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http://www.rome.ro/ To quote Steve from Ron Gilbert's 'Rumour Website' blog entry (although this apparently wasn't actually a rumour at all)... they started 'courting' over the internet when she was 16. Now she's 18. Her name is Rhusalka or something, which Stevan seems to think is an unlikely, fake-sounding name. Oh, and she's from Romania. True, or a rumour?

Dizzy was the first game I can ever recall playing... on the old Speccy the graphics looked AWESOME, but about two years ago I downloaded a Spectrum Emulator and a Dizzy ROM, and whoaaa! It's funny how your imagination can fill in all the gaps between the pixels and lack of colors and everything else... Still, I think today, Dizzy would be a pretty boring and bland game. I mean, what else COULD there be besides an egg running around, being careful not to smash itself? And if they innovated on it too much, it would simply be brand-name hijacking, and not the old Dizzy I remember. Besides that, Dizzy doesn't mean anything to the young 'uns of today, so there'd be no point in pimping the name. So it would end up being a crap game about an egg called Dizzy, running around trying to save a girl egg called Daisy.

The US titles must differ a little from the European titles or something, huh? Man, it is not hard to win you over. I don't get how Driver 3 is in the 'biggest disappointment' category. The first two sucked. What, are they disappointed that it didn't suck less than the first two?!? That's like saying, gadzooks man, I'm mega disappointed with Dino Crisis 3!!! Or Dino Fucking Crisis 3 as it is probably known in the US.

Ha ha ha.

Firstly, in Halo 2, which I play on my brand new xbox, there seems to be a lot of this; Which I have never heard anybody else mentioning in reference to Halo 2. It's really irritating me. Is this normal? Secondly, in the Irish TV ad for Goldeneye: Rogue Agent, the narrator calls it 'Rouge Agent'. What the fuck is a rouge agent? A Red Agent? Oh man, that makes so much sense in context with the game!!! I can't believe somebody okay'd an ad for national TV that gets the title of the product wrong. Thirdly, I don't like when thread titles start with a number. It looks ridiculous. Not allocated a number: I also hate it when you write a whole post and take care to seem polite and eloquent, and then your connection breaks as you're posting it, and you have to start all over again but you forgot the funny punchline that made it all worthwhile, and instead you're filled with pent up rage.

Rouge and Rogue is bad enough. Lego and Legos is worse. But the next motherfucker that mistakes Holly for Mistletoe is going to learn the hard way which is which. THIS IS NOT A SEXUAL REFERENCE.

No!!! Ahhhh! Rouge = Roo-j Rogue = Row-g I don't know what's worse; the fact I just got attacked by a wasp at 7am in the morning, or the fact you don't know rouge from rogue. And that's saying something, because I am petrified of wasps. I hate them nearly as much as I hate clowns. It makes me shudder to think that it was probably flying around and touching my face while I was sleeping. For about thirty minutes I just dancing around the room in my PJs, waving books and howling at this wasp that was following me. Finally, (we don't have fly spray) I sprayed him with half a bottle of air freshener. Eventually it burned his skin, disabling him for long enough for me to drop a book on him, and then smash the book repeatedly with a plank of wood, for about three minutes. I still haven't looked under the book but he's probably not dead yet. Of course, the Air Freshener all came back down although it's supposed to dissolve in the air or something, and now my bed is damp and smells of fake chemical lavander. Uh, powdered rouge is probably blusher or something to do with makeup.

I know what a ROGUE agent is. They said ROUGE agent. As in, French for 'red'. Man, what do you take me for?!

Although I hate to take part in this thread now that it's become so incredibly lame, I would just like to set something straight; I do not actually speak Irish as I claimed earlier in the thread. The extent of my Irish is 'pog ma thoin', which translates to 'kiss my ass'. One of my many middle names is Saoirse, which is Irish, so I have heard, for 'freedom'. I guess that, no matter how doped up my parents were while filling in the details on the Birth Cert, they still weren't off their heads enough to call me 'Mermaid of freedom' in a language anybody would ever understand. That said, Deadworm, your English is plenty good enough to be subtle without or . And they're not even subtle. What am I saying?!

Pog ma thoin, assholes!!! I'm from a Gealtacht originally, my first language is Irish, which I can assure you bears no similarity to English in any way.

Smileys are a substitute for a proper grasp of the English Language, which would otherwise enable you to attempt subtlety all by your own self.

What else could they be interpreted as? Besides, 'I PRETEND NOT TO UNDERSTAND THE PREVIOUSLY POSTED SEXUAL REFERENCE'?

The new ones are like butterflys. They are a beautiful soliloquy, a touch of magic, song and poetry to the otherwise dull and talentless tapestry of Idle Forums. Besides that, you just think they're less versatile because you thought people couldn't tell when you were being dirty before.

