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[damerell]

Our local supermarket now has Tim Tams. My God, Australian types, why didn't you tell me? Those things are ridiculously nice...

My missing _Bubblegum Crisis_ CD turned up - god, I'm such a fanboy.

And I've reached the point of reading FATAL, the world's worst roleplaying game. A review can be found here... although I fear it's been revised since the review to remove a few of the things they pointed out. However, the good news for the connoisseur of the awful is that there remains vast volumes of rubbish to be mocked...

Comments

[antinomy.livejournal.com]

Our local supermarket now has Tim Tams

Oh, God, No!

If they're appearing in the UK, I am actually going to quadruple in size... They're the nicest biscuits in the whole world, ever, and while in Aus I was quite capable of eating a whole tray at a sitting with a cup of tea...

[damerell.livejournal.com]

If they still do them when the Wake rolls around, I'll bring you some specially. :-)

[antinomy.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you thank you thank you!

(do I seem desperate to you..?)

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't like to say - but remind me closer to the time, OK?

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

Er… you could just go to Tesco yourself?

[antinomy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I will be doing. I'm just worried that they may be user-trialing them in Bracknell before deciding that in fact the UK isn't a suitable market at all, and thus I'll be deprived of them until I get my arse in gear and get back to Australia. Bracknell seems a plausible place to do such a thing. Nicely middle-England London-commuter-beltish.

F.A.T.A.L

[vatine]

Oh, my, you too couldn't keep away from it? After the review of the review I read, I did actually write a review of the review saying "Don't read it or if you do, don't blame me". I did like teh review of the TimeCube! game on the same site, though.

Re: F.A.T.A.L

[damerell.livejournal.com]

They've gone through fixing all the little gripes from the first review, mostly covering over with faux scholarship. The "Maim Master" is now the "Aedile", for instance; there's a little footnote saying how their extensive research found no evidence of VD in the Middle Ages (!); it's a fantasy Europe devoid of outside influences, which is why all the characters are Caucasian, etc.

I've dropped the review guy a line to see if he has a copy of the older revision still.

FATAL

[cjwatson]

It has explicit rules for fisting?

Ow, my eyes. I don't even play RPGs and my bullshitometer still blew up.

[reddragdiva]

TimTams are OUR SECRET, yew pommie bastid.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Not any more. Now your curiously nice biscuits are helpless before any Englishman who wants them. Muhahahaha.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Time was, we could say that about, umm, the ENTIRE WORLD!

Aussie biscuits, however nice, are poor compensation for losing that...