DanJW

PoP 2 was notoriously difficult, maybe you had that.

Ziggy does Lionel Ritchie...

Heh yeah I just read that

I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with GRIMM. But the most interesting thing about American McGee in the meantime is his business practices. I think he has some really well thought out, pragmatic and yet within the industry completely "blue sky" approaches. I'm not about to descibe them here though because he has too many things going on and I really wouldn't be able to. Maybe later when my brain has woken up.

DEFCON FTW. Any conflict or alliance you like there.

I think it was just cathartic, in that the mac using world has launched a huge assault not just against PC's, but seemingly PC users as well. This is one man's rant in the way of backlash and it was pretty entertaining. Doesn't mean it has to be at all profound. Me, I like Macs and PCs. But I know PCs better and can get more out of them.

yeah feral kids is the only thing that sucks about summer. What we need is he cut off a part of the city and designate it as a kind of giant créche.

Yeah but from what I've read on this case, in the UK copyright does not apply to the exterior of buildings, only the interior and then only for the architect during the duration of his life. It lapses upon death. This is one area of copyright law that still seems sane, and I wish the same rules applied to other creative areas like music and film. As someone once said "copyright was introduced to protect the artist, not so the company that owned him can get rich off his work for the rest of eternity".

It happens in real life, but the government try to hush it up.

Yeah, we don't want Ford acting against a greenscreen the entire movie.

altogether now! happy birthday to you squashed tomatoes and stew bread and butter out the gutter happy birthday to you..

I just watched the first episode of Dexter and I'm hooked already. I was told that Dexter is super-intelligent but no-one told me that he is also, well, a psychopath. It's a pretty brave thing to do in a tv show and what gives it that extra edge. Looking forward to the rest now.

I hope it's spam. Otherwise that was written in earnest by a real person. And that is a horrible thought.

But there'll always be rumours. For'instance a cousin of a friend of my friend's cousin was abducted by cannibals with fruit on their head.

Yeah, I go out of my way to use firefox when I use the macs at college. Why Sfari is needed on windows I have no idea. In fact, why firefox isn't the native mac broweser by now I also have no idea.

Yeah, the same thoughts as spidermonkey and elmuerte have crossed my mind as well. In the end art (or even a Video game approximating it) shouldn't have to apologise for referencing the real world within fiction, at least not when it's as completely un-malicious as this. A win for the church here would be bad for other people and projects in the future.

At all those times at was at college

Yeah I was going to post something along those lines. Also how whenever you try to play a game you are hit by a massive backlash of guilt that you should be a "useful member of society" right now instead of playing God of War II, even if it happens to be 10pm. I can't afford any subscriptions otherwise I would probably be WoWing it up with Gigner. I didn't post because I thought someone would no doubt insult me in some vague fashion and tell me to get a job, at which point I would be forced to kill them and steal their job, their identity and all the other trappings of their life.

Heh, Rodi, you're right. this reminds me of the tagline for AvP. Whoever loses, we win

You have suddenly instilled in me a great need to play Starcraft again

It might be a ripoff, but the Xbox Live one is funnier.

Maybe he was being ironic? You know, making a sly comment about Ford's age? Also, change this thread title before bob sees it, or he'll try to kill you.

Call it Hoplophoneus. Or any of these other great cat names.

How's this for a hypothetical scoring system; a badge or medal that describes the type of fun the game gives you. There could be a badge for deep, captivating drama, stupid testosterone fun, innocent feel-like-a-kid fun, tetris-like-puzzle-addiction and so on. And then a big dogturd badge for "do not buy". Ok maybe not.

I think the percentage scores are the result of the industry/art form still being so young. Giving things a percentage score is the kind of thing that appeals to male children - it's decisive and slightly technical and falls into the "collecting and counting" phase of male behavioural development. It fitted in well with all those early 90's gaming magazines that had robots and machine-type stuff plastered all over them. So thats where it came from, and it has just never gone away. As pointed out earlier, no other arts world reviews things this way. The best movie/music/theatre reviews etc that I read tend to be summed up by pull-out quotes from the article. It's these that I scan through to see if the move/whatever is worth reading more about, so seem to fill the same function as a score. 5/star rankings are a good meothod for the masses as well, and are more common in publications which may have a lot of reviews and listings in one issue. Although the stars are still a scoring system as such it is much closer to a qualitative approach - the only way to assess any form of entertainment. Purporting to have a quantative system of grading entertainment or art is just plain retarded.