Karnie

[Karnie]

Heya! Just wanted to drop back in for an update. To date, the main compendium is written and is currently being edited. Also, the Intro, acknowledgements, abbreviation key, episode guide, universe guide and foreword should all be finished by next week, and soon will also be sent to the editor. After everything all cleaned up, the index will be created. We’ve got a few people lined up to look over the whole thing once it’s compiled and edited; after all is said and done, we should be good to go by June/July of this year.

My editor claims this is the biggest manuscript of all the publications done by Hasslein Books, so there’s a slim chance it may end up becoming two books, due to the limits of Print-on-Demand. If that ends up being the case, we’ll try our hardest to price them accordingly so customers are not shelling out too much more for the two. I really don’t want to go that route because it might be perceived as a cash-grab, but I also don’t want the quality and contents to suffer, so I really won’t know until I start laying out the book.

Although I enjoyed every moment of the process, after three years I can honestly say I’m relieved the hard part is finally over, and I’m very much looking forward to seeing this book finally come together in the upcoming months. I hope you all are too.

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I got dibs on skutter #129!!

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I just received an answer to my query about the game:

“…As for the Red Dwarf prototype game. We approached Grant & Naylor about making a Red Dwarf game back in 2004, we were big fans of the show. I was running my first video games company then, Genuine Games, which I co-founded with a talented games designer friend/colleague of mine Gordon Ross. He was the brains of the company at that time who got us involved in a pitch for a potential Red Dwarf game with another small Scottish developer ran by Dave Sharpe a game industry veteran. We (Genuine Games) created a playable prototype, I actually did most of the design and 3D artwork for it. There was never a script just a small playable 3rd person prototype where you could walk around a section of the ship and primitively interact with the surroundings. We took this to show Doug Naylor and some TV execs who were very keen to make a game. At this stage I think he and Rob Grant had fallen out or gone their separate ways creatively which made it really hard to get the project off the ground even though we had a lot of interest in creating the game. In fact I still get people who see the original artwork from the prototype saying that it would be a great game and there is still a big following for the series. So the main reason the project never went any further was due to the creators falling out with each other so it was hard to do a deal as they were both pulling in different directions. So for us it just stayed on our hard drives never to be taken any further. Lots of games never see the light of day in the games industry and that one unfortunately was one of them.”

So there you go.

[Karnie]

“*imagines Lovett Holly singing Want You Gone*”

I don’t care how bad the game would be, I’d buy it JUST for this.

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For Fuck’s sake, stop making episodes so I can finish this damned book!!

I’m kidding, of course; but I do feel a sense of ambivalence whenever a new series is announced…or “not” announced in this case. =)

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And I thought <b> <i> I </b> </i> was a marketing whore…..

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Wow, that’s some pretty hi-def footage from “UFO”….

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Everything seems to be tickety-boo now, thanks!

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…as well as every other site in the Geek chase… =(

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Well, it looks like the Androids site is up and running now; however it now appears the Dibbley site is down: (http://www.duanedibbley.co.uk/)

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The only other site I don’t have access to is the Dibbley site, but only because I can’t get to it from the Androids site and can’t find a direct link anywhere. If the Androids site is down for good, I may need the link to the Dibbley page.

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On the Diva-Droid History page, clicking on the Androids link (http://www.androids.tv/) displays a 500 – Internal server error. Now, is that because I’m not visiting it between the hours mentioned on the HoloPoint site, or is it actually down? I only just thought of that possibility this morning… =)

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Update: I was able to find the website for Holopoint, so I really just need any info anyone has on the Dibbley site and (if it’s exists somewhere) any info on the Androids page. Thanks!

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Crap, I wish I’d known that, I’d bid a lot more for them to get them into the Encyclopedia….. =(

[Karnie]

If you don’t sell the BTL’s let me know, I may be interested in making a deal.

[Karnie]

((I’m sure the writers were at least trying to be a bit cleverer than just handing out puerile insults. Unfortunately, it would appear the wit of Rob and Doug isn’t very easily translated!))

I disagree: It’s not a puerile insult, given his head actually LOOKS like a giant penis. It’s no different than calling him Novelty Condom-Head, except that insult can actually pass British censors. Had the movie ever been made, I’m sure a dickhead joke would have made it in somewhere… =)

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I don’t think of it as being lost in translation so much as it is what I’m sure the writers would have written in the first place had they been allowed to.

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“Twix + tea = chocolate caramel straw.”

