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You'll want to chuck a bigger PSU on there too. Skimping on a PSU is like not eating to save money.

Something similar happened to me couple of days ago - walked in to find three red lights blinking away. Mercifully the ethernet cable had merely become unplugged while downloading a demo. Phew.

We'll need to hire a hovercraft to make our getaway though, so you might want to stop by a few other houses to make it worth our while. I'll borrow some evil henchmen from a friend of mine, lovely chap, lives in a volcano. Pick up some fish and chips while we're there too. You know, make a day of it, then head back to my mates place. Be a right laugh.

Yay, my maiden victory. A little overdue but what a victory - two goals down, then three goals in the last half hour. What a come back.

Why wouldn't you want to be Samus though? She's an ass kicking intergalactic super-warrior who still finds time to properly rinse and condition.

Lemme guess... Weighted Companion Cube? L Block?

*Starts googling contents insurance.*

We will have to pay, at least at first. I remember when the first Gears maps came out, Epic wanted to give them away and had to fight Micro$oft tooth and nail for it. Eventually they charged for them for a couple of months then dropped the price tag.

Bad day at the office?

Damn, just really bad luck there. Sounds like you got done by pros with the gloves and lock pick and everything. Your probably not the first, or the last. Just gotta hope for the best that the cops manage to nab the bastards.

Aliens has much more immediate entertainment value, the sort of action flick you can take your girl too scare the bejesus out of her while practising the ancient and mysterious seduction art of "Knob in Popcorn". Alien meanwhile is probably about as artistic as mainstream film will ever get, Scott's mastery of the Fear Of The Unknown that resides deep within the human psyche almost unparalleled. The remaining two are decent enough, but nowhere near the same league. At any rate, both Alien and Aliens are must see films and are quite rightly celebrated by people of all cultures as masterpieces of western cinema.

I used to find that I'd have a good idea, but no other good ideas to make a full piece out of it. What I do now is that I type that image or line or even a single word down, the one thing that does interest me, and often other ideas will follow from that. I rarely write anything from the first line any more, as some of the related ideas tend to fit better further up then further down.

Nearly finished a poem. Three stanzas down, I just need one more stanza, an opening stanza, to open up into the subject. Unfortunately inspiration doesn't come easy at ten to three in the morning. I don't even have to do this, but I started writing it and by gum I'm going to finish it.

I'm genuinely confused as to why I'm not more excited by this. I like knights and medieval crusades, I like free roaming environments, I like graphics that melt eyeballs with it's epic cityscapes. My head screams for it but my heart doesn't care to give it a second glance. Mind you, it doesn't help that my heart has been captured by a starship trooper. A turian one at that.

Poetry. Beer. Some more poetry. Some more beer. Then a Chinese take out. I am very full and happy.

My No. 1 has to be Heatseeker. There are better Wii games, but I'm madly in love with it's control scheme, which is just utterly sublime. Smooth and fluid, you feel in control of a machine that's engaged with an element. In his case, air.

Bad. Very, very bad. If you download a lot they might be throttling your speed because you went over your monthly download limit, but otherwise that's just poor, even at peak time.

17's kind of that age when you're still trying to find your power and grapple with who you are and what you like, what you'll do and where you want to go, if anywhere. When you do, that's when you really start to find people who like to do what you do and go where you go, because that's where you'll find them. And they'll find you.

Wow, I'm glad I'm not in your position, Diemetrix. Really, I really feel for you. All these beautiful single women, trying to have sex with you all the time. That's... that's, uh... um... yeah. Cause' you know, that's something I totally empathise with. Totally happens all the time. To me. Totally.

How could I refuse?

Phew, finally finished (on heroic, anyway) None of the story made a lot of sense, there's no stable difficulty curve, AI seems a bit drunk and the final boss battle was farcical at best. On the plus side there are some nice set pieces and some entertaining levels, the vehicle combat is still engaging and the whole thing is technically and visually very well polished. Still, I get the impression that the campaign feels somewhat half finished, with humanity's last stand never really materialising as advertised. What happened to all the invading Covenant on Earth anyway?

I was feeling bushed after college so I napped for a couple of hours earlier. Now my sleeping pattern's all messed up.

If everyone is cast as a popular character (Snake, Chief, Mario, Weighted Companion Cube, Generic Nazi) it might be an interesting extra wodge of character role play in the mix.

Don't stifle my dreams...

It would be like Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Nintendo characters.