jayseven

I put BISH on my CV...

AWWW! My sister's giving birth later this week (induced, date being decided on wednesday)... YOU STOLE MY GLORY! BUTEXCLAMATIONMARK we will be same-week-in-october-becoming-an-uncle TWINNNNSSS!!!

Majority is 10 Nintendohnut (2): Diageo Diegeo (1): Smeagól Chairdriver (5): Cube, Nintendohnut, Heroicjanitor, Rez, Zell No Lynch (3): Ellmeister, gmac, Eenuh

.. Surprised it's not been commented on! Video after the jump; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11510513 Aired last sunday in teh US and on the coming 21st in the UK. The most morbid thing ever seen on a simpsons episode? Surely so. There's a pub in brighton with a Banksy piece! [/sidenote]

Dannyboy; I think you're too concerned with the pronounciation (Eenuh too, to an extent) - I think you're active in your speaking, both with intonations and hand gestures, and they make for a lively and accurate monologue!

http://www.thatwasfunny.com/twenty-one-reasons-why-english-is-hard-to-learn/206 I think Eenuh was very right - there's no need to worry about your pronounciations. The above link is proof enough of how the english language can trip people up with the gap between written and spoken word. The english language is not written very phonetically (I'd say the italian language is probably the most phonetical I've encountered), so it is awkward to learn, but! Even I still pronounce things wrong. i could not honestly tell you right now which words they are, but there must be at least a dozen of them and I generally just choose to use another word entirely, instead of looking a fool. I think in general, foreign speakers of english are very careful to enunciate everything correctly while natives rely on context and familiarity and quick vocab memory access. I have a french family friend who is 60, has lived in england for 40 years, yet she still pronounces things 'wrong' - but we don't correct her anymore because we recognise what it is she's trying to say. If I mishear a foreign speaker it is probably because I am not used to that particular pronounciation, just as they may not recognise my accent. Ultimately, I am very jealous of you all! I wish I could speak another language or three.

I think you were very inventive with your roles, and am glad you gave me the role-switcher role, something I loved having in the smash bros mafia.

I honestly used to hate teh dude... but nowadays I think he's great. The idiots that go on that show deserve what they get.

I enjoyed this game. At first it was a little overwhelming, but after a couple of nights we started being able to fit all the pieces together. The problem was that so could everyone else. What I did like was how unusual some roles were that kept things on edge - tellyn's role to lighten colours that targetted him, Mundi's role to replace any other colour, and paj's ability to force a vote -- we didn't really utilise all of these for a while, but we had a couple of successful nights where we effectively killed off most of the opposing mafia... then when we figured we were down to one mafia it was all over. We had no chance. I think props should be given to dannyboy for creating a very exciting and confusing game. The only downside would be that it was weighted a little bit too much towards town (consider how many townies were left at the end), mostly by having so much so obvious in the write-up, but we as mafia could've done a little better.

In the drip and the drench, he hears not the heckles. "My friends, there is another way! This hunger for violence and its lover of procrastination heed no spawn! Their progeny is only stagnation and decay! A vote for nothing is still a vote worthwhile!" That Damned Preacher was not giving up on his flock.

Ah, you are so right about that scene! Intense stuff. It's kinda like how Bioshock does pretty much all its cutscenes - you keep the view but lose control. In that respect, I totally get what you mean, and it is very much so immersive. But! I still think that Darkness is attempting to imitate movies first and foremost, or at least that's a decent enough excuse for refusing to put in the extra dev. time to do all interactions like bioshock. Perversely, that one scene in Darkness where it's in that mode is probably the most claustraphobic of all of them, and it perhaps has such weight because we're not used to the perspective? You've got me wanting to play the game again. I'm sure I said it already, but I deferred from playing through on a harder difficulty straight away as it was bothering me not being able to find all the collectable stuff - I did attempt to go back to it but having not played it for so long it was too tricky to remember everything combined with it all being so painfully hard.

Oi. I'm well profound, me. :P

While in FP, encounters with NPCs are often boring. How many times have you patiently just stared at the person talking? How many times have you, instead, jumped, crouched, span around and shot stuff while you're waiting to get back to the shooting! I think it's a form of narrative control to switch to the third person mode, like a mini cut-scene, so yeah it's definitely a directorial decision that you'll forget is even happening in due course. As for the sequel news - here's hoping it does come around. I think they could really let rip with a sequel.

