Nachimir

On the one hand, they're trumpeting attendance figures: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17651 On the other, saying there are too many press: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17656 I wonder how much smaller it would be?

It was good to meet the few of you i did, though I'm afraid you got me on the very worst day, when the jet lag was in full effect and my brain wasn't functioning too well. Marek, you look younger in person than in your facebook pic I've stayed in SF for some holiday, and have decided that I'd happily have teeth pulled without anaesthetic if it meant I got to live here.

It's particularly bad for people with Anglo-Saxon genes, because their jaws are proportionally even smaller compared to their teeth (or so an orthodontist once told me). This is why British people have a reputation for bad teeth.

I guess it's probably down to how badly your gums are damaged by the procedure. If they're cutting your gums up with scissors, then I suppose they might close the holes up entirely. The ones I had pulled weren't wisdom teeth and came out cleanly though, so not much sense in stitching when the part that's bleeding is at the bottom of the hole.

aargh, so many years since i've had that sensation. Like Dan, I had some teeth removed for braces, which pulled them forward to make room for my wisdom teeth. I had no suturing after having those molars removed, which was horrible. You have these soft mushy holes where your teeth used to be for a while, and spend an hour or so after every meal trying to clear them.

I don't know if I'm allowed to say why, but I met the developer of this today and can confirm that Jetpack Brontosaurus is going to be 1. Done soon (Off Road Velociraptor Safari was done in 8 weeks). 2. Awesomely entertaining. A certain gimmick that has become passé for humans will suddenly be good again It seems Flashbang are a good bunch of guys, who worked very hard for large games companies, eventually thought "Fuck this!", then moved to Arizona to set up Flashbang and develop whatever they liked. They also regularly go mountain unicycling as a company.

Molyneux's bit yesterday was a part of the MS keynote, and the main Fable 2 session is on Friday, so more hand waving and breakable promises to come

Thanks for the link. I've been avoiding proxies because I generally have trouble finding one with the bandwidth for video, or at least, did last time.

"Sorry, this programme is only available to play in the UK" Argh! It'll be gone by the time I get back to the UK. Cocking, fucking, cock fucking iplayer :(

I've found Lloyds TSB okay, but only because I check the balance regularly and keep it in my head. I've not heard of anywhere that has reasonable seeming charges. POKEMON STAB! It gets annoying that card and paypal payments only show up online 3 - 5 days after they're made, so I have to keep a tally of them in my head, though it will show "available balance" alongside balance if a payment is about to go out. Other greedy fuckers that annoy me: Royal mail charging an admin fee of £8 on top of £3.50 VAT ¬¬ That's kind of trvial in comparison to DHL though. They say that, according to "new regulations" they have to add postage fees to the total for duty when importing something to the UK (When no other courier or postal service I've used recently does that...). They then took the total in USD and treated it as GBP, then invoiced me for a fee that's about 85% the value of what was in the box. Cunts. I'm not paying them until they chase me, explain themselves, and sort out their own fuckup. It smells fishy that the invoice came a month after the parcel was delivered, mentioned but didn't explain or reference the "new regulations" that compel them to do something that other carriers don't, and says "IMMEDIATE PAYMENT REQUIRED" in red on the top. But I am happy, because I have found alt+L types ¬ on a mac. ¬¬

I imagine many people are going to take forever over turns. I wonder if there's a time limit? The Meat Circus is absolutely nothing compared to Crystal Calamity.

I'd be interested to know what the new Advance Wars is like. I was enjoying Dual Strike, but got to "Crystal Calamity", had a few goes at it and thought "Fuck this". I normally go all out to complete games, but really can't be arsed with something that has that extreme a difficulty spike.

You've had your valentines, I am not giving you head as well. You will have to trick me into, I don't know, eating a carrot or something.

Jack Black in a Michel Gondry film? Holy shit, I am psyched about Be Kind Rewind.

Well definitely me, since Ginger has nabbed Valentines.

I'll be there for the 20th - 22nd (and a few days after). I believe Duncan and I will be meeting at some point, but would love to meet more of you.

I was definitely in a hell yes blowing up cars phase with the first two - used to love filling a junction up with empty cars then chaining them. I enjoy the 3D ones more for some reason though, which I think is a combination of the way they approach the world and a preference for 3D over 2D. I loved all of the "Elvis has left the building" and "Jesus saves" type stuff from the 2D ones, but they seemed to put all of that largely into the background for the 3D ones, which I kind of like. "Subtlety" and "GTA" are not things I'd put in the same sentence, but the latter ones do have a bit more of it than the first two

I've given up Valentines in favour of Steak and Blowjob day.

even. Notice how, now there's been a fair tally of accidents with tasers, all of these kind of weapons have been renamed from "non-lethal" to "less lethal".

I've heard stories from a few different sources about DJs and producers who messed about with low frequencies and said they made people close to the speaker stacks vomit, but I only half believed them until reading about that. They also link this story about an actual working puke ray: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/08/flashlight-vomi.html I want to know, is it followed by that feeling of euphoria that comes after vomiting up something especially bad? You could really fuck up an ideologically charged crowd with that. Or a restaurant. Or valentines day. And how long before knowledge of these frequencies/wavelengths leaks, becoming generally known and cheaply reproducible? I've a feeling we're in for an interesting and incredibly fucked up century.

I really hope that's not a joke

Here's a sonic weapon that works on grown-ups: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/02/i-was-a-puke-ra.html

The labour and equipment that went into building that probably are worth 6m, but it probably only sounds a bit better than a low five figure system. It's possibly retarded due to the amount of subs he has. That many subs of that size in a van = a minimum safe listening distance quite some way away from the van, plus all kinds of reinforcement to stop the van shaking itself apart. I suspect a system like the one above could do a lot of damage to people if they didn't know what they were doing with it, which makes a lot of the capacity it has redundant. Rusalka's correct though I doubt any of us could accurately say what we'd do and how we'd live if we were rich - what we want now, and what we'd do in that situation are probably quite different things.

AHAHAHA My mum used to live on Angelsey, there was a single solitary chav who did his gangsta-been-shot walk along grass verges near villages in the middle of nowhere. In case you missed it when Spaff posted it: Speak you're branes. Their post tags alone are genius

I think I liked San Andreas because I knew very little about hip hop and gangsta rap, and had a friend who could teach me about them at around the same time - it was very interesting to see how the game squared up. I also loved that it took half an hour or so to drive all the way around the islands; it seemed so vast and explorable. Though getting the maroon tracksuit with white stripes in Vice City was a high point