Bits and Bobs 2

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

myoptika wrote:

I still have a metric fuckton of booze at my house.

That's this weekend sorted for you then.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Wed Aug 13, 2008 14:35

Nice to see you're prepared for round two already.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Aug 13, 2008 14:37

Mr Chris wrote:

myoptika wrote:

I still have a metric fuckton of booze at my house.

That's this weekend sorted for you then.

Bleurgh. I still don't want to drink ever again.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32623

myoptika wrote:

Bleurgh. I still don't want to drink ever again until lunchtime.

FTFY

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8652

myoptika wrote:

I still have a metric fuckton of booze at my house.

Did I remove the Ruddles County from your xbox room? I only started it just before we all went to bed and I had a moment of clarity where I realised I'd much rather go to sleep than drink any more

myp · **Posted:** Wed Aug 13, 2008 15:03

Joans wrote:

myoptika wrote:

I still have a metric fuckton of booze at my house.

Did I remove the Ruddles County from your xbox room? I only started it just before we all went to bed and I had a moment of clarity where I realised I'd much rather go to sleep than drink any more

I got round to removing it yesterday.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Aug 13, 2008 15:05

I'm playing football in the same team as someone called Ant Farmer on Sunday - top name!

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8652

myoptika wrote:

Joans wrote:

myoptika wrote:

I still have a metric fuckton of booze at my house.

Did I remove the Ruddles County from your xbox room? I only started it just before we all went to bed and I had a moment of clarity where I realised I'd much rather go to sleep than drink any more

I got round to removing it yesterday.

Ew.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Aug 13, 2008 15:28

To be fair, it was sat on my shelf and I thought it was empty. I remember being mildly surprised to find it was almost full when I picked it up.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16591

WullieOoster wrote:

markg wrote:

Geoff Rowley, frontside flip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILntIDLTRaY
First time I saw this in 411VM, it gave me vertigo and amazed me, that picture does pretty much the same thing

I remember that.

Can't wait for the new Flip DVD (which I'm guessing the Rowley photo is from), whenever it finally gets here.

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Wed Aug 13, 2008 17:17

Quote:

The man-ape known as Bigfoot was found in the northern woods of Georgia according to a company that calls itself "Searching for Bigfoot, Inc".

The group has scheduled a press conference for Friday, and a hotel in Palo Alto, California where they claim they will be able to provide DNA evidence as well as picutures of the creature.

The press release announcing the event describes the hybrid "manimal" to be over seven and a half feet tall, male and weighs over 500 pounds. It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes, two arms, two legs and five fingers and five toes right where you would expect them to be. There are many measurements included in the release, including a footprint of nearly 17 inches in length.

The list of features even claims that other live versions of the species were seen as well.

The group's website includes the full press release and a photo of the bounty stuffed into a freezer chest.

Well, I'm convinced! Roll on Friday!

_{But I so desperately, desperately want this to be true... sigh.}

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:27

I like this quoted comment in a Register story about (snore) OpenGL:

"This is fucking horse [censored]. We wait for two years for nothing?"

Horse fitbin? It must have been a pretty strong word!

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:33

It's a sunny morning and all is OK.

Trip to DWP went OK. i don't seem to have learnt to be quiet:

I get called over and there's a lass there (quite pretty) and another lass (also quite pretty) lass A introduces me to lass B, explaining that she's being trained, new job etc. Lass B says "Actually, I'm from the Fraud Squad" so I open my mouth and say "I would jump at the chance to be investigated by you".

Smooth, mali, smooth.....

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:32

MaliA wrote:

It's a sunny morning and all is OK.

Trip to DWP went OK. i don't seem to have learnt to be quiet:

I get called over and there's a lass there (quite pretty) and another lass (also quite pretty) lass A introduces me to lass B, explaining that she's being trained, new job etc. Lass B says "Actually, I'm from the Fraud Squad" so I open my mouth and say "I would jump at the chance to be investigated by you".

Smooth, mali, smooth.....

Take the polar bear... they'll be putty in your hands

Bluecup · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 925

Curiosity wrote:

MaliA wrote:

It's a sunny morning and all is OK.

Trip to DWP went OK. i don't seem to have learnt to be quiet:

I get called over and there's a lass there (quite pretty) and another lass (also quite pretty) lass A introduces me to lass B, explaining that she's being trained, new job etc. Lass B says "Actually, I'm from the Fraud Squad" so I open my mouth and say "I would jump at the chance to be investigated by you".

Smooth, mali, smooth.....

Take the polar bear... they'll be putty in your hands

"GIVE MAILA A HUGGGGG!"

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:41

Hint - they're not hugging.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:44

OH, THAT KIND OF JOB

Bluecup · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 925

Grim... wrote:

Hint - they're not hugging.

But it looks like it!

