, but they're PDFs.</I><BR/><BR/>My God, how can we possibly transfer PDFs over this distance?<BR/><BR/><I>It'll still be easier to stomach than the am dramatics on stage.</I><BR/><BR/>Hey, that was fairly easy to ignore. At least until the guy walked over to us with the mic.<BR/><BR/><I>Riiiiiiight.<BR/><BR/>And this is FUN to play, then?</I><BR/><BR/>I've actually NEVER played a pen and paper RPG so I have no idea at all. I admit it sounds like quite a bit of work.<BR/><BR/>I <I>do</I> like wargaming, though. When I can find the time.Jared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-46642814873498014222008-07-17T19:28:00.000+10:002008-07-17T19:28:00.000+10:00I don't think that's smart on their part.Maybe it'...<I>I don't think that's smart on their part.</I><BR/>Maybe it's part of the actor's witness protection program?<BR/><BR/><I>Oddly enough David Yip sounds more Aussie in that story..</I><BR/>Didn't even twig it was David Yip, he was so convincing.<BR/><BR/><I>Nah, I've actually got nothing. Just trying to bewilder and out-nerd you somehow.</I><BR/>Congratulations, you succeeded.<BR/><BR/><I>But I'm sure if I looked at the rulebooks I could work it out. Couldn't be THAT much more complicated than our Lord of the Rings board game.</I><BR/>OK, but they're PDFs.<BR/><BR/><I>Lol. You can use models to make a pen and paper RPG easier to follow (apparently) and I have a collection of 25mm tall models almost entirely LotR for wargaming, but I also impulse bought The Second Doctor, Jamie and a Yeti on eBay for the hell of it. Maybe I'll bring them in next con to amaze people with my subnormality.</I><BR/>It'll still be easier to stomach than the am dramatics on stage.<BR/><BR/><I>Well, I'm just saying he isn't 18 any more..</I><BR/>Nor is Sarah Sutton.<BR/><BR/><I>I do agree with you that his legendary lack of acting ability is horribly exaggerated. He's really good in Traken and Logopolis and when you actually stop and look at most of the guest cast in the show, I'd say he's above average. Of course, he's also playing a character that isn't meant to be particularly likeable..</I><BR/>Yes, that's a handicap at the best of times. Not everyone can do a Kieth Allan...<BR/><BR/><I>Okay, "players" are the guys playing the game (duh) who play as characters, which I'm guessing are usually the Doctor and his companions. "Gms" are "Game-Masters" who are like a combination of a referee and Geoffrey Robertson in Hypotheticals. They run the story and have the final say over rules, play the role of characters the 'players' meet if necessary, etc. For this reason pen and paper RPGs usually need 3 or more people to really work.</I><BR/>Riiiiiiight.<BR/><BR/>And this is FUN to play, then?<BR/><BR/><I>Either for deciding a character's stats (some games they are decided by dice rolls) or for recording the character's stats during a game (losing 'Health' if they get zapped and stuff like that) I'd guess..</I><BR/>It sounds like school work.<BR/><BR/><I>Sounds like that's the important one.</I><BR/>OK.<BR/><BR/><I>I'd be happy to have a look at the rulebooks for you to try and make some sense out of them for you if you think that would help - of course, in my experience you need to really play a game through with somebody to really get the idea.</I><BR/>Well, OK. I'll try anything once. Well, I'll LIE and CLAIM I'll try anything once...Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-24648168138579073352008-07-17T19:11:00.000+10:002008-07-17T19:11:00.000+10:00BF make a big deal about it.I don't think that's s...<I>BF make a big deal about it.</I><BR/><BR/>I don't think that's smart on their part.<BR/><BR/><I>The only Australian character they've had NOT played by a genuine Aussie is Danny Webb's Byron in TGWNW.</I><BR/><BR/>Ah, well that one shows... and yet isn't worse than most of the others.<BR/><BR/>Oddly enough David Yip sounds more Aussie in that story..<BR/><BR/><I>???</I><BR/><BR/>Nah, I've actually got nothing. Just trying to bewilder and out-nerd you somehow. But I'm sure if I looked at the rulebooks I could work it out. Couldn't be THAT much more complicated than our <I>Lord of the Rings</I> board game.