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So...the 3DS. When did it suddenly become awesome? I remember not too long ago where it seemed like it would never get going. And now, there's games everywhere. When did this happen?

How sure are you that this is going to be a rare/limited game? It's 22 quid on Amazon right now and I'm tempted to pre-order.

He also seems like a genuinely nice and funny guy, too. He interacted with the audience really well. It was never forced or awkward. Man crush o'clock.

I've paid the downpayment and the remainder of my loan for the first form of my house. Basically giving me a house to live rather than a tent. Now that I've done that, I've been to Nook and have asked that fucker to give me my second iteration. Tomorrow, it should be here.

I wish a Match of the Day style show existed for Xpert11. Imagine that, with animated players. The naff commentary would add to it. It would look like an amiga game, but it would be fantastic.

Nah, I put out offensive tactics and went to compete. 7-0 is pretty harsh, imo. Although, in fairness, my defence are complete piss. Luckily their DVs are good so I should be ok for the change report.

Well, that wasn't expected. :p My poor, poor goal difference.

I'm tempted to recreate the Berlin Wall but with pitfall seeds. Or Ine's turnips.

I've basically been given a list of what I can and can't do. I'm not allowed to go anywhere near her flowers. Also, she's trying to give me all of her crap that she doesn't need anymore. "Here, have this..." "I don't want eeeettt." "Oh, anyone else would have it!"

I'm using your 'business model' and have got 50 grand saved in the bank, so far. I'm going to make Ine's villagers wish I was their mayor. We're going to get out of this recession, people. We're all going to make it.

Possibly. It would make a lot of sense if there were a few big tent companies who sorted out the tents for the big festivals. It's probably my favourite stage. It's massive inside, but it still retains that intimacy that you get under a roof. Crystal Castles and Hurts were both brilliant under there.

DRAGPOOOOO IS GOING TO SHIT ON YOU.

C-C-C-Combo Breakkkeeeeeeeeeeeeeer! I've done what you have done and have un-liked it on facebookings. I've never seen the series weekly. Always boxsetted eet. No idea what to do now. I want to watch eet continuously, but I'm scared shitless that some idiot will ruin eet for me.

You are one sexy Mother-

The Wonderful 101 looks sublime. Going to be a must buy when I get a Wii U. For 3DS, the new Zelda. Wouldn't be surprised if it becomes an instant classic, yet I also wouldn't be shocked if it becomes an instant flop.

Cast it into the FIRE!

This is the killer app that Wii U has been waiting for. The fans have been crying out for Angry Birds for some time now.

What the fuuuuccckkk? I swear, if it turns into another Terminator 3, I will cry like a bitch. This film needs to have a soul. The Sarah Connor Chronicles was on the right track of where the series needs to go. Actually, fuck this new trilogy and just BRING THAT BACK.

Woooooosh. That's the sound of the story going way over your head right now. :p Edit: Ahh, Ine just explained now that putting them in the ground is pointless. Tempted to dig them up again now and claim them as miiiine. :p

Jim has entered the fray! Ine has allowed me to have a character on the game. I say allowed because our relationship has taken a huge nosedive since she bought this. Now every request has to be hand written and sent to her mailbox. Hilarious moment earlier. I was walking through the village, stealing/selling all of her fruits and noticed that there were 3 crosses in a beautifully straight line on the ground. "They could be fossils, I thought. Or items of which I can sell. Oh...what's this? Turnips. I didn't know you could get them this wa-SHIT." I heard a voice bellow at me from across the room. "PUT THEM BACCCCKKKKK!" Somehow, she knew. Back into the ground they went.