300 miles of movement covers not just horseback but general trekking around on foot y'see. You get the horse so late in the game and can only really use it in a couple of places that it just seems so stupid to make an achievement. And yeah! If the pad is facing just one direction, it'll automatically disconnect after a period of time if it's wireless, just as it would if one button was pressed down or a trigger held down all the time.

There's an achievement on Darksiders that pretty much represents stupidity. Ride your horse for 100 miles. Now, after 24 hours of gaming, I've clocked in 300 miles. I've checked the 'nets and the advice is to stick an elastic band on your controller and leave it be -- I wrapped an ipod cable round the 'stick... but after, what, 20 minutes?, the pad switches off. I gained about 8 miles. So effectively I'm looking at 5 hours of running around doing nothing, just for the sake of a few g. It's not really worth it (but I'll probably still try...)... My point is that it's an achievement that totally goes against the game, that is clearly based on no logic whatsoever. I understand if a game developer wants people to play their games for longer, but these sorts of achievements just leave a sour taste in the mouth. And achievements like the one you got for finding and shooting all 300 (I think?) pigeons in GTA4 would be ok if you got a map! Otherwise I see no solution besides... using a guide. The sense of reward a few g would give you for what would surely be dozens of hours of work to find them all alone would just not be worth it in the slightest. Anyone got any other examples? I could probably pull any game off of my shelf and find at least one rubbish achievement.

AFAIK, dan, a lot of fluid speakers are able to express what they're saying mostly with one hand and the ever useful context Don't let it put you off, if you were ever intersted.

I don't like this. Rummy was quick to vote for me, too, but I think voting for non-participators isn't really an acceptible route to follow. Jonnas; you could've given me that defence before finding out a silencer was killed. I'm going to give the thread a re-read. Tomorrow.... Changevote: nobody for now.

It's the switching between two modes that takes you out of the experience, for sure, but I think that was why it was only as immersive as a movie; you have no control at all with a movie and my point was that this game is like a movie but with some control. But I'm glad you're enjoying the game I was considering playing it through again, but I know that I'll be sidetracked with some achievements I missed, some of which are hoarding ones, and I know that'll detract from my enjoyment.

Majority is 10 Nintendohnut (2): Diageo Diegeo (1): Smeago Chairdriver (5): Cube, Nintendohnut, Heroicjanitor, Rez, Zell

HIIIIIIIIIII! ... So I away for the weekend then silenced for the nights I came back. I'd like to say that I was still keeping up with the thread, and I'm very sure the mafia were planning to silence and lynch me to get ahead. Diageo and Jonnas were the main propagators of this propaganda. Vote: Jonnas because he was jumping on everyone and he repeatedly urged people to vote for me.

Majority is 10 Nintendohnut (2): Diageo Diegeo (1): Smeago Chairdriver (4): Cube, Nintendohnut, Heroicjanitor, Rez

Oh, I totally agree :P Those sorts of posts usually occur after I've been away from the boards for a prolongued period of time, so I feel I have something to say for a whole bunch of interesting threads, and usually an idea for a new one. Plus when I'm that drunk (i.e. 5 pints, a glass of wine and 6 cans of cider) I refrain from deleting my words, and my opinion is not wavered by my awareness of subjectivity. There's a cider festival I'm going to tonight, so we may be in for a treat! :P

You know her address now, so I'd say either call around yourself at a more reasonable time of the day to check on her and eliminate teh alcoholic theory, or pass it on to whatever social security institution you have in Belgium. I suppose you could call the police using the non-emergency number of the nearest station and just alert them. It sounds to me like she may've had a stroke, or dementia may be taking hold. You did excellent not just leaving her at any of the doors and seeing to it that she was alright! Plenty of people would've just walked on by.

Majority is 10 Nintendohnut (2): Diageo Diegeo (1): Smeagol

Sheffield used to have a bad rep for having underaged kids in clubs. Because it's a student city a lot of college kids think they can risk it! The kiddy pubs 'round these parts always have bouncers for that exact reason. Another stupid thing is that you have to be 18+ to buy knives. At argos we were selling a plastic dining set for babies... and you had to be 18+ to buy it, even though you can legally have kids at 16! I like to think if I get ID'd it's because they want to know where I live, coz I'm fit, innit. SADFACE FOR THE LIES I'm always in beard mode, and I was in a pub with my 27 year old 6ft6 mate.. and he got ID'd! Madness. Another note - when was the last time you saw someone refused service because they were believed to be too drunk? All those drunk chavs falling over, or old men with booze on their breath get served - my mate bought ONE drink, was saved by the SAME person something like 10 minutes later and was refused service.