Happy New Year folks! :D

(I got in a fight, I absolutely dominated (even though I am far from a hard man, just some younger dude being cheeky), but it is still quite a sad start to 2013) :sad:

Had some prick walking in the road while I was driving New Years Eve and when I honked he gave me the finger. We just rolled down the windows and my friend slapped him.

See, I'm not even "that" type of drunk. I'm usually laid back, even though I only drink spirits...

Happy New Year folks!

(I got in a fight, I absolutely dominated (even though I am far from a hard man, just some younger dude being cheeky), but it is still quite a sad start to 2013)

Yep, Italian plumber, we all know which side they batted for in WW2. (plus you can find bottles of wine adorned with Swastikas in some supermarkets there! )

gaming thought of the day: ive still got jet set radio future for the xbox (playable on the 360) which i have not completed yet. i really need to finish it!

I can't even play mine. (My JSR disc is the dual pack disc included with later generation Xbox consoles) Ironic that the backwards compatibility software on my 360 works with both of the games on the disc in their own individual separate releases, but not together on the hybrid console pack in. :sad:

They may have patched that by now. When JSR HD was being talked about round here, I found that disk with Sega GT also on it, popped it in, selected JSRF and it worked right away. It was on a black 360, if that makes any difference...

That nVidia thing really is horrific, isn't it?

I'm not a fan of regular Steam even as a program, even though it is a decent portal for buying digital content, so have zero interest in the Steambox console.

^Goes great with your sig!

That pic in the car is very sinister!

Vyse Hazuky wrote: Will 2013 be the year of the microconsole?
- interesting article

That was pretty interesting, and made me learn more about the Ouya. I am kinda interested in it now.

Good call, Ryudo and Spokane. Beck also, he outstrips all of us in "forum veteran" rank I think?

Physical controls is exactly what makes the difference for me. Being "sort of" a console, and without the obstacle of a touchscreen being in the input, I think cool things could be possible. IF Android is up to the job of running apps on that sort of scale/speed. But hopefully they wouldn't release it if it wasn't up to the job?
I don't see it as a competitor to "proper" consoles, if I did, I'd probably have no interest since I'd probably think it was doomed straight away. I see it as how that article described it, one for the geeks, built by and programmed by the geeks, selling into an open app market place (though hopefully not TOO open that just any shite can end up there) to other geeks. Outside of the comparative iron fists of Sony, MS and Nintendo in the hardware hierarchy, I'm interested to see how such a world could develop.
It could just bomb and suck, though.
Good point on the Steambox "no hassle", I forgot that it is now a such a plug and play and want it now society that this thing even at a high price will make a lot of sense to an awful lot of people.

Thanks for the explanation, guys.

Since we're talking Sonic;
Am I the only one that actually really liked, appreciated and fully enjoyed Sonic Adventure on the DC? Sometimes it gets a lotta stick pretty much universally...

I deserved more votes, you fucking saps!

Guess I do need to post more...

Double that at least if you really do want to do everything. I'd done the stuff I wanted and got kinda bored so explored less and got on with the "big" storylines, but there are gonna be missions that remain uncompleted, like Umbacanno's Ayleid statues, I just can not be arsed to loot every dungeon to go find them all, especially since the financial reward which was nice at the start of the game is now totally pointless as I now have so much gold, I literally just leave very expensive pieces of enemy loot just sitting there. There are also loads of locations like caves, villages, forts, Ayleid ruins etc. that I've never even been near. So yeah, to do "everything" would be an incredibly impressive feat, which would take a huge amount of time to complete. I reckon I could do so, and if I had no other games I would, but as it stands, life is just too short! :lol:

Mitts, it was gonna go in order: FC3, 'cos my gamer mate at work is into it just now, and is a great guy to shoot the shit with about games. Then HR, 'cos I played the very first way back in about 2000 and loved it, and HR got great things said about it by fans of the original, unlike Invisible War. The synopsis of the story makes it sound like it'll have the gritty atmosphere and geo-political big-conspiracy-that-you-are-part-of feel of the first one too. :D

Spellcheckers/autocorrect should still work in memes, I've decided.

Spokane wrote:

AnimeGamer183 wrote: I think this year has made me realize that the dojo awards are lame as fuck.

The lamest comment in the whole thread. Even more than my and Mitts bickering.

Nah you two were funny during that!

I find the dampness in the air makes a large difference to how cold it "feels". It was minus six today when I left the house at about 7.35am, but the frost wasn't too thick, and it felt actually ok standing out in it before I got in the car. Get to work, minus three (all day it never got above that either! :shock: ) but thick frost everywhere and quite damp air, it felt cold as fuck and horrible. It's not just a one off either, I've noticed it a lot. When the wind gets behind that it really bites...