You suck, @Charlie. I've copied this from the Music Thread as it applies to Good Stuff, toooo. Glastonburrrrrrrryyyyy! I warn you, long post is long. The Dream Almost a year ago now, I contemplated the idea of going to Glastonbury for the very first time. My school finished on the same day that all the big bands would start playing on the Friday. So, I patiently waited on that Sunday morning when tickets went on sale and I managed to bag myself one and an additional one for the Ine. The excitement continued to rise when two of my favourite bands decided that they were going to play: Crystal Castles and the legendary Smashing Pumpkins. The Journey Getting there was fine. I have recently bought a new car and was worried about it getting trashed, or having trouble with queuing getting into and out of the car park, or something or other. In the end, it all turned out fine. Getting in there on Friday afternoon was a doddle and leaving on Sunday night only took an additional 15 minutes when added to the drive back. As I don't like camping, we also booked ourselves in a lovely little apartment that was about 35 minutes away. Getting out of the car park each day and getting there was easy. We literally just strolled right in. I was expecting much more of a hassle and was pleasantly surprised when this didn't seem to materialise. The Layout Fuuuuck, this place is massive. I had grossly underestimated how big or large this place is. There are one or two places we didn't get around to seeing, but it could easily take you 20 or 30 minutes just to walk from one side or another. My feet were officially dead at the end of each night. Saturday and Sunday morning were also very warm, which meant you also had that to contend with. The walk from the car park can take about 30 minutes in itself. You basically have a number of "important" stages, and then lots and lots of smaller ones that can house smaller bands. For example, there's the main stage (Pyramid) which is where Mumford and Sons played, and the Other Stage where bands such as Foals or The Smashing Pumpkins played. In addition to that, you had the John Peel Stage where Crystal Castles played a blinding set and the Avalon where Newton Faulkner performed. - the legendary John Peel Stage - some weird random jungle music stage - The Other Stage Due to the scheduling of some of the bands, it did mean you would have to leave some performances early to get yourself into a good spot for the next band on another stage. We had this problem on the last night where I wanted to see the Pumpkins on the Other Stage and then Mumford and Sons on the Pyramid, but they're about 10 minutes apart. So, we missed the first few minutes of that. We also tried to go and see The Vaccines on William's Green, but that was an epic trek to get to and by the time we got there, we were told that it was full and nobody else could get in to see. The Food and the Facilities First off, the food there is pretty great. There's just about anything you can eat there. Lovely, tasty pizza, chinese or thai food, pastas, indian food, wraps. It's all good. You've also got the added bonus of being able to take your own stuff in, so you can save a bit of money that way. We definitely saved quite a bit on drinks this way. The downside for this segment has to be with the toilets. They are your typical festival toilets, except that the men who went to their section were a bit disgusting. There are blue sheets which go around the outside of the men's toilet section, and there are urinals that you can queue up for. Some men (quite a lot actually) were deciding to piss directly onto the blue sheets, which would seep through the ground and could run through the outside section. Pretty disgusting, but that's men for you. The Music This is the reason why we all want to go. For the music. I had work on Friday, so we didn't get through the gates until around 6. This meant that we had missed the Lumineers and The Vaccines, both are bands that we had wanted to see. However, we did get to watch Foals on the Other Stage who put on a really, really good show. We had overheard them playing on another festival and decided that in the future we would try to see them. They were brilliant and I'll definitely be looking into more of their stuff from now on. - somebody lighting a flare during Foals. After Foals, the big one: Crystal Castles on the John Peel Stage. Absolutely mind blowing. Their light shows must have been designed to cause Epileptic Fits. Brilliant. I was buzzing by the end of this and really, really enjoyed what I had saw. There were two downsides: First off, there were sound problems beforehand, so they were late coming on. As a result of this, they had played a shorter set and so we only got around a 45/50 minute set list. But, it was 50 minutes of heaven. We spent much of Friday just getting used to the layout and finding our feet, as it was a lot to take in. Saturday morning/early afternoon saw us head to the main stage/Pyramid to see Ben Howard. I knew nothing about this man and so didn't know what to expect. The sun was baking, so it was a bright festival mood, which helped his performance. I thought he put on a really good show and I'll be looking into some more of his stuff now. - Ben Howard After this, we headed to the Other Stage to see Noah and the Whale. In general, they're ok, but not reallllly my sort of thing. They played a cover of Daft Punk's Digital Love which was sweet. The downside was that as we were quite a way back, the wind was messing up some of the sound and it didn't sound as great as it could have been. We headed towards the John Peel Stage, with our ciders in hand, to go and see Johnny Marr, one of my heroes from The Smiths. He was fantastic! He put on a really good show of his own and didn't just try to hide in the shadows on The Smiths. The crowd inside the tent got on his side helped to create a lovely atmosphere. - Johnny