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Yeah. I've tried to dress it up to be amusing, btu they just don't seem to care. On the other hand, they'd probably exactly this uninterested if you really did leave me to die on a jetty.
Anyway. I had a great time and I'm already looking forward to doing it again.
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I'm interested, but then I'm freefalling back into the world of geekery and I just can't stop.
Geeky? I've been spending my evenings recently painting Warhammer 40k minatures. Over christmas I spent more than 3 hours working on Abbadon the Despoiler and when I was done my back and shoulders ached from intense concentration.
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In fact I now spend so much time with my stupid geeky hobbies - computer games, painting and writing - that I no longer have time to get drunk. I haven't had a hangover in 2009.
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: You've never lived until you've demanded in a smug voice for an opponent to roll 12 D6 sixes and above!!!
Yeah, I've not actually played a game, though when I go into the shop for more paint and stuff they keep trying to get me to come in and give it a go. It all seems so immensely complicated I'm not sure I can be bothered, and anyway, all my troops have been picked for how much fun they'll be to paint rather than how effective they are on the battlefield. Flicking through the Chaos Space Marine Codex, I'm not even sure half of them can actually exist in the same army.
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quote:Originally posted by Deep Freeze: haha! You missed the bit out that made it relevant to this thread though.
It wasn't really relevant to any thread, but it wasn't worth a thread of its own so i put it here. I'm pretty sure that isn't against the law. Is it?
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I'm playing Lost Odyssey at the moment when Kate is in, which is a really good RPG. The combat is good, nothing particularly revolutionary but a solid combat system. Characters are well defined and funny. Storyline is really picking up now and some of the dream sequences have nearly had me in tears. Not quite obviously because I'm a man, but very good.
When Kate isn't in I'm playing Overlord. Only played about two hours of it so far so it's still in the introductory stages but it seems really good. A bit like pikmin really but an evil version of pikmin.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: It wasn't really relevant to any thread, but it wasn't worth a thread of its own so i put it here. I'm pretty sure that isn't against the law. Is it?
No. But I think I speak for all of TMO when I say we are very disappointed in the blatant thread-jack. Damn you CiH, you were one of the good guys!
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: "We're just monkeys running around in a hamster wheel, but the person who's operating the hamster wheel doesn't know which way we're going."
yeah, it's even better that whoever is in the hamster wheel generally controls which way it's going by running in it, so she's just said 'I'm a monkey and I don't know which way I'm going'
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Imagine having a monkey in a hamster wheel, where you could change the direction of the wheel at any moment, and get it all spun about. Brilliant.
On a related note, there was a headline on Yahoo news earlier today that read "Crazed chimp shot by cops".
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quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: Burnout Paradise
Is this any good? I loved Burnout Revenge and the one before that, but I didn't enjoy the demo of Burnout Revenge at all. However, I realise that the demo had a lot of stuff left out, so is the full game alright?
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Burnout Paradise is good. There are lots of interesting looking multiplayer options that sadly I don't play because nobody I know appears to have the game.
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With the new updates they put out Burnout Paradise is a cracking game on the PS3.
I've been playing on and off for months and there's always something to do, online multiplayer racing and takedown challenges are good fun and as they're adding on a new island soon and new cars it's worth getting a copy of.
The last update added weather and times of day (synced against where you are) and motorbikes so the games moved along from the simple drive and smash it was when I bought it..
Now if they could combine Skate and Burnout into one giant frenzy of killing slaters with stunt cars it'd be a game to play forever - Oh, and added zombies.
-------------------- my own brother a god dam shit sucking vampire!!! you wait till mum finds out buddy!
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Imagine having a monkey in a hamster wheel, where you could change the direction of the wheel at any moment, and get it all spun about. Brilliant.
On a related note, there was a headline on Yahoo news earlier today that read "Crazed chimp shot by cops".
Not just any chimp. A famous one - apparently, a former television commercial star that was relatively well-known in its Connecticut hometown.
quote:Originally posted by froopyscot: Not just any chimp. A famous one - apparently, a former television commercial star that was relatively well-known in its Connecticut hometown.
That makes it even better, like it was having a James Brown shotgun-style meltdown.
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Not that I'm saying James Brown looks like a monkey or anything! Just that he did that shotgun hold up thing a few years back. Nothing to do with im being black. Seriously, I would never make that joke.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: "We're just monkeys running around in a hamster wheel, but the person who's operating the hamster wheel doesn't know which way we're going."
yeah, it's even better that whoever is in the hamster wheel generally controls which way it's going by running in it, so she's just said 'I'm a monkey and I don't know which way I'm going'
Can you fit a monkey in a hamster wheel? I mean, those things are like six inches across. Wouldn't you have the monkey wearing it like a hat or something?
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Some primates are pretty tiny. Little bigger than your average hamster. For argument's sake though, I think you could get away with making it larger than your average hamster wheel and still referring to it as a 'hamster wheel' because people would instantly know what you were talking about. Rather than saying 'monkey wheel' which sounds like a part in some kind of mechanical device.
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And, what, a hamster wheel isn't some kind of mechanical device? Like it's a metaphysical construct that relies on the power of thought alone, rather than the brute simplicity of the axle?
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on topic - I have become a little obsessed with Black, for the PS2, probably in a subconscious rejection of all this clever-clever fiddle-faddling around with stealth and caution that the new consoles seem to be soaked in.
And nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that I can't really justify a new console at the moment.
But - theoretically - if I were to get one, should I get a PS3 or an Xbox360? I like shooting things and giggling, and have very little patience. Apart from headshots, they're cool.
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I'd go for the Xbox. I love the game that comes built in, where the red lights come on and you have to phone customer service.
No, but seriously, I think you should decide based on what games you're interested in playing. I have faith that at some point in the distant future, Polyphony will finally release Gran Turismo 5, and I can't reasonably see myself not playing it. So for me, owning the PS3 is a no brainer. But I can see why others might choose a 360. There are lots of good and bad points to each console.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I'd go for the Xbox. I love the game that comes built in, where the red lights come on and you have to phone customer service.
Lol. It's funny because they admitted to there being a problem and spent loads of money fixing any of the ones that had a problem and ironed out the problem for future releases of the console. Stupid Microsoft.
First thing you want to look at when choosing which console is probably whether any of the exclusive games are "must have" ones for you. So, the big ones for PS3 are Metal Gear Solid, Little Big Planet and Gran Turismo. The big ones for Xbox are Halo 3, Fable 2, Gear of War. (There are obviously lots more, but I've just picked out three big ones).
If you're not particulaly fussed about either of those, you need to decide if Blu-Ray is something you need in your life. If it is, then go for a PS3, but obviously that means rebuying all your films.
Online is amazing on 360 but you do have to pay about £3 a month where the PS3 one is free. I think there were complaints about PS3 online service originally, and I don't know what that is like now.
If none of these arguments sway you either way, then you could go for 360 because it's cheaper and generally the cross format games run more smoothly. Or you could go for a 360 because Dr Benway is on it so you get to play games with him, which is a pretty good selling point.
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Just read *this article about John Howard Griffin, who changed his skin colour in 1959, in order to see what life was like for negroes. He was a sort of Benway/Kanye for the '50s.
On the subject of games, I'm still playing Fallout 3.
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I was tempted for a moment to steal the Brass Eye joke, where one of their reporters goes through the same process, and within hours of becoming black, he mugs an old lady and beats someone up. But I decided it would be more honest to reference it, than to pass it off as my own.
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