BooJaka

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  2. Posted · Edited by BooJaka
    because I'm a comedian, alright?

    I've been here. Just standing here. Right here, next to you.

    I haven't posted anything in quite a long while though. My life just isn't interesting enough to warrant sharing it with people the other side of an ocean

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    Yeah, I remember doing about feral children in psychology. It's something like by the age of 14 the speech centre of your brain stops growing. If you learn a language before then, you can adapt other languages on top of it (like learning English from birth then French at school). If it fully grows without you learning a language then you can't work with grammar or syntax or anything like that.

    But anyway, thanks for the podcasts. Haven't checked them out yet but will do soon

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    I've been told that the easiest way to pick up a language is to fully immerse yourself in it. That makes sense, right? People who go to a country learn to think in the different language as opposed to translate like we all did in school.

    I desperately want to learn Japanese (I got Rosetta Stone! It works wonderfully but it's just not enough!) and one of the things that occurred to me that might be good is to listen to Japanese radio. Like, talk radio. I don't think listening to the music is going to do me much good. But all I really want are some mp3s that I can put on my player and zone out from when I'm at the gym or something, letting it all trickle slowly into my mysterious subconscious.

    Anyone know of such a thing?

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    From IGN...

    "There isn't anything that we can announce today, but we have been thinking along a variety of different lines regarding this matter for some time now," Shigeru Miyamoto told IGN. "So my hope is that sometime in the not too distant future we will be able to discuss some concrete solutions."

    So there you go. It's on the horizon perhaps

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    So going back to the backwards compatibility thing (this has been confusing me for some time and these seems the perfect opportunity), there are no current PS3s with it in, right?

    But if I bought an second hand one off of ebay or something, is there a way of knowing it has the hardware in or not?

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    We do have snowy mountain regions, mostly in Scotland. Also lots of rivers and streams that can kill you if you fall in, but most kids aren't told that these days as they don't play in the countryside any more :oldman:

    We also have an incredible abundance of unguarded railway lines in the country. They're pretty scary stuff. Probably not exactly weather affected though

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    Wow! That's a hell of a picture. Also I just wanted to agree that the lime green DS is also the best thing in the world. I'm also considering getting one since the calibration is pretty much screwed on my old-school model making it impossible to complete Zelda. Money's constantly the issue though no matter how green it may be.

    As for a new design I'm equally sceptical. I can't really see what they would gain from releasing a third incarnation and I hope imagine (or hope) that most resources for that kind of thing would be going into a new handheld machine by now.

    But then I think I just repeated what everyone else just said

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    I've been kind of thinking about Metroid for a while. I liked the first one but never completed it (the last boss was too hard for me...). Brawl's not out over here yet so that's a no.

    As for LostWinds I've always been a bit wary about buying stuff that isn't physical. I don't know why, I guess I just like the option of returning things or selling them on.

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    My exams are almost over and I'm bored out of my mind so I feel it's only right to start the summer by staying indoors and buying myself a game for the Wii. Problem is though, the amount of Wii titles out there seem to have increased 100-fold since last time I actually went shopping for a game. Thusly, if you were I, what game would you spend your ever-dwindling student loan on?

    I already own GH3, Mario Kart, RE4, Galaxy, Paper Mario, Zelda and Zack and Wiki so what would look good on my meticulously alphabetised shelf next to them?

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    I'm here and it's my birthday so all hail me.

    I've been around but 9 times out of 10 recently the board wouldn't let me log in for some reason. Now though I'm in so I might just never go away again