<BR/><BR/><I>...models?</I><BR/><BR/>Lol. You can use models to make a pen and paper RPG easier to follow (apparently) and I have a collection of 25mm tall models almost entirely LotR for wargaming, but I also impulse bought The Second Doctor, Jamie and a Yeti on eBay for the hell of it. Maybe I'll bring them in next con to amaze people with my subnormality.<BR/><BR/><I>You've seen him more recently than I have... </I><BR/><BR/>Well, I'm just saying he isn't 18 any more..<BR/><BR/>I do agree with you that his legendary lack of acting ability is horribly exaggerated. He's really good in Traken and Logopolis and when you actually stop and look at most of the <I>guest cast</I> in the show, I'd say he's above average. Of course, he's also playing a character that isn't meant to be particularly likeable..<BR/><BR/><I>(more history, and some stuff about "players" and "gms")</I><BR/><BR/>Okay, "players" are the guys playing the game (duh) who play as characters, which I'm guessing are usually the Doctor and his companions. "Gms" are "Game-Masters" who are like a combination of a referee and Geoffrey Robertson in Hypotheticals. They run the story and have the final say over rules, play the role of characters the 'players' meet if necessary, etc. For this reason pen and paper RPGs usually need 3 or more people to really work.<BR/><BR/><I>(a form to fill out... ???)</I><BR/><BR/>Either for deciding a character's stats (some games they are decided by dice rolls) or for recording the character's stats during a game (losing 'Health' if they get zapped and stuff like that) I'd guess..<BR/><BR/><I>Doctor Who RPG manual<BR/>(completely baffling)</I><BR/><BR/>Sounds like that's the important one.<BR/><BR/>I'd be happy to have a look at the rulebooks for you to try and make some sense out of them for you if you think that would help - of course, in my experience you need to really play a game through with somebody to really get the idea.Jared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-21738853598346048452008-07-17T18:18:00.000+10:002008-07-17T18:18:00.000+10:00For the record I haveThe Dalek Problem: A Symposiu...For the record I have<BR/><BR/>The Dalek Problem: A Symposium<BR/>(which is just a history of the Daleks)<BR/><BR/>The Daleks<BR/>(more history, and some stuff about "players" and "gms")<BR/><BR/>The Ityean Menace<BR/>(a Doctor-like story novel of Victorian London and stuff)<BR/><BR/>Doctor Who Character Data Record<BR/>(a form to fill out... ???)<BR/><BR/>Doctor Who RPG manual<BR/>(completely baffling)<BR/><BR/>Doctor WHO RPG Sourcebook for Field Agents<BR/>(a crappy Gary Russellesque encyclopedia)<BR/><BR/>Doctor Who Games Operation Manual<BR/>(so bewildering it makes me wonder if perhaps I have some kind of mental problem)<BR/><BR/>Time Lord RPG<BR/>(as bove)<BR/><BR/>Time Lord RPG Companion<BR/>(book therapy and remedial classes)Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-8094541013034367402008-07-17T18:09:00.000+10:002008-07-17T18:09:00.000+10:00... are you fucking kidding me? Are you...fucking ...<I>... are you fucking kidding me? Are you...fucking kidding... ME?</I><BR/>BF make a big deal about it. The only Australian character they've had NOT played by a genuine Aussie is Danny Webb's Byron in TGWNW.<BR/><BR/><I>I had to assume that the reason that every single Aussie character to appear in BF was somebody fresh out of the Cambridge Footlights doing the accent based on that Simpsons downunder episode for my sanity. Because they're all terrible. They sound like Kevin Kline's [other] character in Fierce Creatures.</I><BR/>You ain't heard Dreamtime yet. Serial killers have been formed out of less impetus.<BR/><BR/><I>...oh, my dear god..</I><BR/>This is as plain wrong as getting Sarah Jessica Parker to play Owen Harper.<BR/><BR/><I>Oh, yeah, didn't look at it that way. I just hoped that nobody would point out that my labelling of LBC fics as 'non-canon' was massive hypocrisy by way of my own canon rules. And they didn't! Hooray! (I just did it because I didn't like him)</I><BR/>Pretty much.