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Post by tuigirl on Aug 8, 2020 23:12:00 GMT
The former denizen of this forum mentioned earlier in this thread appears to have spent roughly half of the previous two days getting incredibly angry about the lack of a CD, and the other half getting incredibly angry at anyone who isn't themselves incredibly angry. Never change Dalekbuster, never change.... Yes, I have seen him all of FB, he is the one who posted his screen shots and asked someone/anyone to forward the info to this forum, so I did.
He is copping it big time but he never wavers, he just reposts the same screen shots LOL.
He is posting the same thing over and over and over....
Edit: I apologize for my harsh word that came across as unkind. I wrote without thinking too deeply, mainly because I was a bit annoyed by the person clogging up my social media feed with multiple same posts. But there are ways around that.
And I should just stay away from social media more, especially from the comment section, since as an emotional person, it always affects my mood.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2020 23:54:42 GMT
Yes, I have seen him all of FB, he is the one who posted his screen shots and asked someone/anyone to forward the info to this forum, so I did.
He is copping it big time but he never wavers, he just reposts the same screen shots LOL.
He is posting the same thing over and over and over....
He just comes across as a very sad obsessive person, lashing out against everyone.
I think this might be an example of the darker side of fandom outsiders warn against and make fun of. He is not doing himself any favours because he just alienates everyone.
He only joined here (or, rather, the original BF forum), and admitted it, because he'd been banned from forums talking about TV Who like Gally Base, Digital Spy etc. He lasted longer here than I expected, frankly! But let's not give him the attention. Even if we all know what he's like he isn't here to defend himself.
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Post by Ela on Aug 9, 2020 4:38:40 GMT
Please let's refrain from discussing forum members who are no longer here and can't respond or defend themselves.
Thanks.
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Post by barnabaslives on Aug 9, 2020 7:19:13 GMT
Oh god, just made the mistake reading a few comments on Twitter. People need to calm down and get their perspective straight. Maybe go out and have a swim to cool down in this heat. Some of them sound as if BF has abducted their first born child or something. Is BF abducting people's first born again? I hate it when they do that. I mean, I know it help keeps shipping costs down to just go about abducting people for slave labor at their warehouse, but as a dl customer only it's difficult to condone this... Please pardon another of my attempts at dry humor, but I do agree with you that it's not worth getting that worked up about especially when the terms of BFs collaborations are no doubt also in the hands of their collaborators. I do understand how devoted some are to CD medium, but at least the release is going to be available as download so that people don't have to wait for the story, and I know it's not the same to make your own CD but what do you do? There are things that just aren't sold as CD that are worth not missing - some truly excellent Short Trips for example. Sort of the opposite of those of us making do-it-yourself Bernice Summerfield downloads from our CDs. What do you do? They just don't sell them as downloads and you don't want to miss them. Hopefully things will be like with the Short Trip The Toy and an exclusive will expire and BF will be free to market it as they please after that, but who knows?
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Aug 9, 2020 7:43:36 GMT
BF fans are passionate. That, I think, everyone can agree on.
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Post by shallacatop on Aug 9, 2020 7:48:46 GMT
Please let's refrain from discussing forum members who are no longer here and can't respond or defend themselves. Thanks. And let’s not forget that he is autistic and a lot of the tendencies that he’s shown can be attributed to that. There’s no need to be unkind, especially when they cannot defend themselves, as you say.
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Post by theillusiveman on Aug 9, 2020 8:15:16 GMT
Oh god, just made the mistake reading a few comments on Twitter. Yeah Twitter is a pretty toxic place
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Post by theillusiveman on Aug 9, 2020 8:21:44 GMT
Well there is another idea what if Big Finish did two more Time Lord Victorious Audios (With 8, 10 or even a Jacob Dudman 9) and added Echoes of Extinction into the group on CD to make a Box set Trilogy- this works out as A) Listeners get to experience Echoes of Extinction on CD as a compromise B) A Story (stories) with Both David and Paul together would sell quite well especially in boxset form C) Down loaders can enjoy two more stories alongside Echoes
of course this requires permission from the BBC, getting scripts commissioned quickly (John Dorney would be an ideal writer as Nick said he is a really good and really fast writer in the podcast iirc) and yeah actor availability is also a factor depends on lockdown i guess
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Post by tuigirl on Aug 9, 2020 8:57:33 GMT
Oh god, just made the mistake reading a few comments on Twitter. Yeah Twitter is a pretty toxic place The very reason why I am not on there a lot.
