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He's good. I would have almost said they looked like normal nondescript reflections.

http://kotaku.com/5156988/want-beyond-good--evil-for-free-buy-some-cheese If you live in Canada, love cheese sticks, and have yet to play Beyond Good and Evil, today is your day.

WHY IS IT MIRRORED?!

Hahah, oops, I didn't read all the new posts even though I was an hour late. I guess I didn't feel this belonged in gaming either, but at least all the Canadians are sufficiently notified about their cheese stick promotion.

I may be really late and this could be complete old news, but I just found out about this experiment to create the most annoying song ever based on polls done in the 90s. I still can't stop laughing thinking about kids yelling every holiday at me and telling me to take my shopping to Walmart. http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/a-scientific-at.html

Don't be so harsh on him, maybe his DVD collection is what makes him who he is.

I have had this on Xbox for years, but I have not gotten around to playing it yet. But I'm not planning to play it anytime soon, always so busy, but can anyone elaborate the differences between the PC and Xbox version? I didn't realize there were gameplay differences. If I own both will I come out with a different enough experience either way?

Well, the thing is, I think on all those Amazon UK listings, they are also only selling the French version with the French manual, and I'd like to have the English manual version, even though all European copies of the game have an English option. There's another listing for the same item on Ebay.fr for 13 Euros which is a much better price, but eh... I can keep looking. Thank you for offering the help though!

Yeah I've seen that, but I wouldn't pay that much. Everyone once and a while it appears on Ebay UK, and once I won a copy for a 8 pounds about a year ago and then the seller refused to send anything to the USA. Oh Well. And if Amazon UK had a good price, they don't ship video games to the United States for whatever reason, even though you can buy books, movies, and music CDs to your heart's desire and have them sent anywhere you want.

Sorry to bring this up again, but has any of the European members seen a copy of this game around your town? I'd love to buy it from you. I scourged what I could while I was visiting Paris two months back, but I couldn't find a copy. Swap Magic sure works like a charm though.

http://www.houstontx.gov/ Our menus are long, slow and broken, how quaint. I guess all the money this city makes certainly does not go into good website design. Our municipal court webpages are much worse, ugly and extremely difficult to navigate. I don't want to look at those until my next traffic ticket.

I'm not a Ladytron fan, but apparently they are writing songs for Christina Aguilera's new album. There's something very wrong with this to me, but I feel like if I start getting on my soapbox about music politics it will cause a huge argument, maybe not with you guys, but maybe forum guests and google serachers. Any Ladytron fans upset? Anyone glad?

Many years ago in high school I really got into Kid 606's old friend Cex, who at the time made similar music but has since gone down a very path with nearly constant genre changes. Although the last two years it just seems like Cex has only been interested in making obnoxious dub/remix crap on cassette tape to purposefully piss off and alienate all of his remaining fans. Not to say that some of that stuff wasn't intensely listenable and hypnotic. His new stuff seems to be a very advanced return to form (and Muxtape) to the old instrumental stuff he used to put out when he was big on the Tiger Beat 6 label. Although I hope his vocals return again one day. http://cexman.muxtape.com/

Thanks Jake! (and Haggis) Also I want this thread title renamed to make this great XTC song fit as it's theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdfoEAOeYAE&feature=related

Did you get all those masks too?

It could stand be a bit bigger, but what I really want to do with your proof is write in huge font LET'S BUY SOME FUCKIN' CARS AND TRUCKS and then squeeze all the car pictures and pricing info into one big pile of positive space bullshit on the righthand corner of the page. But I don't want to spend an hour doing that, so I'll let everyone imagine it.

For some reason I've always been partial to the warbly tunes in Zelda II. I don't know why it sounds like the sound guy was sort of drunk, but I find it really charming, although I've always kind of hated that game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAaBxdJtmwY I did force myself to beat it about 5-6 years ago, though.

I was busy looking at the power ranger, but now that you mention it... Although, the penis really has no weight compared to the rest of the picture. Italy as a collective population sure has a specific taste about what they don't want in a painting. Well it's kind of odd, but from what I understand, they weren't really trying to create a purposefully bad song, but to use all of the elements the US didn't want in a song the most based on their polling. Maybe a more proficient musician would do a better job, I have no idea, but it would be an awesome trend if many musicians got together and all made their own version of most annoying song using all of the same type of elements. AT WALMART!

Hahah that's where I found out about it. I suddenly got really interested hearing the Labor Day part.

"Just gave me a huge boner" - Ign.com

On one of the links in the Wired article, I found this quote about the original research: "The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud and quiet sections, between fast and slow tempos, and features timbres of extremely high and low pitch, with each dichotomy presented in abrupt transition. The most unwanted orchestra was determined to be large, and features the accordion and bagpipe (which tie at 13% as the most unwanted instrument), banjo, flute, tuba, harp, organ, synthesizer (the only instrument that appears in both the most wanted and most unwanted ensembles). An operatic soprano raps and sings atonal music, advertising jingles, political slogans, and "elevator" music, and a children's choir sings jingles and holiday songs. The most unwanted subjects for lyrics are cowboys and holidays, and the most unwanted listening circumstances are involuntary exposure to commercials and elevator music. Therefore, it can be shown that if there is no covariance—someone who dislikes bagpipes is as likely to hate elevator music as someone who despises the organ, for example—fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population would enjoy this piece. " Also this page shows the paintings they made for various countries based on opinion polls: http://www.diacenter.org/km/painting.html Denmark's least wanted painting is my favorite. Who wouldn't want to own a blown up print of that painting hanging above your bed every night as you have a threesome with two incredibly hot women?

I'll make you a dull advertisement if the pay sucks. I don't give a fuck, momma didn't raise no fool.

I don't come off as a complete asshole who's angry at everyone, although I've sometimes been known as that either way. Working on it. Er... that's about it. I'm probably a lot more shy and nervous too. I smile way more than I use smilies on the interwebzorz.

I do concept and animation at a small local video game company that only does games for testing purposes, and a lot of it watered down and characters are overly nationalized, but that's okay I guess since it's not my company and I need the work. I think it's probably easier to make money doing "lowest common denominator" work, especially if you are doing it for want/job ads. Everyone seems to love Comic Sans too, I'm sure this is all interconnected.

I saw Coraline as well, and thought it was a well made movie if not for moving too slow in some parts and having Dakota Fanning overact the main character. I also didn't have to suffer watching it in 3D, so I was good. I guess I never will fully understand the return of this particular movie gimmick. James Cameron will bring 3D back full force with no need for glasses in his Avatar movie. Everything about that sentence makes me shudder. On the current standards of the American animated movie, Coraline is probably the best one this country has come up with for the new millennium so far. It's a very pleasant surprise among all the animated movies with nonstop pop culture jokes, a multitude of characters with saracastic attitudes, Disney cliches, and the ol' Pixar formula. I've never gotten around to reading the original book, which is odd since I'm sort of a Dave McKean dork, but not so much a Neil Gaiman dork. I've been meaning to read Signal to Noise next actually. I have no idea how the book compares, although I've read some interviews with Henry Selick saying the book wasn't adaptable to an enjoyable movie. I always feel like when someone says that they are taking the easy way out. But a movie that looks exactly like Dave McKean's art work, working on a large budget, is just not going to make a return in box office money (see Mirrormask).