<BR/><BR/><I>That sounds a bit like that story I thought of - curiously also in a season finale - where the Doctor ends up in an 'afterlife' being run by Vampires as essentially a big cattle yard...</I><BR/>Wow. Great fools never differ alike.<BR/><BR/><I>Pen 'n paper, man. Pen 'n paper.</I><BR/>???<BR/><BR/><I>We should get together and play. I'll bring my models of Troughton, Jamie and a single Yeti. You bring everyone else.</I><BR/>...models?<BR/><BR/><I>That's what I was wondering..</I><BR/><BR/><I>Wouldn't Matthew Waterhouse be getting towards 'old man' status anyway?</I><BR/>You've seen him more recently than I have... assuming he's part of one of the docos in New Beginnings.<BR/><BR/><I>And was laughing behind his hand when the Kro'ka was going on about it..</I><BR/>That could have saved the story.<BR/><BR/>CHARLEY: My spine is snapped!<BR/>DOCTOR: Yes, but the Kro'ka thinks Adric actually DIED! HAHAHAHA!<BR/><BR/>C'RIZZ: Charley's dead!<BR/>DOCTOR: Yes, but the Kro'ka thinks Adric actually DIED! HAHAHAHA!<BR/><BR/>LANSCAR: All things must die!<BR/>DOCTOR: Yes, but the Kro'ka thinks Adric actually DIED! HAHAHAHA!<BR/><BR/>EXCELSIOR: Bitchbitchbitchbitch!<BR/>DOCTOR: Yes, but the Kro'ka thinks Adric actually DIED! HAHAHAHA!<BR/><BR/>KROKA: It was all a dream!<BR/>DOCTOR: Yes, but you actually think Adric actually DIED! HAHAHAHA!Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-81997682216083453302008-07-17T17:51:00.000+10:002008-07-17T17:51:00.000+10:00EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE PROPER AUSTRALIANS... are you ...<I>EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE PROPER AUSTRALIANS</I><BR/><BR/>... are you fucking kidding me? Are you...fucking kidding... ME?<BR/><BR/>I had to assume that the reason that every single Aussie character to appear in BF was somebody fresh out of the Cambridge Footlights doing the accent based on that <I>Simpsons</I> downunder episode for my sanity. Because they're all terrible. They sound like Kevin Kline's [other] character in <I>Fierce Creatures</I>.<BR/><BR/><I>The cold, formal and icily polite Steel is now grunting, "Let's ave a captain cook at yer bedroom"</I><BR/><BR/>...oh, my dear god..<BR/><BR/><I>And in retrospect, the boycotting of LBC BC fics seems reasonable, dunnit?</I><BR/><BR/>Oh, yeah, didn't look at it that way.<BR/><BR/>I just hoped that nobody would point out that my labelling of LBC fics as 'non-canon' was massive hypocrisy by way of my own canon rules. And they didn't! Hooray! (I just did it because I didn't like him)<BR/><BR/><I>Of course, the ep would reveal the Doctor wasn't ACTUALLY in heaven, but his "soul" was being stolen with some unscrupulous aliens, and he found this out by continually questioning the nature of heaven.</I><BR/><BR/>That sounds a bit like that story I thought of - curiously also in a season finale - where the Doctor ends up in an 'afterlife' being run by Vampires as essentially a big cattle yard...<BR/><BR/><I>plus bunches of FASA role playing games I still can't wrap my head around. How the hell do you play them? It's just a bunch of fact files about stuff I already know. Is it just supposed to fire my imagination or something? I boggle.</I><BR/><BR/>Pen 'n paper, man. Pen 'n paper.<BR/><BR/>We should get together and play. I'll bring my models of Troughton, Jamie and a single Yeti. You bring everyone else.<BR/><BR/><I>Actually, why am I complaining when the very IDEA of revealing Adric didn't die is... STUPID!</I><BR/><BR/>That's what I was wondering..<BR/><BR/>Wouldn't Matthew Waterhouse be getting towards 'old man' status anyway?<BR/><BR/><I>look, I like Adric, but suggesting that at some point between seasons 19 and 20 the Doctor found out he was alive and well, and never actually mentioned it. </I><BR/><BR/>And was laughing behind his hand when the Kro'ka was going on about it..Jared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.com