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Shelcoof in the background of the new sonic racing thing. Edit: oh apparently there's a ton of PD stuff in it, including a whole level (not the one in the screenshot).

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I came in here for the socialism... disappointed. http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8564302-raff

Last year I really enjoyed Venetian Navigators by Andrea di Robilant, which is about the dubious discoveries in the North Sea of some fourteenth-century Venetian explorers. It's partly an investigation into their warped accounts and maps - how they were interpretted and shunned by scholars over the centuries - and part travel writing as the author attempts to follow in their footsteps and match their accounts to reality. There's a lot of interesting scene setting along the way, I particularly enjoyed the intro on early book publishing in Venice (I just finished my degree in Publishing), and learning about places like the Faroe Islands which I knew nothing about. I guess that might fit into what you're looking for since it's NF but quite entertaining in that it's lead along by these exaggerated stories.

I adore the Panzer Dragoon games. ADORE them. This looks quite nice, but a Kinect is still a hundred pounds (making this game more expensive than Saga) and I've no idea if it will work in my room.

Published by Sega... thread title change request: Marek Bronstring's Cave

That looks lovely. I wish I had room here for my .

Whenever I've plugged anything into the USB ports on mine it's complained about lack of power.

When shopping for a new keyboard you need to ask yourself the question: "What should my keyboard say about me?" This is my keyboard, the Logitech G11. Glowing keys: "Ready to do business at any time of night or day, in any time zone or cave." Twin carry handles (??): "Man on the go, always fully equipped. Grabs an opportunity with both hands." 18 programmable keys: "Accepts no compromises. Unconventional. Creative. Single."

What's a story? Are you talking about the lore?

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Mansion of Hidden Souls (Saturn version).

I'm playing a free-to-play beta Diablo clone called Path of Exile, which I rather like. However, it happens to have presented me with an egregious example of one of the oldest face-plants in video games (and films for that matter): The insurmountable obstacle that any able bodied individual could easily clamber over or squeeze through without any hassle whatsoever. Games are absolutely full of these, but generally they're not a problem if just used to enclose a limited space, provided that the available area is satisfying enough. The real problem starts when the obstacle becomes part of the game narrative (whether dynamic or scripted). e.g. I have a quest to find this road to somewhere or other, but I find it blocked and have to find a way around. I'm really surprised how often this happens and apparently doesn't bother the developers. It makes me wonder whether some games are made by daleks. It's the same glaring inconsistency of plot over-riding the action on screen that leads to situations like the ending of Titanic where they just can't quite be arsed to both get on the piece of wood.

I think there are a lot of instances where it's easy to accept and some when it's not (like when the implication is an epic, narrative critical detour), and it's often just a case of making a boulder a bit bigger, a slope a bit steeper.

Incidentally, I absolutely HATE the trend of the last few years for making you press a contextual button to hop on or off a ledge when in any half reasonable game you could achieve the same effect by just pushing forward without the need for a big picture of a button in the middle of the screen or taking control away while an animation plays out.

Interesting and surprising, I've only played the first one. I remember swooning at the required HDD space when we installed it at a friend's house.

Who is the new protagonist? he looks nothing like this guy.

Cheers, I'll pass one later! (if the blockbuster I suspect somehow still exists still indeed exists)

Fuck it, maybe I'll just give it a shotLOLNO

The book is great, I had to go for a walk as soon as I'd finished it.

It's fair enough. I turned 23 quite recently as well (was in the middle of dissertation crunch time and barely had a Birthday) and I'm haunted by what I've not done from 18-23 that from now on will probably be more difficult. Travelling, meeting people etc. Every previous significant transition that should have opened a lot of doors has been a colossal anticlimax, so my expectations of life after university are very low even though the job situation is looking alarmingly ok.

When I stay with my parents I take a very low end 5 year-old laptop and often end up playing something old on it. Most recently: Stronghold! First RTS I've played in a long long time. It also runs Deus Ex quite well.

I have no plans to return your keyboard, case or spectacles at this time. The case has two fans at the front which I don't have connected because they glow blue. Maybe they'll shed some light on whether it is the same case. Keyboard is a G11, the one without the screen but copious extra buttons which I used to use for accents before I gave up studying French. Never really found a use for it for games.

I use two monitors at work (one above the other) and I had my older monitor set up here as well at one point just because I could, but in the end I prefer just the one at home. Feels more relaxing and generates less incredulity from visitors. This is my univeristy room (the last and best but totally without character) where I am for a few more months, I'm going to miss the delightful curtains and hospital-style furniture. The corner of shame on the right conceals the various machines nestling in cable spaghetti and an unweildy HDMI switcher. I'm strictly forbidden from having any kind of LAN switch or wifi whatsoever, so have to switch out that ethernet cable in the wall constantly and can't work anywhere else in the flat. On the plus side the university internet is probably the fastest, cheapest and most reliable I'm likely to see in my life. Back to crummy dsl soon...

They could do more with the 'fear' emotion, perhaps drawing inspiration from the ketchup robot.