Did I just type an essay talking about the weather in the lol topic? So yeah. Weather in Scotland, it's why we all drink 24/7, we all piss ourselves (which is why we all wear kilts) laughing and talking about the weather. :D

Mel Gibson. Plays a Scot in Braveheart, then what happens? He turns into a racist alcoholic who beats his wife.

Who originally said that?

Ryudo wrote:

Bambi wrote: Garage converted into apartment

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBYS3ZsC-cY[/youtube]

I see your garage to apartment and raise you Apartment converted to garage

Did a genuine LOL at that pic with that caption, nice one!

Not sure I've been here quite as long, I wasn't around RIGHT at the start, though I was on the forums before these. :D

EDIT: Fuck me, May 2003 on this one alone, so yeah, over ten years! :shock:

I used to make stupid jokes way back in the day of when 2 years was a "vet", about how I'd been there "over a decade, and never seen anything like this", etc. Now, I actually fucking can say that, if anyone were to set the bar...

That "these are the good old days" sig was very true as well, always liked that. :)

Though TBH, there is a damned great set of members posting here regularly again now. 8)

f I was rich and famous and ran across some sexual deviant female that did something like that I would probably make her dream come true.

That's 'cos we're guys so of course we'd (most of us) take advantage of such a situation and it'd be cool. Women get called names if they do the same. ;-) Though to be honest, a pic with "that" on it is straight into the sick-zone in my view...

Who is she anyway?

She's a Gamma at best, not even a Beta. Alphas don't exist... maybe one or two in the entire world every generation (if extremely karmic), but usually none. I don't know of any at this time. Look around you. Just beneath the multitude of facial paints is a menagerie. They're all loathsome.

Sucks to be you, I guess... :???:

I was stunned when they gave me £20 for XCom, TBH.

Well you will if you want their service. :lol:.

Absolutely this. When I'm out getting drunk, I always tip so I'll get seen quick-ish by the staff next time I'm up there. Same as when I drove a taxi. The tight-fisted customers (mostly) got absolutely no help from me helping them with their shopping etc...

Also, WTF is the deal with tips going into a big jar in some places? Surely it's a personal thing tipping someone? If some youngster who's working evenings/weekends etc. serves me my food well enough, I'd like them to have the money, not for it to be divided between all parties? And thus making each individual strive to be better if they want more money going to them. If they've been REALLY good (and if I've also been drinking), I strongly hint at them to put it straight into their own pocket and bypass "the jar", but then I am a bit of a cunt like that sometimes.

KiBa wrote:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B3oC6yWY0A[/youtube]

That entire episode is a riot of laughs!

If corporations were people, they'd be psychopaths who also happen to be some of the biggest cunts you've ever met.

EFA. And I agreed with your less-rude version anyway. ;-)

It IS bizarre, and I'm not sure what to think TBH. The bit that got me was where he posed the "What value do you put on a human life? If it actually cost $200m, would you think the same?" question. To me, who knows "how the world just is" and capitalism etc., and accepts it and gets on with things, a situation where someone dies because of trying to save money fixing a serious design fault is unacceptable. Or so I thought, until you added so much other stuff on (about other employees, the needs of the many vs the few who will die in a fireball, etc.). Interesting one.

For this specific case though, $13 isn't that much, how much was a Ford Pinto in 1977 (when this design flaw was present)? About $2k? They shoulda either added the cost on to the purchase price if they wanted to keep their margin, or taken the hit, since they were making a lot more profit than $13 when the car was sold anyway. It wouldn't hurt the workers' pockets much either. And let's not forget what a greedy bunch of preening cunts the UAW union has become (though it was General Motors who suffered most for that in the current times). In an ideal world, if the design fault was gonna cost thousands to fix, they'd be better off scrapping the whole design and starting again, which would then run into millions, and probably cause job losses, but to me, letting people die to save a few $$ is not on.

I think we basically ALL agree with that, but some corps obviously don't and live and die by "the numbers"...

I have absolutely no idea how one would go about determining the value of a human life either.

I think a bit too much was read into my rolley-eye-ended comment...

that's how Boxers are supposed to look. I truly hate all this dog matic idiocy.

Ha!


OMG TEH DUBEL POST
Better post some on-topic stuff.

This laptop is now pretty outdated, but still works and is fast enough for what I do with it, so have no real desire to get a new one yet.
This is a totally PISH example, 'cos anything that can connect to the web and browse in a modern fashion isn't really truly "outdated".