"GIVE MALIA A DETH HUGGGGG!!" isn't the same, although is funnier thinking about it.

leave it be, I've been waiting to use that pic for aggggeeeesss.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:43

1500 character limits does not a happy MaliA make, and I am now suffering from crisis of confidence over all this.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8652

360 RMD please :?:

As I mentioned in the Bargains thread the other day, Argos have expanded their £30 or 2 for £45 range, so I figured this was a good opportunity to pick up Call of Duty 4 and maybe get in on some bezzie hide and seek action. The question is, what else shall I get? The other games are:

Project Gotham Racing 4 - but I already have this
Devil May Cry 4
Iron Man - I understand this sucks
Need for Speed ProStreet - I know nothing about this
Assassins Creed
Kane & Lynch - I already have this (and have played it once)
Fear
Tiger Woods 08 - I already have this on the wii, so I probably don't want this
FIFA 08 - I don't really like this, Euro 2008 seems much better, so if anything I'll wait for FIFA 09
Dark Sector - What's this?
Civilization Revolution - I realise a lot of you are going to recommend this, but I'm not really into strategy games, feel free to persuade me to change my mind though.
WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2008 - I don't think so.
GRAW - Although the picture is of GRAW2, either way, I've played the demo and not enjoyed it
Turning Point - No

So I guess I've narrowed it down to DMC4, NFS ProStreet, Assassins Creed, Fear or Dark Sector. Anyone got any recommendations or warnings?

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

The Rev Owen wrote:

Quote:

The man-ape known as Bigfoot was found in the northern woods of Georgia according to a company that calls itself "Searching for Bigfoot, Inc".

The group has scheduled a press conference for Friday, and a hotel in Palo Alto, California where they claim they will be able to provide DNA evidence as well as picutures of the creature.

The press release announcing the event describes the hybrid "manimal" to be over seven and a half feet tall, male and weighs over 500 pounds. It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes, two arms, two legs and five fingers and five toes right where you would expect them to be. There are many measurements included in the release, including a footprint of nearly 17 inches in length.

The list of features even claims that other live versions of the species were seen as well.

The group's website includes the full press release and a photo of the bounty stuffed into a freezer chest.

Well, I'm convinced! Roll on Friday!

_{But I so desperately, desperately want this to be true... sigh.}

Haha - their bandwidth has been exceeded. No shit.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 15:08

Assassin's Creed and F.E.A.R. are both good games.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Ass Creed is good, DMC4 is... um. Well, other people like it.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8652

2 votes for Ass Creed, I should have made a poll.

I should probably add that I played the demo of DMC4, and while it's very nice there's no way I'd bother to play it very much.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 15:17

Yeah go for Ass Crud. You will enjoy it.

Zio · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6093

I don't like strategy games like the Command & Conquer series, etc, but the Civilization games are all awesome. It's not entirely fighting based, there's lots of politics and diplomacy involved too and yet, despite it's complexity, it's fairly simple to get into and follow. That said, Civ: Revolution does place a much greater emphasis on warfare than the others do, but it's also much shorter, more streamlined and easier to get into as a result. And the actual warfare rarely requires you to be an awesome military general, it's more about balancing resources, making sure you've properly defended your cities and other important targets and developing a large, technologically-developed, organised military.

There's a demo of it on Live anyway, so you should give it a little spin.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16591

Get two copies of COD4 and trade one in at Gamestation or somewhere. You should then be able to get something you actually want rather than just choosing the least worst from a pretty crappy list.

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 15:29

I like NFS: Pro Street, but I think it's a game for people who specifically like car/racing games in particular.

So, um, if this is the sort of thing you like, then you'll like this. 73% :attitude:

myp · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 15:31

From the demo, I thought it was a complete pile of arse. This comes from someone who liked Underground and Most Wanted.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8652

markg wrote:

Get two copies of COD4 and trade one in at Gamestation or somewhere. You should then be able to get something you actually want rather than just choosing the least worst from a pretty crappy list.

That's not a bad idea, especially as cex are currently paying £25 cash for it, so if you parked up somewhere with an Argos and a CEX, you could clean out argos and make £5 for every 2 copies you could get out of them.

Realistically, though, I can't really be bothered to farm money out of it, and I'd have to go out of my way to go somewhere I could trade the second copy in.
Having completely forgotten about demos, I now have Civilization, NFS and Dark Sector queued up, and if they all suck, I'll probably have a crack at Assassins Creed.

AceAceBaby wrote:

I like NFS: Pro Street, but I think it's a game for people who specifically like car/racing games in particular.

So, um, if this is the sort of thing you like, then you'll like this. 73% :attitude:

I like some car games, but not others, I'll give the demo a go, but I don't think I've really liked a NFS game since about NFS3.

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 15:36

You probably won't like it. I like it because I'm a nerdy car nerd. It looks gert lush in HD though.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

I think I agree with Ace, since I quite liked it too

myp · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 15:41

I'm obviously not that much of a car nerd that I like crap car games.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8652

I prefer Ridge Racer, where the trickiest choice you have to make is what car you want, then you just fling it round the track. I keep trying Forza, but I just can't get into it.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 15:54

Come and play it on a Wednesday (when anyone can be bothered) for much BezzeForzaFun.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8652

I've only played the demo and beacuse I seem to be rubbish at it and I don't particularly enjoy it (these two may be related), I'm not really on the verge of rushing out to buy it.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14503

A few quick comments on this :

>Project Gotham Racing 4 - but I already have this

I'm tempted by this but have 3 and forza

>Devil May Cry 4

£14 2nd hand in Blockbuster at the moment i just need to find something else in the 2 for 28 pile to match with it.

