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Awesome! That looks like it would cause some hilarity! Btw, Chris, was my mail punctuated really badly? I'm the aian email address. (It's not a mis-spelling, my old one got spammed so badly, I had to change it, and that was one of the few I could have. It is spelled Ian.) I suppose I should sign the mail properly.

I'm considering buying soulstorm on steam to get the beta. It's playing straight into thier hands, but it is only a fiver.

Band of Brother sequel trailer: The Pacific http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=E81uWNfRHbs

Jimmy Saville. Say No More. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2ftwYChQ7T8

Rather a strange pronouncement from Kaz Hirai on EG yesterday http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/hirai-were-the-official-industry-leader

...except this one is actually quite good; the author's rather breathless writing style is a little irritating, but it's thorough. http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html

I don't suppose I need to ask if you've checked the way your browser handles cookies?

Anyone have an invite left?

Concrete Boots.

Dunno, kinda got bored with the other one. First used it in '93 or something. Plus it was a pretty lame gag, all said and done. Almost embarrassingly so.

Referring back to the original topic somewhat, I was reminded this morning of the pre-recorded voice in Leeds train station who announces the train departures etc. She is identical to the lady who announces things in City 17. The shape of things to come?

Damn! Well, that was the original plan...but I would lose my job if I did that I think. Shame. However, we will be coming back to Toronto in September. 'Crowsnest Pass' eh? That's the sort of info I'm talking about. Is that the road that goes through towns like Sparwood and Coleman?

You know, I think you speak the truth. The whole idea of driving from Calgary to Vancouver in the first place was to see the Rockies in late spring/early summer before getting to the city.

I loved the first three series' - I only discovered it last summer, and it took me a few months to catch up. Then I waited in breathless anticipation for the 4th series...and meh. It seemed to have changed, and lost that cruicial something that stopped it from teetering on the edge of 'Typical American Shitty Comedy Show' (TM-Toblix) and 'Brilliant', and has now slapped down firmly on the side of TASCS. Not even Barney is good any more.

'Tacklers' is the correct term, yes. Your life expectancy isn't high, but it doesn't matter because Rifters (Minmatar frigates) cost nothing. If you want to get straight into the thick of it, join the alliance I'm in - we seem to be constantly at war with at least 3 or 4 Corps at a go, and at the moment we're slap bang in the middle of the great Northern Coalition Offensive, the objective of which is to kick Against All Authorities out of the area. They are not having it, of which that big 700+ battle last week was the first major engagement. The Goons let it be known that they were coming, and AAA released a propaganda pic of 13 Titans (!) ready for the defence. I've did a write up of the battle from my perspective, can post it up if you want, along with other adventures I've got involved in. I never actually saw the Titans, but I think we engaged Goons in one of the outlying systems.

Or, as there was much hilarity in the UK when it was first noticed, Lisa Simpson giving London a blowjob. Some wag animated it: Also, and in light of recent thumbs podcasts, strangely relevant, the BBC held it's own logo competition. Some one at the Beeb wasn't paying attention, and this sneaked onto the list... From the designer: That man needs a medal. The BBC noticed after they were ridiculed, and removed it from the list.

I think you're a bit wrong about the length of time it takes to get involved in Eve - especially with regards the battles. I'm nearly 3 months old, last week I was in the middle of a 700+ pilot tear up between the Goons, BoB, -A- and numerous other small alliances (one of which was the one I was in). Also, even young pilots can be useful in fleet actions - you fly a small fast frigate (generally the first half decent craft available). The game is designed in such a way that a frigate has a chance to survive against a battleship - the battleship's guns are very large indeed, and if they hit would wipe you out in one go - but you can actually orbit the battleship faster than its guns can track you. Plus there's the targetting, which relies on your signature radius - small ships have a small sig. radius, and correspondingly targetting from a larger vessel takes a while, so before the guns that can't track fast enough to shoot you, the targetting systems can't resolve you (and therefore lock on). While you're doing this, you can tackle the larger ship stopping it from warping, and web it to stop it travelling very fast, which allows your fleet members in larger ships to bring their big guns to bear on the bigger ship (and damage them more than you will be able to do). Your guns would merely scratch the surface, and are only useful for defending yourself against the enemy battleship's support frigates etc. P.s. not seen you online!

Agree. He is very nice. Didn't know about the BoC connection though. You might like to try Wisp as well - although I'd imagine you already have some of his stuff.

The olypimcs will be a total embarrassment.

Aren't these two things exclusive?

You bad man.

You do get kind of used to it. Having to stick your pinky through a rabbits arse from the inside out before you cook it is about as gross as it gets. That's after sawing it's head off, of course. Then you give its innards to the dogs.

The PoP Stories was piss funny.

Although he's a bit of a chump, he's a likeable chump. Probably shouldn't be mayor though... But then, I don't live in London, so don't really know how good/bad he is.

I'm glad you're picking holes in the details...who cares if he attributes that to Valve or whoever - I wanted to draw attention to the point that a pretty large developer seems to have realised that using a stick is bad, and a carrot might be better.