The Ramblings of Guise Dugal

Oh boy and gee wilikers, I just spent the afternoon seperating comics that I want to keep from comics that I want to part with. It’s quite a large amount, but not really enough to dent the collection too badly. I haven’t actually sorted through what is amongst the parting crowd, but theres a pretty [...]

Yesterday, on one of my frequent trips to the toys section of the local Woolworths, I spotted that they were selling off some of the older discontinued ranges of the last couple of years. I fought an epic campaign between the sensible part of me that wants to save money and the bit that is [...]

Essential Cybernetic Science Department, DugalCorp Headquarters FC-D23: I hope you realise, organic, that your usurpment will not be forgotten. Ryo: What a pity. FC-D23: You might think that you are tough, but we are made of sturdier stuff. FS1-D23-U3: Mainly composite materials. Ryo: Ah-huh. FC-D23: We are the great builders, the weaponsmiths…whereas you, you are [...]

I don’t usually comment much on the passing of celebrities, but a most recent passing has really touched me. One of my favourite radio hosts, and an accomplished jazz performer, Humphrey Lyttelton passed away yesterday at the age of 86. Up until the very end he was still touring with his jazz group and hosting [...]

Essential Cybernetic Science Department, DugalCorp Headquarters FC-D23: It just looks a little ‘pedestrian’ to me, where are the high action and heavy artillery features. It’s got nothing remotely threatening. FS1-D23-U1: Unless you count kung fu grip and spinning blade action. FC-D23: It’s meant to be a giant robot that will crush spirits and structures, not [...]

Some of you may have noticed that the blog has been falling on its arse lately, returning error messages when loading or just plain failing to load at all. Apparently there have been ‘technical issues’ on one of the servers that my webhost uses and I just happen to be sat on that server. As [...]

Essential Cybernetic Science Department, DugalCorp Headquarters FS1-D23-HUD: So, how are the Arm Alliance doing, boss? FC-D23: HUD, are you going to continue to insist on creating bad team titles or do you intend to avoid a trip to the trash compactor? FS1-D23-HUD: You prefer Limb League, right? I knew I should have gone with that! [...]

There had to be a ‘villain’ post today, I couldn’t just post about Loli and Fast Food. I needed to cover another arch-villain in the UK, and I chose Darth Vader! No, not the British giant David Prowse from down in Devon, but more a Welsh imitator. There is so much to this story, it’s [...]

I enjoy the PC game Civilization, it is one of the strategy games that I like the most and has perhaps remained one of the strongest of the genre after many years through its evolving technology in sequels. One of my favourite aspects of the Civ series is that you don’t have to resort to [...]

Watch this, I’m going to quick step round an issue that I actually have deeply conflicting views about. On one hand, I dislike chavvy families where the children are bought up as gym-slip lovers and sexualised from the moment they are out of Pampers, on the other hand, sometimes Japanese interests are quite fetching. Guess [...]

Essential Cybernetic Science Department, DugalCorp Headquarters FS1-D23-U3: I mean, what is with this colour scheme, it’s like they don’t trust us to use the right pieces in the right place if they don’t colour them differently. FC-D23: I wouldn’t trust most of this crew to get the right pieces if I crushed their faceplates with [...]

As if the Fantastic Fours foe, The Mole Man, wasn’t enough of a challenge for local councils to tackle in the UK, it appears the threat of evildoers undermining the bureacracy is spreading. Perhaps emulating the Captain Planet villain, Sly Sludge, a new contender has stepped out and only the anal retentive, ‘more than my [...]

Essential Cybernetic Science Department, DugalCorp Headquarters Shuuhaijin Yuki: The supreme leader ordered delivery of components for top secret plan and transfer of data and schematics, I am honour bound to follow these orders. FS1-D23-U2: Because otherwise you must commit sekkupu? Shuuhaijin Yuki: Worse, bukkake…but also, I get sacked. FC1-D23: Never mind that, how did you [...]

In August 2006, I referred to a man called William Lyttle, who had been dubbed “The Mole Man” for his, some would say ‘eccentric’ behaviour. If you didn’t see it, it’s here. Mr Lyttle, at the age of 75, was ordered by the local council to leave his £1m Victorian property, originally two properties that [...]

Private Chamber, DugalCorp Headquarters Guise (B): Sparks…vector sigma…cybernetic gods…robotic medics…folded space for mass conversion… Guise (B): …but no damn instructions! Is it too much to ask for a simple “how to” on building giant war…I mean peace-keeping robots to help me spread my message of World Peace under my tyrannical rule?! Guise (B): There must [...]

I love Mecha, that’s no secret. I love seeing giant robots and machines in reality, I love to see them in movies and anime, and read about them in books and comics. I still enjoy Transformers and Sentai, and can be talked in to watching Power Rangers fairly easily. The image of Dai-X from Starfleet [...]

Just to prove I’m not dead, I’m going to do some edu-ma-cation on how difficult it may be to take over the world with a starting point in the UK. Politics is something I have more than a passive interest in, what with being formerly employed in governmental work and planning to rule the world [...]

This is the first post dedicated to Dan after his win in the Easter Egg Hunt. His chosen topic was: “some of the folklore of the UK”. So, I’m going to give a brief overview of the subject, because it’d be a bit of a bugger to collect it all! I’m going to avoid the [...]

This is the post dedicated to Dio after her win in the Easter Egg Hunt. Her chosen topic was: “I think you’ll know what I like (and no I don’t mean furry smut, kthxbye).” Yeah, that was a major cop out right there, everybody noticed it, right? Of the subjects that I know Dio is [...]