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Update: I've found someone. Thanks to all those who offered.

Vale, Slasher. You will be greatly missed. Slasher's games were a guilty pleasure for us on IRC. I remember we were all playing one of his games together one night. I don't know if his games were intended to be funny, but they were just so absurd and full of heart. A great author who didn't mince words and produced so much.

Hello,

Long time, no post. I tried to think of a forum with a lot of British members.

I'm currently doing a family tree project and I have a lot of English ancestors. I've been ordering birth certificates through the GRO (gro.gov.uk), but the service that posts to Australia is very expensive - £25 per record. There's a cheaper, non-registered service (£11), but it's only available to domestic addresses.

Would anyone with a British postal address care to help me out? All I need you to do is receive some birth certificate copies in the post and email me a colour scan of each one.

I'm only interested in the information in the records and not copies of the documents themselves, but that sadly electronic copies aren't an option for all records at the GRO currently.

I have 6 certificates I'd like to obtain at the moment. I can pay you £4 per certificate on top of the £11, so total £15 x 6 = £90 for me, and a tidy £24 profit for you, ex. scanning cost.

Hope you get this one done, Dave. I love Captain Disaster's new style. I've been following this one on Twitter too. All the best!

Nice idea. Perhaps even with support for an annotation a la

Code: ags

// $AUTOCOMPLETEIGNORE$

that will tell the compiler not to spit a warning for a particular function.

This is my jam! https://youtu.be/zPGf4liO-KQ

EcoQuest?

And if you'r taller than 1.50 nine out of ten times clothes your size will be already sold out.

150cm? That's pretty short.

What Grinds My Gears (GMG) is when people use an expression and then put the acronym of that expression in brackets after it but then never refer to that thing again for the rest of the text.

I thought that was Gets My Goat!

If you're lamenting CG, the ballroom sequence of Beauty and the Beast (1991) is a strange choice. The backdrop is pretty famously CG:

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/25-years-ago-cg-secrets-ballroom-sequence-beauty-beast-145174.html

Something with the Cisco Kid in it?

Ultima?

Blade Runner

Yep, that's correct.

Good guess, but they're not bricks. Here's another screenshot.

Who's played this one before?

The Movies

Fawlty Towers?

Hey! Snarky got it. Well done. Excellent taste, by the way.

No to all. Some good guesses, given the era it's trying to emulate.

It's a comedy series: