Roderick

I really liked Umbrella Chronicles and played it lots. With friends, surely, but I think that holds true for all lightgun games. That's what they're made for It also felt like a rich, true Resident Evil product, with lots of backstory and atmosphere. Overkill had me amused, until I saw the package and the HUUUUGE WHITE GUN it came with. At that point it became kind of a must-have. That gun is just ridiculous and awesome! And since the game is apparently good too, and I need some new multiplayer things to play with my girlfriend, I think I might be getting this soon.

Is Levelord doing the levels again?

The mere fact that you're still checking this topic tells me you haven't been able to let this go. You know it.

Even when it's not particularly scary, it's very creepy. Just walking around that misty port town at night with all the people giving you the 'Innsmouth' look and grunting displeasantries at you... deeply unnerving. And awesome. I agree with Timaste; the level of detail is really pleasant. Little cellar windows can hide many things...

Oh wow, I just bought this game a few months ago when I remembered how I really liked the atmosphere when it came out and a friend played it. I started it, but never managed to finish it because of Christmas fuckuptime. I'm somewhere in the middle I guess. It has a FANTASTIC setting and sense of dread. A great game.

Wow not only is it an excellent review (Kohler!), the game looks like great fun! Games.

The first time I played with Luigi I kept slippering into the black holes and I had no fucking clue why I suddenly sucked at playing the game, haha.

Just wait until you get to the part where Mario has to defeat two giants in a room with a pit of boiling lava and a switch, and his ammo is getting low.

My god, all I could think was 'Hodgman you funny tit, get off the set!'. Wasn't the strongest of cameo's, since Hodgman is by definition hilarious. Maybe they wanted some lightheartedness in all the surgical drama? The exposition may have been a bit foot-in-mouth, but it was nonetheless very pleasing to hear it all explained. And lo and behold, Cavil was in the know all this time! The mastermind behind the Cylon hatred. Can't wait for the remaining episodes! After Battlestar, what other sci-fi show will fill the gap? There's gotta be something after this we can all watch together here.

Yeah, those set pieces can be a bitch. But maybe what will get you through is the following thought: when you finish the game a first time, you can do a game+ with a couple of amazing weapons. Play the game with a Chicago Typewriter (which spews Magnum bullets and has unlimited ammo) and take revenge on all the fuckers who thwarted you the first time. On the other hand, once you've played through the second act (the castle), the game has less and less novel things to offer. The first half is by far the most interesting and atmospheric. I don't care for laboratory settings. They bore me.

London is Alex Ashby.

At first I always thought it was a goofy cat with a party hat on, until it got pointed out it was a heart.

I really enjoy the looking glass 'LOOK CLOSER'. At what? Is there a secret? I hardly need a microscope to plumb the vast depths of this ad!

I'm still listening to the podcast, but I just wanted to mention that the 'employees being sacked and having to load their own equipment into a truck' thing is from Arrested Development. Classic George Sr move! (pic not related)

Would love to meet up, but this year is all but set as far as trips abroad go. One does not simply march into London!

Please do!

But I LOVE cutting veggies with a potato knife ='(! That's, you know, the fun of cooking. It does seem useful though. And you apparently get to start an exciting life.

Hey that's nice! The game itself wasn't very interesting, but it's a great little extra to set the tone and feel of the movie. This could have easily been something Adrian produced in the actual Watchmen world =) Man I'm so excited for this movie. I'm going to read the graphic novel before seeing the movie again, looking forward to it ^__^

I know one thing about this: cheap, ugly adverts make your products seem very cheap. There's a reason discounter stores always use low-grade ads with horrible, flashy colours (red on white is a favourite). When people see it, something in their head says ,,Goddamn, this is a cheap-looking ad... the products must be cheap there, too!", because only expensive, A-plus brands use proper designs and pleasing aesthetics. And since the market is mostly filled with bottomfeeders... there's a huge surplus of crap ads.

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I was thinking about this just this week. I do always try to act the same way on the internet as I would do in real life, but you can't prevent some discrepancies. There's no way you can communicate everything you want to say with just words. In real life, there's body movements, a reassuring smile, a knowing wink, hand gestures, public masturbation, all the little things that let people know what you really mean. But I try. And sometimes, I think I fail 100% at that. I have been seen and reported as a sanctimonious asshole, a self-righteous elitist, a shallow person, and lots more that, upon reflection, I really never see myself as being. Then I read some of the stuff I wrote and yes, I do come across as that now and again. I don't know why, because in truth I'm usually a fairly careful judge, heavily doubting and considering his every move. I guess the internet just has a way of transforming you ever so slightly. I can only think: if they knew me in real life, they'd see it all in a different light.

6 episodes remaining, which is enough time for the creators to come up with an explosively good, sufficiently epic arc to end the show. I am always a huge fan of series that end, because they tend to have a point.

Not really in the same boat, but I do a lot of freelance illustration/animation/comics work for lotsa clients. It gives a lot more freedom than making banners I guess, though the fun thing actually is the tug-of-war between what you want to make and what the client has in mind. Usually I try to sneak in as much off-the-counter things. In my last assignment, I made an illustration about a vampire that everyone said would be rejected. It came through, and I won the bet of one KFC bucket of chicken

Well done, sir!

Since December I've been playing Chrono Trigger on the DS. I've played all the way through to the final boss, and I just can't be bothered to finish it. That's the case with all Japanese RPG's, no matter how good; at some point, after 20-odd hours, I just completely lose interest. Though in Chrono Trigger it was also aided by the added new content, which consists of the most aggravating, most pointlessly, artificially stretched fetch quest ever programmed.