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From experiences I've had and seen, telling teachers made things worse because the bullies upped their torment outside of school. If you smack them good when they first start bullying you, they'll not do it again. In both schools I went to, fighting was normal. Something that wasn't "tolerated", but kids fight and there was no avoiding it. Especially at Grammar, fights occurred all the time. I dislocated a lads jaw and ruptured his tendons in his mouth in a fight because he was trying to bully me. The poor bastard couldn't talk for ages! My punishment was having to carry gym benches up to the nearby church for the Xmas service. Expulsion was never mentioned then as people confirmed he was trying to bully me and I just stood up for myself and defended myself. After that, one of his mates and the supposed hardest of our year tells me he's going to kick crap out of me after school. I figured the best course of action was to nip that one in the bud and say to him "why wait until after school to get your arse handed to you. Might as well have me kick shit out of you now so less people see and you aren't as embarrassed." So I kick crap out of him and the nobody tried bullying me after that. I'd even defend others that got bullied, preventing them from being bullied too. No matter how wrong you think it to be, beating up a bully is a sure-fire way to stop bullying.

Yes, it worked which is why I see it being good advice.

Don't think I haven't been in fights against groups. I have, plenty. I just gave a better account of myself in the fight than they gave. Never bullied again. Good advice. Teachers have threatened expulsion, never happened because of a meeting my dad had with the school. He'd said to the headmaster, deputy head and my form teacher at the time that they cannot blame me. He's told me to beat up people that try bullying me, because if I just tell the teachers the bullying would carry on both inside and outside of school. He then guaranteed them that now, after having beaten them up, that I'd not be bullied again and that there'd not be an ongoing issue for them to deal with. Their reply was "could you please tell him to not do it inside school?". You know what? My dad was right, bullying didn't occur anywhere near as much. I've faced a potential assault charge and it got laughed off because I was the victim so charges never came about. I was jumped by 7 lads after a night out because I was "a foreign cunt". I ended up putting one of them in a coma for 6 days after he suffered a brain haemorrhage. A couple days after the fight I had CID knock on my door and take me to the local police station where I went through questioning on video. After the questioning Detective Inspector Andrew Reynolds said this to me "Off the record, in my eyes justice has been done. We've told them that of they try to press charges that we'd press charges upon them of both assault and affray and because you're the victim, you'd get off and they'd get punished. They probably won't be starting fights anytime soon." It's good advice, people should toughen up.

Toughen up is a brilliant piece of advice. All my life growing up I've had people try and bully me, mainly because I'm half Iranian. Bullying was something that my dad knew I may go through, so he made sure I was toughened up. He taught me to fight, sent me to martial arts classes and gave me a piece of advice "If someone tries to bully you, beat them up and beat them up well. Theyll never try bullying you ever again". When people tried to bully me, I beat the shit out of them. Lo and behold, after that there was one less person that tried bullying me. I was never a victim of bullying because I was toughened up! People saying its bad advice don't have a clue. It stops the bullying. That's another funny one, people say violence doesn't solve anything. Well I'll tell you what; it does solve some things. It stopped me from being bullied. (By the way, I'm not some thug, I just stand up for myself. I try to talk my ways out of fights if it looks like things might kick off but if anyone tried to bully, I'd defend myself from the bullying and put an immediate end to it.)

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Pre-ordered my copy today with Grainger Games, they've had it confirmed to them that they'll be getting it for 5/11.

Sorry Serebii, it wasn't meant to offend. Was just being cheeky.

Serebii thinks its too difficult because he also lives in the stone-age. :p

Pikmin and Nintendoland should both have been online, it would e been easy to do, as would SM3DW. Nintendo just live in the stone-age is all.

Wow, I'm drunk, just read that back... Hilarious!

I can't help but think this isn't the case though. People will have bought 3rd party games on console they already owned so I don't think it would've made a difference. The problem lies in Nintendo not maturing in the same way their fans have. The majority of Nintendo hardcore are gamers that gamed in the 80's/90's, no they don't live with their brothers and sisters, their friends that they gamed with now live seperate lives in different cities thanks to uni/marriage etc. Nintendo of all companies should've embraced online gaming as their fans needed it most! The oldest of the gamers. They'd have stuck around if the Xbox and the 360 didn't offer the online services they wanted Nintendo to offer! This is true for many of my friends and even my brother, who has turned into an Xbox fan!

EA are so anti-Nintendo! I do not care what anyone says, something happened which changed their relationship for the worse, definitely! I tend not to defend @Serebii as I think he's completely blinkered at times (no offence man), but I do feel that there is an anti-Nintendp agenda in the gaming industry. Not as dramatically as one would make out but still, more so than there should be.

Nintendo can't. Microsoft have a contract that runs up to the end of 2015 with Activision that guarantees them that they will receive DLC earlier and also that any marketing is of the Xbox versions and that it always states at the end that its available on Xbox, note that it doesn't say exclusively on Xbox though so they skirt around that.

Breakdown of the multiplayer trailer with bits of info here and there...

Why don't you people believe in me?! You're all going to hell for not doing so! :p

There is no "meaning" to life unless you decide to give it one. Why this depresses some people I don't know, I'm ok with being a speck of nothingness in the universe. I'm enjoying life so why should I care? When I'm dead I'm dead, if there's nothing after, no worries, I can handle that it doesn't bother me. Why let it bother you?

...hold on, I thought Microsoft decided to call it the Xbox One, or am I missing something? Anyhow, dedicated servers. It's what this game has been crying out for for years!

Send this to Nintendo someone! Haha

One thing that has always irked me with CoD is people who "do their own thing", in this respect: If you're playing TDM, play for the team, don't play completely selfishly. If you're playing Domination, try to capture/defend the flags along with your team, don't just kill-whore. If you're playing Kill Confirmed, capture the tags. Team based games are for team play. There's a game mode to do your own thing and that's Free For All.

You mean in the same way Black Ops 2 got DLC?

At this point, I'm inclined to agree with @Zechs Merquise I doubt we'll get it, or DLC for that matter.

Well I have days to take and no other reason to use them so I might as well. Plus, I always play CoD on my own when nobody else is on. I still enjoy it (not so much with BO2).

If nobody is online I'll be playing squads. The XP you earn on that counts towards online too so I'd still be earning stuff. I just know this is going to be horribly disappointing though!

Various bits of gameplay... KEM Strike (map changing pointstreak, similar to MOAB)...

If the netcode is sorted, I'll be a happy bunny! Who has got time off for this? I'll not be gaming on my own in the day all week will I?