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0:12 — that right there! That was me on my way home from a Chinese 'all you can eat' buffet the other night.

Eh?

I feel for you man. I ended up with 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.

Haha, yeah it is a bastard. You have to watch where the water goes. Another one of those wonderful 'for fuck's sake' Grim Fandango puzzles.

Haha, oh boy. OK, here is THE ONE if you're truly ready for that tantalisingly juicy answer:

One a bit more specific than bkbroiler's hint:

It doesn't even look prettier than GTA. That video above is almost like watching GTA5 but with some of the detail and depth to everything sapped out, and I don't just mean the graphics. The bits that are different such as throwing cameras around and looking through them don't look cool or fun.

There's a box full of towels somewhere. Assuming you do in fact not mean the microwave, it's a 42-inch screen — the camera probably makes everything seem smaller than it is. That said, I am starting to fancy a dirty 50–60 inches now having had this one for some years. Did I mention my sweet-ass duck?

Moved into my new flat this weekend. I still can't sit or lie down due to my muscles being veritably wasted; I ended up sleeping for 18 hours the night after the main furniture haul. Christ almighty is moving the worst. Anyway, naturally my #1 priority was getting my living room set up so I could resume my 60-hours-in GTA5 campaign. Here's how that's looking now: Nice duck, right? As for my computer desk, oh good fucking lord:

I've never really thought of as there being such a type of person as 'a hipster'. When I've used the term, it's often been to describe someone liking something because it's a little popular but only with a very niche crowd — making them feel like they belong to some kind of elite that has superior taste to everyone else. Another way I've used it is to describe someone not liking something because it's popular, for example an aversion to any music that's ever been in any kind of chart or that's in a certain genre out of sheer principle. I don't mean the above in a particularly hostile way because the above has applied to very good friends of mine, and indeed sometimes myself (I used to irrationally refuse to listen to hip-hop/rap). Generally, the word 'hipster' is more of a descriptor for particular behaviours rather than the person as a whole. For example, I know someone who is otherwise your average dude but he's caught onto the beard thing that's been doing the rounds during the past few years ('THIS IS HOW REAL MEN SHAVE: THEY DON'T', blah blah blah) and for that I did jokingly call him a hipster because it was the most appropriate word that jumped to mind for that kind of thing. These little movements tend to pop up around certain unlikely things, and there are people who seem to pursue such interests primarily because they enjoy being seen as somebody into that kind of thing. This is certainly not the rule, and anybody can exhibit such tendencies regardless of whether or not they're what you'd wholly call 'a hipster'. In some ways, 'hipster' as a descriptor is almost the exact opposite of 'mainstream'. Both can simultaneously be applied to a person; you can be a hipster in terms of fashion, but mainstream in terms of musical taste. Are these labels stupid? Pretty much, but they're useful. I guess that retaking the term is a noble cause, but it does seem peculiar to me as hipsters have never really been a definitive group of people to my eyes. To bounce this back to my previous point, it's a bit like trying to retake the term 'mainstream' (which it's interesting to note is frequently used in a similarly pejorative way to 'hipster'). They're relatively vague words that work in certain contexts that I'm struggling to think of alternatives to. A desire to be associated with such words as if they were a distinct movement almost seems like... being a hipster.

Announcing it on Twitter in the chosen way will surely lead to such assumptions, though.

Probably was something as stupid as money. I can see him being someone who was paid a lot by virtue of his seniority within the company, to the point where it was actually quite silly and the board decided to put an end to it I find it incredibly unlikely that he has no idea why he was terminated. Perhaps he was offered a cut or freeze and he didn't like it, so discussions around that faded away — until now. Ah, the wonderfully reckless conjecture that ambiguous tweets lead to.

What a great game. One of the best!

It is pretty shitty Nachimir, and I have indeed wanted to put forth the 'let's be friends' idea before after meeting someone who's a great laugh but not really someone I'd want to pursue romantically. But then I realise that when girls have done that same thing to me, I'd probably prefer to not carry on being their friend because I still fancy them. It obviously gets much harder when the 'been on a date' thing has happened; for girls you've just come to know through various circumstances it's not so much an issue. I guess we busy adults all have friends already, so we're not looking to fill that particular spot with people we met online/in a bar/whatever with the intention of possibly finding lurve — easier to just say goodbye in the event of failure.