Yeah, that threw me as well =)

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I’m sure these are MUCH better…..made in the good ‘ol UK!

http://www.dudeiwantthat.com/food/novelty/edible-anus-chocolates.asp

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Good, more for me. ;)

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I’ve got the arcade emulator MAME on my computer and this:
X-Arcade Tankstick With Trackball: Trimode USB

I can pretty much play any old arcade game I can find: Dig Dug, Pac Man, Galaga, Centipede, Asteroids, you name it.

I had bought a 2600 out of pure nostalgia at a garage sale, and after buying a bunch of games from eBay, realized I’ve just been ruined by modern gaming, and sold it again. But I was able to hook it up to a modern TV, you just have to find the right adapters.

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!3 esrevinU morf ,nhoJ yadhtriB yppaH

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What, PecosPete, not the Vogons this time? ;)

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This is why we can’t have nice things.

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I agree with Connell (except I would argue the part about it being a good American flick), it just lacked the energy and brains of Shaun and Fuzz. While the first two were brilliant genre spoof films, Paul (and to a lesser degree Run, Fatboy Run) were OK comedies, just not good Simon Pegg films. I have cautious optimism that World’s End will return to the magic of the earlier films.

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Not much… going to see my new niece tonight, then a friend’s birthday party tomorrow, then feverishly working on getting the Smegazines logged into the encyclopedia. In other news, got my tickets for the Star Trek: Into Darkness U.S. premiere in 2 weeks.

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Have fun kiddies! Looking forward to everyone’s reports!

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Must have been prior to using his light bee…. before he forgot he was a hologram and couldn’t get hurt.

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Wow, just briefly skimmed through, I’ll have to fully dive into it once I’m not on the company clock…. =) I’ve always loved stuff like this, Thanks!

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Sorry, not long enough…..

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG………

There you go…..

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That seems to happen when someone posts a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong word or link… =)

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Make it look like Pree and you’ve got a sale…

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Most of them will be full page, yep. They’ll be 27 in all – one for each section opener, much like our “Planet of the Apes” and “Back to the Future” Encyclopedias, seen here:

http://hassleinbooks.com/excerpts/potaLexicon.pdf

and here:

http://hassleinbooks.com/excerpts/bttfLexicon.pdf

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That’s awesome… isn’t that the bridge?? Man, what I wouldn’t give for a piece of the ship like that……

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New Update: The first sketches from Pat Carbajal for the interior of the book have come in; a sample of them can be found at our blog here:
http://hassleinbooks.blogspot.com/2013/03/alright-suckers-new-artwork-from-pat.html

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Would someone, perchance, be able to confirm what the captions say on their Region 2 version when Kill Crazy calls Kryten “Droid Boy” in the shuttle?

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I’m just looking for an opportunity to call someone a mad Goth bastard….

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Happy birthday to my one, true obsession!!

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Nevermind, he said he sent it to you already.. =)

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I think I might know someone, I’ll reach out to him and e-mail you.

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Even up to Series X Kryten still has problems disobeying orders, So wherever you put Camille it would contradict that; however as was pointed out, the necessity to save a life probably overrode it, since it’s established elsewhere in the series that saving a human comes before the lives of mechanoids and holograms.

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I know it was never released, but I’m assuming that since it has an Amazon holding-page it might have at least been started; it’s the unreleased manuscript I was saying would be cool to have, but as I said, that’s about as likely as getting a hold of one of the movie scripts…

And I’m guessing the “reviews” for the book are fellow G&T members having a little fun =)

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Genuinely upset I can’t make it, unless they invent teleportation by then, making airfares plummet in price….

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Mine was Kryten’s friendship speech in “Last Day”… I remember thinking, “what a total ripoff of Star Trek!” just before Lister uttered the phrase “Don’t give me that Star Trek crap! It’s too early in the morning…”

I’ve been hooked ever since.

In no particular order, my other earliest memories are the underpants scene in Polymorph, Rimmer telling Lister his bum was like two badly parked Volkwagens in Marooned, and (my personal favorite) Winnie the Pooh’s execution in Meltdown.

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I see that John Hoare did a review for the 2006 calendar way back when…. John, if you’re reading, do you still happen to have that calendar?

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I’m going to stick my neck out here and go on record as saying I honestly don’t get all the hate for Pete.

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Amazon screwed up my order, so I have a few days to wait… Hopefully by the weekend

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I refuse to put out a list on the grounds that it might tarnish my already-dubious credibility…. =)

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Also looking for scans of the backs of the Futera cards, anything and everything except for the base set, which I already have.

Anyone?

Anyone?

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Sorry I missed you in NY… not that I was in the city, I was nice and cozy out on Long Island… =)

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