ThunderPeel2001

I'm sure someone can gift you Torchlight. If no-one has done it yet, send me your email address.

Doh! What where they saying exactly? (I've become quite partial to Lumines once I got my head around it -- damned enjoyable game!)

Torchlight - £3.74 Lumines - £1.79

In your face!!!! Seriously, I'm glad to see I've managed to beat you at one game (your scores on Geometry Wars 2 are nothing less than obscene!).

Yup, that's precisely what I got from it, too. I'm glad I'm not alone. Check out this "review":

Awesome! Thanks for the advice, I'll shall order it pronto!

Did anyone else ever notice that the music/sound in those games was done by a guy called "Moby"... It was really shit, too.

Holy crap! There's an amazing sale on at HMV here in the UK and I want to pick up a Beatles Rock Band guitar (I'm still using the wired RB1 controller -- it's time I upgraded). Question is: Rickenbacker or Gretsch Duo Jet? I'm torn between the two of them! Anyone got any experience with both of them? (I guess I'm looking quite fiercely at Miffy right now )

I forgot to say: HAPPY HOLIDAYS! (And congrats to Toblix for the perfectly tasteless clipart.)

No exceptions? Apparently some in the US have deemed it "too liberal"............ *sigh* Whatever. JonCole is right. Go see it in IMAX 3D if you can! (It's quite the spectacle, despite the wafer-thin story and cheesy ending.)

Yes, it worked perfectly. All done in a matter of minutes. Good stuff!

Sure, that'll be no problem! Send me your Steam ID.

Haha! Good ol' Onion. Here's a picture of me with my saxophone (and Santa). (Plently more of these scary pictures at: www.sketchysantas.com)

Holy crap... there's just too much! Today only deals: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl - £1.39 Grand Theft Auto IV - £4.99 Mirror's Edge - £3.24 Defense Grid: The Awakening - £1.74 Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising - £14.99 Other stuff Freedom Force Pack (1 & 2) - £3.34 Ghostbusters - £5.09 Civilization III Complete - £2.00

...courtesy of a certain Mr. Toeblix. Thank you, sir! And a very Merry Christmas to you!

So i just started playing Thief... Why didn't anyone tell me it has SPIDERS?? System Shock 2 was hell. I'm not going through that again! No sir!

Seriously...? You missed out on the Amiga/Atari ST? There's a whole world of wonderful waiting back there! We didn't need two buttons back in the good ol' days! (Except on the games when we did )

So how can you complain about FFVII's battle system when it was actually fricking awesome? (Possibly my fave out of I to IV -- the ones I've played.) I heard about FFVIII's summon/cut-scene nightmare (doesn't sound fun), but I've also heard that the game wasn't designed to be played like that (I hope that's true). I share some of your reservations about the opening of FFXIII but, at the same time, I'm more than prepared to reserve judgement until I play it... the "six hour" thing might be totally wrong, for a start.

Worse than the vault was that horrible cave system in Oblivion. In least in the vault there was a story unfolding (I kind of enjoyed it actually). Oblivion's opening was just dull, IMO.

Happy Birthday to all those who's birthday it is. Yay!

But the Book of Job is about the apparently randomness/unfairness of life. That's a pretty big and deep question for any book or film to tackle. (eg. "Why are we here?", "What's the point of all this?", "Why must I suffer?") I don't think it's selling the film short to say that's what it's about. I like your observations, too. I didn't get the literal Schrodinger's Cat connection in the opening sequence, but that seems to make a lot of sense, and it also connects to what I'm saying: By being a witness to the experiment, you also change its outcome. Probably more importantly than that, though, it also sets the idea of there being some answers that we're never going to get, mirroring the frustrating experience of Larry Gopnik (and of life itself). As the Rabbi said of the "Goy's teeth", "who cares about the answer?". And, as Gopnik's student's father said to him: "Why can't you just accept the mystery?" So really, I don't think it's selling the film short to say it's attempting to address the apparent crippling unfairness/randomness of life. Talking about it is really making me analyse it further. Very interesting stuff!

That's got to be a winner for 2009!

That does look astonishingly linear, but I've not played it, so I don't know how it feels. FFXIII could be the one that kills the franchise, for all we know. I mean, god knows they've put out some great stuff in the past, but it can't all be jelly. Still, I'm happy to reserve judgement until I play it.

Really? That seems pretty extreme to me. Unless there was a troll, but even so, I'd expect the mods to take care of that person, otherwise I'd move on to a different forum. Good or bad, I couldn't ignore posts on a forum*. In fact, in the past, some people I've initially disliked I've later come to love, respect and, in some cases, become great friends with. If I'd ignored them, that would have never happened. I guess I'm a purist: Life isn't supposed to be filtered... people you dislike are just as important as those you do like, in shaping who you are. (Unless they're just irritating trolls, but like I said, mods should take care of them.) Am I being too glib? * Actually, I can think of one exception in my many years online, but he was a colossal tool and there were no mods to be seen, so it just spiralled and spiralled until I left the forum.

So surely Red Dead Redemption is Oblivion with guns... which is also Fallout 3. I'm sure there's some sort of clever mathematical equation that would explain this clearly.