>Iron Man - I understand this sucks

Looks rubbish

>Need for Speed ProStreet - I know nothing about this

Played NFS stuff on PSP and ps2 but not a big racing fan.

>Assassins Creed

Got this as part of the 2 for 28 in blockbuster about a month ago , looks very pretty is a bit dull - i think its slightly cheaper in gamestation at the moment (2 for 20?)

>Kane & Lynch - I already have this (and have played it once)

Doesnt look very good.

>Fear

Oldish game

>Tiger Woods 08 - I already have this on the wii, so I probably don't want this

Dont own any of the recent ones but golf is golf.

>FIFA 08 - I don't really like this, Euro 2008 seems much better, so if anything I'll wait for FIFA 09

Dont own any fifa games and they are all about 2p each 2nd hand.

>Dark Sector - What's this?

Some first person shooter with a glave (weapony thing from Krull if i remember correctly) not played it.

>Civilization Revolution - I realise a lot of you are going to recommend this, but I'm not really into strategy games, feel free to persuade me to change my mind though.

I'm tempted by this but havent played civ since about civ2

>WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2008 - I don't think so.

No no no !

>GRAW - Although the picture is of GRAW2, either way, I've played the demo and not enjoyed it

I have both GRAW 1 and 2 and havent really played them - GRAW1 is in the 5 for 25 group at BB GRAW2 is in the 2 for 18

>Turning Point - No

Looks very dull

So i'm looking at COD4 but have a similar problem in that i dont see any of the others which are worth it.

Another alternative is that COD4 is that much more everywhere else and post for an xbox game is going to be about £2 is if they let you buy 2 then one of us buys 2 and mails one to the other person ?

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8652

That's not a bad idea. Once my super-slow internet connection has finished downloading the demos I'll see if I fancy any of them. If not, maybe we can sort something out.
You can certainly order 2 copies of COD4 on the website and it will give them to you for £45, so there shouldn't be a problem there.

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 17:50

"Chiefs admit Brum skyline mix-up"

< http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west ... 560392.stm >

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 21:15

Sometimes I post comments to various internet commentary sites. For the Guardian's cricket commentary I used to get on all the time. Just tried the BBC for the first time. He shoots he scores... here's how the 'exciting moment' went down (I'm Andy H, BTW):

Quote:

2056: Over on 606, there's a debate about how best to get a comment on this page. If I may be so bold as to stick in my two-penneth worth, maybe something amusing, something interesting, something that provokes debate, but clearly doesn't cross the line. And I think we all know where that line is, don't we?

2058: "Funny anecdotes are also helpful. One time I told a long story about missing the net from on the line (don't ask) and being shoved in goal for the next match. That got me on."
cheese666 on 606

2100: Oh for heaven's sake. Babajide "Baba" Collins Babatunde is coming on for FC Midtjylland. Is this some sort of wind-up?

2102: Officially, there were 2,200 at the Villa game. There are about 40 Danish fans in Manchester tonight. I love being able to hear the players. Martin Petrov's volley is cleared by a defender before Elano flashes a shot across goal and wide.

2105: "(See 2056) We all know where the line is? You should have told the linesman at Liverpool's match last night!"
Andy H, via text

A good example of something worth publishing. Full marks.

I am da bomb. And a little tipsy.

+1200 sad geek points!

Plissken · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 21:34

I visited Microsoft's UK headquarters today. It seems like my ideal place to work.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49236

Plissken wrote:

I visited Microsoft's UK headquarters today. It seems like my ideal place to work.

Really? I always find it a pretty soulless place, no matter how much they try and pretend otherwise.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 22:14

Is that the one in Reading or London?

Plissken · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 22:15

It seemed like the kind of place where you had the freedom to come and go and be left alone to get on with stuff.

And FunSquareSuperPluses, natch.

Grim...: Microsoft Campus at Reading.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49236

Plissken wrote:

be left alone to get on with stuff.

Really not. Microsoft are unfeasibly quota/target/objective driven. It makes them highly annoying to work with.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Yeah, but when one of their quotas is "must give customers at least 50 beers a week" you can't really complain, mate.

Plissken · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2008 22:29

Probably, but you know, I was impressed. I certainly worked in much shittier places.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49236

Plissken wrote:

Probably, but you know, I was impressed. I certainly worked in much shittier places.

Oh, absolutely it doesn't seem to be a bad place to work, I don't think. It's just a little creepy. It's very much 'look how lovely we are', whilst simultaneously not being that lovely.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Stepford programmers.

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3253

Curiosity wrote:

A good example of something worth publishing. Full marks.

I am da bomb. And a little tipsy.

+1200 sad geek points![/quote]

Surely minus points (somewhat redeemed by tipsyness, but still)? The Guardian minute-by-minute or over-by-over is approximately 3 trillion times better than the BBC rip-off of same.

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