Nachimir

I enjoy his stuff, especially the bootleg with the heckler. The biggest Hicks fan I've known ended up saying "The more I think about it, the more I think most of what he did was a bunch of cutesy bullshit".

Ah yes, whoops. Meant the moon landing one

Just wait until she starts ranting with the word CUNT over and over again in huge capital letters. It's amazing, like some kind of Jekyll and Hyde transformation. Rusalka, I expected you to be a lot harsher in real life because of that

A tiny bit of the tutorial for Air Traffic Chaos on the DS. I'm going back to it, but spent today building awesome shelves out of bottles instead.

I love XKCD's take on Youtube Also, not youtube but hilarious.

1. Why did I never think of combining a hamster wheel with a pushbike speedo? 2. The hamster is really funny at the end. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTJ9v2vsaE

For some reason I've always assumed this about you. I think it *might* be something to do with the Emperor Zombie avatar you had when I returned here after a few years There are a couple of good costume stores in my city, if you have no joy online let me know and I'll go take a look at what's there for you.

"Unacceptable simian casualties."

Are the LEGO games a sinister, junk-food type mix of Peggle and World of Warcraft mechanics?

Yeah. I think it will be a fun toy, but was hoping it would be as mindfuckingly brilliant as Katamari Damacy. I really hope Keita Takahashi doesn't become a Joseph Heller of games, but I don't think he would. He's already said he wants to not do games in future and try other things, he's meant to be designing a playground in my home town.

No, the site should tell you how much tax you owe at the end of filling in your return online, and then you just just pay them. http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/payinghmrc/selfassessment.htm#4 Just to be super dicks, they have two accounts and you have to pay in to the right one. The payment slip you'll have got with your final reminder should have a sort code and account number corresponding to the right office.

Thanks for the link, no I hadn't seen that The bit I've bolded about sums it up for me I think, especially when I see "HAY MAN LIGHTEN UP THEYR JUST GAMES ABIT OF FUN" comments.

How long do all the pigs last after that?

You're right, there is more and more good stuff around, and a lot of it is blogs rather than more traditional press. Of the latter, I probably prefer gamesindustry.biz (despite the TLD) but think that might be party due to the way they lay their content out, and Gamasutra in particular makes more effort with things like Leigh Alexander's piece on salary fixing on Montreal or this piece on layoffs</advert>. My RSS reader has about 25 games blogs I see as must reads though, and the main news sites I pretty much just scan the headlines. It may not even be the editors to blame for that though, so much as audiences (i.e. The Escapist got nowhere near as much traffic before Zero Punctuation) and company directors that want to see results in terms of cash. Like the bit I snipped out of the Jon Blow interview, where he talks about people misquoting him for sensation. You really can't stop trade rags running with that kind of thing, because it gets attention :| MCV is a good example; I don't think anyone I know in the industry would say they like it (This Week! Peripheral Special! Really?), but everyone reads it because it's the weekly UK games publishing industry rag. It's a complex deadlock, hence I decided to highlight the good where I can and ignore most of the bad. The question around games press is kind of a cruddy one to ask, but it's been on my mind recently. I've really not seen this discussed much before, but I guess it is a lot, informally.

Fair enough. It's also a pretty difficult question when you get into careers and audiences too. Edit: To be fair, my boss asked me to interview people about this for our company log too, but instead of dwelling on shit I just highlight things I think are good.

Yeah, probably the best bit was being able to kill Jarjar over and over again. I only played the first SW trilogy and thought the rest would be too samey, but a few dads I've known have sworn by all of these as something good to play with their kids.

It gets a lot more difficult with notepads; you may end up screwing around with drivers and repositories. Ubuntu is worth a go, the last time I installed that on my desktop machine it was less hassle to set up than XP. I'm afraid it's more than a year since I last dabbled with Linux, so I can't be more specific, sorry.

I can see a crossover between this and Gears of War 2 I do wonder if Takahashi ever managed to define gameplay for it. That video is basically the demo he unveiled at GameCity 15 months ago, but massively more polished. Edit: Good podcast, the confidential sources part was hilarious. You answer to my question about the games press was a shit one though Every sector has it's low-down trashy media and things at the pinnacle of criticism and analysis. Games are unusually bottom heavy in this respect though.

14 paltry quid owed for the only two bits of freelance work I did last year. Well worth the hour or so spent fucking around with logins and paperwork Surely now I'm employed full time there's a way to deregister for this? You have to pay them. You can pay them online if you do online banking. I think you can send them a cheque too.

Yeah, Miffy wasted us all, but a $1 lead is too close for comfort

This was fucking amazing. I got lucky, as you can see, and was right on the edge and able to get out and run away before they all blew up. Ringside seat! Other favorite moment, which none of you saw, was getting my fire truck wedged sideways on the wheels of the jumbo jet when we all hit it. While you all raced away, I spent about a minute steering, reversing, etc. to see if anything would free me up, but it just carried me further and further back along the track

I'm looking forward to nobi nobi boy. As I saw someone point out on Twitter though: It's only five dollars That might mean it's only worth five dollars

Mine shouldn't be too bad, since I only did two bits of freelance work outside of my job for the year counted in this return. It's just a shitty, boring half hour chore.

Yeah, I'm interested in this. There's some very high res stuff at game trailers too: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/5528.html

Oh fuck, I knew I'd forgotten something this week.