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Nosecone
might be better known to Transformer fans as a slightly dumb member of the Technobots,
but you would be amazed just how much he really knows. He works for the Time
Arbitrators, the same group to which Super Fire Convoy and his, er, gang of
Car Robots belong to. Being such an intellectual, he very much enjoys spending
his time at Glasgow University's premier science fiction, fantasy and general
geekness club, iO. The fact that George
Q is on the committee does rather help him avoid his membership fee by letting
him use the Time Travel Tax constitution loophole.
Apelinq is perhaps
not as much of a, how you say, "Geek" as Nosecone is. But that doesn't
mean he doesn't like to go to his local bar, the Rat and Swastika, and enjoy
a post-battle discussion with the lads over a Type 4 Energon. George Q tends
to enjoy a Type 2 Coca Cola at the Queen
Margaret Union, his preferred choice of Glasgow University's two unions
due to it being more than a place to throw up in, and you can visit it's fine
message board and perhaps discuss politics, warfare and lesbians with them there.
Blaster, on the other
hand, does not get involved in such homosexual-themed discussions. He just sits
back and lets the music calm him down. A pity, then, that there is not much
calm music in the vicinity of Mr Quail. Indeed, on of his friends have a band
with the cheery name of My Own Religion
and play rather, er, frantic music with some less than savoury undertones. Not
for the faint hearted, really. This sight is only on the links because, er,
I was told by Hubcap I had to "have some half-decent beats on the site" or he
would be somewhat upset.
Optimus
Primal does not appear to hold such opinions on the music of My Own Religion.
Indeed, I have noticed the only compact discs he appears to own are the Greatest
Hits of The Bangles and The Mamas And The Papas. I guess a life of time travel
and getting killed and ressurected regularly can do odd things to the minds
of sentient life forms. It certainly did for the Doctor, a BBC Television character.
Alas, no new episodes of this series (which George is found of) have been made
for years, but regular audio adventures
by a company called Big Finish are produced and you can read all about them
here.
Swindle is not
a big fan of Doctor Who. Truth be known, he feels a bit sorry for the Master.
He can understand why a genius, blessed with the ability to regenrate many times
before death would be angered to see he had run out of his but someone as pretensious
as the Doctor still so many left. To calm himself down, Swindle likes to watch
the humans mocking each other and as good a place as any to see that is in The
Onion, a parody paper updated every Wedendsay and containing many humourous
articles. Granted, some of the American society references might go over some
people, but nothing can beat a website that mentions a porn star union.
Such humour is not to the taste of Silverbolt,
however. He mainly searches the web for things that match his own, er, slightly
enthusiastic honour code. We're not entirely sure why he makes the single exception
for Penny Arcade, but he does, even
though it breaks so many of his guidelines of good behaviour. But still, I must
agree it is most.... entertaining.
Many of George's personal aquaintances have websites. The iO website has a contacts section that links to many of them, and the others..... well, if they give the grand masters of this site a donation, we may get around to putting them up later.
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