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Post by mbt66 on Aug 9, 2020 10:04:47 GMT
I wrote a polite email to enquires voicing my disappointment and got a nice standard response from Sue in which she acknowledges that they have had “many messages on this subject”, so I have gotten that out of my system and feel heartened to know that others feel the same.
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Post by fitzoliverj on Aug 9, 2020 11:12:16 GMT
Did people get this angry when BF stopped releasing things on tape?
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Aug 9, 2020 11:57:30 GMT
Did people get this angry when BF stopped releasing things on tape? Exactly. Formats change.This is a one-off release that is only getting a vinyl physical format. Some of the ranting, especially on social media is pathetic. I do think physical media formats for BF will become scarcer, I would imagine it is not economically viable long term for BF. But as others have said, if you really want a physical release buy the download & burn it to a CD.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2020 12:12:38 GMT
Did people get this angry when BF stopped releasing things on tape? Funnily enough, I was happy buying the Big Finish stories on cassette, as opposed to CD, back in the day, as I could play the tapes in my car. Then they stopped the tapes and it was CD only. I don't remember anyone actually complaining on OG back then. Fortunately my next car had a CD player so all was well and listening to Big Finish stories on my way to/from work became a thing again... now my car has no CD player just Bluetooth and an AUX socket... so yeah, formats change and life does go on.
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Post by ljwilson on Aug 9, 2020 13:06:10 GMT
Did people get this angry when BF stopped releasing things on tape? Funnily enough, I was happy buying the Big Finish stories on cassette, as opposed to CD, back in the day, as I could play the tapes in my car. Then they stopped the tapes and it was CD only. I don't remember anyone actually complaining on OG back then. Fortunately my next car had a CD player so all was well and listening to Big Finish stories on my way to/from work became a thing again... now my car has no CD player just Bluetooth and an AUX socket... so yeah, formats change and life does go on. And to go off on a bit of a tangent, I listened to a bit of Whispers of Terror on cassette the other day, just to check that the tape and the player were both working ok. Sounded pretty good too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2020 14:09:12 GMT
Did people get this angry when BF stopped releasing things on tape? Furious. Absolutely seething. How I miss those days of using my old biro pen to wind to the end of side one before beginning side two (to save the batteries on my Walkman, you know).
Actually, in some ways I actually do!
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Post by lidar2 on Aug 9, 2020 14:29:25 GMT
Did people get this angry when BF stopped releasing things on tape? I buy everything on CD, record it onto cassette and then throw out the CD
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2020 21:07:09 GMT
I wonder if there are any younger Doctor Who fans new to Big Finish here reading the last few comments and wondering what the heck cassette tapes were and how do you listen to stories on them?!!
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Post by cwm on Aug 9, 2020 21:11:31 GMT
I wonder if there are any younger Doctor Who fans new to Big Finish here reading the last few comments and wondering what the heck cassette tapes were and how do you listen to stories on them?!! You can still get cassette tapes. Lots of new albums are released on them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2020 21:15:37 GMT
You can still get cassette tapes. Lots of new albums are released on them. Ssshhh... or BF might want to do an exclusive story on cassette one day and then we'll be in trouble!
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Post by sherlock on Aug 9, 2020 21:17:51 GMT
I wonder if there are any younger Doctor Who fans new to Big Finish here reading the last few comments and wondering what the heck cassette tapes were and how do you listen to stories on them?!! Well as one of the younger members, cassette tapes were a fixture of my childhood. I still have a box of them. I had a particular Stingray/Captain Scarlet one which got played a lot. Ah, distant memories.
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