Marrrrrrr This is when shit started to get serious. It was soon before The Rolling Stones were going to head to the main stage/Pyramid, a band that I loathe and didn't want to see. Before they went on, Primal Scream were hijacking the Pyramid and played a good set of their own. As we weren't terribly close, we found that there were pockets of fans, but a lot of people were also stood around chatting, waiting for the Stones. The set list was good and they played some excellent tunes that I love. Country Girl got a good cheer, as did Rocks and Come Together, where they were joined with the lovely HAIM. - Primal Scream As most people were staying to watch the Stones, we headed in the opposite direction to The Avalon and went to go and watch the terribly under-rated Newton Faulkner. Fuuuuuuuuck! A very, very, very strong contender for performance of the weekend. Blew me and Ine away. Every song he performed was sung along with by the people of the Avalon tent and every member of the crowd was on his side. He gave a kick arse performance of Tear Drop, Dream Catch Me (which was godly) and his own one man version of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, something that needs to be seen in the flesh to be believed. Just...oh my God. Due to this sublime performance, we missed part of Example playing their set, but it was really worth it. - The Unbelievably Good Newton Faulkner. Shortly after this finished, we wandered over to the Other Stage and saw Example playing the tail end of their set. Brilliant performance and the crowd were hyped and pumped up. They finished with Changed The Way You Kiss Me, which just kicked so much arse. - Example. We started off towards the back, went in for a bit and then left to get some food before Hurts. To round off a good day, we headed back over to the faithful John Peel Stage to watch Hurts, a band that Ine had been pestering me to see, convincing me that they were good. In short, they were fucking awesome and gave another stand out performance. We found our way close to the front of the stage, with tons of obviously huge fans who knew their songs inside out. They were awesome, almost on a par with Crystal Castles for me with their light show and thumping basslines. Definitely a band I'm now going to have to look at a bit more to find more tunes. That was pretty much it for Saturday, along with tons of wandering around, getting into the spirit of things, passing by other stages and taking a listen. We passed the BBC Introducing Stage and saw the end of a performance by somebody called Indiana. A bit of a shame we didn't hear this earlier as it sounded quite nice, but that may have to wait for another time. So, Sunday...didn't get off to a great start as we managed to suffer a double whammy of a blow. The Vaccines were at William's Green and the stage was completely full. So packed that there were a flashing sign telling us that it was full. Gutted. Things got worse a few minutes later as we passed by the BBC Introducing Stage again...the XX had just finished their surprised set. Had we been 10 minutes sooner, we would have seen this. Also, to add insult to injury, there was a typo in the program notes which meant that there was a clash between the XX and Mumford and Sons, which meant that we couldn't see them tonight either. Fucutuifjertoijewfifguerifkjnefiuweceu! Once again, we walked over to the John Peel Stage to see another performer. This time it was Tom Odell, again somebody I didn't know a lot about. The stage was packed and it was a bit of a trek trying to get out afterwards. The set was good though, and I can imagine that I'll be listening to more of his songs at some point in the future. A big one next, Of Monsters and Men, at The Other Stage, which is where we spent a big part of our day. Completely fucking awesome from start to finish. We were right in the thick of it and the crowd played their part really, really well. They finished off with an epic performance of Six Weeks. I strongly urge everyone to check out their music if you haven't. Another Icelandic Gem. - Of Monsters and Men We took a little break after this to get some food and then stood around to watch The Editors on the Other Stage. They're a difficult act to watch because they came on right after Of Monsters and Men and right before The Smashing Pumpkins, and due to their type of music, you can't really sing along or get into as much live. Still, they were good and definitely worth seeing. But, in my mind, they were just filler between Of Monsters and The Pumpkins. Shit gets serious, Volume II: The Smashing Pumpkins. Oh My GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD! Performance of the weekend for me. They even fucked up at the start where Billy's microphone didn't work except for one specific line, which was fittingly "RIGHT ON!" Sweet Jesus. The crowd completely lost it during the midway trilogy of Disarm, Tonight, Tonight and Bullet with Butterfly Wings. So many awesome moments during this gig. I was very close to tears during Tonight. One of the best bands I've ever seen live. - The Smashing Pumpkinsssss Unfortunately, due to the time conflicts, we ended up missing the first few minutes of Mumford and Sons. We've seen them before, at Pukkelpop in Belgium where they played in the Marquee and were awesome. They've grown in popularity since then, which meant that we were on the edge of things and only had access to the big screens that were on the side of the Pyramid stage. They were still completely awesome, especially during the encore of Babel and The Cave, the latter of which was out of this world. For me, I will still remember them in that tent at Pukkelpop, but the finale (particularly The Cave) is one of the definite highlights of the weekend for me. - another flare, this time during Mumford and Sons, who were excellent. This has taken me about an hour and a bit to type up. Thanks for your timeeee.

