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    I'd have to say if I had reccomend two books to anyone I'd definitely say that The Sirens of Titan is a must read and so is Oryx and Crake. 

     

    The Sirens of Titan is a sci-fi book by Kurt Vonnegut. As usual it's zany as all fuck, and like a lot of his stuff if almost feels like you're reading two books at once (so there's your bang for your buck). Besides all the weirdness of the book I feel like the second half of the novel is one of the most visually beautiful, impressive and moving pieces of fiction I've ever read. It still gives me butterflies thinking about the latter half of that book. 

     

    Oryx and Crake is a fantastic sci-fi novel based on altering DNA in a cosmetic sense so that rich people can essentially manufacture food, organs or living cells to test shit out on. It's Atwood at her finest, and Christ on a bike does she come out swinging on this one. The characters are so interesting and fucked up you're not exactly sure whether you're supposed to like them or not. 

     

    I know I've gone at length about these books before on these forums, but I just glanced at my book pile and these are still the ones I feel are most important to me. 

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    Ok so I bought the Humble Bundle but I don't actually want of the additional games that were released and they'll just clutter up my already ridiculous library of games I'll never touch. So here's what I've got and what I want from you in response so you can receive a fantastic prize (which I don't want anyway, how truly altruistic of me): 

     

    Sanctum: Collection - PM/write in this thread what your earliest memory is

    Orcs Must Die: GOTY Edition - PM/write in this thread what your favourite holiday destination is

    Cities in Motion 2 - PM/write in this thread your most interesting talent/hobby

     

    First person to do either one wins and gets the Steam code. I know these games aren't brilliant, but I might as well give them to someone who wants them. 

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    I don't really know where else to post this so here it goes: I'm planning on running my PC for a long ass time while I go to work and set Steam to download every single game I have in my library. However, I want to keep an eye on the temperatures of the CPU etc. but I don't know where to get a trustworthy temperature monitor from. Can anyone recommend one they use or have used? 

  4. Posted

    Ahoy hoy fell Thumbers! I've just returned from my European jaunt and I'm currently getting knee deep into vidya games before I have to return to the adult life of working. I'm on Torchlight at the moment and was wondering if anyone wanted to join me? I've started an Outlander which is at level 9 at the moment, but I wouldn't mind creating another character to play with fellow readers. My Runic account is also Dosed, but I'm called Dosed on Steam too and I'm friends with a bunch of people on there like The Last Baron and Patrick R if you want to find me through them. Cheers! 

  5. Posted

    My Skyrim ending was no where near as epic as Sean's but it went a little something like this: 

     

    After becoming an incredibly powerful mage, mastering alchemy and one handed weapons my character simply fell off a cliff and died. Sometimes life isn't fair and people rarely die in fitting ways or are granted a death that "suits" them, so I thought it was fine that my character had a misstep and fell to their death.

     

    In all honesty I was one of the unlucky few to be really hit by the poor PS3 version of the game, and I had screen lag out the butt so after a lot of chopping and chugging I simply refused to play the game, but even if that hadn't been the case I just felt like that was the end of Skyrim for me and I haven't played since. 

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    I'd definitely buy an Idle Thumbs t-shirt. Of any description. So there you go, I'm pretty sure one other person in the thread said they'd buy one so that shows there's a huge market with a guaranteed sale of at least 2 t-shirts. Your move Thumbs. 

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    I'm generally super happy with the way the finale turned out. I'm so, so glad that Jesse didn't kill Walt. He finally got to make his own choice and his role in his relationship with Walt. I'm also kind of sad because I know Jesse will most likely be caught by the police straight away, and he'll probably end up in prison but that look of pure joy on his face was brilliant.

    I did however fully expect someone in Walt's immediate family to die and was very surprised when they all survived. I mean maybe it's enough that they have to live out these meager existences and Walt's infamy will just loom over them forever. Not that out come is really punishing Walter, because he's dead, but it's not like Walt finally saved his family.

    What would have happened if Walt wasn't struck by a stray bullet? Do you think he would have killed himself other way?

