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Why? I've found her to be quite good and insightful into the general industry and Nintendo history which she's clearly passionate about.

I'm not sure how I feel seeing which of Nintendo's Wii U games are actually sitting higher up in the charts :/

They tried it with WiiU and it didn't work, I seriously hope they don't contemplate making such a move with it again. Also Ronnie - history/record shows that despite whatever cool codenames they have for things - they announce a new one with its proper official reveal. Do you really think they're going to do that differently, this time? As Kav says it isn't well known generally, so it isn't any big loss. I do WANT them to stick with NX or a (good)name somehow working that in, but I just doubt they will when it comes down to it; especially if it turns out to be some sort of two-part system.

To satisfy Ronnie, it's worse than Nintendo constantly re-hashing all their old games!! I wouldn't bite at the price. I've still got Magnus Peterson's copy of MUA2 for 360 somewhere I think, and tbh if there's little update to this barring graphics then I don't see why I couldn't just whip the 360 out to play if I really wanted to! Does it at least have online co-op?

I want to say it isn't likely as that isn't Nintendo's usual approach - but who knows, maybe they really are going to be mixing things up!

Ohh, you can buy them for 30k? Still much more favourable during splatfests but if it's still an option/opportunity then that's not a problem!

I can still sign up before playing if I haven't already? I'm gonna Overwatch this eve and be busy pretty much all of tomorrow - but Sunday is a day of hangover and games and maybe I'll play a little bit of Splatfest!! Out of interest - if this is the last ever Splatfest does that mean there will be no way to obtain those seashell things you were getting from them, otherwise?? Bit harsh if so!

He's near Caledonian Road, I think he reminded me recently! Also this just came up on my facebook memories from a few years ago! Just a few weeks to go now! Excited!

Nah I heard it was gonna be dual-core but tricky to code for.

Happy birthday Mr-Paul! How're you celebrating??

Well not quite as basic - but imagine a proper sort of 3D world Pokemon on console. Only - why do you have to be catching them? Admittedly I was thinking mostly along lines of Trainer or Snapper, but surely there's other options? Maybe you're a Gym leader variant of a trainer so you have to get very specific pokemon to fit your gym criteria? As I said maybe you're a pokemarter and somehow there's an aspect of getting stuff to sell, maybe competing with others on prices/stock, turning it all to something I dunno. Maybe you're running poke centres or something else. I haven't given it the grandest of thought nor am I fully versed in the series at all, but I think Pokemon's such a rich world and there could be lots to try and attempt. Speculative thought really, not actual realistic hopes.

I'd be interested in a home console pokemon either way, especially with handheld interaction somehow(even if it's just Pokewalker-esque); maybe utilising mobile devices for variety. What I'd especially like though - if you didn't necessarily have to be a trainer. What about a snapper, or a breeder, or...well, I don't know what other opportunities there might be(pokemarter?) - with maybe some almost MMO/persistant/large-world aspect to it.

Possibly still more likely to invest in that though

I've been watching The Wright Stuff this week and Louise Hazel( :love: ) was on it and they discussed this a bit - and what you've said is pretty much exactly the same as what she said about it all. Another interesting point she raised though, and one that I've heard before - let's consider that fact that this is just one specific and very big case where it's been exposed. Some olympians/athletes within the sports seem to hint you can never truly be sure about who is or isn't doping, because it's been such an issue for such a long time, albeit not necessarily on the same scale.

Did not understand the depth of this until reading this topic Flink, absolutely astounding! Can't believe it would still happen in a day and age like this! What triggered the suspicions to end up with an investigation etc? It sounds harsh - but most athletes competing in the Olympics, whilst competing for themselves, also compete for their country. I don't think any country would appreciate finding out their top athlete has doped and would feel let down. Sadly I think reversing that to let down the athletes due to such a disgraceful action of their country in this context is just a consequence that must be had. As you say - how would you police it? How would we know? What banner would they compete under? What punishment should there be for this occurring? Who would have any faith in them when they win legitimately? Lots of questions spring to mind that just undermines the legitimate athletes completely anyway. Having said that - I'd agree with Pestneb on letting those who are legitimate and want to compete legitimately to do so under an independent banner if they wished and complied with testing regulations etcetc. The only problem is - how are you likely to compete in something under an independent banner without training support etc from somewhere?

