ThunderPeel2001

We're in the "tag amnesty" period. Soon enough we'll be in the "tag accountability" period... although that is dependent on Tabacco having the time, or someone reminding him, probably.

Oh fuck

It sounds like a very flawed game, but I can't decide if I'm going to love it or not, regardless. I imagine it's something I could possible enjoy, despite the hand-holdyness. Maybe I'll see how Jake likes it.

I'm sure there's a ton of series that do psychological horror better than Dr. Who... I just can't think of any.

There should be an obligatory comical planking thread.

Well maybe I'll give them another go. I just found them to be quite boring to read, but maybe I wasn't paying complete attention. Adams also did Starship Titantic: The Video Game! But that wasn't very good either (although it had some funny ideas and moments).

I'm going to ignore this good point so I can remain outraged!

It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. (I blame Orvidos for his insisting that they're not funny, and so forcing people to push the boundaries in order to get his approval. Also that newscast for basically saying, "look everyone, this is cool!".)

Well I like it

Why's he got a lightsaber on his desk?

Sure, it's not a bad book, but it doesn't really fit in with the other HH books. If you read it first, or completely separately from the other books, it's still pretty good. I remember really enjoying it when I went back and read it by itself years later. But it's very different to the other books and doesn't really fit in the series if you read them in order. (That said, books 3 and 4 have serious problems, too.)

I should add that making me think of Neuromancer, a novel about highly corrupt mega global corporations, isn't giving Sony any breaks. There was an oddly slick and sinister undertone to the video that I liked a great deal.

The radio series and the first two Hitch-Hikers books were his best work (although the radio series was apparently largely helped by John Lloyd, especially the later episodes). Then it kind of starts going downhill. The last HH book is almost by an entirely different author, and isn't very funny (Adams acknowledged that it was written during a "bad year" in his life). Also, I find the Dirk Gently books to be vastly overrated, and nowhere near as funny or clever as they think they are. Still, as with all of his lacklustre work, bad Adams is still working checking out. Also: Last Chance to See is supposed to be amazing (non fiction) and The Salmon of Doubt is also a great read (his last unfinished work -- which felt a lot more like a return to form -- with some great essays and other random things thrown in).

Planking = fun! (Until the craze wears off.) Some of those photos were hilarious!

It was very corporate, but I still liked it. Made me think of Neuromancer for some odd reason.

Currently reading Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?. DON'T SPOIL THE ENDING FOR ME! Seriously though, I've already learned so fucking much about Islam, and the difference between a tiny minority of psychopathic, hardcore nutjobs (who actually go against their own religion in loads of different ways -- including attacking fellow Muslims who aren't "hardcore" enough for them). I also understand why people in the Middle East (not Muslims, most of which live in Asia folks, not the Middle East) might actually like Osama bin Laden. Between their fucked up dictatorship governments and shitty US foreign policy, he was someone who was actually doing something for them... even if it had the complete opposite effect, was actually just mindless violence, and really made life worse for lots of people. Nice to finally be educated on some of this stuff. I'm sure there's lots more I don't understand yet, but hey, I'm only on Chapter 3.

Damn. Nicely handled in their video. Why didn't we get one of those when RRoD was discovered? Almost makes me watch to switch. That said, their original security was apparently shockingly poor. Hmm

Apparently they (whoever) managed to get a file on the PSN server. I guessed they did a lot more damage than Sony initially realised?

Doh. I missed that thread, apparently. Or I just forgot about it.

I saw and guessed as much

That would explain it. I keep seeing pre-release stuff (like on Steam) and I don't recall chatter about it here, so I assumed it hadn't been released yet. I fail again!

It's just a silly subtitle, done in the time-honoured Idle Thumbs fashion. Apparently I failed. uHB6P8IKi9Y

Yeah, apparently all the tags to this thread got deleted. No idea why. Mine were equally funtastic.

Indeed Die Hard, Hunt for Red October. He also directed Speed, which was damned good fun, too.

13 Assassins is a great samurai movie in the vein of Kurosawa, but way more freaky (it's directed by Takashi Miike). Attack the Block was even more fun the second time. Great movie.