Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, [chat]

Jacobkosh

In which we celebrate spy fiction in all its wonderful, wild forms.

Variable

parallax view is awesome, I should see if it's still on instant.

... jeez that memory I have of watching it is 3 years ago now.

Jacobkosh

TehSloth

Oh man, I've been wanting to see this movie for a while now!

Jacobkosh

Variable wrote:

parallax view is awesome, I should see if it's still on instant.

... jeez that memory I have of watching it is 3 years ago now.

I know, right? That's when I saw it too

Sarksus

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was off the hook.

Zombiemambo

I knew it! Donald Glover has a voice cameo in an episode of Regular Show

and Mark Hamill is Skips

Thanatos

Jacob, you are worse than the Holocaust.

You forgot the best spy fiction of all time: Archer!

Though, good on you for getting Alpha Protocol on there. I love that game so much.

Donkey Kong

Sarksus wrote:

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was off the hook.

It suffered at the box office from a serious case of silly name.

Elendil

mother of GOD give me a krogan soldier

Thomamelas

No Three Days of the Condor? No Odessa File? Phooey and a shame upon your house.

RMS Oceanic

Needs more Our Man Bashir.



Or maybe just more Garak.

21stCentury

Donkey Kong wrote:

Sarksus wrote:

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was off the hook.

It suffered at the box office from a serious case of silly name.

Also, it was too complex for regular moviegoers. I was not qualified to see that movie.

Thomamelas

RMS Oceanic wrote:

Needs more Our Man Bashir.

I love that episode so much.

emnmnme

Gooey

my experience with alpha protocol was like 6-8ish hours of me slowing down time and then killing everybody in sight with my silenced pistol

not a lot of spying but hey

RMS Oceanic

Thomamelas wrote:

RMS Oceanic wrote:

Needs more Our Man Bashir.

I love that episode so much.

The best bit is Avery Brook's little high pitched "Hah!"

Abdhyius

Thanatos wrote:

Jacob, you are worse than the Holocaust.

You forgot the best spy fiction of all time: Archer!

Though, good on you for getting Alpha Protocol on there. I love that game so much.

I started playing it and then was just like... eeeeeh.

Does it get more awesome or what

desc

I still have a Prodigy cassette and a Cranes cassette that were bought in London when my dad took my sister and I to see England and Wales when I was a little gothy teenager.

As much as I cheerlead modern tech and the interbutt and mp3s, I have to admit that I've bought a hundred mp3 albums and barely listened to most

I spent a year wondering what the cranes sounded like after reading about them on a dead tree 'zine, then I saw



On TV in a hotel room and stood transfixed the whole time it played and pretty much in that exact moment my entire life's aesthetic destiny was sealed and then I found a used cassette for like 8 pounds and bought it along with some concert bootlegs and listened to them over and over and over on the flight home on my walkman.

This post made more sense in the last thread than cut n pasted here.

Gooey

Abdhyius wrote:

Thanatos wrote:

Jacob, you are worse than the Holocaust.

You forgot the best spy fiction of all time: Archer!

Though, good on you for getting Alpha Protocol on there. I love that game so much.

I started playing it and then was just like... eeeeeh.

Does it get more awesome or what

once you get past the first area (the middle east someplace?) it starts to get super awesome super quick

Jacobkosh

Abdhyius wrote:

Thanatos wrote:

Jacob, you are worse than the Holocaust.

You forgot the best spy fiction of all time: Archer!

Though, good on you for getting Alpha Protocol on there. I love that game so much.

I started playing it and then was just like... eeeeeh.

Does it get more awesome or what

It's a terrific game. If you're playing on PC, it helps to have a controller, though.

Bogart

The best American spy novel I've ever read is Norman Mailer's cold war doorstop: Harlot's Ghost. It's maybe his best book, and jumps around from Cuba to the US to CIA training to Berlin and takes in all the best cold war stuff, from MI6 traitors to LSD experiments to Castro to Rooskies and every damn thing.

It also ends on a never to be concluded cliffhanger, but fuck it.

Elendil

i played it and got stuck on the hack minigame in the tutorial and promptly never touched it again

dark souls lasted longer

Podly

i like it desc

also, M83 is licensing the FUCK outta his album

good for him, on his flying private sex island

emnmnme

Elendil wrote:

i played it and got stuck on the hack minigame in the tutorial and promptly never touched it again

dark souls lasted longer

O_o

o_O

O_o

ronya

What is with network cards wanting to use their very own special driver software, bluetooth cards wanting to use their very own special driver software, and freaking hard drives trying to override Windows Explorer interfaces? Don't people get annoyed enough at the printers and graphics units doing this?

Coexistence is one thing, but trying to absent your hardware wholly from native interfaces or worse, disable them, is just... aaaaaurgh.

B:L

Bogart

I loved cold war thrillers when I was younger. Ploughed through a ton of stuff by Craig Thomas, though I doubt they've aged particularly well. All dignified, ruthless old men sending sweaty, tense operatives into Berlin to track down some fucker and get them out. Tried some Tom Clancy as well, but Jesus Christ that guy writes, as Stephen King said of Jeffrey Archer, like old people fuck.

emnmnme

I have stew beef but it's too late in the day to make beef stew ... can I make a good stir fry using stew beef?

nexuscrawler

Jacobkosh

Bogart wrote:

I loved cold war thrillers when I was younger. Ploughed through a ton of stuff by Craig Thomas, though I doubt they've aged particularly well. All dignified, ruthless old men sending sweaty, tense operatives into Berlin to track down some fucker and get them out. Tried some Tom Clancy as well, but Jesus Christ that guy writes, as Stephen King said of Jeffrey Archer, like old people fuck.

Is Len Deighton any good?

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT

Steven Segal has the best cheesy movie names. Out for Justice, Hard to Kill, On Deadly Ground. They all let you know that this movie is just mindless asskicking for 1 1/2 hours.

Jacobkosh

Elendil wrote:

i played it and got stuck on the hack minigame in the tutorial and promptly never touched it again

this incenses me

you should have beaten the game seventeen times by now!

Zampanov

Jacob you forgot Marathon Man and Three Days of the Condor

emnmnme

Lupin is not a spy.

Bogart

And then of course Le Carre makes pretty much everyone else look like rank amateurs.

I must get around to picking up the massive histories of MI5 and MI6 that came out in the last couple of years.

desc

Podly wrote:

i like it desc

also, M83 is licensing the FUCK outta his album

good for him, on his flying private sex island

Sometimes people talk to me about music or art and I'm nodding like I'm engaged but in the back of my mind I'm thinking, "This piece isn't even blurry and mournful."

Also yeah good on him

Pay them fuckin' bills doing a non-soul destroying job and you're doing the species and yourself both a favor

Elendil

i read the spy who came in from the cold or whatsit and liked it but the lady character was terrible

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT

Jacobkosh wrote:

Elendil wrote:

i played it and got stuck on the hack minigame in the tutorial and promptly never touched it again

this incenses me

you should have beaten the game seventeen times by now!

Jacob, I know you want to throw out an infraction for that

Do it. Give in to your hatred. /dark side.

Organichu

my dog's snores sound like industrial machinery

Jacobkosh

Zampanov wrote:

Jacob you forgot Marathon Man and Three Days of the Condor

for some reason I don't think of Marathon Man as a spy movie even though it really is

no excuse for three days of the condor, though