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Did anyone else notice a rather youthful looking Bill Paxton? "Don't disturb my friend. He's DEAD tired."

As for the Resi5 thing, it's likely that the Revo will get it's own slew of exclusive games from a dev house as prestigous and friendly with the Big N as Capcom, some of them possibly Resi based, so why do we need Resi 5? I'd personally love to see a Resi game starring Hunk - maybe something like Resi 4, but with even more shooty and stabby action to go with the new controller. I like Hunk - just an ordinary special forces soldier, caught up in some thing he can never understand, trying to put food on the table for his family...

What I mean is they think it's sonar got mucked up, and that's how it got lost and accidentally swam into the Thames in the first place. According to the Times this morning, the US Department of Defence Resousces reckon that 37 whales that beached on the shores of Carolina in in 2005, did so due to ships sonar.

It's a real shame it didn't make it when it was so close, but this event offers some pretty facinating insights into how our technology affects whales sonar. The theory is that ships sonar mucks up whales sonar, and that something like that happend to this whale, causing it to lose it's way. This could be what happend here. Also, the shallow river banks can mess up a whales sonar too.

I watched the first couple of episodes, but I didn't think to much of it. I feel the show is constantly skimming over loads of great slapstick, but they never commit themselves. Like how quickly he discovered that it was karma that was doing all this crap to him. Why have the main character discover that right at the beginning that he needs to change his karma? There's at least an episode and a half worth of Earl getting beaten up, run over, thrown off buildings, slipping on dog turds ect. before he finally figures out it's all down to karma. Why not spend that time having Earl being screwed over by all the prople he'll need to make peace with later? It would add some great characterisation and drama to the whole procedings later. It would also be quite fun rediscovering all the characters at a later date. The supporting cast of characters aren't particulary strong either though - they're not unoriginal, just no where near intresting enough.

I'm not a huge fan of Jo Brand, but I think she's still pretty cool, and her comedy isn't really aimed at my demograph anyway.

Yay! Now all I need is for Channel4 to start broadcasting Bremner, Bird & Fortune on terrestial TV again, and my life will be complete.

Heres a small vid of a peach can exploding from my lil' bros website. (http://www.geocities.com/aspoofinitsself) It's a surprisingly impressive explosion for a humble peach can. http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd4/74304/peachbomb1.wmv

It's certainly a distinct possibility. Ninty and Sega certainly have been rather chummy of late, and it would be great to see this relationship bare such sweet fruit.

I smell a new IP.... damn, that smells good. Sniff it in boys!

woo! Birthday! Hey you, get THAT cow out of here, yaaah, ect....

A prime example of the British spirit if ever I saw it. Christ, we're a really depresed group of people as a nation.

The problem with Britishness is that it isn't real any one thing that any one individual can identify. The problem to seems to be that Britain as a whole is more of a weird amalgamation of a variety of different cultures. We've got everything from the ancient Celtic culture of the northen isles to the 21st-century hip-hop culture of the London urban estates. We live in an insane country where people are just as likely to visit a Punjab music festival as take a trip to hear the renidition of "The Planets" at the Proms. Fish and Chips are as popular as ever, but Chinese and Indian dishes regular sit on the same menu together. Hollywood epics are always goping to be popular, but Japanese pop culture continues to spread itself our youth, while Bollywood continues to take leaps and bounds in popularity. Religous tension may be rife in some areas following recent events, but with Muslims, Christians, Budhists, Seiks, Bahais, Hindus and dozens of other mainstream religons often exsisting around each other in small and densely populated spaces, it seems almost amazing that they all got here in the first place. With all these different cultures making their mark on our nation, it always going to be a struggle to identify ourselves as a single unified nation. I think it is important to celebrate our nation - we're not perfect, but we have plenty of things to proud of, in particular our great cultural diversity. It's not as if we're all fiercely patriotic war-mongering immoral imperialistic racists anymore, so why not celebrate that fact?

Grave of the Fireflies. Has anyone mentioned that yet? Grave of the Fireflies is quite simply, in my opinion, one of the best films Studio Ghibli has ever poduced. Set in war-torn Japan, it's about a young man and his little sister trying to survive after their home is destroyed by the US firebombs. It's a beautiful, touching, heart rending film, and is very adept at dealing with a contentious piece of Japanese history in the most sensitive way possible. It's not about Japan's role in the war, more about the suffering of those innocents caught in the conflict. Be warned though - it's a deep, emotional, horribly depressing, very real film about human suffering, so I wouldn't recommend to anyone looking for a light anime flick to relax with. Cowboy Bebop it aint.

Where the hell has this thread gone, and how is it so damn popular? DEMAND: Sticked cosplay discussion thread or the rabbit gets it.

Does anyone else have some kind of crazy urge to dress up as a Gerry Anderson related character of some description and spend three days at an otaku infested Anime convention? Ya know, just to be awkward.

Gotta love tea. Ovaltine is also brilliant. Coffee I've never enjoyed though. Now whisky on the other hand...

Is there a trailer of this somewhere? It almost sounds like some kind of cruel hoax. Almost.

I'm not what you might call a medical expert but, yes, it does appear you have a sugar addiction and, yes, it's not good for your health. If you find you can't stop, you should seriously see your GP or something. Also what else are you eating? Unless you get plenty of good vegtables, protein, complex carbohydrates and vitamins, and drink plenty of water, you are going to feel like crap. I would seriously seek some medical advice. Use the NHS, it is a free service after all.

I think I'm going to believe all those 2006s stamped all over their website. Ya' know, just out of spite.

Hey I just noticed this really interesting report that was broadcast yesterday about online games. I can't believed I missed it! It's a very interesting report, including newsnights first ever broadcast from inside a video game (Second Life). It's got some very interesting things to say about online gaming and society, like how some of us don't seem ready for the supposed freedom it gives us. Check it out. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4583924.stm WARNING: Includes a virtual Jeremy Paxman.

These are the only video game flash parodies you will ever need. These things are like a way of life for me and my mates. Decline of Videogaming Decline of Videogames 2 Decline of Videogames 3 By the excellent Super Flash Bros. Check out all their other stuff on Newgrounds! The "Another Day" series especially. "I've snapped plenty of whips in my time!" is a well used catch phrase around here now.

Hell, I voted for him. I always thought he had some pretty cool ideas.

When you have almost the entire independent scientific community (a.k.a all scientists not hired by Texco) telling the world that mankinds CO2 emissions are poisioning the atmosphere and destroying the worlds climate, it's rather difficult not to listen. I'm getting pretty sick and tired of the fact that there is still any actual debate on the issue. The world has warmed up more in the last 50 years then in the last 5 centuries, and so has our levels of CO2 emmisions have increased. You only need to look at the crumbling ice caps or increasingly violent weather systems to see this. The mountain Killimanjaro in Africa will soon no longer have a snowy peak, despite being topped with perma frost for thousands of years. Unless you have scientific proof that this is just some kind of huge coincidence, it seems pretty clear that unless we start applying green-energy and energy conservation technologys on a united international scale today, Earth is fucked.

Hope evryone has a great Christmas and happy new year. For next year I'm hoping to research and possibly open my business idea - a video games arcade, but one that's full of pop and manga art, somewhere actually nice to hangout. I'm actually kind of nervous about spending at least a year doing it, especially after spending the last two years training as an actor! But it's my dream, and I need to at least try. Wish me luck!