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Whoo! Hard Drive is here! Doing the disk transfer thing right now, then to the intertubes to download Gay Tony!

Jesus christ.

Man, that cross-stitch is excellent. Was wondering what was up when I left the house on Thursday morning without a podcast. Spent the night at a friend's, so I haven't had a chance to download and listen yet, but damn I'm excited for the opportunity. Spoiled the good news for myself as well. That's fantastic! Great to hear there will be more from you guys. The scoops may continue to flow!

Yay Kolzig! You're older!

I refuse to believe that prisoner thing is real. It looks way too much like something the SomethingAwful forums would cook up.

Yeah. What happened to that brief thumbcast that happened back in the day? I loved hearing the theme music for it used in the UK casts, but why hasn't that become a more regular thing?

Harsh lesson time, we're pedants here. It's "c'est la vie," not "ce." The expression translates "this is life" which is roughly the english "such is life." What you wrote takes out the verb "to be," making it literally "this the life." ...Welcome!

Nah, he's used the hammer in every Mario RPG they've made, as far as I know. Wouldn't be asking for a wrench if all the hammering had satisfied that itch already.

Man, I can't read "gone as a disturbed macaque which a mooring rope has hijacked bananas of the market and now the jungle shoots in." without hearing it in Max Payne's voice...

...I see the cookie monster? Anyway, welcome aboard. I've found that a combination of Gamers With Jobs (for the silly, though not actually as funny) and Rock Paper Shotgun (for the intelligent, though their audio quality is not that great) is alright if you're missing that Thumb podcast feeling. It's not as good, but it'll do. It at least keeps me happy on my commute to uni.

The recent glut of amazing reviews has me getting kind of interested in this game. Problem is, especially at this time of year, I really don't have the time to invest in a huge RPG. Reviewers have been saying 50+ hours as if that were a good thing. I have to work hard to sneak my gaming hours in as it is, so trying to squeeze in something that huge feels almost impossible. If I end up playing for, say, 3 hours a week for a really long time, will this be the kind of game I can enjoy? I'm sure you guys know what I mean. There are games you can just keep coming back to with long breaks in the middle (I've been making slow but steady progress on Pokemon Pearl since 2007. My most recent save was a month and a half ago right before the 8th gym leader.) and some that unless you play them all at once you just can't go back to. In contrast to the Pokemon thing, I've made peace with the fact that if I ever go back and try to finish my Ninja Gaiden save, I'll have completley lost any of the skill that got me to that point in the game. Is this a game I can play piece by piece, or am I just not going to enjoy it if I can't play all in under a month?

I find it weird over the last couple of years how "we're going to fix our broken game, we promise!" has become a news story. I'm starting to lose count of how many games with horrible netcode have been pushed out, gotten a story like that written about them, and then had the patch hit far too late to be relevant. Immediate other examples are a pair of downloadable games, Castle Crashers and Fat Princess. CC was still great as a co-op on the couch game, but Fat Princess was pretty much screwed completely by this. Hope Namco can hurry up and get the patch out while it still may matter.

Chris -> will occasionally write a song.

I haven't watched any, but I thought there were only 150 episodes?

My supervisor wants to meet on Thursday instead of Tuesday this week, so provided that we're Gay Tony-less, I'm totally in.

I actually tried to do this last summer, but life intervened about halfway through season 4. I kinda want to finish now.

Hey, whatever. I have both Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus on there. They're surprisingly fun, and the only way my girlfriend was ever going to convince me to give yoga a try.

I exclusively use quills unless I'm at work, where I need ballpoint to go through to a carbon copy thing when making safe deposits. People at school always love borrowing my notes, not just because I take good notes, but because they're so damn pretty.

Quill pens or I walk, I always say.

Yeah, I already own the N64 version, I was just willing to spend the $6 or whatever it is on the PSN store to avoid having to dig out/dust off the old system if I'd get a roughly equivalent experience.

God, when I worked at HMV I was tempted quite a few times to pinch the cards from our display copies of Animal Crossing and the like. My conscience prevailed, as what if someone who also wanted the points bought that one, but the temptation was pretty great. One of the reasons I don't buy copies that aren't sealed. It would have been so easy to do.

Ah, the student life. I just came off of two weeks with a major assignment due at least every other day (and am still on the forum when I really should be working on my honours thesis) and haven't slept more than 5 hours in a night for about that long. I've still been working 3 to 4 shifts a week in there as well. Oh, and a proposal for $17,500 of funding for a Master's degree program I may be starting on next year was due this morning, taking up a huge portion of my time as well. So I get 3 hours of sleep last night to get that proposal in on time. I'm more than likely not going to get it, as it only goes to 120 people in all of the Social Sciences and Humanities faculties in every university in Canada, but I wanted to at least get my name in and it seemed like good practice. Huge relief when it all gets put in there, at least. I sit in the library working away on my thesis for two hours before my next class, drinking energy drink after energy drink to keep myself awake, go to class, and come home for a 3 hour break, desperate to take a nap. Checking the mail when I arrive home, I see I have a very official looking letter from the province. Opening it up, I've been granted a $2,500 scholarship from the provincial government for academic achievement. There are some pros and cons to this: Pros: - $2,500! Woo! - I can now afford to take that trip to Florida my girlfriend really wants to go on in February Cons: - I'm now very pumped over this, enough so that I am unable to take that much-needed nap. - This comes a day (ONE [1!] day!) after I would have been able to put it on that application for the much larger scholarship, which would have significantly improved my chances. I've emailed the administrator of the SSHRC (big) scholarship to see if they'll let me add it in 4 hours after the submission, as it's not like the forms have gone anywhere yet. I shouldn't really bitch about getting a bunch of money. Event = awesome. Timing = not ideal.

Apparently the side-quests scale. I'm level 22 right now, but noticed last night (killing time while Inglourious Basterds was taking its damn time finishing up so I can go home. Good movie when I saw it, but man it's long. Having to work the booth for it sucks.) that I still had one of those "side dungeon - Level 1-10" maps in my inventory Activated it with the assumption that I'd walk through slaughtering everything. I actually died in there, only the second time the game has killed me. Got some really sweet gear, too. Some armour that I found was better than double the stats of the stuff I went in with. There were even some monsters that I ran into that I'd never seen before. My advice to people, check out lower level dungeon scrolls at higher levels. They keep them challenging, and you may find some completely new stuff. I think they may have designed some creatures specifically for the earlier levels that they determined were too hard, so they'll only show up if you instance a dungeon with that tileset. Weird, but awesome.

And, if possible, his moustache.

Will Rock? kidding. Don't hurt me.