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There's no way to update/check the XBox 360 controller firmware without an XBox 360 - even the XBox Accessories App for Windows does not support this controller any more. (Which is really annoying considering how well it's integrated into Steam - for example - tapping the XBox button on the 360 con...

From what I can remember, that's actually one of the milder Zirk stories. Re starfish and their relatives sea urchins, and also the previous question, aquarists have been 3D printing little hats for urchins which they use to cover certain organs instead of little pebbles or shells. https://www.bore...

Whatever, Disembodied with Alan Moore's squid avocado molester for first place and ffutures for second with DC's less childish offering. And NiteOwl gets third for I was watching a few weeks ago, raising a yentacle to the ghost of Harryhausen! Quite possibly one of the original Sucker films - IT CAM...

Starro The Conqueror from DC comics - suckers galore! A giant starfish thing that fires off swarms of smaller starfish that use their suckers etc. to latch onto people and mind-control them. VERY icky! https://www.ign.com/articles/suicide-squad-starro-who-is-kaiju-starfish https://youtu.be/ss3k329_...

Starro The Conqueror from DC comics - suckers galore! A giant starfish thing that fires off swarms of smaller starfish that use their suckers etc. to latch onto people and mind-control them. VERY icky! https://www.ign.com/articles/suicide-squad-starro-who-is-kaiju-starfish https://youtu.be/ss3k329_...

Examples of suckers in an SF connotation, with multiple bonus points for making it disturbingly sexual. For your consideration … Noctupulis the Night-Squid, from the Adventures of Zirk (a character from the equally dubious adventures of Axel Pressbutton and Laser Eraser). The four-page story, by St...

I have a vague memory (and no remaining copies) of "Dirk Gently" being frequently be-topped with a battered fedora of dubious parentage and even more dubious relationship to Indiana "Woof" Jones? If, of course, you accept the Holistic DA as being "SF", which is a very ...

But how public should this "good-for-the-soul confession" actually be? Three-line advert in the Personals of The Times, as per Bill Tilman's classic "Success dubious, no pay" advert. Awww, sad : seems likely to be a hoax. Firstly, Shakleton, not Tilman (though neither would be i...

drew wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 7:50 am

I would love to come, but am in the midst of moving house, so may not be able to attend in person.

Surely you'd be able to park the house outside the pub for a few hours?

..... Delete your post! Quick! Do you have any idea at all as to what you are letting yourself in for? the Chalice of Doom? What did he do? Confession is good for the soul - particularly as someone else quaffs from the Chalice of Doom. I have a vague memory (and no remaining copies) of "Dirk G...

For myself that London is a logistical problem, but if I can work that out I'll do my best to be there. My geography of London is pretty vague (Overspill town boy - I generally need to be paid to go there) but, IIRC, tottenham Ct Road is approximately aimed to between Kings Cross/ St Pancreas for t...

a non-SF example all Smurfs wear weird caps, so a picture of a Smurf wearing one would be a good answer and earn an MBP. Never having looked closely enough (Smurfette being a multiple-bag experience), I wonder why the Smurfs are wearing Phrygian caps . I suspect some horrendous reason in the distan...

7th July, Tottenham Ct Road ... I might well be able to do that. I was sort-of planning a trip down the road to the Plains of Englandshire, so a bus into London (or for that matter, Oxford) is do-able. Given the number of "I can't come in person, but could Zoom in ..." messages, would one ...

And that's the black, and a three-ball break which rates an MBP.
I'd suggest that, as question-setter, ffutures sits out this round. "Drudge, jury and executioner" probably isn't a good look.

Which reminded me of this - not sure if it counts since it's something a character read about rather than actually occurring in the story. From the final episode of the first TV series of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy : Ford Prefect : I read of one planet in the seventh dimension got used a...