When a catarpillar blossoms into a beautiful butterfly, isn't it still the same little soul inside? Similarly, the 'new smileys' aren't so much new, as blossomed.

I'm going to go grab something to eat, and a glass of Soy Milk, and when I get back I expect this thread to be hijacked by Trep, Deadworm and pictures of Kittens. It's almost like Raz was drawing out the first panel of the first comic and thought, hang on a second! THIS IS A SEXUAL REFERENCE! And then got kind of distracted and maybe a bit over-excited. I still don't know quite what that guy was doing with the lightning bolt, although I suspect it IS A SEXUAL REFERENCE. Not sure.

Man, it's like they took all the good and scary things from the first couple of games, took them out, and then made something as boring and linear as they possibly could. If I run around these circular corridors once more, I will scream. It is no longer scary. I am no longer scared. I am frustrated and I want to cry. And the enemies. They are laughable. They are fucking laughable. Toadstools with heads??! Slugs?!?? And then your mandatory vaguely human-shaped blood-covered thing. And some dead people that fly around like the witch from our fifth class rendition of The Wizard of Oz, a sheet hoisted onto a rope, swinging across the stage. And when will they stop making us run through bloody hallways with mesh floors? It stopped scaring me two installments ago. Two and a half, actually. The story is... what? I don't even KNOW. What's going on? My character doesn't seem surprised to be here. Or scared. He seems pretty indifferent to everything, in fact. And after all these terrifying murders and locations and monsters, he meets one of his neighbours and...? They meet, greet, and go their separate ways. A likely story. With survival instincts like that, my friend, you're going to die soon. And all these notes? I know horror story villains have to be relatively evil, but I quote; "The doors to a number of cells no longer open. As a result, the kids inside can no longer go outside. but the less they know about that, the better." I mean, that's so ridiculous it hurts. Which leads me on to the puzzles. Rotating the entire 2nd and 3rd floors so you can align the bloody beds on all three floors? Yeah, fuckin' right. You wouldn't even get a shitty puzzle like that in an Adventure Game. The enemies are too easy. None of them pose a real threat, and they RESPAWN. There's just enough of them to be frustrating, and yet they're not difficult enough to get your adrenaline running. I mean, when you're stamping on slugs that are moving at an inch per hour across the floor, it's hardly going to make your heart beat faster. Or when you're standing, beating the crap out of a weedy toadstool that can't even move with a drainage pipe. Remember in the first Silent Hill, when you would be running through the fog and hear the radio crackling? You would know something was there, but you couldn't see it or hear what direction it was coming from? THAT was awesome. Now I'm just stamping on defenceless slugs and picking mushrooms. Pfft. And don't people ever get tired of being murdered and trapped in alternate dimensions? What must house prices be like in Silent Hill? Man, they took out the one real good thing about Silent Hill (the fog), and now it's just boring and dumb and frustrating. I hate this game. Why won't this phone stop ringing?!!?? AHHHHHHHHHHH. I wish my character would hurry up and die so the game will be over.

I don't think he's even trying. Stop being so thread-off-topicky, anyway. Let's continue talking about how good Silent Hill 4 isn't.

Try going back to school for a few weeks, you goddamn little son of a bitch. And how can you ACCIDENTALLY put EVERYTHING YOU WRITE into a tiny little paragraph?! How is that possible?! How can you ACCIDENTALLY keep pressing enter while trying to type something? And while we're on the subject, what's with your punctuation and spelling? Is that an accident too!?

Seriously though, why do you type in paragraphs? I've just noticed some people seem to do it. Are you using a phone to access the web or something?

Alright, if anybody ever gets around to reading this, could you please let me know why some people type in tight little paragraphs like this? Is it because you don't trust the editor to automatically create a new line for you instead of just running off the page? Nothing could possibly irritate me more. You don't understand. It's like somebody has stabbed a dagger in my eyes. Please don't type like this. The only part of that last paragraph I understood was about the bunnies. EDIT: And I didn't even really understand it, I just caught the word 'bunnies'.

I'd very much like to complain about the storyline in Silent Hill 4, but it doesn't seem to have one to complain about.

Uh, HELLO? How come I have never been quoted in your signature as Mr Chris Remo?!? with a title such as 'Mr' 'Ms'? EDIT: *sigh*

I would like to applaud Chris and Kingz on an excellent display of wit. Deadworm and Trep, you're hopeless. Can't you be gay without me? I don't understand what's going on here.

There's no such thing as a soft, chewy cookie in Ireland. They're all dusty and crunchy. Except these cookies you can get in McDonalds. They're soft in the centre, but they have crunchy edges...

No, I... it's all in the game. I'm not joking about the burping monsters. Why don't YOU try running around the same corridor, beating a floating girl with a pipe until her head explodes, which it never will, and trying to stop a dumb chick with a handbag from getting murdered by TOADSTOOLS, and then see how much sense YOU make?