gaggle64

1. Meik - Meat Chunks 2. 3rd - Viagra 3. Konfucious - Massive taste damage!

I don't consider myself anything spectacular. I've got a decent complexion and I'm very healthy, though I could stand to start working out regulary again - I'm planning on getting back on that when I get to Uni. At the moment I'm just letting my beard get slowly more and more straggily. My friend has a beard but he trims his, but I personally would hate to that. If you have a beard you're best off leaving it to make it's own wild course, rather then risk ending up looking like Johnathan Frakes. <shudder> I also like my beard beacuse I think it gives a fuller and much more mature looking face. I could probably drop at least four years if I was clean shaven. I've also been noticing that I seem to be a good few inches shorter then many of the other guys around me. I'm only about a 5'9'', while my 15-years old brother is about 6-ft already! Most of the guys I knew at college were generally around 6ft, while my cousins remain universally freakin' huge. But they are genuinly massive people. Not fat. Not Crouch-like tall. Genuinly big, big people. I aslo suffer from a little excema, sometimes under the eyes and recently in a some what unfortunate place, which is a little disconcerting, but otherwise it's just a mild irritation. I just wish everyone would stop asking if I've been punched.

Vivendi seemt to have funny ideas about what language we speak in ol' Blighty.

Neither FEAR or Doom 3 are repetitive. In any way - in fact they're both amazing. Now let that be and end to it.

Personally I've yet to play anything that I consider a "realistic" war game, least of all any of the CoD series. Somehow being able to stumble along with what must be several tonnes of German lead in your chest due to frequent and handily placed medic packs, scattered liberally across the French countryside, doens't strike me as particulary likely. Games like BF2 are only slightly better, offering a somewhat idealistic vision of the camraderie of war. Show me the war game where you spend several hours lying in a ditch with one leg missing crying for your mum as you stare wildly at the bullet hole that used to be the back of best mates head (the bonus level is spending several hours in a Fox Hole waiting for the inevitable artillary shell with your name on it), then we'll talk about realism.

It's the classification that's the rub you see. It's a sort of form of politics within scientific thought. Take the Pluto argument. One of the arguments against it was that it had an eliptical orbit and was possibly not a body formed from the material of our star, therefore not a planet, but some kind of massive asteroid. Now we seem to be heading towards classing much smaller rogue objects that are spherical, like some of the larger asteroids. This would tend to suggest a bit of a shift of opinion towards accepting smaller and potentially outside bodies as part of a plantery system. It's this shift which could form the basis to potential new theories about how material is formed, distributed and collected by the sun during the birth of a system, how gravity affects spacial bodies, origin and other factors which govern the creation of planetoids and other objects. Expect to see some exsisting theories declared destorted or even broken later.

This is potentially vital to the future of astronomics, as how we define a planet could greatly affect our understanding and perception of how they are formed.

Having long mothballed my GBC in favour of my DS, it's ideal for chilling out at the end of the day when I just gotta catch em' all. Again. It's also good for big-screen multiplayer Advanced Wars.

I'm more of a part time Trekkie myself, but I wouldn't say no to that Klingon chair.

Ah, I see you're just like me - slowly but surely accumilating a veritable Giza-esque stack of games, until you're thratening to be crushed under a metaphysical mountain of unfinished saves.

Ok, some opinions on this thread are both depressing and angering me. I can't believe that people are seriously willing to believe that an actual, factual, real-life human being, a young girl, would be willing to throw her young life away because she couldn't watch a TV show. Some of you have positively scolded her, declaring that you would never be so imbecillic as to kill yourself because you had to tidy your room or miss your favourite TV show, and yet at the same time have allowed yourself to swallow a stupid, ignorant headline and have accepted it without reasoning, questioning, or any fact behind it. As I see the effect this headline seems to be having I hate it more and more. It has taken the life of this little girl and made it something for as all to laugh at. It has reduced the very sanctity of human life into something torrid and filthy, like a bad, crude joke written on a pub urinal wall. None of us know why this girl, this human being commited suicide. It is unnatural that such a young life was driven to end it all, but sadly it happens and TV is never the cause. Pressure, emotional starvation, fear, confusion, bullying, parental splits; these and more are the cause of young suicides both in this country and the world over, each and every year. Never television. She could've been someone you knew. Someone you are related too. Someone you love. Think about them. The people who you really know. Your loved ones. Is their life this cheap? This two dimensional? If they took their own lives, would you simply pass it off as someone having a stropp and doing something "silly", and then just move on? Do you really think you know someone because you read about them in a crappy newspaper? Quite honestly if you really, seriously, honestly believe that this young girl could be so shallow and unrealistic that she took her life just because of a TV show, even one I find as hateful as Big Brother, you are no better then Jack Thompson or the rest of his fellow video game bashing loonys who believe a violent game is all it takes to cause a real person to murder another.

Soooo, her parents divorcing, and a relationship with her mother that doesn't appear to suggest she has any personal space not likely to be nearly as important as Big Brother in her life then?

Somehow I suspect the actual reasons were not quite so trivial.

Yes, living people driven to the brink of suicide for reasons we can only guess at deserve everything that's comming to them.

Personally, I'm mildly surprised this thread hasn't been locked.

Yes, I love poor people. They're all so terribly, terribly funny.

I never liked either the Green or Red ranger. I couldn't help but feel they were just in for all the glory and attention, while the rest of them were left just hang around and do most of the dirty work until they showed up. Is there an epsiode when the Mastedon or Sabertooth Zords get to go mono-on-mono with the enemy? 'Cause if there were, I missed them. Always that sodding T-rex POS.

On sale until time stops while stocks last.

The "couple of days" figure is purely an extreme maximum estimate, let me assure you.

I've never really tried to keep off it for any extended period of time - I like to keep things regular. If I don't at least once every couple of days, it becomes disturbingly difficult to concentrate on other things. I'm sure you understand.

Always a nutritious breakfast.

Both Wave Race 64 and Blue Storm are two simply fantastic racing games. The water effects on the 64 version blew away every other water-involved game, until Blue Storm came along, and has been blowing away the water effects from every game since. Even though the wave effects repeat (you have to look fairly closely), they can get so wild and numerous on the stormier settings that you never get any impression of predictability from any of the courses. The courses themselves are never less then highly imaginative and studded with wonderful set pieces: an Orca crashing through the waves; a large chunk of ice breaking off and creating a huge wave to ride; speeding between two massive docked freighters that threaten to crush you at any moment. The whole experience is just plain georgeous. The smattering of shortcuts that riddle the harder versions of the courses are both a challenge and a joy to find and then master. Learning to steer your jetski can be tricky at first, but once you've gotten wise of the mechanics, you'll be skipping, hopping, diving, gliding and pulling donuts over, under, through and around anything Neptune can throw at you. Holy crap I freakin' love this game. I'm going to play it NOW! Only one problem with Blue Storn though: a rather silly Time Trial mode, with a helicopter instead of an actual ghost. it's juts so, so silly. Bah. Still a fantastic game though.

I am somewhat sceptical about all of this. I want to proof this time around - I seem to recall tanks being deployed at Heathrow once, and I never did hear a reason. None of this "We can't tell you/give them a fair and open trial because it would be a security risk" crap. Show me the money!

From BBC News: I gotta say though even at this early stage I'm a tad sceptical. I'm gonna need to see proof that this is a genuine, bonafide terror plot this time - and I don't want to see any of that Belmarsh illegally-detaining prisoners without trial bullshit either.

Human After All - Daft Punk Definitive proof that there is such a thing as dance "music" that doesn't make you want to drown yourself by repeatedly vomiting through your nose.