Glastonburrrrrrrryyyyy! I warn you, long post is long. The Dream Almost a year ago now, I contemplated the idea of going to Glastonbury for the very first time. My school finished on the same day that all the big bands would start playing on the Friday. So, I patiently waited on that Sunday morning when tickets went on sale and I managed to bag myself one and an additional one for the Ine. The excitement continued to rise when two of my favourite bands decided that they were going to play: Crystal Castles and the legendary Smashing Pumpkins. The Journey Getting there was fine. I have recently bought a new car and was worried about it getting trashed, or having trouble with queuing getting into and out of the car park, or something or other. In the end, it all turned out fine. Getting in there on Friday afternoon was a doddle and leaving on Sunday night only took an additional 15 minutes when added to the drive back. As I don't like camping, we also booked ourselves in a lovely little apartment that was about 35 minutes away. Getting out of the car park each day and getting there was easy. We literally just strolled right in. I was expecting much more of a hassle and was pleasantly surprised when this didn't seem to materialise. The Layout Fuuuuck, this place is massive. I had grossly underestimated how big or large this place is. There are one or two places we didn't get around to seeing, but it could easily take you 20 or 30 minutes just to walk from one side or another. My feet were officially dead at the end of each night. Saturday and Sunday morning were also very warm, which meant you also had that to contend with. The walk from the car park can take about 30 minutes in itself. You basically have a number of "important" stages, and then lots and lots of smaller ones that can house smaller bands. For example, there's the main stage (Pyramid) which is where Mumford and Sons played, and the Other Stage where bands such as Foals or The Smashing Pumpkins played. In addition to that, you had the John Peel Stage where Crystal Castles played a blinding set and the Avalon where Newton Faulkner performed. - the legendary John Peel Stage - some weird random jungle music stage - The Other Stage Due to the scheduling of some of the bands, it did mean you would have to leave some performances early to get yourself into a good spot for the next band on another stage. We had this problem on the last night where I wanted to see the Pumpkins on the Other Stage and then Mumford and Sons on the Pyramid, but they're about 10 minutes apart. So, we missed the first few minutes of that. We also tried to go and see The Vaccines on William's Green, but that was an epic trek to get to and by the time we got there, we were told that it was full and nobody else could get in to see. The Food and the Facilities First off, the food there is pretty great. There's just about anything you can eat there. Lovely, tasty pizza, chinese or thai food, pastas, indian food, wraps. It's all good. You've also got the added bonus of being able to take your own stuff in, so you can save a bit of money that way. We definitely saved quite a bit on drinks this way. The downside for this segment has to be with the toilets. They are your typical festival toilets, except that the men who went to their section were a bit disgusting. There are blue sheets which go around the outside of the men's toilet section, and there are urinals that you can queue up for. Some men (quite a lot actually) were deciding to piss directly onto the blue sheets, which would seep through the ground and could run through the outside section. Pretty disgusting, but that's men for you. The Music This is the reason why we all want to go. For the music. I had work on Friday, so we didn't get through the gates until around 6. This meant that we had missed the Lumineers and The Vaccines, both are bands that we had wanted to see. However, we did get to watch Foals on the Other Stage who put on a really, really good show. We had overheard them playing on another festival and decided that in the future we would try to see them. They were brilliant