Quote from PsyJudging by your posts today, I'm thinking that you've recently discovered the wonder that is Charlie Brooker?
Nah, I've known about him since the first series of Screenwipe. Though he's probably fresh in my mind because, while my folks have been down, I did a kind of Charlie Brooker Marathon.
Quote from DefragApple fanboys do more to turn me off macs than anything Apple ever did. I work alongside quite a few Mac/iPhone/iPad zealots and their conversations make my eyes glaze over... zzzI'm sure Apple products do a great job in certain areas, but fuck, it's just a computer/phone/tablet, not a way of living. Give it a fucking rest, fanboys!
Charlie Brooker":3sumtu7j]I just hope buying a MacBook won't turn me into an iPrick. I want a machine that essentially makes itself invisible, not a rectangular bragging stone. If, 10 minutes after buying it, I start burbling on about how it's left me more fulfilled as a human being, or find myself perched at a tiny Starbucks table stroking its glowing Apple with one hand while demonstratively tapping away with the other in the hope that passersby will assume I'm working on a screenplay, it's going straight in the bin.
After laughing at the idea, when Espgaluda came out on iPhone and I considered dropping £500 on one. I'm so weak.
Quote from wackoFixed today and the Map Editor is now live
OT: $3.5m on virtual horses.
You two stop this right now.
I feel like writing an article for Gamasutra now. It will be entitled The Collapse of Expression: The Prestructuralist Theory of Narrative and Games as Art, and contain a singular 
I've seen a whole presentation on that, only it was earnest. Trying my hardest to find it. In the meantime, enjoy this.
Well the arguement is probably that the former has a deeper meaning, though to say there is no 'art' out there that isn't arbitrary nonsense would be lying. Either way this whole debate is tired and tedious.
What does art mean? Err, not sure. What does game mean? Um, I don't know. Are games art? OF COURSE THEY ARE/AREN'T.
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I side with the "I don't care" crowd as they are by far the least annoying.
It's 2010.
Yup, but I don't want to do everything again for the sake of getting +200 experience in ME3.
I just did the first mission for the achievement. Might continue to finish it on insanity but... wow, everything is stacked and I'm almost maxed. Certainly aren't going to be heavy charging everything with a shotgun and barrier.
Okay, so I went into this game pretty annoyed, but it didn't take long for me to start loving it again. I just finished it after playing it way too much over a few days...
I tried not to spoil any of it, but saw the achievement about nobody dying in the last mission. I decided no matter what happened when I got to the end that would be my Shepard and would be the one continuing into ME3. Although I did all the content I could before my crew were captured, and didn't do anything stupid like sent Grunt off to hack things, so everyone was okay.
When I got to the end it asked if I wanted to Continue or New Game+. I hit Continue but... I think I've done everything; All the systems are at 100% and there's nothing in my log. I'm only 28, should there be enough missions to max my level out? I don't want to hit NG+ to do it, because I'd have to do everything again.
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I guess , to do this in one play-through you needed to be max level in ME1, thus starting at level 5 in ME2.
You can't veto my fun!
Bullshit.
My bro is your typical modern gamer hooked on CoD:MW2 online and when I brought this up he didn't know who Infinity Ward were.
But Respawn can write "from the makers of Call of Duty and Medal of Honor" on the box. So w/e.
Don't even bother trying to run a car in London. The tube should be fine, though it does seem to turn everyone into a prick.
Okay, I brought Mass Effect 2 to continue from the first game because it was gnarly. I guess I’ve been technically playing it for an hour so far, or not depending on which what you look at it, because I’ve not progressed passed the title screen. For the sin of buying the game first hand I have to enter my super-elite Cerberus Network code for some extra content (well, I don’t have to but who isn't going to cash in their 'free' goodies?). But it’s not just a redeem code click from the dashboard like all other games, because EA wants me to make an account with them for whatever future reason.
I enter my e-mail address and password, but apparently that’s already in use and the game tells me nothing else. So I plod over to my PC and it becomes clear I do already have an account but it’s not any password I can seem to remember, so I decide to reset it and, oh, I can’t reset it because my account is inactive which was the problem all along - please contact customer support. How about no? I set up a new account on some random e-mail address and return to the 360 to punch in the details and access the DLC. Hurray! From the DLC menu I queue up every item individually but realise, of course, it isn’t going to download or activate with the game running. I must quit out of the game and wait half an hour for it to download while I revive an old thread on mapcore just to bitch about the whole thing.
Surely the whole attraction of console gaming was that you could just put the disc in the drive and play? I brought Tekken 6 a while ago, which was a port of an arcade game where the entire purpose is to throw people in and out of games as fast as possible, and it took me half an hour to punch someone in the face.
Ah, better.
Here's some photos from the "Crisis in Kyrgyzstan." Didn't want to create a new thread. Be warned that the hidden pictures are dead people.
More importantly, they've banned loli.
Well that's alright then.
