Nachimir

Love Tim Minchin. OZN0vS4AmMo Not like that though.

I like the art style, the technique reminds me of Crackdown, but more refined. I've been utterly ensconced in this for a while, with a single player game as Mordecai and another playthrough as Brick in splitscreen with the girlfriend as Lilith. Once Brick has a few skill upgrades, an elemental power and a burst shield, running around while berserk and wailing on stuff becomes an insane amount of fun. Also, gosh it's fun to burn things

I tend to make resolutions year round rather than once a year. To that end I've been logging hours on ten or so things I want to learn or practice in my spare time, and have managed 52 hours since August last year. I want it to be more every month, since the target I set for most of them is 100 hours. Since beginning, I learned to solve Rubik's cubes in about 3 minutes, more about Arduino development, picked up Systema and found a class that runs twice a week, became slightly better at contact juggling, and worked out 15 times and thought that wasn't enough at less than once a week. So: less TV/internet/games*, more learning Also, on the very rare occasions I feel bored, I'll be rolling a D10 to decide what to devote an hour or two to. * Though resolution two is to carve through my newfound backlog of games, which is largely due to toblix

Crackdown did this to an extent, the free DLC included a load of markers which basically said "HEY look a cool thing you just have to pay for it first".

Excellent. I got a unicycle. Wasn't expecting it, the request my dad made for a list was just a ploy. Also, games.

As I've been telling everybody, today we celebrate the time-shifted birth of everyone's favorite space wizaaa-aa-aard, by getting drunk and ripping the shit out of present wrapping. :tup:

Interviews are currently proclaiming "Cameron always planned it as a trilogy"; in the words of a friend "Did he fuck". Still, yes. Went to a 3D showing the other night and was pleasantly gobsmacked. It's visually amazing, plot and characters are cheesy but well realised. The CG arts geek in me was admiring the glass in the gunships. The shots with the pilot, gunship canopy, and reflected scenery were some of the moments that absolutely suspended my disbelief and gave me a lurch to think I was watching CG.

Happy Festivus and a Merry Christmas everyone It is, I think, two years since the spirit of Santasm was brought to the Idle Thumbs forums, and it is spreading: It gets worse. So much worse (NSFW) and then there's Sketchy Santas: This one looks like he's about to eat the child.

Say "a Merkin" like G. W. Bush would

Leave Home is fantastic, downloaded the other day then me and the girlfriend spent about an hour and a half taking turns. It's beautiful. Thanks for all the recommendations, especially the comprehensive ones GrouchoClub. Planning to get around to a few more of these over the holidays.

Yeah, I wouldn't say other martial arts are impractical. Just that it's possible for the way they're trained to divorce them from real fights. An example I was told last night was that a lot of boxers apparently can't punch properly because they're used to using gloves, so if they do it without they can really fuck their hands up.

MPs call for jobs blow to be reversed

I've been meaning to get around to it for a couple of years now, but yes, the new girlfriend is one of the things that made me start. A couple of attempted muggings in the past few years too. I talked/threatened my way out of both, but was keenly aware I had absolutely nothing to back myself up with if they were determined to get my wallet. Edit: I always wanted to learn something like this, but was discouraged from traditional martial arts when a friend of my brother's became a black belt in Taekwondo, then promptly got his ass handed to him by a few guys in the street. Everything he'd learned turned out to be more or less useless if he wasn't in a gym, on a mat, wearing a uniform facing off against one opponent whose moves he was familiar with

Congrats Wrestle, good to hear it came through Last night I went to my first ever Systema class. It's a Russian martial art based on improvisation. There are no set moves, techniques, ranks, titles, uniforms, traditions or tournaments. It's about how to fight dirty and win if you're attacked, and it was amazing. I didn't expect to be working with real knives during the first lesson, let alone fighting off two armed attackers at once, but it basically revolves around turning an attackers body against itself, and with a slow start becomes very comprehensible very quickly. Some choice quotes: "In Systema we are all bastards, just not to each other. You lie, you cheat, you steal, you pull hair, you poke eyes, you do whatever it takes to put them on the floor and get some strikes in". "I'm stabbing him because I like him. It's no use training against pulled attacks or ones that go to the side, because that won't work when someone really tries to stab you. So stab your partner like you mean it". It sounds nasty, but it was actually a really friendly and playful class.

vbulletin is workable but shit. The admin layout is a nightmare, with options split between inconsistent menus, and gotchas throughout the process of banning someone for spamming, etc. A lot of it just doesn't make any sense until you've learned it by rote. As well as that, they attempted to shoehorn a lot of shitty social networking stuff into every version for the past few years, which is messy, awful, and seemingly used by very few people. If you made something that kicked the shit out of it, that could be quite big...

Definitely a problem with the editing rather than the writing

The antlion levels were one of my favorite bits.

Saw Where The Wild Things Are on Sunday and thought it was fantastic. It's not a kids film at all; it's quite slow and essentially is all about Also, unspoiler, Max does not die at the end, which is a rumour some people have been trying to spread online. I fell for it, and as the film started I was thinking "Bloody hell this is going to be a bit harsh for a PG rating". Evil, but nowhere near as bad as someone spoiling The Usual Suspects by using a marker to

I've not had a chance to download it yet, but Leave Home looks fantastic...

I found that in a drawer the other day and realised I *still* haven't played it!

Awesome, thank you Toblix!

If you like architecture, the Embarcadero Center is also a stunning piece of work to walk around, and in the plaza there's a sculpture/fountain with stepping stones that take you behind it. Foyer to the Hyatt there is also worth a look. If you can enjoy cheesy spectacles, there's also at the Fairmont Hotel. Utterly, utterly tasteless over the top tiki bar with bands on a boat and artificial thunderstorms. The kind of place that would most likely be absolutely no fun by yourself but possibly amazing with friends.

Ooh, forgot about the Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill. On a fine day, they're lovely to wander around. When my memory was fresher, I did write way more up for a friend who was going out last year, here it is:

Guys, spoilers!

:tup: Scrobbs, glad you got it, especially given your doubts after the interview.