and I'll definitely be looking into more of their stuff from now on. - somebody lighting a flare during Foals. After Foals, the big one: Crystal Castles on the John Peel Stage. Absolutely mind blowing. Their light shows must have been designed to cause Epileptic Fits. Brilliant. I was buzzing by the end of this and really, really enjoyed what I had saw. There were two downsides: First off, there were sound problems beforehand, so they were late coming on. As a result of this, they had played a shorter set and so we only got around a 45/50 minute set list. But, it was 50 minutes of heaven. We spent much of Friday just getting used to the layout and finding our feet, as it was a lot to take in. Saturday morning/early afternoon saw us head to the main stage/Pyramid to see Ben Howard. I knew nothing about this man and so didn't know what to expect. The sun was baking, so it was a bright festival mood, which helped his performance. I thought he put on a really good show and I'll be looking into some more of his stuff now. - Ben Howard After this, we headed to the Other Stage to see Noah and the Whale. In general, they're ok, but not reallllly my sort of thing. They played a cover of Daft Punk's Digital Love which was sweet. The downside was that as we were quite a way back, the wind was messing up some of the sound and it didn't sound as great as it could have been. We headed towards the John Peel Stage, with our ciders in hand, to go and see Johnny Marr, one of my heroes from The Smiths. He was fantastic! He put on a really good show of his own and didn't just try to hide in the shadows on The Smiths. The crowd inside the tent got on his side helped to create a lovely atmosphere. - Johnny Marrrrrrr This is when shit started to get serious. It was soon before The Rolling Stones were going to head to the main stage/Pyramid, a band that I loathe and didn't want to see. Before they went on, Primal Scream were hijacking the Pyramid and played a good set of their own. As we weren't terribly close, we found that there were pockets of fans, but a lot of people were also stood around chatting, waiting for the Stones. The set list was good and they played some excellent tunes that I love. Country Girl got a good cheer, as did Rocks and Come Together, where they were joined with the lovely HAIM. - Primal Scream As most people were staying to watch the Stones, we headed in the opposite direction to The Avalon and went to go and watch the terribly under-rated Newton Faulkner. Fuuuuuuuuck! A very, very, very strong contender for performance of the weekend. Blew me and Ine away. Every song he performed was sung along with by the people of the Avalon tent and every member of the crowd was on his side. He gave a kick arse performance of Tear Drop, Dream Catch Me (which was godly) and his own one man version of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, something that needs to be seen in the flesh to be believed. Just...oh my God. Due to this sublime performance, we missed part of Example playing their set, but it was really worth it. - The Unbelievably Good Newton Faulkner. Shortly after this finished, we wandered over to the Other Stage and saw Example playing the tail end of their set. Brilliant performance and the crowd were hyped and pumped up. They finished with Changed The Way You Kiss Me, which just kicked so much arse. - Example. We started off towards the back, went in for a bit and then left to get some food before Hurts. To round off a good day, we headed back over to the faithful John Peel Stage to watch Hurts, a band that Ine had been pestering me to see, convincing me that they were good. In short, they were fucking awesome and gave another stand out performance. We found our way close to the front of the stage, with tons of obviously huge fans who knew their songs inside out. They were awesome, almost on a par with Crystal Castles for me with their light show and thumping basslines. Definitely a band I'm now going to have to look at a bit more to find more tunes. That was pretty much it for Saturday, along with tons of wandering around, getting into the spirit of