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Ta Wrestle Did anyone else watch the 3rd series of Heroes? Man, it was ass. They started off doing all kinds of interesting things with Sylar and made him into more than a melodramatic villainous caricature, had good heroes turning very bad in some cases against their own will, had an ambiguous antagonist that might have been doing the right thing for all anyone knew, and . Then they Meh ¬¬

Whoah, well guessed brkl

Some of the comments at the Guardian are hilarious and piercing when it comes to publishers: As another commenter there points out, physical traits notwithstanding, as a clever young lady traveling the world alone solving puzzles, Lara always was a fairly approachable character for women.

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D'oh, you must have posted just after I opened the thread.

Parrots are amazing http://www.greywings.com/einstein_video.html I think it was this one I once read about who was being dropped off at the vets, and as it's owner was leaving cried "Mommy don't leave Alex!"

Arg. I'd forgotten about that. No flash game has addicted me more. There goes the next hour.

All the conversations punctuated with pauses and "Oh shit! Wrestlevania just fucking nailed me!" reminded me a bit of This Spartan Life.

Heh

*groan* Man Who Snatched Wig Will Have Toupee

Opening brown and green doors would solve that without spacing any of your guys. However, confronted with that situation I wouldn't be able to resist spacing every last one of them to hear those delightful little squeals ¬¬

Yeah, just after I'd passed my test I had to avoid playing Wipeout 2097 or Destruction Derby 2 before going out in the car, or I'd be a super-aggressive driver and speed everywhere.

This is very much my position too. I never really enjoyed meat when I was growing up, and always knew I'd move out and not bother eating much of it. Learning about the 10:1 ratio in resources greatly reinforced that. That said, I guess my parents probably bought cheap stuff as that's what they seem to do now. Cheap red meat can make me feel hungover the next day. A few times a year I'll have a good steak or something lean and really enjoy it (Steak cut into strips and cooked in a proper Japanese style is incredible; the shortage of pasture over there means they treat it as a delicacy). I also eat a bit of meat if I've been ill, as it's too easy to eat badly as a vegetarian and prolong recovery.

I'm really pleased that the podcasts are attracting such a high caliber of new forumers

Belly laugh. Thank you for lightening me up, everyone I think SignorSuperDouche is right about language, as are you. There are conventions and they are useful, but they're not static. There's a constant push-pull between present culture and history that continually modifies things. Deviating from too many conventions raises the cognitive load required to understand something, but we can easily cope with the odd Americanism, misspelling or unhyphenated term. I was in two minds whether to post anything at all on this, since I've seen this debate before and ignored it, reasoning that I shouldn't even legitimise it. However, seeing a respected developer and one of our own podcast guests wade in with erroneous, misleading bullshit really concerns me. I really want the debate over video games versus video games dead. If it were a person, I'd drag it into an alley and smother it with a pillow. It shouldn't even be an issue, except internally at publications. The subsequent discussion of language here is really interesting though ignore /ignore

lol Toblix I could go for 7 year cycles: Longer testing and R&D, more reliable consoles, a more relaxed pace for developers, and several extra years of markedly better games. One downside to that is that new hardware launches are a better environment for launching new games rather than sequels and franchises, though 2 1/2 years in some big publishers have seemed happier taking more risks on new things than usual in the past year. Another thing that has really interested me for a while is that some of the poorest people I know have been buying second hand PS2s and even Master Systems along with huge libraries of games for next to nothing. They play a lot, but nothing new or up to date. There certainly seems to be room for lower end hardware, such as Zeebo.

Motivation hinges on feelings and emotions. There's massive disagreement and three major camps in academia surrounding motivation theory, but every one of them is fighting to dominate the term emotion with their own particular definition, and all agree that it's a fundamental part of motivation itself. Furthermore, the dichotomy between emotion and logic is a fallacy that comes from Greek natural philosophy rather than study of the brain or even contemporary study of behaviour. It's a convenient way to think and has been lent further weight by characters like Spock in popular culture, but it's just not the case that emotion is purely irrational or leads to bad decisions; often our motives lead us to sound ones and it's not by taming some base, irrational, emotional nature with the shining light of rational thought that this occurs. It's a combination of both, if we didn't have the values and energy output of emotion then we wouldn't really give a shit about anything. Emotion tends to operate with a much shorter term, and hence sometimes self defeating view (i.e. binging on things we know are bad for us), whereas thought we call rational tends to take a longer term and wider strategic view of any situation. These wider views aren't always necessary.

A non-gaming friend came around a few nights ago and asked me to show him some games. He was completely stunned by this and GTA IV, and like me spent a few minutes with his mouth open just watching ships fly around Sol 2 after a race.

Ah, I've been to far worse places and stayed there too because they were interesting. Nali City was characterised by Unreal mapping, several incredibly, ridiculously intelligent and witty people that randomly turned up and glued the forum together, endless conservative/liberal /evolution/creation debate threads, generally good standards of literacy, and a steady stream of post-op transsexuals. For a few years it was truly a strange attractor of games forums, but eventually degenerated into burned out triviality. Jake's right, it's really not so bad around here and there isn't much hate at all.

Yeah, plenty of bad things in the woods Organic, IIRC, usually refers to things being grown without pesticides.

I'm told milk from cows that suffer and are pumped full of growth hormones also has pus in it from infected udders. Pasteurised and thus harmless, but still ¬¬ It's an oven!

They should have carried on the musician sub plot. It was unconvincing without showing the extreme amount of respect he no doubt got from his peers. I love that that bit was introduced with a sequence that screamed "HAY KIDS LOOK PEER INTERACTION! IT'S KOOL LOL". I desperately, desperately want to demoing this EDIT: Not worth it's own thread, but for Thumbs and Microsoftness: ((()))

I only watched the first season of the IT Crowd and thought it was shit. A few people told me later series were better, but I've never got back around to it. Father Ted achieved a curious mix by sending up the Catholic church. Catholics could laugh because of the sheer ridiculousness and exaggeration of it compared to real priests, whereas everyone else including other denominations could point and laugh out of viciousness. I loved it

I like this bit the best: Because what would we be if we spun something out into a six part series, yet lost our integrity along the way?

Yeah, how Nowak? Also, up there is a great place to hang around with grenades. If you know someone is about to climb the second ladder, you can just roll one to the top before they get up there and the chances of them noticing it are slim