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I could maybe be awkward around people on a weekend. Maybe.

Although this isn't the most outrageous costume by a long shot, it seems particularly weird that she's posing with a child. Who would do that with their zip down that low? How would people feel if it were a man with his shirt off? Not that kids can't be around shirtless men, but, you know, context. Appropriateness. All that stuff.

I don't really trade games at all, but CeX specialize in that sort of thing, so they might be worth checking out.

Another great game guys. Sorry I had to leave when we were doing so well.

I don't think it's been announced.

So I think Erkki has fixed this one, but each thread could do with a link to the sub-forum it's a child of. It's fiddly to have to go back to the home page then click through to the sub-forum you were looking at. Otherwise, cool. I posted a horrible mess.

I, too, am often disappointed by purportedly serious or adult* games having a thoroughly adolescent attitude to women. What respect I have for Mass Effect 2's storytelling is quite badly undermined when the camera cuts mid-conversation to a shot from directly behind Miranda's arse. Of course, it's a problem in all media (it sometimes seems like it's impossible to do anything significant in fictional worlds unless you're beautiful), but it's particularly barefaced in games, and if you ask me, games that want to be taken seriously should be making extra effort not to fall into those traps, as they're already carrying the baggage of the years of immature silliness that have preceded them. I shouldn't give the impression that I'm especially hard-line about this. If anything, I probably care about these issues less than I should. I don't have much of a problem with some games being gratuitous nonsense if I don't particularly respect them on that level in the first place (which is something I probably should care about in the interests of a fair society and all that, but it's easier to just compartmentalize, I suppose). But it's when a developer is making an effort to move things forward that I get frustrated. Don't they see how it must look to an outsider? It just reinforces the stereotype that gamers are all perverted teenage boys, mentally if not physically. I'm OK with there being games which actually are directed at that market (gaming, after all, is a medium rather than a unified movement; any sufficiently developed medium will cater to all manner of people of varying degrees of respectability), but if it's all like that it kind of demeans all gamers. I don't know, maybe I'm talking rubbish, or maybe none of this needed saying. * I mean emotionally mature, not "adult audiences only"

My dad got a bit obsessed with trying to beat Lost Caves on the Amstrad CPC he bought me one Christmas. There was no save function, so we left it on over several nights. We never did beat it in the end. It was always interesting to see him get into games, because he didn't usually pay them much attention, but when he did he got quite focused. He got very into Tetris at one point, but that wasn't as communal an activity. I think that's when I learnt the phrase "to cut one's losses", though (in reference to not waiting forever for one of the I-shaped blocks). Anyway, he couldn't manage the shift to 3D, and found it so baffling that he once asked whether I'd considered being a pilot, so apparently advanced was my hand-eye co-ordination. I can assure you that my hand-eye co-ordination is not at all out of the ordinary. In fact, I think it may be worse than the average gamer's. But once you reach the realm of 3D gaming I think it's all equally confusing and impossible for my dad. He also recounted a few experiences from before I was born to me. He got somewhat addicted to Space Invaders on arcade machines, and was serious enough about text adventures to try to look through the code for verbs (I don't know how that would work if they were compiled; perhaps it wasn't a very fruitful search). Anyway, now his attitude is, "You're not still playing those games, are you?"

Dan and Sombre and I played some Last Stand earlier using only the new Chaos Rising factions. I took a bunch of screenshots, some of which are linked to below: http://yfrog.com/2orelic00042j http://yfrog.com/5mrelic00008j http://yfrog.com/0srelic00034j http://yfrog.com/55relic00036j http://yfrog.com/6xrelic00039j http://yfrog.com/74relic00020j http://yfrog.com/c9relic00043j http://yfrog.com/4prelic00007j http://yfrog.com/06relic00011j http://yfrog.com/i3relic00026j http://yfrog.com/b7relic00023vj Force commanders are fantastic targets for the Chaos Sorcerer's Doppelganger ability.

It probably is, but the communist party is barely existent, so it's not exactly a common choice. I don't know about how conservative people are in general. The Daily Mail is popular, which is pretty conservative. It's not the same thing, though, sure. I was just making a passing comment. Actually, Charlie Brooker . Other than Beck, the whole Internet probably knows about O'Reilly, and half of it Coulter. Other than that I'm pretty ignorant though, yes.

A couple of years ago mine said, with apparent seriousness, that he was going to vote communist. Things may well have changed since then, though.

Yeah, what Mr Poo said. MORE POO. Also, I was not familiar with the Deadly Premonitions tune. It's amazing. But what of the game? The reviews seem mixed. IGN.com don't seem to think it'll blow me away igndotcom.

Your numerous airborne explosions did not go unnoticed.

I hope you appreciate the music, Miffy. Also, sorry it's so dark for the night-time bits. Unfortunately that's a consequence of filming off a screen like an idiot. I tried fiddling with brightness and contrast for the last video, but couldn't find a combination that didn't look shit.

I should probably have trimmed quite a lot out of this, but instead of bothering to do that I just sped it all up a little bit to keep it at ten minutes: FOIbUhYMk4M

I'd recommend adding the frequent contributers to this thread to your Steam friends list and sending a message when everyone starts launching the game.

I was going to put something up last night, but I fell asleep during the editing process, so I elected to be sensible and go to bed. I heard you a couple of times, most notably when we were trying to determine the awesome jump track. I guess we anglophones are just too obnoxiously loud. And obnoxious in general.

Windows 2?

Yeah, if you don't trust the time of day it gives you, the countdown time ("2 hours from now," etc.) should be reliable. Of course, it's a bit late for any of this to be useful.

Hey, I know a place where you can check when the next session is: Grand Thumbs Auto schedule thing!

YEAH LET'S PRE-ORDER THIS GAME Wait.

Yeah, they were playing Last Stand and then Andy and I turned up and we played a couple of rounds of full-on multiplayer. It was pretty good. I did shit in the first round and then was champion in the second. Go me. I don't know if I actually played well, but the numbers liked me.

It's in my Twitter name, but Andy doesn't follow that to my knowledge. ANYWAY, FUN TOPIC.

Interesting. Perhaps it is I who is hiding in the bushes outside my house.

Hey now. I got myself offed by oncoming traffic. As usual, I leapt out of the car at an early stage, hoping to divide the target and get some sweet killz, but on diving recklessly from my seat at what I thought was a comparatively slow moment a civilian vehicle had the murderous audacity to hit me square in the head, killing me instantly. It was most frustrating. It's Murray. Andy mentions it in one of my recent L2D videos, which is puzzling, as I don't know why he would know that. Nevertheless, he does, and now so do you.