Craig Rathbone (Writer)

Ooooh ok, 5 things I like...

1. Reading/writing
2. Gaming
3. Movies
4. Cars
5. Animals

And I shall tag.. (no pressure now!)

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Happy anniversary! 🎉🎉🎉

Pretty much, with a seam of Home Alone through it too!

Happy Christmas Soph, have a great day!

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Well when you put it like that... We may never know for sure!

The best Christmas movie is clearly this one:

Always happy to find another fan! I think it helps that the plot is pretty unpredictable all the way through, just when you think you have it sussed it throws another curve ball

Cool, same order as me then! Hope you get as immersed into it as I did!

Is it the first or second one you're playing? I actually started with 2, and am only now playing through the first one (hurray for black Friday Xbox sale!)

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So Microsoft gave me an £8 voucher for... Some reason (not complaining, maybe they like me)... I got Death Stranding with it.

Not played a Kojima game since MGS3 (on the PS2)... Kinda looking forward to making Norman Reedus carry loads of boxes around!

Amazing isn't it? We've been itching to return to Amsterdam since we visited last year, such a cool place, and good people too!

That's cos Henry is a wholesome mediaeval feller, can't help but want to take care of the poor hapless soul! Especially when he gets berated by Capon all the time

Makes sense, got to look after yourself, and treat yourself to the sheer fanciness of the fountain, the highest evolution of the humble pen!

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Can't say I blame you it's a banger! Winter Soldier had this exchange between Cap and an evil Hydra computer containing a baddie from the first movie, the Tobey Jones delivers the line before he drops a missile on them both there is chilling. Something like "we are, both of us, out of time!"

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If I ever see it, I shall burn it in the incinerator of forgotten things! You are Pseudo, and that's that!

I used to have a fountain pen in school, it was such a cool item, except I kept getting ink EVERYWHERE and had to surrender it after one too many school shirts looked like they'd been paintballed... They are magnificent things though, ooze fanciness

It's a bangin' line from Barbossa (the best character in those movies btw), always fun to quote!

Ooh, enjoy!

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Gremlins 2, what a stone cold classic! Shame all the versions out there these days have the Hulk Hogan scene though, the VHS copy we had as kids had a John Wayne scene instead, which was much funnier!

Get to know me (video game edition) 🎮

First game: Sonic the Hedgehog (8bit)

Last game: Kingdom Come Deliverance

Favorite game: Cyberpunk 2077

Worst game: So, so many...

Game I’ve played the most: Final Fantasy VII

Most surprising game: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Next game: Witcher 3 (again)

Beloved friends, I don't know half of you as well I should like etc., etc. so let's have a #AuthorInterview thread! Answer whatever questions suit your fancy.

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In honour of my current gaming obsession: Henry of Skalitz and Sir Hans Capon!

Very true, you're on that frontline, and can provide really valuable insights just like those in your newsletter! And also gothic romance novels, it seems!

That was a really interesting read! Amazing that a hormone change can also affect the imagination/way you think so much! Happy for you though, really cool that your imagination has been fired up and you're on a roll with a new WIP

Yeah, dark doesn't quite cover it! The idea of animation for adults was an alien concept to me back then, really did open a lot of doors in my brain. The fact that the same friend introduced me to FFVII the same year says it all!

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Akira for me, my friend showed it to me after school one day when we were about 12, totally blew my mind!

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The Mr Bobby one would be cursed content, and destroy Epic Games from within... Nobody would walk away

Haha thank you! May the automobile gods have mercy on my little Skoda