Be Excellent To Each Other

For those pimping the article out: the next four parts go live one day a week all this week, each one at 13:37.

Noted.

Ta.

Why the stagger?

Not having an ungrateful pop, just curious.

I tripped in a rabbit hole whilst negotiation the field of vexed cows yesterday afternoon during the walk with mrsA.

It's what "proper" sites do isn't it?

It's also habit forming, you get people coming back every day/week/whatever, and it becomes part of their routine etc.

Of course that's only useful if there is new content to keep them coming back.

Malc

Right, so what feature would we like to follow on from this article?

More reviews?

Another voting type thing?

This is the chance to keep the ball rolling.

Maybe some sort of satirical jokey news articles?

Something about science, farting and baths.

Maybe you bring all your stuff back, and everyone else stops being a jerk about it.

Hurrah! Feedbacks!

Nah, I'd hate to embarrass anyone.

Dimmers stuff isn't up there anymore?

Talking of which, his new cartoon has made me bury my Star Wars DVD in the gardern and salt the earth so nothing may grow from it.

Amazing

If salting the earth is bad for stuff then how come an honest person is "the salt of the earth"?

Malc

it comes from the Sermon on the Mount in the Bible, although a bit tricky in translation, apaprently.

it's also the last track on the Rolling Stones Album Beggar's banquet.

We should do a vote fo our favourite 3 or 5 games of this year. Although it may be wise to wait until the end of the year I suppose.
We could do a vote on our favorite ever online games with bezzies. An article about that would be a good read I think.

You are not allowed to write an article about your hat.

Oh that's a good idea! My top 5 favourite hats. I think I know which ones I would choose already. So I could write a paragraph abot each one, explaining why I love it,any special features it has and my favourte moments then I could include picures and captions. This could be a real traffic getter!

I was going to write a 'Things we know about a post-apocalyptic future from playing Fallout 3' but it's been so long since I played it, I've forgotten what I was going to include.

That's just silly. Dune 2 was great, but only because it predated Command and Conquer et al. It's not a better game than most of its successors. And Warcraft was bloody horrible. Quite liked the second one, mind, though I only played a demo.

I think Dune 2's only been topped by Dune 2000, to be honest. I've never liked C&C and its spinoffs.

Huzzah! I never thought I'd live to see this day.

Would it be churlish of me to complain about the sub-editing? Probably. But I think only a total stickler for the rules would think my first sentence benefits from a "this is" at the start, and I'm pretty sure a plain "legally" would be better than "totally legal!" in the final sentence. If you only do one thing, I'd ask that you lose the over-excited exclamation mark. I'm too cool for that. Yeah.

Erm. Sorry. Well done everyone!

I enjoyed your review a lot, TsuMuch.

It's all looking good. BUT WILL THERE BE AMSTRAD GAMES IN THE NEXT INSTALMENT? EH EH EH? (you've already seen the full article you pillock - Ed)

We need a Sir Alan Dimrill dammit. And a Dimrill Dimrill that could double as a one half of ZZ Top minus beard Dimrill.

Oh on the sub eddding your own reviews vibe:

should probably be:

and should certainly be

Malc

Cheers MaliA. I was a little concerned I'd made it too obvious that I'd rather be writing about Tetris...

Yours is a great write up on EvE, and if I hadn't seen friends willingly become unemployed thanks to the game's terrifying addictive power, it'd probably tempt me to give it a go.

What's the time, fuckers?

Chico Time?

It's 1346hrs.

For the love of god, keep those two away from the teleport booth.

Who the fuck subbed your eve review?

It's "loaded to the gunwales" not "loaded to the gunnels"

I note you're a subed. Was it you?

Christ no, if I'd let something like that through I'd fully expect a 3am visitation from my long dead father to bollock me.

Me and kalmar. Myp promised to look, but he didn't. Hey, it turns out volunteer subeds who've already spent hours chasing people for submissions don't do a perfect job when subbing 12,500 words! Who knew?

Aye, when my boss found out I had nothing to do I got landed with a shitload of work and a training course instead.

That was a rhetorical question.

Myp's review of Osu! Tatake! Ouendan!'s shite. Mine was better.

Feel free to swap it out, if you want.

I'm not flopping it out in front of you.

Ah! Takes a smartarse to spot another

I like both. May we have both?

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Really digging the blurbs so far. Just a touch of nit-pickery: I think the last sentence of Deus Ex, paragraph 2 is lacking a 'not'. Maybe it's not (har); I haven't played the game. There is a missing apostrophe (and a hyphen between '300' and 'odd', but that's prolly just me) in the penultimate Head Over Heels paragraph, but I feel churlish even mentioning it, as that piece is fantastic.

On a personal level, a word or two on why Landstalker is potentially better than the Zelda series would be illuminating. Not a thesis, nor a gauntlet-throw, just a few words why devilman thinks so.

***

No, this most definitely does not mean mine will be perfect. Or even particularly good.

[edit] And the list is making me want to play some games that I never have done. So mission accomplished already (for me)!

Done all of throughsilver's suggestions.

<really fucking relieved the only criticism is due to a homophone and a grocer's apostrophe>

Nah, it was well good. I especially liked the murdering of faces.

That's fair enough. As the the smaller write-ups are just a paragraph, I didn't really feel I could go into much detail as to why I prefer it to Zelda and still fit a meaningful description.

One thing I've just noticed that's missing... the format of each game. With some games it'll be pretty obvious but some may not know that Landstalker was on the Mega Drive for instance.

Next set is up!

Oh, man, I had to sub-ed the fuck out of #25 and it still looks weird

Wooo! The first and only in depth recommendation of a menu! Go me!

I LOVE RHYTHM TENGOKU!

Er, WTF?
http://www.flyfishing-magazine.com/news ... ers-30-21/

That's a bit odd. They obviously link to every article that contains fishing.

How flattering!