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Dan that is gold. Reminds me of when I triggered one of the sex scenes in Fahrenheit in front of me then girlfriend and she walked out in a huff. She wouldn't speak about it for about a week, then confessed that she was extremely jealous.

Cheers! Excellent link. Just watched 'Man on Fire' on the television, I highly recommend it. Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning and Radha Mitchell are all great. I was expecting tedium and found myself utterly gripped all the way through.

Thank you Miffy for coming in with a balanced argument. Sorry I've been reading this thread after just having had the chance to play the game. The arguments proposed in the last post means I'm not going to rant about how much I can't stand the new game and its perfect score.

Phew! I was thinking about buying this what with all the Hyperbole. I've disliked the series since it went 3-D, so if this is just more of the same but shinier then it probably won't be the one to convert me.

It is based on a book trilogy and I wonder what they are like. Jumper just had so many potentially good moments that are largely ruined by the leads. I also hate the fact that it fails to tie up any of the threads that it starts. I don't think this film deserves having spoiler tags on it, I don't think that it could be ruined by knowing what happens. Jamie Bell, to be fair, does actually try and be entertaining.

Just spent some time on tanscontinental flights (over 40 hours in last 4 months) and watched some godawful films: 27 dresses - Pointless chick flick trash with awful acting and drivel for dialogue The Condemned - A bad Battle Royale rip off with Stone Cold Steve Austin, you know you are screwed when you leave the acting duties to Vinnie Jones Dan in Real Life - Starts off sort of entertaining and then immediately loses it with everyone being rather embarassing and over the top. Steve Karell is on particularly annoying form. Fever Pitch - If you don't mind Drew Barrymore being awful in a misfired romantic comedy about a guy who has to choose between baseball or his girlfriend it's great. As long as you can put up with a charmless male lead and predictable plot 'twists' 30 days of night - Visually quite good and Josh Hartnett is okay. Sadly the subject material is rather slim and so the plot falls back on too many horror cliches. Almost worth watching if you don't watch a lot of horror stuff but films like Pitch Black are far superior in terms of pacing and acting. Jumper - Hayden Christensen is rubbish don't watch his films. Ever. St. Trinians - Changes the original anarchic films into some kind of wacky teen drama with a dash of pygmallion. Rupert Everett is pretty good as the lead barmy head mistress but everyone is a waste of cinema. On the other hand: I am Legend - Has more in common with Omega Man than the original book but is a lot better than I expected. I still want to see some one try and tackle the original text with a little more faithfulness Shoot-em-up - Ridiculous with some rather entertaining set pieces. Monica Bellucci is pretty bad but everyone else made me smile (+ the promotion of eating carrots being a cool thing gets my vote). American Gangster - It has been done so many times, a gangster epic that spans decades. Russel Crowe and Denzel Washington are both compelling and Ridley Scott is a solid director, if you have over 2 and half hours to blow there are much worse things to watch.

Agreed. Old firmaware plus new iTunes doesn't work. As long as the iTunes is only of a certain issue (7.0.2 is the sweet spot, I tried to have an even earlier version but encountered issues)

Thunderpeel was referring to the context of the quote I used by Bill Hicks. Yeah, sorry Thrik I come on a little strong when it comes to my oppinions on marketing peeps. Same problem Dan had/has, there is far too many weird unspoken bullshit politics... Sorry to generalise but it is a little like the brown duck theory. If you only see marketing guys who are full of shit then you start to think they all are. It is heartless but I still remember the time I made one of our PR people cry in a crowded pub with a certain amount of fondness.

That maybe so, I've just never liked what marketing entails and would never encourage anyone to go into that side of any business. Everyone I've ever worked with who has been involved in the marketing aspect of the company I was in was always full of so much shit that I never felt like I could trust them. Having also dealt with Eidos in previous years, I'm not too sad that a lot of them have gotten the sack.

Yeah, seeing people in marketing without a job break my heart. To paraphrase Bill Hicks: If any of you work in marketing, kill yourselves now.

Hmm generic name. Advertising free online games, talking about cellphone games... Spam?

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=134134 I have little hope for Earth Worm Jim being any good but I'm just happy that they might make a good cartoon series. MDK, however, could be really awesome in the right developer's hands. He has all the gadgets needed to really be quite exceptonal as long as they get rid of all the bits with Max and Doc in it.

