ThunderPeel2001

...or an example of extremely poor taste? You decide

Whatever it is, it sounds outrageously lame.

The latest version of DosBox (0.72) supposedly completely supports Fallout.

Looks cool, I'm going to pick this up. Thanks for the heads up, Kroms!

Ooh. It seems that a lot of you were AP fans... Wow I take it you've all seen AP2, then?

Wow! A fellow AP reader. Christ I used to look at those things every month. I even made a "Skidmarks in the Style Of Stunt Car Racer". Took me ages to make using Deluxe Paint. I was so pleased with it and couldn't wait to send it off. But then I went and irreversibly corrupted the file by placing a / in the filename with my Action Replay. (Why did it let me do it?!? Olaf Boehm, you deserve a good kicking for that.) *sniff* Still, congrats on those efforts, shame they didn't send you anything. The basts. Incidentally, I'm the John Walker mentioned on the letters page of issue 19. And my Mum really did write a letter in. Those were the days.

Cripes, that's an insane amount. Wow. I hope I don't have that many unplayed/unfinished games. It might depress me if I bothered to count them. This got me thinking, though... These are the games that I've actually started (some near finished), but never completed, that still bug me: BloodNet X-Wing Alliance Fable (although I'd have to start over) Final Fantasy IV The Last Express Sam & Max: Season 2 Final Fantasy XII Fallout 3 Uplink Darwinia It's quite useful seeing them all in one place, taunting me... It doesn't look so bad when they're all together.

If you turn it off at the wall, I'm pretty sure you're fine. The horror stories of stand-by are hopefully a thing of the past, I think...? (Although I'm sure someone more ecologically aware might tell me I'm talking out of my arse.) A lot of modern appliances, like the 360/PS3 etc, go into an "ultra-low" stand-by state (as encouraged by the One Watt Initiative), meaning they only use about 1.5/2 watts (about $0.20/0.10p a month) instead of the usual 10-15 watts. If every appliance did this in stand-by mode it would be the equivalent of removing 18 million cars from the roads. Anyways, I was just going to make the point that leaving your computer in "Sleep/Standby" mode is a far worse abuse of electricity (about 85 watts). (Note: "Hybrid Sleep" (in Vista) and "Hibernate" mode only use about 3 watts, supposedly.)

Here's a little tip for those who use wireless on their 360: If you unplug the console from the wall, the next time you use it, the console won't "see" the Wireless USB Adaptor until the adaptor has been removed and plugged in again... Bloody annoying, but at least you'll know why it's not finding XBoxLive. Here's how much power our consoles consume while left plugged in and switched off (not much): http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-356-4.htm

Glinkets.

Holy shit! That guy on the motorbike is INSANE! Thank you, Elder Sign! (I'd love to see a Scientology video done the same way.) Enjoy... FEqSxADIc2M You your eyes peeled for Big Man Japan!

10 days to go! (Sorry elmuerte )

Doh. Well it's the first time I've been like "wow, they sound really interesting... I want to check them out!" and not known what they were because they're unusual titles like "The Marriage" etc. Inform me, Idle Thumbs Podcast: I want to learn!

Indeed, it says something either quite poignant, or incredibly pretentious, about humankind: People are just people, it's our unnatural constructions (like governments, etc.) that get in the way. (*sniff*) Also, that is one awesome headline. I wish I'd seen it live for myself.

I would bet good money that you weren't familiar with about 75% of the songs in Guitar Hero II. (One of the things I hated about GH3 was having to actually listen to their song selection.) With Rock Band you can, of course, broaden your tastes as much as you like with DLC. It's most definitely not all mainstream. (Don't know about GHWT, though.)

Arthur C. Clarke never saw this one coming... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7973747.stm

Any news on this, yet? I'm still a bit worried that all this excitement will be for nought

Taken from Graham Linehan's blog (he sums it up much better than I could!): The Dunblane Massacre was an atrocity almost beyond imagining. A man named Thomas Hamilton walked into a school in a small Scottish town in March 1996, and shot dead sixteen children and one teacher. It was not what we’ve since come to think of as a ‘normal’ school shooting as it was a primary school, and all the children were aged between five and six years of age. Paula Murrary is a journalist for the Sunday Express who thought it was well past time that the survivors of the Dunblane massacre were given a tabloid punching. To that end, she befriended a group of them on Facebook and collated their photographs and comments. Clearly aware of the legal guidelines in place to protect those under eighteen against invasion of privacy (and the specific instructions that the Press Complaints Commission issued regarding the Dunblane children), she waited until they hit eighteen. Then she wrote this. Under the headline “SICK MESSAGES SHAME MEMORY OF CLASSMATES”, referring to the normal, teenagery stuff they were saying to each other on their profiles, the gist of the story is that these kids are showing disrespect to their dead classmates by… being alive. Here’s an example of Paula’s scoop: Rude gestures. Boasting. Drunkenness. Complaints to the PCC have been made by two of the victims of the article, the piece has been pulled from the Express website… so we should probably forget about it, right? I don’t know. I think the line that has been crossed here is different to all the other lines the press routinely cross. The press likes us to believe they’re a properly regulated body, but they’re anything but. The PCC, unlike Ofcom and the Advertising Standards Authority (who have easy-to-use complaint forms on their websites) don’t even accept third party complaints -- in other words, unless you are the person named in a printed article, they’re not interested in hearing your opinion. So when faced with an affront to our humanity (which is what I believe this Express story is), there is no official channel for us to register our anger. That’s right - if you are offended by something on TV, Radio or in an advert, you can complain; if you’re offended by something in the print press…well, you’re just going to have to walk it off, because literally no-one wants to know. So, I think it is up to us to take a stand for those kids who had their privacy so ruthlessly invaded. Paula Murray set out to do a hit job on those kids– character assassination (of the most pathetic, intelligence-insulting kind) was the aim, and the weapons were a Facebook account and an editor with a moral centre as atrophied as her own. If there is a line beyond that one that the press can cross, I think we should make it harder for them to do so. So! What can we do? Here are a few suggestions: Sign the petition... http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/sundayexpress/ Matt Nida started this petition and when he’s got a decent number of names, he’ll be submitting it to the editor responsible for the story, the publishers and managing directors of Express Group Newspapers, the PCC, Downing Street and all media outlets who may be able to help shame the Express Group into action by making public the strength of national feeling about this. 2) Email your personal complaint to the Editorial Director of the Express Group about the conduct of Paula Murray and Scottish Sunday Express, Derek Lambie, who was responsible for placing the piece on the front cover. The Editorial Director is Paul Ashford, and this is his secretary’s email address, so please try to avoid being abusive to her - it’s not her fault! - and preface your email by asking Jo to pass your letter on to Mr Ashford. Jo.dimond@express.co.uk 3) Write to Express Group publisher Richard Desmond. He keeps his email address well hidden, but you can write to him by snail mail at: Richard Desmond, Northern and Shell building, 10 Lower Thames Street, London EC3R 6EN

That sounds like a lame bug

Weren't you going to start with this one? boom boom!

Wow... You'd just conjured weird images in my head: Imagining Roger Moore as a baddie in the next movie... Could they pull it off? Hmm. He'd have to play some slippery pedophile or something.

Nice job with the research, it's quite interesting to learn more... No to see what happens

Remember the bit in the original post about them just turning 18?

Yay! Told you Damn fine movie, especially on subsequent viewings. Unfortunately, there is news from Daniel "not a screenwriter" Craig: Gee, thanks Daniel. Great. Maybe you could have an invisible car in the next one...