I do still like books and magazines in paper hardcopy format, even though that transition to tablet/Kindle seems to be well underway. The concept of chopping trees down/burning a comparatively large amount of energy to make the paper and then print and bind it for something I may only ever pick up a handful of times is a bit un-eco in this day and age (IMO), but, I don't care, I like them how they are (plus not everyone has access to the internets).

The house of my mum and dad's (and also both the sheds/outbuildings, parts of which used to be really old houses also) is hundreds of years old and interior design-wise is pretty rubbish and outdated, and it costs a lot to heat, too, but I'm glad they live there, 'cos it is built in an intelligent place (it'd be nearly impossible, barring some horrific biblical type of rain storm, for it to ever flood there) and all the buildings are built and roofed in quite heavy handed old fashioned way, which cost them a lot to extend/renovate, but it results in unbelievable strength (not even the 80+ mph winds can do much to it) and a sturdy feel inside. Makes the place I stay look truly shit and flimsy.

Excellent choice for a moderator.

Wii U Us PS5 We are broke and Xbox Xtreeeeeeeme 1 mirrion troooops. Will require run off your blood. Has a simple needle on the top that jabs into your arm. Give it 2 pints and be able to play for a full 20 minutes!

If they made them backwards compatible by way of having an on-board time machine, it'd be kinda cool...

TBH I think I got the whole grammar Nazi thing from him, after I felt his wrath for a few mistakes a few times. Was most embarrassing since English wasn't even his first language. :lol:

And I remember that. He was quite smug and shouty about Portugal beating England in the 2006 (IIRC) World Cup (and it was a dodgy decision that cost England it as well), so of course when another team knocked Portugal out, payback was quick. :D he didn't like it and accused a lot of us of being "bad losers". :lol: I think a lot of people on MSN changed their names to the final score, also. :lol:

Want to know something sad. I used to be great at spelling and grammar. Then the internet happened and I never recovered.

I was the opposite. Used to be really quite shit, but paid attention to the internet, and got decent. Now I seem to have got lazy and I am becoming bad again, unless I watch myself.

Agree with Riku, but yes, the Edge factor is a worry.

I don't even like the fact that Steam insists it has to be opened for me to play the games I downloaded with it. I set it to "Offline mode" and de-activated the "Load Steam when you switch your PC on" setting, toom pretty much as soon as I downloaded it. I've no idea why these things bother me (well, a bit of it is that this laptop needs no help in running slower), but they damned well do, if I pay money for shit, I want to be in control of how I use it, not be told "I must be online 24/7" or whatever. Gonna be keeping an eye on this, and if it is all true, then I'll probably be more or less done with gaming in a few years from now...

Finally got done with Oblivion so moved onto Far Cry 3 a few days ago.

It's quite over-rated, isn't it? Not "shit", in my opinion anyway, but not exactly anything special either.

Ok..just gibberish of random letters. Whatever

An internet fad that you've apparently missed, and one that I also didn't even know existed until fairly recently myself. We both spend a lot of time online, but the 'net's more than big enough and old enough to have shit that's passed us by for whatever reason. ;-)

Anyway;
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ermahgerd

TL;DR - Say it in the same sort of way that they sound on South Park during the "dey turk our jerbs" bit

Ryudo wrote:I used to use it...but I ended up having like 3 people still visible

You think they'd make him dress a bit better than "wanksta douche"...

Fucking idiot.

I don't know that much about her, apart from thinking her 212 song was pretty good, then being quite shocked at how sweary the real one was when I went and searched Youtube for it. Nice teeth!

Yep, AG you really do whinge like a little cunt sometimes.

The good parts are good, but these things, I just don't know if you're joking or not. Though I'm probably being quite hypocritical at the same time TBH...

I don't do poker, and Far Cry 3 is forcing me to play it for a mission. I fucking hate it when games do shit like this.

Good time to bump this, I'm going to start this game tonight.

Sonikku wrote:

Ryudo wrote: Put a SEGA sticker on my Asus

Read that as "Put a Sega Sticker on my Ass". For a moment it sounded half way plausible.

Ditto, (but "Anus" in place of "Asus"), and also on the second part, in exactly the same order.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Not got right into it yet (still getting "TUTORIAL: Push <¬|" screens), but d00d, I really gotta get better at the stealth bit. I *SUCK* at it, and have just ended up gunning every fucker down so far. Still to get used to the bit-different-from-COD-template controls, but I do quite like how it plays, the already-apparent gritty megacorp-espionage feel (which has hints of the original decade-old original Deus Ex's sort of atmosphere, one of my favourite games ever), and the fact Jensen seems like a bit of a douche. :D

^Actual LOL!

Happy birthday dude, from another topic sounds like things are coming together for ya, nice way to start a new age!