jayseven

Remind me of the sweat thing? I've found myself watching this. It's easy-going TV. Will give the non-celeb version a go, see if they've learned anything.

That was absolutely brilliant. ReZ noticed subs ages ago... See ReZ! SEE! THIS IS HOW THE FUNNY IS DONE!! Srsly rez you should do this as well.

Cube; hell yes. Valve's subtitling is brilliant, but they have the time and resources to do them (and do those excellent audio commentaries). Goafer; abridging is understandable in some instances, but many times the subtitles choose to change the wording entirely, omit things that easily could've been said, leave out half a dialogue exchange... I am only 'hard of hearing' so I tend to miss quiet words, things spoken off-screen, or just a few words here and there. I like to refer to subs in such situations. Next time you watch a movie, put the subs on and you'll see what I mean. Every movie has to deal with the issue of appropriate abridging, and perhaps some things they leave out affect me and not others.

Being able to define and distinguish between overtly similar things is indeed useful, but as you say, the scope for misuse in politics and the media is quite large and I don't see how that means that generalisations can be wholely good.

lol :P Guess what? My tactics defaulted so I had on all the stuff I said I had off and vice-versa as well :P Still, a good win! ... Annoyed ReZ had such a win though Tales lost..! Not meant to happen! I wanted to feel more secuuuuure... Still, away win is good!

The difference between experience and youth ther is massive, though, and there's no depth in the squad to deal with a serious CL campaign. .. That;s my current, perhaps-ignorant belief :P

(I just want to say that subtitles for DVDs is really, really annoying. Many offer subtitles for english, then subs for the hearing impaired. Usually, both options will choose to overlook specks of dialogue here and there, often abridging things [which surely goes against the idea that a movie is a finished piece of art, in many instances] or, in some instances, containing spelling mistakes [i, Robot is the most recent movie I watched that had them]. Srsly, just HIRE ME and I'll tell you how wrong you got it :P)

Bayern? Seriously?! They've overpayed for players. The rest of bundesliga has been conservative with spending (most clubs have made a profit)... their league challenge will be trivial, which means surely their champs league games will be unprepared for. It's one of the reason why english sides - see spurs last season - do good in the CL -- a tough domestic league. Bayern are by far the strongest german side, but I really think there are other more 'unknown' sides who will put up as good a fight as them. CL is for Barca to lose, to be honest. Xmas transfer window may change things... but c'mawn!

Wait I thought you had a wife/fiancé?

Yeah, it's ridiculous really. It's as if someone knows that brighton will do quite well -- the stadium can have a capacity of 38k with corner stand upgrades, which could be installed in a summer if, for example, brighton get promoted again. The main problem is that brighton doesn't really have enough fans to fill the stadium :P

Shorty; I really don't keep a full memory of games, but from what i recall; the original AC, dead space and army of two (and the sequel) red faction... Many culprits mostly offer incomplete subtitles - often in-game dialogue is lost (gears, alan wake, mass effect, mw, and so on...) which isn't wholely detrimental, it still reduces enjoyment for me. Recently (for me), Wet, DMC4, Halo 3, The Club, Borderlands... Most games either don't have proper subtitles or don't sub all dialogue. You know how deaf I am - kinda - with people I'm fine as I can lip-read. With tv or movies I miss off-screen dialogue. In general a lack of subs does not detriment a game, but often in my average-game trawling you'll find subs have been skipped. I genuinely don't remember all titles that are guilty (but I feel I should do from now on!) because mostly I'll overlook it with games.

This thread is now about Linkin Park. (recently listened to Hybrid Theory and tbf still love it :P)

Magnus; red/green - Cube is colourblind and I know some REAL PEOPLE (lol) who have issues with MW games. Some find the game easy due to their colour blindness, others find it much harder. I don't think there's been enough research into that. Goafer; Yeah, that's why I isolate 'big' games. Subbing definitely costs money and it's not deemed immmediately necessary, but as you say they surely have the script floating around in a textual form - is it truly that tricky to convert it?

Well to be fair, fresh, nobody's saying they're easy winners :P

Oh yeah! I covered some of taht in my original thread- the options are basically "lol spend loads of money and shit". I know you have the peripheral to remap buttons and stuff. Dan Dare said he was interested months/a year ago about that.. But yeah, surely it's, like, a line of code (coming from a non-coder this may be ludicrous). Yeah. It just stinks of rushed game when there's no leftie mode. No subs = cheap dev as tehy couldn't be arsed to pay for subs. That's how I see it.

Thanks very much I'll avoid the news and watch it upon return!

Do you know if/how long BBC will have F1 on iplayer? I'd be glad to watch the race next weds when I'm free :P

FCK YOU FORUMS FOR DELETING MY MESSGAE!!! ... Points; - dan dare is southpaw, has legitimate reasoning - flamboy I think was involved in a blog/forum about disabled gamers and the difficulties they face - how hard can it be to simply switch sticks in programming?! - They must have weighed up 'dev tive' vs 'market lost' and have decied it'd be fine. Or they're just stupid. Personally, I'm always staggered when a game doesn't offer subtitles options. As a hard-of-hearing gamer it's useful, but even an average gamer would appreciate the option if only so they can play the game muted at the dead of night to avoid waking house fellows. I also have sight problems and I find that many games do not offer a comprehensive contrast/brightness/etc bunch of options. The biggest games have the biggest budgets and they really should cater for an entire audience. I do wonder if a patch would be possible for lefties - perhaps not an auto one but one you can search out... why not?

I agree. We'll just have to see how well City learn to play as a team. I think that their squad on paper is second in the draw only to barca's... Barca will pretty much sail through their group though, which means they'll be able to rest key players and concentrate on the league where City will be struggling to field the best side constantly!

This weekend I'm going to an anual (annual?) gathering of the cousins on one side of the family. 'Unfortunately' I reecntly got a job which mean I'm not going up for what is effectively the important stuff - saturday hellos/whatever and sunday lunch but I'll still see them on teh sunday when we (my girlfriend and I) arrive. All the others have kids and pretty much have life plans sorted. I am preparing myself for the inevitable "so when are you moving out? When are you having kids! When will you have a serious job?" stuff. There will be awkwardness, but hey, that's family. I don't see them much. Do you guys see your family regularly?

noice What did JEW play? Mostly new stuff?

F1 this weekend? work and 'holiday' = no see

Liverpool looking at signing Bellamy? Would be a great move for both parties - strengthening Liverpool's attacking potential. Bellamy is getting to the age where he should develop his midfield potential, and would be a good go-to man with an absent Gerrard, if he were to 're-train'. Still, it's another sign that Liverpool and Arsenal are swapping places this season :P QPR getting barton then? Good for them, bad for my fantasy football team!

I'm generally more dismayed by the whole 'theory' approach to things like youth problems or creed culture stereotypes. People trying to make a name for themselves or cause controversy by defining things does nothing fantastic at all. It should be entirely discouraged to broadly assume or assess sitautions like this because the amount of marginalised minorities that dispute such claims will total up to become the majority. I dislike and do not respect people who make generalisations because doing so utterly depersonalises any individuals in the claimed group, and suggests that the only solution to such a blanket definition is a therefore a similar one-size-fits-all cure, whereas any realistic fix is going to demand specific, tailor-fitted remedying. One group in Tottenham rioting will do so for molecularly different reasons to a group in manchester, for example. The only other comment I can make is that the osmosis of behaviour from one yore-defined group of people into another pool is one step towards the altruistic Prime-Directive-esque future :P

Well I think you got yourself with that one, too!