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Amongst other things: Late night Scrubs Things with "chibi" in the title The film version of Asterix in Britain That gigantic 2nd hand book shop down the road Francesco da Mosto Formula One Spiders Baileys Irish Cream Hills and mountains Ice cream Satirical panel shows Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry Black and white Hollywood films The song "Reasons to be Cheerful" Long walks The Flaming Lips The fantasy of space Clouds Orangina

God, I hope not. I've got nothing against EA but as a British gamer I don't want to see one of the UKs last major publishing houses get bought into the American juggernaut. Besides, every acquisition by the rival facistic empires of EA or Ubisoft brings us another step closer to an apocalyptic future of 3rd party support consisting almost entirely of sequels, movie and comic adaptations being inexpertly shoehorned from one console onto the rest. Brrrrr.

Not intentional, but reading it back I totally see where you're coming from. Sometimes when I'm surfing around here and an idea grabs me I just like to type it and post it straight off. It's a bit annoying in a way though, some of my best stuff is probably on here, and I still have a college portfolio to fill!

It's a bright April morning, warm with perfect puffy clouds chasing each other playfully across the azure sky. I'm sitting alone on a wall under the shade of a large oak tree. Behind me lies an ancient and remarkably well kept graveyard filled with the peaceful dead. To my left a path winds over the hill, while to my right the farm track leads back through the cattle fields. Both end in exactly the same place. A crow caws overhead, returning with food for it's mate and chicks. In front of me lies a vast expanse of luxuriant green that seems to stretch forever over the hills, but I know it doesn't. Eventually I would be caught in the trap of the lay, and forced to either brave rapids of the river or the thundering mechanical nightmare of the road. I doubt I have the spine to do either. There's a part of me that just wants to go home, go home and skulk like a dog where it's safe, and quiet and nothing happens. That I must resist, the promise of an empty life, comfortable and ultimately hollow. Still, it's early and it's pleasant here, so I will sit and ponder it some more. Perhaps if I'm lucky some passer by will come and help me decide what to do.

Bought a couple of things, so I decided to amalgamate them:

Nintendo must have tremendous faith in them to grab such a huge share in them.

An 80% share? Awesome. Good acquisition I say, wanna see some more stuff besides Baten Kaitos though please.

Kudos to Raining Again, who has one of the tidiest and most pleasant looking PC innards ever. Also Bogbas, can I assume that your graphics card heat sink sounds like F-16 taking off too?

I am incredibly hot for this game. I love stuff like a changing your gear actually making a goddamn visual difference to your character for once. This is turning into my dream RPG, I must have it! Is there a projected release date for this puppy?

I honestly had never heard of Guilty Gear until this thread. But I'm going to assume this is a good thing.

Doh, now you lot are just showing off. So anyway please enjoy your free tour of hot, dusty, HSF on CPU action!!!

Oi, I know. The worst though is when it comes out at an awkward angle and catches you unaware, and then you've got to readjust. It's horrifying especially if you're at somebody else's place. Dangerous activity this, innit?

I'd be thankful if I were you, you wouldn't believe the amount strategy and precision that can be required sometimes.

Halo is one of the great masterpieces of our age and will go down in future history as the game that will define gaming itself in the early 21st century. And I'm sticking to my guns on that one. Halo 2? Fantastic multi player, but the campaign wasn't so hot. I'm sticking by that one too.

Wow, that looks pretty awesome. I'm not a Gundam fan (I once watched three episodes back to back on Toonatic, all of which was two guys floating statically in giant robot suits chatting with each other, while the occasional orange blip in the background reminded us of the super-awesome mega battle for Earth that was supposedly happening elsewhere - I can only assume the animation department was on strike) but I love big stompy robots. So this looks like tremendous fun.

It's from a 2nd party dev though anyway. If they're not doing anything, they could be doing worst things then cracking on with an Excitetruck sequel, which, as I've said before but I'll before, is simply screaming for meatier follow up. Throw some 6-player online and some crazier environments on there (more of the nebula course please) and you'd be laughing. Hell, you'd be balling your head off with hysteria.

Can't say I approve of this kind of public ridicule of mental illness.

I'll be at my writing course for at least the next 2-3 years, after that, who the fuck knows. Best guess, I'll end up working part time in various bit-jobs so I have something to eat while I do my writing, before jetting off to mark English homework for polite, smiley children in some obscure Chinese metropolis. Eventually I'll return and take a more regular part time job teaching our own home grown little shit heads how to use punctuation. Later I'll have some minor publishing success and then make inroads into television, earning myself a small obituary in The Times when I finally keel over and die of heart disease. I will be 68 years old and survived by my two daughters and five grandchildren.

Did somebody mention tractor beams?

Are you Batman? Seriously though, you've got yourself a nice little date with what sounds like smashing lass, and there's clearly a spark in the air. So long as you don't start pelting custard or something at her it sounds like you're in with a bloody good shout.

And gripped in the dead, rigid fingers of every bloody body littering the streets of Scotland during the same period.

Bran flakes, organic yoghurt and fresh vegetables. And see a doctor for petes sake.

That's not true. What about that girlfriend you used to have who ran away from you?

Wheee, thanks everyone! Today I took leave of my teenage days and inaugurated the new era by buying a pair of Chino's. They're soooooo comfortable!

Oh my sweet jack jumping Jesus. It's like my brain has been torn from it's skull without the cerebral cortex snapping, allowing me to watch helplessly as it gets sexually molested by a gigantic, blood thirsty bear.