As a random aside, a lot of people have been doing the whole photojournalism thing with GTAV: Online, seeing as you get an in-game camera plus the ability to take selfies. It's led to some wonderful things like the fan-made Weazel Action News documenting the crazy shit others are doing in multiplayer as if it were real news, GTAV Photographer, and GTAV War Correspondent. More games need cameras.

I don't think that it's good to continue seeing someone after you've decided the chemistry isn't to your liking. It might indeed provide some light entertainment, but leading anyone on in that way is asking for trouble. I would imagine that most people have plenty of friends who they can engage in casual social activities with. C'est la vie indeed, Badfinger. It was only one date, it's good that she made her (lack of) intentions clear to you early on. You can now focus on the next catch!

The PC version was definitely a bad port when I tried it, ran like a mess even on what was a very powerful machine at the time. It's possible that it was improved with later patches, but I'd imagine that the HD console re-release would be a better experience.

I can confidently say that Grim Fandango is largely bug-free in Residual now, having just played through it for the first time using that tool. The fact that there's an occasional animation bug is massively outweighed by the fact that you can use anti-aliasing (seriously, cannot emphasise enough how awesome this is). Plus, Residual fixes bugs that were present in the original game and never patched by LucasArts (notably the Domino conversation). At this point there's no downside to using it unless a few animation glitches throughout the entire game really bother you.

I'm pretty sure that was a mostly scripted vertical slice type thing. It doesn't really bear much resemblance to any Assassin's Creed I've ever seen, aside from the 'you can climb' thing. Perhaps the reason for the delay is that they realised the direction it was going in wasn't right, or maybe they were way too ambitious because there's no way that footage looked manageable for a last-gen console. Of course BG&E2 is likely to feature at least one explorable town/city, just like the original did — it was just much more limited in scope due to the game's age. Also, quality comment on that Joystiq article:

Between Good & Evil

You can also try to tell him about Olivia and Nick, which to my surprise Manny actually goes ahead and does, and try to show him the photo. Quite a good exchange.

I wish I could say I don't know how you feel Vosslerlarry, but with my girlfriend of 3.5 years moving out a couple of weekends ago sadly I do. I can tell you that it'll get worse, as the reality of living in a home all by yourself with none of her stuff around continues to hit you. But I'm actually feeling much better now, and have been keeping myself very busy in order to not just sit there looking at an empty spot on the sofa and thinking 'damn'. Of course, I keep occasionally stumbling upon one of her things that she's left behind which makes me feel a bit sad, but I just go ahead and put it into a little box that I'll probably one day look through with a smile of appreciation for the happy times we had. For sure, put into storage anything that you just have there because it reminds you of her (I found myself very reluctant to do this). But I'm feeling positive. I've started thinking a lot more about some of the ambitions and dreams that I'd allowed to drift away once I'd settled into a relationship — things such travelling by myself, moving further away, etc. Not to mention oodles of time to focus on my hobbies, and a big incentive to get myself into shape and dip my toes into things I just didn't make time for like evening classes (martial arts especially). I'm the one who initiated the break-up so I was already certain that my life needed to be without the relationship. If this doesn't apply to you, I expect some acceptance time will be needed. For me, I realised that while I cared deeply for her and always will, the chemistry and compatibility just wasn't there to make the long haul. As talk of marriage and children started escalating, I realised that I needed to be honest with both myself and her.

Quite enjoying listening to this guy's stuff, a very unique chill electronica sound. This video is quite beautiful: This one builds up into something wondeful, and I enjoy the gentle use of game-ish synths:

That video is brilliant. It took me some time before I even began to grasp what he was talking about, in fact I thought I was being trolled for a while. Fascinating once the demos began and I got what was happening. I think the most impressive part is how his 'robot' managed to find some ridiculously obscure bug in Super Mario Bros that I for one have never encountered, and then repeatedly exploit it for maximum efficiency. God damn robots.

Or you could just... not [complete Rayman Legends to 100%]!