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I've avoided it thus far, but who know when you're next going to be walking along having a cigarette, only to find that somebody throws a bucket of waste turpentine over you.
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It's not too late to give up smoking just to avoid this happening. It's a pretty convincing argument against smoking really.
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well, my dad's dad didn't actually smoke, but he used to drench himself in turpentine whenever he left the house, to keep the wind out. In his case, somebody threw a waste lit cigarette at him, and you can imagine the rest.
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: well, my dad's dad didn't actually smoke, but he used to drench himself in turpentine whenever he left the house, to keep the wind out. In his case, somebody threw a waste lit cigarette at him, and you can imagine the rest.
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How about in The Merchant of Venice when he said
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if there is smoke, is there not a bicycle?"
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I got back into Guitar Hero this weekend which I somehow seem to have improved at in the time of not playing.
I finally managed to 5* Raining Blood on Hard leaving only One to 5* and then I also managed to pass Raining Blood on Expert for the first time ever which means every song on expert has now been completed so I just need to beat Lou in battle mode to get about another 125 gamer points.
That was proving tough so I decided to give Through The Fire and Flames a go. Now, I've never managed to get more than 1% of the way through the song before and had pretty much decided that I'd never manage it but I had time to kill and had read about the "tapping" technique.
So, I went into practice mode with both hands up on the buttons and using my right elbow to strum the first note and after much much much practice got the intro down. I am now 70% of the way through the song and expect to finish it this week at some stage.
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it'll be good when you get your xbox Jonathan. I finished condemned 2, although I need to replay a couple of the levels for achievements and great justice.
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Although this isn't what I'm poaying at the moment, Benway, you have probably already watched it as it's Wednesday and the first thing to do on every Wednesday is watch Yahtzee's new review, but just in case you haven't, Zero Punctuation have done Condemned 2 this week.
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I played rainbow six vegas 2 and Condemned 2 at the weekend. Got all the offline achievements on condemned 2 and finished all the terrorist hunts in realistic mode.
Meanwhile Louise went into town, saw friends, went shopping and attended her course.
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exactly. She is becoming an anti-social freak. Nobody calls her any more, and she doesn't even care that she's losing all her friends because her increasingly paranoid self-pity has lead her to develop bizarre conspiracy theories about them all anyway. It's sad to watch a healthy young mind like hers deteriorate into angry isolation, but there's nothing that can be done. All I can do is watch helplessly from behind the safety of my gamepad, and wait for the inevitable collapse.
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Downloaded the "pay for" Legendary map pack for Halo 3. Must admit, nice maps, especially Ghost Town - seems like they really put a lot of effort into making this one. Avalanche is also a nice "big" map. And I also like Blackout. So all in all it's thumbs up from me.
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we can all relax. I had an in depth 3 hour preview of GTA IV last night in my dream, and it's even more rad that you might expect. Notable additions to the series include
when you eat food, you can actually taste it
the urban landscape is populated mostly be people from your real life past
Liberty city has been reimagined with a medieval castle theme
you can make phone calls to real life people using the phone function from within the game
So, some surprises there, but I can safely say that these previously unannounced aspects will be a hit.
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quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: [*]you can make phone calls to real life people using the phone function from within the game
You could market that. A sort of Skype application within a console game using a headset. Dang spends all his time willing himself to think up marketable products and you just dream one up. You fucking rotter.
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Isn't that just in-game chat that you've described there NWoD? "Yeah! You could... have this list of people or 'Friends'! You could call it a 'Friends List' and you could... talk to them on your headset... and there could be a big rectangle in the corner of your living room with moving pictures on it!"
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I guess in my preview dream, I could call real people on their phones, rather than using the standard VOIP, so the in-game phone became an actual phone.
This feature was mostly a result of me being inside the game, rather than simply playing it.
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Funnily enough, I had a similar dream last night, and I was going to follow your post with a comment about how Niko was not so much the main character as he was just a character that you interacted with, and who talked directly to you as you existed in this dangerous real-world environment and that your ability to kill a man were severely hampered by things like the way you'd find yourself shooting at someone only to come to realise that you had no gun in your hand and were just making ineffectual gun shapes and noises.
But then NWoD sort of complimented you, albeit in a facetious way, so I thought it was more important to shoot that down instead.
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By the way, I didn't play any games last weekend, but I did put someone in hospital. It was about two in the morning and this guy was flicking me in the nuts with a tea towell. I didn't even know him, and tried to ignore it for a few minutes until I thought, "Enough of this" and picked him up by his legs and mashed him face first into a bag full of broken bottles. A winning move, it turned out, because he wouldn't stop bleeding and the shock made him start vomiting. It did sort of spoil the atmosphere at the party a bit.
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I completed Condemned and started on Bioshock. I missed out on Thorn's violent antics as I was at a wedding. It was good. Enough of the wedding talk though as Bishock is amazing. I'm loving it so far and I'm only about 90 minutes in.
I'm annoyed about being at work now and being unable to play it.
Condemned was good. Not great, but I think I didn't get the full storyline as I didn't find thirty fucking pieces of metal that were hidden under boxes and stuff. That is complete gash that you miss out on content in the game due to not looking under every single box in the entire game. Why would you do that? Sure i could just look it up on gamefaqs and wander around and find the bits of metal but I feel I need to punish the game creators by not seeing the ending due to their rididulous choice of limiting content to people who are really anal. Idiots.
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I completed Bioshock yesterday. Excellent excellent game. Really good fun, amazing atmosphere created and a surprisingly good storyline.
Only slight complaint is that it was a bit easy. I'm not sure that having an arrow at the top of the screen telling you exactly where you need to go is strictly necessary.
All in all good though and a nice easy 910 gamer points.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Only slight complaint is that it was a bit easy. I'm not sure that having an arrow at the top of the screen telling you exactly where you need to go is strictly necessary.
You can turn it off, at least on the PC version, which makes the game a bit more challenging and, if your memory is anything like mine, a fair bit more frustrating.
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