Be Excellent To Each Other

Oh, that's the shoe print of a giant!

I've been following his blog, actually. I think the stuff about giving tracked laptops as 'gifts' to high-ranking Belizians is insanity, even for McAfee. And these female operatives who were so good they ended up living with him. Yeah, okay Hank Scorpio.

Amiga screenshot challenge! Should keep some of you amused during a tea break.

http://www.starfieldsoftware.co.uk/Game ... lenge.aspx

Nice find! Did up to 100, 87/100 total. I still maintain Ugh! would make an awesome XBLAH/PISSYNAN game.

So many wonderful games on the Amiga. I got 39/49 and gave up. Damn you for posting this so late! Bed time!

Snap. 87 for me too. You'd have thought that it'd have been easy to find screenshots of games that didn't include the title of the game in the picture, but never mind.

(Didn't recognise Starflight at all and I loved it on the Mega Drive)

48/66 before I gave up.

I didn't know Quake came out on the Amiga? Wow...

Famous TV game show Jeopardy! is holding auditions in Toronto at some point this year. In order to qualify for an audition you need to pass an online test, which is rigorously administered for only three nights, starting tonight.

Both Mrs Meaty and I are trying!

If you've never seen Jeopardy before:


It's a pretty old game, and predates the current and irritating breed of game shows where a handful of questions is spun out to fill an hour by making it all drama about the contestant. Your answer must be in the form of a question.

EDIT: Done. Fucking hell, that was hard.

84 for me - there were a few where it came down to knowing it wasn't 2 of the choices and guessing between the other 2 - and there was a lot of repetition of the names given (so if you saw the same name come up again then you knew it would eventually be shown)

This is an interesting house for sale.

It came out for the 3 rich delusional nerds with suitably pimped Amigas.

Even my pimped 68030 64 meg A1200 has no hope of running it.

Didn't you need a pci extender card, atx case mod and voodoo graphics card?

Needs more LEDs....

Probably. I know you needed a 68060 processor to run it which no stock Amiga had.

I had a 68060/50MHz A1200 with a Voodoo3 graphics card, and it didn't run Quake particularly well.

Anyone got any pro-tips for things to do in Singapore over a weekend? I've already got Little India, Arab Street, the National Botanic Gardens and their giant ferris wheel on the list.

PS no hoo-ers, thanks.

PPS -even female ones, Cras.

G&T at Raffles, natch.

You should go to...no.
There's always...no.
How about...no.

I got nothing.

Oh, wait - you should probably have a Singapore Sling in the Long Bar in Raffles.

Heh.



Am I going to have trouble using a Visa Debit card ratehr than a credit card out there, or are they civilised?

I forgot to bring my book (Thanks, TheVision!) that I am reading at the moment to work. And I also forgot to bring my Kindle as I bought "how to destroy the universe and 34 other really interesting uses of physics" for 99p yesterday and it is very interesting. I learnt about rolelrcoasters, and weather and hurricanes and tsunamis and things like that. So i suppose I will have to read newspapers.

You'll be fine with debit.

Raffles, definitely.

Visit Changhai Prison, a particularly nasty WW2 PoW camp.

If you get the time, how about bankrupt a 200 year old bank?

Hurrah! LolliPop Chainsaw is £10 at amazon and I have a £10 amazon gift card, erm, somewhere.

Ask locals where to find the ladyboys.

Chew gum and spit it out in public.

Reenact scenes from the final series of Tenko.

Incorrect!

It ran Quake better than any PC ever and the Amiga is not dead.

Ah, the post-1995 era when some Amiga users believed that the format could again prosper commercially.. If only ever other Amiga user spent the equivalent of an average-spec PC upgrading a defunct, no-longer-available computer format to slightly less outdated specifications... Amazing times.

What time of day would a gentleman patronise the long bar in Raffles for a Singapore Sling, then? I was planning on having fish head curry for dinner in Little India.

Is the sun over the yard arm?

It will be at some point, yes. I didn't want to be all gauche and turn up at 8pm for one if the proper folk were all having them before dinner. One wants to fit in.

Anytime between 11am-3pm is acceptable for the first spirit based drink of the day.

Moving back into the hostel tomorrow. Really can't be bothered packing my 2 bags.
Still I do have 4 more beers than need drinking this evening.

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Malc

Well Singapore is awesome for food, one of the best places other than Penang in that region. Would most definitely recommend a evening meal in a Banana Leaf Cafe, if you want the local speciality and don't mind fish go for the fish head curry, its very nice.





Also another thing to try is Roti Canai, a Malaysian version of Indian flat bread served with awesome dal curry sauce, iirc the best was the chicken.



Another food to look up, probably breakfast time ish or mid morning snack is Kaya on toast, Kaya is a amazing coconut jam, since it is only good for 4-5 days it is always nice and fresh



If your looking for a good food court to go to then I would recommend Tiong Bahru Market (Getting to Tiong Bahru Market is not too difficult : A 10 – 15 minutes' walk from MRT-Tiong Bahru (Take a cab, it will cost you peanuts…)), as one of the newer food courts it is very clean with very high quality food in all the different stalls. If your looking for a older hawker centre try the Chinatown Complex Food Centre on Smith Street (off New Bridge), a short walking distance from MRT-Chinatown.