Loved that comic Marek! Is it a Penny Arcade one? I loved the first two EWJ games, they were funny, goodlooking and balls-to-the-wall hard. I just can't see it translating to 3-D. MDK like everyone seems to be agreeing could still make it. Miffy, I recommend you play MDK on PC if you can find it, the console versions weren't as good in anyway. I imagine MDK as a kind of Syphon Filter but done well and with a fair dose of humour and weirdness. The megadrive version of Clayfighters isn't that good... Sorry this might be because I had already played Streetfighter half to death by the time it came out and there was only ever going to be one competitor for its crown (Samurai Shodown).

WTF!? http://ps3.gamespy.com/playstation-3/gran-turismo-5-prologue/868434p1.html Sorry this review got my ire, the reviewer says that the single player is too short that it suffers from many of the problems of old and you have to pay $39 for what is essentially a demo. He even ends with this: "$39 may seem like a lot for a game that's far from a total package, but when you do the math, it's less than a buck a week to play the thing until GT5 drops." WHAT?!?!? To use a Yahtzee line this sounds like a whole load of Bullshit and Chips. Do people at least get a discount on the full product if they buy this now?

I've bought quite a few of Majesco's games on the strength that they published Psychonauts and also Advent Rising (that was flawed but had some really good moments). Apparently they are just as ruthless as the rest of them, don't know why I'm surprised: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_146/4814-Cyberpunked-the-Fall-of-Black9

Boojaka, if you head to the Escapist's page they should have it in their current editorial under 'CyberPunked'. It is really difficult for me because now I feel a little guilty for giving Majesco my money. What I mean is that if they had been successful they would have continued these acts and the woman who wrote the piece probably would not have been allowed to write about Black9 and her experiences because Majesco would have sued her. And at the same time, how often does this sort of thing happen? Having only worked as part of an Independant QA department I don't often get to witness the interactions between Devs and Publishers.

Glad that it helped you. I don't know, is it worth having this as a potential sticky? I can't imagine many other people will have the same problem so probably not. The 360, from many drunken nights of playing tunes through it and then deciding to randomnly unplug it to listen to music through my headphones, is pretty good at handling this sort of stuff dynamically. I haven't bricked my iPod despite some quite stupid moments that really should have.

Well that's confirmed then. I don't know what I'm talking about and the discomfort with watching the film has been assuaged.

I had the same problem and it can be fixed! http://www.idlethumbs.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5632 If you are lucky you are only going to have to change the iTunes version you are using. I'm shit with technology and it took me ages to figure out what to do, if you have a knack for this stuff the problem should be solved pretty quickly. Hope the thread and links are still working.

It definitely made me giggle. Well I sort of disagree about Juno, I don't think it is all that timeless. In fact I did find myself cringing when some of the slang was used. It reminded me of this moment in 'A Clockwork Orange' when the main character is imprisoned and one of his cellmates uses a dialect/slang so out of date that no one understands him. Don't get me wrong I liked the film, just think it will age badly.

A decent Samsung would allow you to plug a whole number of items in it. I did it for awhile when I was staying with a friend (the 360 and my laptop were rigged up to it). The only obvious pain is that you will constantly have to switch between channels to do stuff, but it sounds like you were already doing that anyway.

WAIT! I had this problem when I was living in Montreal. My profile was UK based and I bought a subscription in Montreal. It would no recognise that I had paid for Xbox LIVE because I was trying to put, essentially, Canadian dollars on an English account. As a result I had to create a separate account with a fake Canadian based account to play online. If your account is UK based you may have problems paying for a Xbox LIVE account with Estonian points. My advice would be to find out what country will support your local points/LIVE stuff and make a hotmail account based in that country. Logging into a profile with that email will allow Microsoft to take most of the details instantly from the Hotmail information.

Just rewatched Tremors... It makes me sad that flukes like this don't happen more often. I mean, you have Kevin Bacon, he's not famous yet but his pretty decent actor already. Fred Ward who will forever be the guy who is highly entertaining in all of the low budget schlock he has graced. Michael Gross, keen to have some kind of film career after being in sitcoms for years. Between the three of them they manage to take a ridiculous premise and pull it off. Shame the sequels were so gadawful. Also finally watched Juno, is it me or is this film going to be out of date in about 2 years? The whole time I felt like I was watching the equivalent of the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles for beginning of the 21st century. The slang is going to age soooo badly.

No, but he is constantly using the light (and night vision... they have that on cameras now?), I didn't realise that cameras were capable of running that long when using that kind of juice. Then again I didn't know they now had night vision so my oppinion may be outdated.

What's Viking like? Please tell me it is completely shit so that I don't ache over wanting to be in contact with my 360 (even if it is shit I'm still going to buy it but at least I won't be craving to play it)