things, passing by other stages and taking a listen. We passed the BBC Introducing Stage and saw the end of a performance by somebody called Indiana. A bit of a shame we didn't hear this earlier as it sounded quite nice, but that may have to wait for another time. So, Sunday...didn't get off to a great start as we managed to suffer a double whammy of a blow. The Vaccines were at William's Green and the stage was completely full. So packed that there were a flashing sign telling us that it was full. Gutted. Things got worse a few minutes later as we passed by the BBC Introducing Stage again...the XX had just finished their surprised set. Had we been 10 minutes sooner, we would have seen this. Also, to add insult to injury, there was a typo in the program notes which meant that there was a clash between the XX and Mumford and Sons, which meant that we couldn't see them tonight either. Fucutuifjertoijewfifguerifkjnefiuweceu! Once again, we walked over to the John Peel Stage to see another performer. This time it was Tom Odell, again somebody I didn't know a lot about. The stage was packed and it was a bit of a trek trying to get out afterwards. The set was good though, and I can imagine that I'll be listening to more of his songs at some point in the future. A big one next, Of Monsters and Men, at The Other Stage, which is where we spent a big part of our day. Completely fucking awesome from start to finish. We were right in the thick of it and the crowd played their part really, really well. They finished off with an epic performance of Six Weeks. I strongly urge everyone to check out their music if you haven't. Another Icelandic Gem. - Of Monsters and Men We took a little break after this to get some food and then stood around to watch The Editors on the Other Stage. They're a difficult act to watch because they came on right after Of Monsters and Men and right before The Smashing Pumpkins, and due to their type of music, you can't really sing along or get into as much live. Still, they were good and definitely worth seeing. But, in my mind, they were just filler between Of Monsters and The Pumpkins. Shit gets serious, Volume II: The Smashing Pumpkins. Oh My GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD! Performance of the weekend for me. They even fucked up at the start where Billy's microphone didn't work except for one specific line, which was fittingly "RIGHT ON!" Sweet Jesus. The crowd completely lost it during the midway trilogy of Disarm, Tonight, Tonight and Bullet with Butterfly Wings. So many awesome moments during this gig. I was very close to tears during Tonight. One of the best bands I've ever seen live. - The Smashing Pumpkinsssss Unfortunately, due to the time conflicts, we ended up missing the first few minutes of Mumford and Sons. We've seen them before, at Pukkelpop in Belgium where they played in the Marquee and were awesome. They've grown in popularity since then, which meant that we were on the edge of things and only had access to the big screens that were on the side of the Pyramid stage. They were still completely awesome, especially during the encore of Babel and The Cave, the latter of which was out of this world. For me, I will still remember them in that tent at Pukkelpop, but the finale (particularly The Cave) is one of the definite highlights of the weekend for me. - another flare, this time during Mumford and Sons, who were excellent. This has taken me about an hour and a bit to type up. Thanks for your timeeee.

Good game, braaaah. Close game, you were slightly better in possession but I created double the chances. I should have won, but a draw isn't a terrible result. Either way, it was a good game.

Welcome, new guy. This must be what it's like when a zombie apocalypse takes place and a small group of people encounter one new survivor.

Tomorrow is Speech Day at work. I'll be sat in a Marquee, listening to the headmaster ramble on about something. Anything, I don't know, I won't be paying attention. Zero fucks will be given...tomorrow, I make my way to Glastonbury. My body is ready. GLASTONBURY 2013. WE COMIN' FOR YOU, NIGGA!