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    What exactly is GFW? 

     

    I'm glad you finally got into Giant Bomb Zeus. Those guys are awesome. And I love the fact that the podcasts go on for 3 hours. Time passes so much quicker when I'm listening to those guys just blather on. But I was listening to one recently and it kind of bugs me how exclusive those guys can be sometimes about their video content. I personally never really visit their site, but I love the podcasts and they frequently mention things that happened in their videos, panels and lives but then never actually go into any detail and feels like I'm missing out on some sort of in joke which doesn't make for good listening. There was one recently where they talked about something "crazy" happening at a panel but then failed to discuss it or elaborate and I just stopped listening to the podcast after that because I didn't really get what they were going on about. 

  9. Posted

    Last night's episode was pretty darn boring. Practically nothing happened for the first 20 minutes and even after that nothing really happened. Although, the initial scenes of Walt slinking around his house were both ludicrously tense and kind of funny at the same time. It's amazing to think of how far he has come. I know it might seem like it was slow compared to last episode, but even if the last episode wasn't one of my favourite episodes to date I'd still think this one was slow. I hope they keep the drama going.

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    I really enjoyed A Brave New World, but I read it when I was younger and I can barely remember exactly why I liked it. I think I was way into dystopian stuff at the time and that book pushed all the right buttons. I'm not sure I'd like it after reading a fair bit more sci-fi and being disappointed with the "everyone was an artist before TV came along" attitude that gets pushed in some of the stuff I've read. 

     

    I read the first book of the Foundation series and was pretty bored by it to be honest. The concept is interesting I guess, but Asimov does nothing interesting with it and it just kind of felt limp and lifeless. 

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    Yeah, I didn't really see how Huell managed to steal the cigarettes that quickly and it confused me at first. I'm really, really glad that Jesse went beserk. He's been so inactive and passive this last season and it's nice to see him just explode like that. Aaron Paul has been keeping that rage in the locker, and it paid off. The last camera angle was brilliant where it was attached to the end of the petrol can! There's no shred of decency left in Walt now, he's gotta go down in a some sort of blaze of misery.

  16. Posted

    if you mean jesse trying to kill walt, jesse figured out that walt stole the ricin and poisoned the child, when he realised his weed had been pickpocketed he figured out that is how he lost the ricin

     

    funny spoilers for the ending of the show http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/636264ec55/dean-norris-spoils-breaking-bad 

    Oh, sorry. That's exactly what I meant.

    I'm not sure that was the best way to kick off the whole thing though, it seems a little bit convoluted to me in terms of Jesse finding out. I think it's a really, really interesting story beat I just wish they got there in a more convincing way.

  17. Posted

    this episode's plot went to somewhere I could have only hoped in terms of story telling, I mean in terms that Walt actually tried to kill Walt. But was anyone else actually convinced about how it happened? What exactly did happen???

  20. Posted

    This was one of my favourite Thumbs episodes in a while. I actually don't mind the discussion of DOTA at all, especially when it's in a very detatched form such as talking about it's importance in eSports. I actually find eSports incredibly interesting, even though I very, very rarely watch any actual events and when I do I'm even less likely to have ever played the game I'm watching.

     

    I've watched countless Call of Duty, LoL, DOTA and Halo 3 plays simply because I find them interesting, the drama and the skill is something that just blows my mind. In fact I'm currently staying with a guy who was the European champion of an FPS I'd never heard of called AVA and I instantly tried to draw some stories out of him even though I had no idea what the game was about. 

     

    More importantly did Sean's mam actually say "fuck you Nick Breckon"? 

  21. Posted

    Rime does look very pretty indeed, just have to wait and see if the game play is actually any fun. Also quick question: is Drive Club being released as #DRIVECLUB, like with a hash tag at the front? Because that seems a tad silly to me. 

  24. Posted

    Yeah, last nights episode was fantastic. I really enjoy that

    they've just decided to fully drop Walt in it after all the clever plotting and cover up stuff of the last series. The cat's out the bag now and as we all know you can't stuff a cat back into a bag, unless you really, really try.