Hint if eating in a hawker centre the food is normally awesome and the food costs virtually nothing, one 'problem' I had was the tenancy I have to point at the food I am interested in, the Singaporeans take this firm order, I ended up with some rather large meals

With regards to things to go look at what type of things are you interested in? Shopping? Sightseeing? Cultural? Drinking?

One thing I would say is DON'T go for a Singapore Sling in Raffles, it is massively overpriced and not worth it, by all means pop you head in and have a look at Raffles but the cost of the drink just isn't worth it.

The intention was that it was going to be a 'thing you do', not a good value for money drink

Oh and yes - The Banana Leaf is excellent.

Ohh and if your looking for proper local food go for a Nyonya restaurant, Nyonya is term used for the female descendants of late 15th and 16th-century Chinese immigrants to the Indonesian archipelago of Nusantara during the Colonial era who married into the local Malay population, the food is focused around 3 citys, Penang, Melaka and Singapore, it is a very interesting mix of chinese cooking with very Indian styled spices. Well worth a look

True but I think the drink is bloody horrible also So bad value for monies and a shit drink not worth it in my mind.

Bugger made myself hungry now

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Interesting:

http://www.criticalmiss.com/issue10/Cam ... poly1.html

I still don't want to play it, though.

If you're heading down to Arab Street I'd definitely go to Blu Jazz, which is a cracking bar with character and reasonably (for Singapore) priced beers.

The best curry I had there was on a rooftop restaurant on Boat Quay, called Colombo. Really good, and uses decent meat (found it hard to find much Indian food I liked when I lived out there - always manky bits of thigh and bone).

For an exciting hawker experience I'd go to Lau Pa Sat http://www.laupasat.biz/. Probably not the best hawker in Singapore for quality of food but for choice and atmosphere it's pretty incredible.

Another bar which is pretty awesome in a hygenic Sons of Anarchy sort of way is Handlebar (http://www.handlebaroriginal.com/), a biker bar in the same way Hardrock Cafe is a metal bar. Everything you touch has come from a motorbike - door handles, toilet flushes - and they serve a cocktail that is wheeled up to your table and blended using a contraption with two revvable handlebars. Ridiculous place.

If you have time and the inclination, going to see a movie in Gold Class in one of the Golden Village cinemas is awesome - easyboy recliner, aircon so cool you need a blanket and table service for food and booze.

If you're after seafood, Jumbo at East Coast Park is excellent, even if it is a massive franchise. You can look out at the hundreds of oil tankers hugging the horizon.

Din Tai Fung has some incredibly light soup-filled dim sum which should be sampled, as you won't get the like of it in the UK.

But to be honest, my favourite thing to do in Singapore was always the brunches. Rock up at a hotel at 11am to be seated for four hours gorging. As much champagne as your body can handle, and every food you could contemplate eating, and as much of it as you like. Lobster, foie gras, steak, roasts with yorkies, curry, dim sum. And you roll out at 3pm, stuffed and pissed, blinking into the sun, and head down to a riverside bar to continue the fun. Popular places for this are the fullerton, Shangri La and equinox.

if the seedier side is of interest, the colloquially known Four Floors of Whores (Orchard Towers) does exactly what it says on the tin. Pretty unpleasant, especially when you have squaddies taking their offshore break, but an entertaining experience for half an hour (I used to go with Mrs Fop for a drink and a gawp).

I'm told the Transformers ride at Universal Studios is brilliant, but it hadn't opened by the time I left. The zoo is ace, much more fun than the Night Safari, which involves looking at weirdly static animals. In the dark.

For outdoor stuff, you're spot on with the Botanical Gardens, but also the Kranji War Memorial is quite a spectacle, but a long way out of (and in a shit part of) town. Combined with a trip to the gardens in Jurong East it could be worth a trip.

And of course there's Marina Bay Sands, which is worth at least looking at, as is the Durian (national theatre) on the esplanade.

Finally, personally, I'd go to Raffles, but just have a beer and crunch some peanuts. Singapore Slings cost the best part of £20 and taste like shit.

I think we've heard enough.. Orchard Towers it is!

93 / 100...I have no idea how I got that, there were tons I didn't even recognise the name of let alone recognise the screenshot of, every guess I made early on seemed to be spookily correct which made the later ones easy through a process of elimination.

Heh. I've been thinking that for a while about many games.

ohh also if you find yourself jet lagged in Singapore then go for a taxi ride and go to the Mustafa Centre for many floors of anything you can possibly ever want to buy, open 24 hours Mustafa's is a definite must see for shopping mayhem

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Official Beex rules say you can't buy a zombie game until you own the zombie game.

Maybe sip a Singapore Schlong instead, Kissyfur.

Not wanting to break any Excellent rules, what is THE Zombie Game?

I think Mr Grim... is referring to L4D2

Whereabouts? I've just done a search and the cheapest is £14/16.