Don't worry that irony is not lost on me at all :p I do wonder if maybe I hadn't committed as much what would have occurred. I'd have been happy to stay casual tbh, but it's not an idea I've generally been comfortable with until it's been discussed - which obvs happened and put me where I was. The situation was that basically in like 9 weeks(6 weeks ago, my birthday, I expressed similar sentiments) I didn't see her one on one(I saw her at other/group stuff) for more than an hour maybe just 2-4 times. Just a few hours at that. She broke her arm and came back home(not far at all) but that seemed to be a lot of her reasoning for not staying, cancelling etc. but I still see she managed to keep up with all her other commitments etc. If I'd pushed or been forceful, I maybe could have got her to see me more - but I'd personally want that passion to come from the other person, as it was from me. It wasn't for lack of trying on my part that I didn't see her. I told her since last monday we needed to talk. Ofc, as I mentioned before - she doesn't do phone calls but I won't have a serious conversation in texts either. I was gonna give it one last chance but she didn't get back to me til Weds/Thurs to say she'd see me on Friday if I was about. I found some time to see her(something apparently generally impossible for her) for a bit and basically said 9 weeks like that isn't a relationship and nothing had really changed since I spoke to her round my birthday. She agreed with my point, but protested some weak smaller points on the way, but I had to stick to my guns. It's hard because as I said the feelings about the good bits don't go away, but I can't keep killing myself for it/her. I saw her at a monthly group thing for a bit on Saturday(as well as her brother and cousin, my good friend). I'm still going to see her often due to that, and a weekly thing, until she goes back to uni in a month or so. Tonight's our weekly thing but our main guy can't make it and someone else dropped probs due to me - that would have left me, her, and her cousin gaming in the pub and it feels a bit weird to do right now. I don't know what she's told her family side of things and that's bugging me a bit. I may have been the one to call it off with the words, but she really wasn't putting in the effort and I hope I don't get viewed as the one to 'blame'. Her nature, not entirely but often, seems quite selfish, lazy and self-interested, not always aware of others or possibly aware and just not giving a fuck. She's a bit of a contradiction, which makes it difficult, cos you think you're giving up but then suddenly you see some hope - she argues and talks and fights for what I'd consider generally stupid and small things, but if something serious or big comes up she just fucks off into herself and it helps nothing. Try and have a discussion on a big thing and she doesn't know fuck all, apparently. I couldn't keep doing it, really, and lots of friends kept telling me that in the last 9 weeks, but I kept thinking I'd try and give her a chance. It sounds horrible to say - but I can understand a lot of the things that happened with/after her previous relationship now. It also makes me sad because tbh if she carries on like this for her life - I can't see her attracting anyone who won't end up being a dick to her. I could have stayed in this if I wanted I think, but I would have ended up being a dick myself. I never thought I'd say it - but I can see how some people can almost push their partners into cheating etc. Not saying that's ok or acceptable, and not saying every instance can be explained, but I can definitely understand how it happens to people with good intentions. Generally it's still annoying though. Feelings and emotions don't just go away. I can rationalise it, but there was something about us that when it was good it was good. It's bad to say but I'd consider having something, as long as I was free to make the smaller effort like it felt she made. I only committed because I just kinda felt it was the thing to do at the time, probably complicated by knowing her family etc. I'd avoided seeing her cousin/brother so much in last few weeks to, because it felt weird having to almost keep up a pretense of things being fine. I don't know where to draw the line of talking with my friend about it though, I don't want to put her down to her family for it to seem like I'm doing it to make a point etc. So...wall of text/rambling thought. I guess I'm ok, but the feelings don't stop/change quite as yet. I'll be fine in time, I'm sure, but it might need to involve some absence of her from my life - which I don't quite have right now.

I'd thought about it prior to the launch of the Wii - I didn't have the real money to be able to take the risk then though(not that I do now, either). I'd contemplated it before Pokemon Go but again, no monies, and I forgot to pay attention to it all! Bit gutting, when I looked just after release they'd jumped up by about 50%! Only other time I made some money on shares was when Game were going down the pan, but it was only like £60 or something silly.

They will take it! I'll PM you to sort it all out, going to go with posting it as they're excited now :p

Back in the club. She didn't change or make more effort, and I didn't feel I was a priority, told her all that and said it wasn't a relationship really. Still have to see her which is going to be a bit annoying for a while, because it isn't that I want her or love her any less per se, just that she was really fucking useless when it came to me/us.

Suburban London(SE ends) but she works near Putney Bridge iirc. Will chase her up this weekend and keep you posted!

Nice to see we're on the same page for once!

Just Cause 3 going for £19.99 @Base.com - also currently 20.49 on the PS Store it seems.

Given my mate a heads-up but she needs to also check with her sister for some reason(think they'd be splitting it) so if you keep me posted on if there's movements for it elsewhere that'd be grand. I assume it's just got all the standard bits with it+fallout 4? Pad's presumably in decent nick, given you've only had it a few months?

Apparently it's getting no more than the initial 30 games? It's, for me, just another classic Nintendo Nostalgia cash-in(which I've already bought in to many times) and whilst it looks and seems nice it isn't going to warrant that money from me. Given that I doubt they make tons on their NES games I'd have said they should have included a lot more and upped the price for a bit of a bigger margin on it all really. Though that's also playing with the balance of buyability - it's kind of at a good point of that atm. Now that's a shout I like! Maybe knock 20-40% off the price and let people get the bundle of games on Wii/WiiU if they wanted! Or knock less off for an option in the shops of the controller+code for the bundle of games as you suggest.

Definitely glad I used that vid - stuck a flathead in and was out in seconds. I broke the clips but don't care too much for that. Tbh I haven't checked the actual drive works yet though, probs should have done that at some point! Will attempt starting the upgrade process on Sunday methinks.