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He was on Radio 4 this eve, around about 9.30-ish, should you care to look on iplayer.

I gave up on Glasto a few years back. Last year we went to the North Sea Jazz Festival, and Gent Festival (although link seems broken at the mo), the two years before that we went to Sonar. Been to nearly every year of Moor Music Festival, this year have spaces at LLama festival (free! ) and probably Beat-Herder. Support your local festivals - Glasto has far more money that it knows what to do with, so spread it around a little. Plus have a super time

Not comical, but very cool nonetheless. http://www.inbflat.net/

Should just call it St0l4n and be done with it.

Agreed. I excitedly clicked on the thief link after seeing the news to be presented with the lame-o-font. Weak design effort.

The point about narrowing the creation tools is a valid one - but you risk making it pointles for the players to use - if it's just going to knock out a set of identikit quests that are the same as the dev ones, ("Go here, kill this many of these, collect this, go back"), they you may as well not bother. That in itself is a large part of why I stopped playing WoW. Sorry to harp on about EVE again, but one of the guys in our alliance has managed to create the first player run NPC 'mission giver' in the game. The way it works is that you'd go and see the agent who would give you a mission, but instead of the standard boring ones of, "See this bit of space here? It's infested with bad guys. Go kill 'em", or, "There's a shortage of Quaife in that system. Please take this there!" and so on, the agent will give you missions that mean something to our alliance and carry the story forward in the bit of space we live in. It' pretty good, and it generally results in PvP combat as the missions invariably extend into enemy territory It seems to work ok as well, as you're not just fighting the game - you're fighting people.

Good work! The part about players aren't objective reviewers - sometimes they're not objective players either - like for instance the people who, when a new game is released, race to be the first to finish it, or spend their time in the game world trying to find all the glitches and bugs that will give them an unfair advantage. I remember Remo talking about the latter while playing Hatsworth - although I think he is to be forgiven for exploiting where possible just because the game is so ridiculously hard. I wonder what it is that drives people to do that/be like that - with most of us here, I imagine, you're happy to let ourselves be immersed in the game if it lets you to enhance the experience as much as possible. After all, that's why you play it. Some players obviously get their gratification from destroying or exploiting their environment - but, I had no idea of the sad evidence CoH has produced - that those kind of people are in the majority, and would do it if they could get away with it.

I think there was some uncertainty about the validity of those logs AkuMifune.

[Edit]Boring nonsense. Replaced.

That's pretty fucking sinister. It could just be a good yarn, but based on the amount of money both companies and both sets of people stood to make...

I never got (as in understood the appeal of) the original Duke Nukem. I think I'd already played Doom to death, plus the numerous other clones, had indulged in LAN play against other human beings on Doom, and was deeply involved with the Xcom series at the time. Was really 'meh' about it, even though that expression didn't exist then.

Your sister is prolly sick of it as well. Badum-tish.

Nice to hear someone name check OK. Did you come up from notts specifically to visit or were you in the area? There is another comic shop in Leeds that deals almost exclusively with manga, but has a very unpleasant atmosphere for lay-public who wonder in looking for a specific title. I was made to feel lile a freak by the bunch of teens embroiled in a Magic: The Gathering game. Maybe because I was with a girl, but I dunno. I think they could smell my fear. Totally different to OK, a nice place to be and although small has an extremely eclectic mix of titles, again with all the spandex squirrelled away in the top room.

...anyone been having problems signing in the last few days? Ever since I installed 2.7 it seems to be broken. Game updates still work however...

It wouldn't sign into PSN - however it would browse, download game updates etc. It is working now- with me doing nothing. Most strange.

Man, how did I miss that. Is it any good?

Wait, this is after the Black Dossier?

After a long period of fannying, I've just got this. It's more fun than I thought it would be... Plus my gf likes it. It's good fun playing the levels co-op, although she is now being introduced to computer game frustration! Haha!

http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/

Back when I bought a lot of CDs and LPs, I used to buy some music purely on the basis of the cover art (if I didn't know about the artist). You got some turkeys, but also some right gems. In general it was worth the punt I reckon.

...is now broken. For anyone who hasn't read it yet, Google has kindly cached it.

http://www.db.ripe.net/whois?form_type=simple&full_query_string=&searchtext=SE-TPB&do_search=Search Cheeky bastards. Although a useful highlight to demonstrate the inaccuracy of the WHOIS database, as it was one of the things relied upon by the prosecution in the trial.

Yeh that would be cool to meet for a beer - I'll let ya know when we'll be in Calgary - prolly around 17th may ish.

We will be in Vancouver and briefly in Calgary - which reminds me - we could meet up if you want? Maybe even go to a hockey game. Would your mrs come? Betina is not exactly enthralled by the idea...

Miffy - I though the season was over by the time I get there in the second half of may - will there be games to go to see?