James

I'm guessing you can't have it outputting video in both HD and SD, can you? I've got video through HDMI and audio through phono, but I suppose putting video through both would be an unnecessary waste of resources. If not, I probably can't be bothered to play in SD just to do a direct link to my PC. I'm glad someone's giving it a go, though. As for audio, couldn't you get a phono-to-3.5mm converter thingy and feed that into the line in of your sound card?

I should be attending. OH NO!

I remember Tails occasionally doing that shoot-off-to-one-side-at-speed thing. As others have said, it's called Stunts, but you might also know it as 4D Sports Driving (which I remembered as "4D Driving"; I'm sure the directory on my cousin's computer was called "4DD"). That game was cool. I was really interested in level editors when I was young, before I realized that I'm not good at editing levels. I have a vague recollection of the flying thing, too. I might have done it myself, but I think the more likely explanation was that my cousin saved a replay of him doing it. Hey, that game had saved replays, too! It was way ahead of its time with all its user-generated content. As for my own favourite glitches, I can't think of much. Does Big Rigs count as one giant glitch, or a collection of glitches disguised as a game? It's magnificent and appalling that that thing exists.

Destitution chic! And like I tried to say, I knew what you meant, I was just being a prick.

So, is this happening again this week, or has it all gone to shit? Tomorrow? Yes? No?

I see 2maidens1chalice.com is available. Should I?

Well it was meant as a companion piece rather than a replacement. The idea of men crying while having sex (in a pathetic and non-romantic way) is disproportionately funny to me, particularly if they don't stop. Also, it was meant to be shifting the subject of the malice from the whore to the teller of the joke (without warrant). Still, your suggestions have been duly noted. Thanks!

So, what, she said, "Right now there's an economic crisis and everyone is unemployed and it is the worst shit ever"? Because, you know, you were little and she was talking about when you were little SORRY I'M BEING A PEDANTIC DICKHOLE I'll try to avoid that in future. Being an unimaginative sort, I can't really imagine this affecting my life much, but I guess there's a fairly significant chance that it will. I'm not exactly rolling in it, so I don't have particularly high expectations, but I did inherit some money in stocks and shares and that kind of business from my grandma, though, which was doing well for a while but is now presumably worth less than their weight in shit, which is pretty bad considering they don't actually weigh anything. I haven't actually checked, so maybe everything is OK and I have something to fall back on after all. Nah, only joking, I'm sure they're fucked.

I tagged some sympathetic profanity.

Hahahahahaha, nice. Wait wait wait... Yeah? Yeah?

I am expressing my approval. Watch me express it. I've finished expressing now.

Those! was one of the first quests I did, and also one of the most difficult yet. Perhaps I wasn't kitted out for it properly. Also, I didn't know to shoot at their antennae. I tried it, but it didn't seem to work. If you get a critical, though, they flip out and attack anything, including each other, which is pretty effective, what with all the fire.

Something that may be relevant is that, as far as I can tell, the driver takes precedence when driving. I guess that's kind of obvious, but sometimes when you're a passenger in a laggy game, the car will slide around in an unnatural fashion. I've never encountered this while driving, so I guess the driver's system kind of hosts that particular car's position OR SOMETHING I don't know too much about the technical stuff. Is that common? I guess it would make sense in a peer-to-peer setting. Is GTA multiplayer peer-to-peer? Am I being dumb?

The damage modelling in that game is actually pretty spectacular at times. One time a friend and I were trying to pull off that swing glitch in a taxi, and it completely fucked us up, to the point that the car could only drive in a circle. The damage was actually different on each of our screens: if I remember correctly, on his screen half of the front dipped below wheel-level, whereas on my screen the back was basically shorn in two, with the top of one half being at roughly the same height as the bottom of the other. The protected name is my friend's. I'm being paranoid on his behalf, not my own. As is remaining in contact with the road.

Hahahaha, I never noticed. It's somewhat comforting to know that WHOEVER THAT PRICK WAS ruined his own chances as well as my own. Seriously, that makes the clip much more amusing. It's like some hilarious background detail in a film or something. Serves you right for ditching the ice cream truck, though. An experiment with GIFs:

Hahaha, yeah. That's even better than bullet allergy. PUT BULLET ALLERGY IN A GAME. The only way that those guys make any sense to me is if they're some sort of really extreme work of comedy or performance art or satire or something. But I'm pretty sure that isn't true. I guess they just like the celebrity.

Never to completion, although I've absorbed some stuff about Newspeak and so on, as I'm sure we all have. Weirdly, I didn't really make the connection. I'm a little disappointed in myself. I have, somewhat patronizingly, sometimes wondered how much poor grasp of one's first tongue hinders one's capacity for thought. I wouldn't want to extend the idea too far -- verbosity does not necessarily equate to intelligence, nor the reverse -- but for people who only seem capable of forming basic sentences, how much harder must it be to properly contemplate something? I guess it depends how well suited the brain's "internal language" is for whatever the subject is, I suppose. Perhaps I'm seeing things from a very narrow viewpoint. Perhaps not. On the subject of Newspeak, I wonder how hard it would be to actually instigate or enforce such a thing. My intuition is that the real risk is not so much the limitation of thought, but its subversion. I suspect people will always find a way to say what they want, but through clever manipulation of language, perhaps you can alter what they mean, and how concepts relate. A little conflation here, a little imaginary distinction there, and you might find that the previously outrageous now seems reasonable. Maybe. Maybe not.

My pessimism suspects he's right, but my desire for happiness and mental health desperately hopes he's wrong. I'm ignorant of pretty much all things economic, so I have no justified reason to lean with either side. My strategy is to try to be prepared for terrible things without actually thinking about them at all.

I thought that was me jumping off the bridge/overpass/whatever. I didn't get that on video, though, and it looks a lot more dramatic than I remembered, so I guess it probably wasn't.

It certainly is cute, although I always find it somewhat disturbing when young children talk about death and killing. One time my then-two-year-old nephew saw a spider and was loudly instructing us to kill it. Hearing a two-year-old shout "KILL IT! KILL IT!" is kind of unsettling.

Who would have thought?Looking at it, it's way too dark. My camera seems to do that. I'll have a look at the settings, I guess. Also, it looks pretty appalling in SD. In HD it seems to look better, but it's pretty much a slideshow for me, so I can't really tell. I don't think I caught much of particular interest, and my PC's a bit appalling at playing even remotely hi-res video, so it's a bit of a pain to find anything good, but I'll have a look. Hopefully there's something less tedious than this clip. I experimented with putting it into GIF format, but I was having difficulty making it so that I could tell what the hell was going on. But anyway, that is a thing. Or some of a thing. Or something. I DON'T KNOW, I TRIED.

I'm TheJames.

Since I've played with you, I guess I ought to post my gamertag:

I'd get that, but my PC is fairly appalling. One day I'll sort it out or buy a new one, I guess. Fuck you, plates!

That was fun. I'd like to apologize for my increasingly terrible performance and inane banter. Is there any chance of doing something similar with Left 4 Dead 360? I feel like I ought to be playing that game more.